GENIUS FORUMS

Do you view karma as a causal reality...simple cause and effect, action and reaction? Or are you saying that if you do something bad to someone, something bad happens to you. Because if that's the case, people don't even KNOW the MEANING of karma. They haven't even got what's coming to them. All I ...

It cannot be said to be independent in some objective sense. It cannot even be said to "exist" in the way brains and bodies are spoken of. Its because brain and bodies are objects while consciousness is always the subject. The subject is ever present while objects come and go. The fundame...

What I am struggling with is what its real/natural function is, does it die as part of enlightenment and what the hell is it. Easiest to explain by analogy of the dream. So in a dream which is actually created solely by your mind, you still occupy a body which is separate from the dream universe, y...

Ardy, You are making this more complex then it needs to be. The fundamental question is who am I. The answer is not mysterious it is just awareness. Everything else is just appearances to the awareness that you are. Ask yourself this: what is it that remained unchanged since you were a child till no...

neither a subject nor an object but as the basic truth of your existence, giving you access to who you really are. To hold yourself as a subjective being, an observer of the objective world around you seems somewhat dream like to me There are only two thing in the world. I as a formless timeless an...

ardy wrote:How do you know that the past is flowing into the future?

Based on observation this is how things are karma is nothing but cause and effect.

Hi Ardy, Glad to be here and discuss with like like minded people such as you. As for the question, well what is the point of imagining such extreme scenarios and what will happen then. Indeed what will happen is simply karma of the mind and body resolving itself i.e. past flowing into the future. B...

Diebert, This is a good question that I have also pondered, the description of enlightenment and this disorder have much in common. Could it be that the sufferers of this disorder are experiencing "reality" but they simply have no knowledge about it and without context to them it feels as ...

I am the husband of Kunyab. I claim to be enlightened. This is because there is no confusion in me as to my nature. I am simply the ever unchanging subject and do not take myself to be any object. This is the difference between enlightened and unenlightened, the unenlightened take themselves to be a...