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Nick Treklis wrote:Stop attacking me Elizabeth!

Heheheee.... but isn't that natural!?

Animus wrote:non-dual consciousness?

Why? What’s wrong with that, Animus?
For all practical purposes I’m a married bachelor myself.

And I think I know the answer to this one too….

El Dude:...we have no idea of what we are losing every moment.

Hmm… moisture?

Attachment to ideas, any ideas, no matter how spiritual they may seem, will always generate suffering.

What an idea! Is :)

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Yes, you are, El dude… and so AM I .....and you were ...... ? Just curious... for the sake of true perspective.

. Thanks for the most educational response, Jehu, but since we’ve covered exactly the same ideas in your Fundamental unity of being thread, and you seem to have the very same arguments, I think it would be better for someone fresh to take up the discussion. And thanks to you too Animus. Where is…. I...

Hi Diebert. D:This way the sensation of pain is as defining as any contemplation on suffering. S: It may be as defining to you, but yet they are NOT one and same thing, by definition if you like. Are they? D: Essentially they are (sensation of pain and contemplation on suffering). It's why I guess G...

Hi Jehu, long time no hear… I have always wondered why it is that, in my dreams, I (the cognizant subject) always appear endowed with a physical embodiment (dream-persona), along with the five customary physical sense faculties, just as I have in the objective world – though not necessarily an exact...

Yes… that is a pity, El Dude, but please keep in mind, absolutely nothing is here to stay, save the Absolute, so no big deal really

Cheers! :)

S: …physical world need not necessarily mean things-in-themselves, but they aren’t purely conceptual ideas either. D: What's a pure conceptual idea? Ideas come from somewhere, they originate in complex processes very much intertwined with the physical world, designed to reflect it to some degree. A...

Diebert: Not sure why you think there's a difference. A linguistic high quality definition could clarify a word in the context just as a HD signal clarifies and sharpens a picture. Both use contrast and proper detail, what's "between the lines" and "fine-tuned", to accomplish a ...

Hello Diebert, There's no such thing as experiencing directly. Well, the brain interprets all sensual experiences, so in that sense, yes, no DIRECT experience, but the experience of a bullet entering the back of my head is not the same as experiencing a philosophical discourse.. or is it? The baby r...

Laird: Agreed wholeheartedly, Sap, except that I don't believe that faith and logic are mutually exclusive. Welcome back from another of your many adventures too. My bad.. I think I should say sound reasoning or faith… however… In my books, actually ‘logic’ is fundamentally the core ingredient of e...

Diebert, When bound, contained or encompassed by something, that something has to be called finite . True, but by what means are we taking here? Are you talking here about experiencing a thing directly through our senses without defining it, just like a new born baby has not yet learnt the art of de...

Robert: That which is boundless, boundaryless, void of all content yet which is all content and all potential. In my opinion, once we even imagine the word “that….”, we are necessarily thinking/talking about a ‘thing’, and that necessarily means some “thing” that possess some content/meaning, other...

[Hence, no ego, or non-duality, or non-differentiation means absolutely nothing, except wishful thinking. Enjoy it in any case. I prefer 'imaginative thinking.' :) Me too, but like yourself, I like to admit it where need be. There is definitely something to be said for clarity of perception as oppo...

Robert: I'm sure it will, someone guilty of wallowing in a false sense of achievement hasn't really achieved all that much. Absolutely, but generally speaking, the one in such a state is hardly aware of it, otherwise that wouldn't be the case to begin with. Arrogance can be perceived differently de...

Robert: What do you mean exactly? Arrogant in what way? False pride… flase ego... as in ‘I have the answer to the ultimate question’, where the question itself is a self-created one to begin with, and then one wallows in a false sense of achievement. This has been happening in the past and will hap...

Is it just my writing style that makes you think I'm trying to come over profound? Not at all; although we discuss on one on one basis, please do not take any of it personally. This is an open forum and there are others reading this too. I have tremendous respect for individuality, even if I might ...

Sapius, this term 'the hidden void' is David's, I'm only responding here to how I see things and how I understand what they may mean. I'm not consciously making claims "through personal belief without any logical justification", if I am then I would like them to be corrected. Fair enough,...

Rpbert: 3. it (the ‘hidden void’) neither exists nor doesn't exist. S: I can’t understand why this is not vague, Robert? How do you actually understand or are able to accept it as logically coherent? R: In the same sense as the Tao that you referred to yourself a few posts back, it's a question of ...

DF: If there is a need for differentiation (an action), what is being differentiated? Sap: Are you saying differentiation = action? What I’m saying is…. differentiation takes pace much before any “action” comes into the picture. DF: Hmm...maybe we need a different word to describe what you mean, be...

3. it (the ‘hidden void’) neither exists nor doesn't exist.

I can’t understand why this is not vague, Robert?
How do you actually understand or are able to accept it as logically coherent?

Laird: According to you (David), the hidden void cannot be imagined in any way, yet here you are seeming to imagine it as infinite. So what? Haven’t you heard about the same idea otherwise known as the Tao? And logically defended as… the Tao that can be named is NOT the Tao? Similarly, all that can...

DF: If there is a need for differentiation (an action), what is being differentiated? Are you saying differentiation = action? What I’m saying is…. differentiation takes pace much before any “action” comes into the picture. Consciousness itself already requires that a thing differentiates its – sel...

DWD: Consciousness is what it is without interacting with its environement. Consciousness is the environement. . Well, I guess that settles it then! Consciousness is all that there is… right? It is the ego which does that. Which again cannot be anything other than ‘consciousnesses’, for that it all...