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- Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:04 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How do we embrace ruin?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14871
Re: How do we embrace ruin?
Great topic! The ego dilemma: the bloody struggle with its final realization of non-existence, a truth that cannot just be conceptualized ("thinged") in thought or feeling alike, without invoking the very thing it questions. Some mistake this for the clever act of denial or simply ignorin...
- Fri Jan 19, 2018 7:50 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How do we embrace ruin?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14871
How do we embrace ruin?
The function of suffering is to loosen the grip on inadequate conceptions and encourage the ascension to a higher state of being. Without suffering people would not progress in any real sense; they would not feel any inclination to let go of insipid and shallow world-views and modes of being (feel f...
- Thu Jun 26, 2014 4:22 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: A short story.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13751
Re: A short story.
I once had a long nightmare that I was a separate essence, and that my joy depended on catching other disparate essences that were always floating away or dissolving in my hands as if they lacked substance and were made of nothing. And everywhere other separate essences chased after the same things,...
- Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:27 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
For something to truly exist separately, its existence must not be compounded of other things, and for it to be self-existent, without being compounded of other things, it must be a thing-in-itself. It follows from your statement that if something does not really exist separately, it's existence is...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
The idea of a separate existence is the idea of being self-existent, i.e., a thing-in-itself. There is a difference between the terms "separate existence", "self-existent" and "thing-in-itself." The first is the distinction between one thing and another, the second is ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 7:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
A definition is not its own disproof, and only dualistic when conceived as something other.RZoo wrote:The subject is contextualized into a semioticist dematerialism that includes truth as a totality
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:11 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
Nihilism is an ironic demonstration of a premise.
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
You're more fortunate than you suspect.RZoo wrote:WHAAAAAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. LA-LA-LA-LA!TheImmanent wrote:The negative is merely the absence of the positive.
That sounds like a happy delusion. ;-)
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
Positive emotions consist in the expression of one's own nature. Negative emotions consists in the conception of some hindrance or opposition to the expression of one's own nature. This leads the ego to form the belief that it is the suffering that gives rise to pleasure and vice versa. For every t...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:44 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 33333
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
The doer who once did was never anything but an incorrect conclusion. He never actually did anything. There is no activity but awareness, i.e., enlightenment. Passive awareness is a contradiction. There is no awareness, either. All dualities are illusions, not just the ones you are biased against. ...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 7:58 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 33333
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
The ego is passive (acted upon), restrained (consigned to a specific place and duration), detached (conceives all things as separate) and shut off from any true emotion or idea (only possessed by misconceptions). Enlightenment is active (that by which everything is), limitless (cannot be captured b...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 7:47 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
Buddhas Bliss was permanent. The bliss I have experienced is impermanent. Is it the same bliss, only the quality and quantity of it relative to the proximity to Enlightenment ? The quality of it is inversely proportionate to the proximity to "Enlightenment". The stronger the suffering, th...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:54 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 33333
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
The ego is passive (acted upon), restrained (consigned to a specific place and duration), detached (conceives all things as separate) and shut off from any true emotion or idea (only possessed by misconceptions). Enlightenment is active (that by which everything is), limitless (cannot be captured by...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
Yes it is. A person is not actually a self.Leyla Shen wrote:A discussion between two persons is an interconnection.A perspective is a necessary premise for a discussion. The idea of a separate existence is false, since all things are interconnected.
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:40 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
A perspective is a necessary premise for a discussion. It's no more necessary than a person. These ideas are both indicators of different experiences/thoughts/opinions in a discussion, and can be deluded or wise ideas upon the person using them. Enlightened discussion, without ego-presence, is poss...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:07 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
A perspective is not a false claim. As you say, it is an axiom. But the ego, i.e., a person, is a false claim to being a private essence. That is, a separate existence. An axiom could be false. The claim of separate existence is not sufficient to render an idea false. A perspective is a necessary p...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:51 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
Both a perspective and a person exist dependently, but a perspective is literally a perspective while a person is not literally a person. A person is the concept of a private essence, being a person. No one is a perspective. Not by my definition. A person is a human being, and human being is a pers...
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:23 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
That is correct.movingalways wrote:When the truth is spoken truth is all that exists. When the truth is spoken, thoughts of being a person or an ego or a spirit or a soul do not exist. Therefore, when one speaks the truth, they are the truth and nothing but the truth, they are the light of the world.
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:40 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
A perspective is literally the axiom which dictates a person's interaction with his environment. A perspective is not a false claim. As you say, it is an axiom. But the ego, i.e., a person, is a false claim to being a private essence. That is, a separate existence. So a perspective is not literally...
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: No really, I AM a person
In so far as a perspective is insightful, to that degree the perspective is not under the conceit of being a person. Whether or not the perspective is insightful, a person is still only figurative. Don't you mean abstract rather than figurative? A person does not exist in a literal sense and is not...
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 6:09 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: No really, I AM a person
In so far as a perspective is insightful, to that degree the perspective is not under the conceit of being a person. Whether or not the perspective is insightful, a person is still only figurative. Don't you mean abstract rather than figurative? A person does not exist in a literal sense and is not...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 3:39 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
In so far as a perspective is insightful, to that degree the perspective is not under the conceit of being a person. Whether or not the perspective is insightful, a person is still only figurative.
- Thu Jun 12, 2014 6:07 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
Who lets go? A person is a blind spot. A person is not someone who may lack insight, the existence of person is a lack of insight. In a perspective, considered over time, insights may accumulate so that the person disappears. The one who would let go and that which would be let go are both gone.
- Thu Jun 12, 2014 4:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
The limited perspective is no obstacle, its way of designating a strawman of ideas as its being is. Were the limited perspective to be known as such, there would be enlightenment. The perspective would be empty of a person, i.e., ego.
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:03 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 73829
Re: Bliss
Kunga wrote: MA said, " Whoever said : The PURPOSE of Enlightenment (is to stop thinking) is deluded. " I NEVER said THE PURPOSE of Enlightenment was to stop thinking !!!! I said the purpose of Enlightenment is to realize THE TRUTH . And to realize THE TRUTH, conceptual thinking stops. Wh...