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- Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:01 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Religion, the fine art of deception
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24426
Re: Religion, the fine art of deception
In reply to Pam’s post, let me quote the following: “Unlike religions, the Dhamma the cosmic law is beyond words. The more you conceptualize, the more you are likely to miss the point”. Whoever believes they know the cosmic law conceptually speaks from ignorance. What say you to the use of "I ...
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:39 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Religion, the fine art of deception
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24426
Re: Religion, the fine art of deception
An enlightening piece of writing, no doubt. However, it is unlikely to appeal to a world engrossed in religions and holy men. Sadly to them, it will remain a voice in the wilderness. It is not just holy men and their followers that are afraid to question the true nature of the forms they erroneousl...
- Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wisdom's Way
- Replies: 0
- Views: 29359
Wisdom's Way
There is no part of the release of the relative self and its imaginings of what God is into the truth of Spirit or Absolute Realization that is not guided by the spirit principle of Wisdom of the Single Eye. * Wisdom's realization that there is and always has been only One who sees and knows is not ...
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:09 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 52236
Re: The Real Climate Debate
Adults of average intelligence and beyond are well aware of how to live a healthy physical life - don't smoke, don't drink or do drugs or if you do, do so moderately, eat unprocessed, nutritious foods, exercise -- and yet, much of the population makes several of these unhealthy choices every day. Se...
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:00 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Overcoming torture
- Replies: 8
- Views: 25592
Re: Overcoming torture
If one has realized the spiritual logic and love of A = A (emphasis on realized), they have the means to suffer being tortured by one who has not (spiritually) realized equivalence of form. One can practice the mind and heart spiritual wisdom of A = A without being tortured by another: the aging and...
- Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:15 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jupiviv v QSR
- Replies: 16
- Views: 60067
Re: Jupiviv v QSR
To clarify what I said about going beyond suffering above so as to dispel any idea that to be enlightened is to deny suffering or escape suffering once one has ceased to identity with culturally conditioned ideas believed to be inherent to an inherent self, the transcendence of suffering such a one ...
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:32 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jupiviv v QSR
- Replies: 16
- Views: 60067
Re: Jupiviv v QSR
jupiviv: The concept of a special truth to end all suffering is itself a byproduct of suffering. After all, how can suffering end if it doesn't even exist? What we call "suffering" is just our psychological and physical connection to empty objects; and the connection itself is empty of it...
- Wed Jan 22, 2020 11:36 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jupiviv v QSR
- Replies: 16
- Views: 60067
Re: Jupiviv v QSR
jupiviv: The concept of a special truth to end all suffering is itself a byproduct of suffering. After all, how can suffering end if it doesn't even exist? What we call "suffering" is just our psychological and physical connection to empty objects; and the connection itself is empty of it...
- Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:00 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jupiviv v QSR
- Replies: 16
- Views: 60067
Re: Jupiviv v QSR
jupiviv to Dan: You're just asserting, without any evidence or explanation, that intellectual understanding of certain special, deep truths or meanings leads to broader consciousness. Again, like I asked David, why are these truths so special or deep? By what mechanism do they intensify consciousne...
- Sat Jan 18, 2020 6:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The single-minded will to love
- Replies: 2
- Views: 20401
Re: The single-minded will to love
I used the concept of 'God' because it has the advantage of suggesting an existing self or a subject which is how we as humans think of I-awareness. Where the concept 'God' personalizes, 'Existence' et al do not. I think this is your mistake. This is not an advantage but a disadvantage. In fact it'...
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:18 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The single-minded will to love
- Replies: 2
- Views: 20401
The single-minded will to love
To be single-minded in willing love is to will from the realization of one's infinite causal nature, as man's infinite causal nature is that which is universally shared among realized and unrealized beings alike. To will to love in all circumstances is akin to think as God would think, for God cause...
- Fri Dec 27, 2019 12:34 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: 'Renunciation' Buddhist style
- Replies: 8
- Views: 33105
Re: 'Renunciation' Buddhist style
Bradley West: ‘Words’ are limited to our understanding of the universe. They are no more than concepts. However, the ‘Dhamma’ the process of Dependent Origination is way beyond our comprehension. Further, we as a product of this dualistic process beyond space and time have absolutely no control ove...
- Tue Dec 24, 2019 10:58 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: 'Renunciation' Buddhist style
- Replies: 8
- Views: 33105
Re: 'Renunciation' Buddhist style
Bradley West: ‘Renunciation’ in Buddhism is a comedy a masquerade enacted for the ignorant. It is a practice based on the blind belief nurtured by religions the life of a so-called ‘layman/householder’ is not conducive to leading a so-called ‘monastic’ or holy life. This elementary divisiveness is ...
- Tue Dec 24, 2019 2:47 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1506698
Re: Trump
Further to my recent post on why "impeachment" hasn't yet happened: Imagine a world where people are continually being charged with crimes, for the purpose of doing them harm, but their cases never go to trial and they are never given a chance to defend themselves. That would be one helli...
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 7:20 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1506698
Re: Trump
As an aside, where Kierkegaard failed to become a Son of God was in his idea of the returning Knight of Faith as one who grasps the finite. It is here where he demonstrates the very act deemed by the Buddha to be the cause of suffering, that of attachment to the finite. No, you’ve misunderstood Kie...
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 2:27 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1506698
Re: Trump
Pam Seeback: My argument was that when Jesus passionately rebuked the Pharisees, he had not yet experienced the great sorrow of doubt in the Garden of Gethsemane, nor had he experienced being mocked and spit upon by the Jews wherein he asked the Father for their forgiveness, and most importantly, h...
- Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:25 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1506698
Re: Trump
Pam Seeback: I would appreciate hearing your understanding of how passion fits into realized wisdom of the infinite. David Quinn: It's like what happens when a rocket finally escapes the earth's gravitational pull and hurtles into space with unstoppable momentum. The power needed to escape the eart...
- Wed Dec 18, 2019 1:20 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1506698
Re: Trump
Kevin Solway wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 1:10 am Pam Seeback wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 5:14 pm David has declared that buddha's experience passion and desire, an assertion that goes against the literal meaning of nirvana which is "blowing out" or "quenching". Perhaps Dan and/or Kevi...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 1:00 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Rx for existential angst
- Replies: 0
- Views: 25365
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 3:29 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1506698
Re: Trump
Kevin Solway wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 1:10 am Pam Seeback wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 5:14 pm David has declared that buddha's experience passion and desire, an assertion that goes against the literal meaning of nirvana which is "blowing out" or "quenching". Perhaps Dan and/or Kevi...
- Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:14 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1506698
Re: Trump
David has declared that buddha's experience passion and desire, an assertion that goes against the literal meaning of nirvana which is "blowing out" or "quenching". Perhaps Dan and/or Kevin (and others) believe the same. This would certainly explain why this thread of name-callin...
- Tue Dec 10, 2019 11:01 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Oneself in relation to philosophy & relativity
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22659
Re: Oneself in relation to philosophy & relativity
Abstract reasoning has little to do with philosophy. Mathematics is no philosophy. Plotting a complex, ritualistic perfect murder ain't either. From wikipedia: " Abstract objects have no physical referents, whereas concrete objects do. They are most commonly used in philosophy and semantics.&q...
- Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:30 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Oneself in relation to philosophy & relativity
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22659
Re: Oneself in relation to philosophy & relativity
Pam Seeback wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:18 am While abstract reasoning - the doing of philosophy - is usually necessary (...) once one receives wisdom of the infinite, wisdom of oneself, abstract reasoning must be transcended. Diebert van Rhijn wrote: It's actually the doing of philosophy which wou...
- Sat Dec 07, 2019 4:10 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Abortion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 98494
Re: Abortion
Rhett: There are some topics in the main forum that shouldnt be there, maybe that is a bigger issue than whether "worldly matters" is being productive. I dont know. Rhett: Becoming enlightened is primarily about shedding delusion, and worldly delusion can be shed in "worldly matters&...
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:01 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Abortion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 98494
Re: Abortion
In case there are any sensible readers of this thread that didnt understand the questions and comments i made about the method of death, the point was to challenge any notion held that a surgical death in extreme abortion circumstances is necessarily ethical and acceptable, and in particular, due t...