GENIUS FORUMS

If one holds that "The 'I' is constantly present etc." is "an expression of the ego's desire for permanency", then one inescapably holds the ego permanent. (I can call this "the trap of relativity".) Now I understand what you say, but I still don't get it. You mean tha...

Apart from that: "It is an expression of their ego's desire for permanency." - then you can't escape holding the ego permanent. Could you rephrase that? I didn't understand it, my english still is not good enough. Thanks If one holds that "The 'I' is constantly present etc." is ...

DQ: Well, I consider those two - Sri Ramana Maharsi and Nisargadatta Maharaj - at least to be traditional Hindu teachers, rather than New Age gurus - although, admittedly, there is often a strong connection between New Age teachings and Hinduism. My attitude towards their teachings is pretty lukewa...

DHodges wrote:

Bondi wrote:Philosophically, even a cheetah, or a chimpanzee, or a tree, or a piece of a rock has the possibility to attain enlightenment,

Fascinating. I happen to have a rock here. How do I tell if it is enlightened? It seems kind of heavy.

You have to be enlightened to tell that.

Yes, it's speculative, and we're missing the whole point by these speculations. If we were to judge humans on that basis, then we should logically end up saying that, for instance, a cheetah or a chimpanzee is far more superior to humans because the one can run faster and the other is stronger than ...

I think the main reason for the lack of black genii is neither genetic nor "cultural" - or those reasons are merely secondary. Secondary to what? I think any human behaviour can be attributed to cultural or genetic causes. Secondary to the 'philosophical perspective'. (You should've read ...

I think the main reason for the lack of black genii is neither genetic nor "cultural" - or those reasons are merely secondary. The racial questions are even more suppressed and feared today than the question of masculinity/femininity. These questions therefore should be researched with eve...

"New Age" seems more like the ebb of structured/disciplined thought. The swamp of animalistic desires that becomes apparent when people get tired of conformity. To be precise, New Age is the ebb of disciplined thought in a negligible sense, as it is rather a caricature of disciplined thou...

It's also important to realise that of all his contemporaries he would be the least represented in books/media and so on. His major work Sex and Character was only released this year in a quality translation, despite being published more than a century earlier in 1903. He's probably a little too &q...

drowden said: Firstly, women do not follow like sheep; women are sheep. That is a pretty fucking biased and generalized statement. Women aren't sheep. Women are human-beings with the same-same DNA make-up as the male of the species last I checked. Meaning, they are neither inferior or superior in t...

Our political leaders here in Australia are currently talking about our supposed "religious tolerance". The very next second they are saying that those people whose religious beliefs include the push towards a state theocracy, or which are intolerant of other religions, should leave the c...