GENIUS FORUMS

I just want to point out that there can be both feminine and masculine 'gay guys'. Even if harder to get married and generally more trouble with another orientation than the *normal* one, it doesn't make any fundamental difference what orientation the person has in this example, because of the afore...

I couldn't actually read "What is Enlightenment?" it literally just gave me nothing, felt like I was just reading words, not sentences. It's also cowardly in the way he turns the demand on the individual to grow up, and use reason uncompromisingly, ie. Enlightenment, into an historical eve...

Good to see you at it again, Anders. glad you think so, GF seems more visibly active, too. By that, i mean the fact that alot goes on underneath the 'surface'. I've mainly done nothing other than play sports or video games lately, though. I told myself I wanted to actually become part of a professi...

I think men can create a blind spot to their own psychological pain during solitary introspection, while women can't. In most cases I don't think men create blind spots to their "psychological pain", but rather that they are deeply and in most cases permanently desensitized to any psychol...

Um, looks like the poet has overcome the philosopher. In answer to the question, I think men can create a blind spot to their own psychological pain during solitary introspection, while women can't. Women don't seem to be able to aggress against themselves, preferring to keep their own path comfort...

A bunch of lost children.

A sea of good and bad.

In a very dark hole where upwards can be seen and heard a great many things, not realizing that one can crawl up, talks about how nothing of any importance ever happens.

For some reason this old math problem came into my head. I had forgotten how much fun the confused look on peoples faces were. I'm sure most of you have heard this or can figure it out quite easily. Three friends while on vacation stop into a hotel for rooms for the night. Speaking to the manager, ...

Whatever meaning exists is the objective meaning for life, I'd say. For example: part of the meaning in my life is to look for some food in the moment that I perceive hunger as opposed to not hunger. Which is related to the fact that I like to stay alive and feel well as opposed to unwell and then ...

That's not at all what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that there are subjective meanings which are idiosyncratic to each person, which originate from their emotional needs. However, these subjective meanings cannot hold up to any objective standards because they are delusions created to satisfy int...

Life is whatever exists, the meaning of whatever exists is a dumb question, since the meaning is part of 'whatever exists' for conscious, valuing people. The meaning of life is a lot like a coffee cup on a table, it's the way because of Nature. But since meaning is part of consciousness as soon as ...

Well, in a sense, no matter what, we remain just as we are, so we are still perfectly authentic according to nature in every moment. But i suppose to an individual who wants to be consistent and true in what he says, does, thinks, etc, it would matter? @ Unfair, do you mean a true 'self' as opposed ...

Life is whatever exists, the meaning of whatever exists is a dumb question, since the meaning is part of 'whatever exists' for conscious, valuing people. The meaning of life is a lot like a coffee cup on a table, it's the way because of Nature. But since meaning is part of consciousness as soon as t...

It's not abandoning concepts, and when you say you're not conceptualizing, you said it felt peaceful, which is conceptualizing too. Rather, it's avoiding getting hung up on any particular thing or concept. Even the concept of being at ease, or not being anxious because you recognize that all things ...

You realize If that was true clearly David seems insane then Oh, no, it's perfectly sane. See, it's a tactic: rather than admit that reasonable people can reasonably disagree that what he claims to be Ultimate (or Absolute) Truth indeed qualifies as such, which I'm sure you can understand would be ...

And I did say David has described it. Hasn't he? To say he has not would be to imply that nothing he has ever written has described nonduality. Would you really make that argument? I wouldn't, but I would make the argument that he's been deliberately obscurantist in this thread, and that when a cle...

How do you know that the Infinite can't be described if you can't describe the infinite?
edit: reversed it

I don't know about America, but here in Australia things have changed quite a bit. For example, the shift of importance away from exams at the end of the year to continual week-by-week assessments, the almost complete disappearance of male teachers in primary schools, and an overall culture of poli...

Nice points there about the school system. Me and my male maths teacher used to talk a bit about these things actually. It's interesting to see just how little room there is for male teachers these days. You have to be so remarkably politically correct, and well, people's spirits are dying. It's not...

Reason can be an aid to undertanding the Tao, but The Tao can't be defined solely through language/reason. Well, defining things is a product of language and reason, God or anything else is defined by using these tools. God is defined to be infinite, and language and reason are excellent tools to u...

Imagine that somebody believes the Tao is beyond reason to grasp or talk about. He can't reasonably say this, because if he did, he'd be reasoning about the Tao's "beyond-reason-abilities", so clearly the Tao can't be beyond reason to grasp or talk about, that would be impossible. However,...

even those who believe in stuff that has no evidence or any sensible, rational, foundation believes in logic of some kind. Namely, the logic that is comfort, and thus darkness. People don't want to know. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. So some people are aware that their believes work for them, eve...

Why does one's subjective consciousness inhabit a particular body and not another? our consciousness must adhere to whatever it percieves, if what it perceives is the same as before, there is no change. No change means no change in perception, and no change in perception means no change in any part...

Since egolessness, for a conscious human being, would entail being a perfect buddha, then essentially, you could ask the question: can you know if you're perfect? because by definition, if you can, you can know you're egoless. To that question, i'll say, you'll know exactly what is happening in you...

Kelly stated: In case I have to clarify this, this doesn't mean that illogicality is experienced when one is dead, or that a dead body turns logic upside-down for the conscious perceiver of a dead body. :-) This is and irrational and illogic statement you have presented. Why? because to know what y...