GENIUS FORUMS

There is nothing at all, only for the ignorant. That says everything . You've out-nutshelled the nutshell! Nutshells serve the purpose of intellectual illumination, but if left unwatered by understanding of the heart, they become hollow shells. When you know everything is you and you are everything...

There is no 'our mind', there is only consciousness thinking 'our mind' (ignorance) and consciousness realizing there is no 'our mind' (wisdom) - this is the culling of consciousness of its own belief in dualism. Then and only then does every thought of 'outside' disappear within consciousness. And...

You are right jufa, the great gulf of beliefs is there because we think it is there. In truth, which we discover in the silence of the reasoned self is that there is no gulf or divide between us. People lose faith in the truth they find in the silence of the reasoned self and return to its speculati...

Be still and know. Not have knowledge of, KNOW. If you need more than that, how about 'be still and know I am God/consciousness/awareness/Self.' 'Nuf said?

jufa: If humans could worship God, what need would there be for meditation? Worshiping God is an assumption of separation from God, something that is realized only when there is meditation (contemplation, spiritual or higher reasoning) on the impossibility of a duality of two beings, one that worsh...

David Quinn: This brief passage by Hui Neng describes the spiritual process to enlightenment with tremendous simplicity and depth. If you were to follow it religiously, you wouldn't need any other instruction. Let your mind be in a state such as that of the illimitable emptiness, but do not attach ...

. In truth, spirit or consciousness never stops expressing Itself, in truth, spirit or consciousness is never stagnant or waffling. Hui Heng's words via David Quinn via jufa via Pam are always now and new because there is no other experience but now and new. Everything can be reduced to a bowl of s...

David Quinn: This brief passage by Hui Neng describes the spiritual process to enlightenment with tremendous simplicity and depth. If you were to follow it religiously, you wouldn't need any other instruction. Let your mind be in a state such as that of the illimitable emptiness, but do not attach ...

Hi Soul Iq: Welcome to the board! My definition of self-actualization is the actualization of one's five-sense desires of which your desire to be financially independent would be an aspect. Some examples of other aspects of the five-sense desiring ego would be to be physically healthy, emotionally s...

Donna, in relation to what Diebert has suggested above, that is, a more metaphysical view of male-female dynamics, have you studied anything of the Kabbalah, aka Jewish Mysticism? In the Kabbalah, the Divine Man (as in conscious Adam) is explained via a cosmology of the Divine Body, a Body of 10 ema...

Meaning is the being of all that is created, and even of our selfhood and the nature even of our selfhood. It has a religious root and a divine origin. The above is a quote from a Neo-Calvinist Dutch philosopher I had never heard of until today - Herman Dooyeweerd. Is anyone here familiar with his ...

Glostik91 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:14 pm My forty days have nearly drawn to a close, but I think there are still two roads before me.

Before you become the Glostik of the two roads, if you feel you are able, stop for a little while and contemplate your name. When it comes to you, what it means will come later.

Hi Donna, As I see it, what you're doing right now, which is entering into my posts - having a dialectic with someone who touches a truth within - is a beneficial way to uncover what is true/wise within oneself. The best way to start to uncover the wisdom hiding within one's unconscious (to reveal w...

Hi Donna, I tried to edit my previous post to add a question, but I'm camping at the moment and the wifi at our campsite is unreliable and won't let me do an edit. The question I wanted to ask is what you thought of what I presented in my post above with regards to your own personal suffering in rel...

What do you think about forgiveness? Matthew 6:15 - But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Our world is filthy with corruption, I won't add to that. But, I'll freely go against and stand-up with the sword of my tongue prepared to battle non-com...

In order that humans confront the pain of the experience of self-contradiction, the sense of being divided between two forces, the idea of gender goes deeper than how one physically or socially interprets what it means to be a man or a woman. Could it be as the depth psychologist Carl G. Jung propos...

Hi Anders, I can't see any upside to caring what anyone thinks about something that defines one existentially which I believe applies most definitely to trans people. As for trans and gay rights, as a woman, I am aware there was once a time when my gender couldn't vote so I am deeply grateful for th...

Just like time is an emergent property of space. I is an emergent property of the cells that make up you. I is the management function required to manage said cells. Most other life forms have I. I is the characteristics of that lifeform. Depending on the development of those cells a spectrum of se...

Diebert: On top of that there's something called consciousnesses. Some equal it with awareness but when consciousness is seen as an emergent property of the signal exchange or communication between complex self-aware agents, we could see another ego form. To illustrate this view, I'd like to submit...

The unwise does not die, for he has never lived in order that he may die. As for the nature of wisdom, also called "the barren", she is the mother of all angels. And so the companion of the wise is called Mary Magdalene. And he will love her more than all his followers, audiences or famil...

Diebert: All the centuries of being imprinted, commanded, pushed to load up, to take on the duty, the pressure and suffering -- even until he sees it as something inherently good, as a must, as a moral obligation to do so, to suffer the immense burdens of self-existence, of our life drama, of battl...

Alex: Intellect is the foundation of consciousness. No intellect, no human consciousness. This is an absolute statement. There is no way not to 'bow to the intellect'. To imply that it is possible, or advisable not to cultivate intellect, is as if to propose that one not have consciousness, not per...

Santiago Odo/Alex: I might suggest that you are making a false statement when you imply that 'members interact philosophically'. It would be more accurate and thus more fair for you to acknowledge that when 'philosophical interaction', if determined by David Quinn, is a destruction of what you are ...

It seems as if you are unable to recognize that truth seekers are wholly dedicated to following the path of 'seek and YE shall find, knock and the door shall be opened.' You (and those like you) who want to serve up a template for how-things-should-be are oblivious to the effect it has on the unbend...

Except I am really wonderful . Really. Europe loves me. America. South America. Even Tasmania . . . Canada (me earthly home) doesn't love you? We're known for our social and cultural tolerance so whatever you said or did to piss us off must have been, well, not very nice. Send us some flowers and p...