GENIUS FORUMS

PS As if on cue, an old movie I am watching called 'Monkey Business' with Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Marylin Monroe started a scene in which Cary Grant, a stuffy Professor who has inadvertently taken a formula altered without his knowledge by one of his lab monkeys who poured it into the laborato...

Cory asked: "So your saying its more likely that 'genetic structures are squeezed out' in correlation to urges? " Well, I offered that as a possible argument for the materialist point of view, but even if it works that way on some level, still the real question is : 'where does the urge to...

Tharpa: Most of these 'anthropological' theories are based on pure speculation, not even qualifying as science, let alone Philosophy. Tharpa: I didn't like 'Devolution' but thereare some good points in there, not least of which is the very idea of devolution itself, which intimates that mind preced...

yes, quite right.

Good one!

Seeing all beings within the continuum of Totality-Awareness in which are contained both confusion and enlightenment.

And yet a Buddha teaches and cannot help but do so nor can others help but engage one way or another, either by accepting, rejecting or ignoring.

whatever people see is who they are

SS, this admittedly is a quibble, rather than an appraisal of the whole thing, which I have not quite finished. I was confusing this one in the library with another one containing a selection of various sources. From Chapter Four 'Being Judgmental': "He was also, it should be noted, the benefic...

Absolutes neither exist nor do not exist Yes, this is what I say about myself. It cannot be understood by seekers. They necessarily think it is contradiction. Unwise, for fun: An enlightened Genius, the Buddha, achieved full Enlightenment through following through on his motivation (bodhisattva vow...

"Quote: Th: There are many different aspects to the same thing, which is why I offered a body, speech and mind scenario. Similarly, water is flowing or not, wet or not, present or absent, pacified or turbulent and so forth. So along with the root notion/subject of water, there are no end of qua...

SS wrote: "The body is existent as an object, not a false process of the mind. You can become aware of the body, but you can't become aware of the ego, because it is the one that becomes aware. You can only understand that you are falsehood itself, and that "you" must be taken from yo...

OK. How about this:

Totality cannot be qualified by a 'the', as in 'The Universe'.

Even though all particulars are more limited than any absolutes, any absolute neither contains nor does not contain any particular.

Absolutes cannot be numbered.

Absolutes neither exist nor do not exist.

"As Foucault remarked it is just as easy to 'structure Reality' on a pack of Lies as it is on Absolute Truth. You are a 'Pack of Lies'...all of you...effectively a 'Pack of Lies'... Sometimes you know this with utmost clarity, but mostly you 'push it away'....because it doesn't feel good realis...

SS wrote: "Ego always manifests as "I". That's simple enough...the rest stems from that delusion. Of course "I" is a "process", and not a real entity. It doesn't exist like the body...it can be applied to anything. Most of the time people use "I" as some ...

"Such a personality would not recognize a real Miracle if it appeared on their plate at breakfast." You might be right. The appearance of 'breakfast' on a 'plate' is in itself a 'miracle'. It is rather a strange thing for someone proclaiming the immanence of Shambhala to denigrate the firs...

Most of these 'anthropological' theories are based on pure speculation, not even qualifying as science, let alone Philosophy. For fun, try reading 'Devolution', which gives a Vedic interpretation of the whole monkey business known as 'evolution'. He wrote 'Forbidden Archeology' as well. http://www.f...

"but the universe is the UNIVERSE" The universe is not. The universe is a thought/concept ABOUT the universe. Anything which 'is', is a non-existent entity, a codependently arising matrix of one-many principle making a one out of many fusing thereby into one whole the masculine and feminin...

I am currently chewing my way through Spengler's seminal 'Decline of the West', finally getting towards the end of the long, fascinating, but difficult introduction. It's effecting my prose construction! He identifies in cultures the same basic 'morphology' that exists in all conglomerates, which si...

from my first impressions of the approach here: the feminine is unwilling to stand alone, and therefore needs/seeks confirmation. This is reminiscent of Hexagram #2, 'the receptive', six unbroken, yin line, the most Yin/Feminine of all the hexagrams of course. I am having a lot of fun contemplating ...

If Wis of Inf is Quinn's book, then I have skimmed it, along with some of the Thinking website. (I am in the library right now without my usual computer so I lack easy references to the materials and cannot be bothered to be more precise, so forgive me if this is not the book.) I intend to revisit t...

yes, and that 'delusion' is a causally interdependent process, not an entity. Often when we discuss 'ego' the mind immediately starts assuming there is some 'thing' there, which of course is the delusion. That is why there is what is known as 'ego of self' and 'ego of others', or the ego principle i...

"you may still have an ego" !! Who has their ego? Ego of course, always having itself. Thought in response to above: Ego in mind manifests as ignorance, the act of not knowing Truth. Ego in speech/emotion manifests as selfishness, not being compassionate/open. Ego in body manifests as cowa...

frank, re 'extra fiction'. If you mean that the material is not from my personal original insight, sure. But the forum hosts have supplied quite a bit of source material from buddhist and daoist traditions, amongst others, presumably because it is regarded as helpful. The above 'four reminders' are ...

well, I don't claim to 'know' all that much. But this was summoned from memory from one I used daily in the 1980's (and there are some minor errors). There are hundreds of different versions; it exists in quite a few schools of buddhism, and is mainly used as a 'warm-up' contemplation before doing o...

First this precious human body free and well-favoured is difficult to gain easy to lose, now I must do something meaningful. Second, the world and its inhabitants are impermanent; especially the life of beings is like a bubble; death comes without warning, this body will be a corpse. At that time th...

SS: The role of confidence-certainty in the genius process, which introduces the path aspect versus view alone (to use Buddhist terminology). Care to explain what this means more? Of course a person must walk the path, not just look at it or talk about it. And of course, being uncertain is worth not...