GENIUS FORUMS

Leyla Shen wrote:

Awareness in the heart is just awareness in the heart. What more can be said?

Ignorance is just ignorance. What more can be said?

:P

divine focus: IF you're saying awareness comes about because of suffering, this is not true. There is nothing to reconcile with awareness itself. You always have awareness in the heart, only you may not notice because awareness in the head may be primary. You don't need imagery to be aware of aware...

divine focus: Awareness in the heart is just awareness in the heart. What more can be said? My interpretation of awareness in the heart is that it exists just because one has concluded that the world is not OK (to be conscious is to suffer) and in order to come to this conclusion and to heal it or ...

What's the difference between what you said and what I said? And in both cases, could you explain whether or not what each of us said was said by the subject of our individual selves or by the object of the subject of our individual selves? As to your second question, it is both. Whatever the objec...

It appears then to me that you haven't explored very far into what it means to have "images". For me it's hard to discuss these things when someone is still evoking feelings, states, others, "me" and the world but at the same time refuses to speak of them as mental images which ...

L: If ("full/absolute") enlightenment involves a realisation of the subject of your individual self and your conscious self is the object to the subject, then it follows that conscious awakening , as realisation of object self to the subject self, is the mental image you are suggesting is...

No, it's ["all right"] is just a feeling and a state. At consciousness awakening there is still a sense of me and other, me and world. There is a sense that everything in the world, including yourself, is the same "substance." It appears then to me that you haven't explored very...

If ("full/absolute") enlightenment involves a realisation of the subject of your individual self and your conscious self is the object to the subject, then it follows that conscious awakening , as realisation of object self to the subject self, is the mental image you are suggesting is to...

You realize yourself to be complete and perfectly alright just as you are. And because you're OK, the world is OK, too. Completeness is an evaluation. Perfect is a mental concept. "You" are a mental image to yourself. "Okay" means it's "all correct". It's a judgment. T...

It's close enough. What I'm still trying to get more clear, if possible, is that "in-the-moment" intuitive reasoning. It seems more than just about one's "place" in nature. Although certainly that's its foundation while at the same time it seems way broader and wilder than just ...

So, feeling OK is a mental image?

Why is being content with yourself a "lull" or a "self-tranquilization?" (I'm more than content, btw). To be enlightened does not mean to be stressed or agitated. Is that what you think enlightenment is about?

The reason I asked you the second question in the context of the first is because your reply preceding those questions does not deal with what was being questioned in the first place, which was: Drop the mental image of yourself. You see yourself as a person, but you're really all that is. You need...

The social roles are still there, so yes, I do call my mom "mom." Good question. It's more like I'm aware of how others perceive me, much like how you said you operate, except there's no identification with the role. It's just an idea in the mind. Just an idea in the mind? Am I to conclud...

It's never on my mind. You are not the norm if that's the case for you. Identification with social roles limits you to personhood and creates separation where there need be none. There's also the issue of the whole of society being in your head in the form of authorities of one kind or another. You...

Lao Tzu (at least attributed to him) “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world ...

I think "consciousness" is a better word because it identifies you as the absolute. How do you know that you're absolute? What's the alternative to being absolute? And how do you know you aren't that instead? (Oh damn, this again?) The value of words is to unify and provide meaningful dis...

Drop the mental image of yourself. You see yourself as a person, but you're really all that is. You need to dis-identify from the definitions of self relating to society. "I am so and so's daughter or mother, for example. (This is exactly why I have nothing to do with clairvoyants and psycholo...

Compassion to me is just understanding. It doesn't necessarily involve any action, simply non-judgment. How do you understand something without judgment (reasoning, analysis, applying meaning)? When I say non-judgment, I mean it in terms of good and bad, right and wrong. Compassion involves accepta...

Compassion to me is just understanding. It doesn't necessarily involve any action, simply non-judgment.

To me, it is everything that exists. Consciousness is what we are and what everything around us is made of. We project ourselves as the world and experience being in a world. Consciousness is the ultimate and absolute, and to realize it you need to drop yourself. In other words, consciousness is an...

When you hear the word "consciousness," what does it mean to you? To me, it is everything that exists. Consciousness is what we are and what everything around us is made of. We project ourselves as the world and experience being in a world. Really? All that from a sound? What does a sound...

At heart the ego is to the ego "everything that exists". It's ego which thinks the world is himself and there's nothing else. Ego is greedy like that! Ego projects itself as the world -- all revolving around itself. Its core function is t̶o̶ ̶d̶e̶n̶y̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶e̶x̶i̶s̶t̶,̶ ̶...

When you hear the word "consciousness," what does it mean to you? To me, it is everything that exists. Consciousness is what we are and what everything around us is made of. We project ourselves as the world and experience being in a world. Consciousness is the ultimate and absolute, and t...

RZoo wrote:If you don't need consciousness, just saw out that brain; we'll put a plastic one in there for you instead. :-)

Consciousness is in the heart, too, silly. Consciousness is what we are.

Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inside as the outside, and the outside as the inside, and the upper as the lower, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male is not male and the female not female, and when you make eyes in place...