GENIUS FORUMS

Meaningless form Form is not meaningless. Form manifests the formless, which is infinite possibility (Beyond-Being). Infinite possibility contains the possibility of Truth (Necessary Being), and consequently of Beauty, which is the splendour of Truth, and of Goodness, which is inner Beauty. The wor...

I'd hardly call spirituality knowledge or religion. By Knowledge is meant the consciousness of the distinction between the Real and the illusory, and of the potential unity of the human self with the divine Self. Knowledge is the summit of all authentic spiritual paths. There is direct knowledge, w...

To make Schuon your hero is a case of participatory resoluteness. following footsteps. correct? Knowledge is something one is born with. To follow is to move towards that which is other than oneself. The truth is known from within. If you are not yourself, then imitate someone who is; the Truth in ...

So it's a possibility (take it or leave it) for time and place (here and now). There's a condition 'free gift'. Knowledge is likened to a gift in order to emphasise human passivity in relation to the Divine. What does that mean? A caveat? The Void is transcendent in relation to the illusion of mate...

It has been said That Nirvana is nothingness. Not by the wise, It was said by the ignorant. For there is a void Which is mere nothingness; And another Which is Reality. And It is empty, Because it is beyond the world; Yet It is fullness For him who contains It — For the Awakened, Who wanders no more...

Without wisdom, life has no meaning,
And without beauty, we cannot live;
So let us strive to obtain the clear water of Truth,
Together with the wine of Beauty.
Schuon

Schuon offers the following definition: "...spirituality has essentially two factors, namely discernment between the Real and the illusory and permanent concentration on the Real." Which implies: "...a relationship between discernment and understanding on the one hand and between conc...

What are you protecting like a celebration? Enjoy this moment of infinite, eternal life. It is a free gift. We aren't so crass as to give humanity just here-below sensorial experience. Our gift is proportionate to the human soul: eternal life and heavenly bliss. In the present moment. Take it or le...

2 cognitions are required. 2 truths. conventional mode and ultimate mode. The 'Conventional Mode' and 'Ultimate Mode' seem to recall the distinction between Reason and Intelligence. If the 'Conventional Mode' should correspond to Reason, and the 'Ultimate Mode' to Intelligence, then a sound distinc...

"To see God everywhere is essentially this: to see that we are not, that He alone is. If humility can be called the greatest of the virtues this is because it implies the cessation of egoity. One could say as much of each fundamental virtue: perfect charity is to lose oneself for God, for one c...

We have to declare situatedness and a cognitive possibility (human nature) OK? Cogniting things having a regular pattern displaying characteristics. properties, functions is a valid cognition. This then forms a categorical predicate calculus enabling science. Survival possibilities. Makes the notio...

There is no Transcendent God, there is only God-as-man To know "God-as-man", is to know God's transcendence of man; to know who you are, is to transcend yourself. You cannot have immanence without transcendence. choosing between an action that produces good fruit (emotions) and one that p...

everything is void of inherent existence. ineffable silence. That is true, but the word existence is of ambiguous meaning. A lot of confusion would be avoided by making a clear distinction between reality and existence. Existence pertains to space and time. Reality pertains to timeless and immateri...

"To flee God as do the worldly is far more senseless and irresponsible than fleeing the world. To run away from God is at the same time to run away from oneself, for when a man is alone with himself—even though he may be surrounded by others—he is always with his Creator, whom he encounters at ...

The Enlightened state is a "non-dualist" attainment, thus there can not be an "I'm," nor a "you Enlightened, them not" as there is no longer a you and them (dualist). Enlightenment is for eternity. Every possibility has already unfolded itself in the present moment. Al...

Nah, A=A is human nature. imputing mind. you're doing it now. round and round 'til the penny drops. You can use your mind. The Absolute transcends and includes, it does not abolish, rational thought. To reach higher than reason is not to abandon reason, any more than to reach higher than sensation ...

Spirituality is the knowledge of the Absolute, and a method of realising and integrating this knowledge, which is religion. It is, in a related sense, all that pertains to those levels of being above the physical and mental. Namely: Beyond-Being (the Absolute, Parabrahman, Godhead, All-Possibility, ...

effectively A=A means 'same shit, same day, nothing happens, appears to'. There is no reason for calling any attention to the equivalency of A and A if there were not at the same time a distinction, even if the distinction were one of appearance only. A=A is a trinitarian fomulation; the Father, th...

Dan Rowden wrote:I'm sorry, A=A is what?

A triune.

Fox wrote:A=A

A trinitarian equation.

As I travel farther along the path to enlightenment I see a fatal flaw in the design. If I become enlightened I'll no longer have the urge to change the world for the better. I will simply realize that all is as it is meant to be and that all is well. Two things can be said to that. The first: Enli...

An important point on the nature of 'belief' in religions: "From the viewpoint of Islam, a man is damned because he does not believe that God is One; one may well wonder what interest God has in our believing that He is One rather than manifold. In fact, He has no such interest, but the idea of...

The 'Divine Norm' is the celestial prototype or 'model' imprinted on man as his pre-eternal archetype of which he is a manifestation. 'Evil' is deviation from the Divine Norm. The Norm embraces (and transcends) the Primary Duality, which is the eternal interplay between the Absolute and the Infinite...

The premise that technology destroys humanity, when humanity is defined as the human race, is unsubstantiated. Do a head count, or count feet and divide by two. Three things can be said to that. First, the population may be quantitatively increasing, but humanity is qualitatively deteriorating; mat...

One possibility: they would invent more efficient stomachs for themselves (eventually) so they wouldn’t have to spend all their time eating and could invent more things, then they’d get too fat to fly which would transform the brilliant invention into a curse. Cursed, they would either devolve into...