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- Fri Jun 07, 2019 11:39 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
- Replies: 72
- Views: 115887
Re: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
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...
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:36 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
- Replies: 72
- Views: 115887
Re: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
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...
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:26 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The great gulf
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14180
Re: The great gulf
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...
- Thu May 30, 2019 2:53 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
- Replies: 72
- Views: 115887
Re: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
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?
- Tue May 28, 2019 5:53 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
- Replies: 72
- Views: 115887
Re: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
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...
- Tue May 28, 2019 5:02 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
- Replies: 72
- Views: 115887
Re: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
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 ...
- Tue May 28, 2019 4:52 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
- Replies: 72
- Views: 115887
Re: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
. 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...
- Sun May 26, 2019 11:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
- Replies: 72
- Views: 115887
Re: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
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 ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 4:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I am God having a Human experience
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7746
Re: I am God having a Human experience
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...
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:20 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Men vs. Women
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21781
Re: Men vs. Women
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...
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:45 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: God as Meaning Maker - Herman Dooyeweerd
- Replies: 2
- Views: 16117
God as Meaning Maker - Herman Dooyeweerd
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 ...
- Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:29 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Glostik. What my name means
- Replies: 21
- Views: 33927
Re: What my name means
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.
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:02 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Donna's blog
- Replies: 36
- Views: 51678
Re: Donna's blog
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...
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 5:37 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Donna's blog
- Replies: 36
- Views: 51678
Re: Donna's blog
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...
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 5:24 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Donna's blog
- Replies: 36
- Views: 51678
Re: What do you think about forgiveness?
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...
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 10:20 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Transsexualism & philosophy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10680
Re: Transsexualism & philosophy
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...
- Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:31 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Transsexualism & philosophy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10680
Re: Transsexualism & philosophy
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...
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:34 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I is an Emergent property not an illusion.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8410
Re: I is an Emergent property not an illusion.
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...
- Tue Feb 12, 2019 2:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I is an Emergent property not an illusion.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8410
Re: I is an Emergent property not an illusion.
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...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 1:45 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Pastiches
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11989
Re: Pastiches
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...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:00 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Pastiches
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11989
Re: Pastiches
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...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 4:52 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To compare is to judge?
- Replies: 119
- Views: 121929
Re: To compare is to judge?
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...
- Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:02 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To compare is to judge?
- Replies: 119
- Views: 121929
Re: To compare is to judge?
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 ...
- Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To compare is to judge?
- Replies: 119
- Views: 121929
Re: To compare is to judge?
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...
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:08 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To compare is to judge?
- Replies: 119
- Views: 121929
Re: To compare is to judge?
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...