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They can abandon all of their delusions, which is what I call enlightenment. Best to abandon that delusion then. That would be a case of putting your hands over your eyes and ears and pretending that delusions don't exist In any case, your comment doesn't support your overall point in this thread b...

Dan Rowden wrote:Hitting someone with a stick achieves what?

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when timed properly, it could stop them from pursuing stupid questions

what point of view is it told in?

sapincher wrote:I too believe that we are all dead because I can't get to sleep and plus I have a random cut on my forehead that I can only assume to be placed under supernatural circumstances.

you sound schizo

they thought people and monks get enlightened...

the monk should have just hit them with a stick

I believe we are already dead.

welcome, and have fun!

David Quinn wrote:
They can abandon all of their delusions, which is what I call enlightenment.

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Best to abandon that delusion then.

lol wut?

no, your mind is mine.

David Quinn wrote:

average wrote:enlightenment doesn't change anything, specially how you feel.

that monk answered correctly

The monk was deluding himself, clearly unable to face the reality that misery is always a product of ignorance. His attainment was a false one.

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You still think humans attain enlightened?

Curious.

enlightenment doesn't change anything, specially how you feel.

that monk answered correctly

That is true. But at the same time, the truths to which these momentary appearances point are universal and timeless. For example, it doesn't matter if the concept of an objective perspective comes or goes, or if it is being experienced by anyone or not, the impossibility of an objective perspectiv...

merely because i find this all so drow, i am going to say this. the fact that you are all arguing the fact that no single person has "enlightenment" is making it seem as though YOU yourself has the "enlightenment" and are able to say who is and is not "enlightened" ? i...

by 2040, he says you can upload your consciousness to a computer and roam free around on the internet and live in i guess the matrix hah hah but, you would still be around, yes? there would be two of you. you would get to meet your clone. your clone would think millions of times faster than you, an...

Contradictions such as "objective perspective" and "married bachelor" are absolute, in that there is no possibility of these things appearing anywhere, at any time. Edit; yet the definitions themselves only exist mentally, as you think of them. They are appearances themselves, t...

Now Kevin will question whether our concepts are based on the empirical world. How about this: if you can prove our concepts are not based on the empirical world and are somehow concrete, absolute, or infallible, then you can convince me there are absolute truths. We've already gone through this, N...

it has no a priori logical basis without some sort of metaphysics and it has no empirical basis either Are you talking about empirical observations having no a priori basis nor empirical basis? I'm talking about it as a mental construction being projected upon empirical observations, while having n...

it has no a priori logical basis without some sort of metaphysics

and it has no empirical basis either

The only posturing I like to do is in the nude.

free-will and determinism are imaginary

The smooth and precise functioning of the mind and the joy that arises out of it is a reward in itself. Why do you need a third party to get the reward, from a process. First of all - It doesn't bring about joy, or smoothness and precision. Secondly - by definition, a reward is something given or r...

Edit; "Emptiness" is a starkly unappetizing term used to under-cut yearnings for such consolation. Yet ironically it has been called into the service of such longings. Indeed. From here it is only a hop, skip, and a jump to equating emptiness with such metaphysical notions as "the Ab...

maestro wrote:

average wrote: Enlightenment offers no reward, since there is no one there to even receive it.

Why should there be someone to receive a reward. Absence of pain is a reward in itself.

I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?

Truth doesn't demand, or require love. In fact, there is nothing to love about it, and no one to do any loving in its presence. Enlightenment isn't broken into, and doesn't require any sacrifice because it provides no reward. If that was the case, we wouldn't have a world filled with people trapped...

Truth doesn't demand, or require love.
In fact, there is nothing to love about it, and no one to do any loving in its presence.

Enlightenment isn't broken into, and doesn't require any sacrifice because it provides no reward.