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- Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:27 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The fundamental question
- Replies: 146
- Views: 55897
Re: The fundamental question
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...
- Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is spirituality?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 37348
Re: What is spirituality?
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...
- Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:24 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Are YOU Enlightened ?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 50173
Re: Are YOU Enlightened ?
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 ...
- Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:29 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Are YOU Enlightened ?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 50173
Re: Are YOU Enlightened ?
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...
- Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:24 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Nirvana
- Replies: 0
- Views: 21294
Nirvana
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...
- Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:01 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wise Quotes Collection
- Replies: 474
- Views: 190103
Re: Wise Quotes Collection
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
And without beauty, we cannot live;
So let us strive to obtain the clear water of Truth,
Together with the wine of Beauty.
Schuon
- Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:23 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is spirituality?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 37348
Re: What is spirituality?
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...
- Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:55 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Are YOU Enlightened ?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 50173
Re: Are YOU Enlightened ?
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...
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Are YOU Enlightened ?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 50173
Re: Are YOU Enlightened ?
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...
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:44 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wise Quotes Collection
- Replies: 474
- Views: 190103
Re: Wise Quotes Collection
"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...
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:31 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Are YOU Enlightened ?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 50173
Re: Are YOU Enlightened ?
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...
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:11 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The reality of transcendence
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19240
Re: The reality of transcendence
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...
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 11:56 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Are YOU Enlightened ?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 50173
Re: Are YOU Enlightened ?
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...
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wise Quotes Collection
- Replies: 474
- Views: 190103
Re: Wise Quotes Collection
"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 ...
- Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:34 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Are YOU Enlightened ?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 50173
Re: Are YOU Enlightened ?
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...
- Wed Mar 12, 2014 11:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Sexual inversion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12663
Re: Sexual inversion
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 ...
- Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is spirituality?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 37348
Re: What is spirituality?
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, ...
- Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:25 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Sexual inversion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12663
Re: Sexual inversion
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...
- Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:55 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Sexual inversion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12663
Re: Sexual inversion
A triune.Dan Rowden wrote:I'm sorry, A=A is what?
- Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:20 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Sexual inversion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12663
Re: Sexual inversion
A trinitarian equation.Fox wrote:A=A
- Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:34 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: No Enlightenment for me thanks.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12486
Re: No Enlightenment for me thanks.
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...
- Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:37 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wise Quotes Collection
- Replies: 474
- Views: 190103
Re: Wise Quotes Collection
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...
- Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:47 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Sexual inversion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12663
Sexual inversion
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...
- Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:25 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wise Quotes Collection
- Replies: 474
- Views: 190103
Re: Wise Quotes Collection
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...
- Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:04 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wise Quotes Collection
- Replies: 474
- Views: 190103
Re: Wise Quotes Collection
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...