GENIUS FORUMS

I know, but that only adds to the irony which saturates our conversation. Everything that you say I do - namely, becoming lost in abstractions - is what in fact you do. And everything that you say you do - namely, go beyond thought and live in Reality directly - is what in fact I do. It's as though...

Ah, I see. The clown amuses you. I guess that's what it's all about..... Bringing wisdom in an entertaining and beautiful way - the Zen poets, and specially Lao Tzu, knew all about this - you should study the power of this. Alan did so incredible much for spreading the Eastern Wisdom. As Shunryu Su...

You're still stuck in the realm of abstract prisons yourself. Your "reality is naked perception free from abstractions" is itself an abstraction and a prison. Of course, I'm telling you this all the time. Everything is an abstraction when dressed in words. "Direct perception" - ...

Famous drunk words... Famous pious words... But it doesn't matter how much he drank or if he died from it or not. The effect of any surplus of alcohol is instant ignorance, its brand of brightness pleasantly or eventually painfully numbs. Ergo, Alan drank to dampen the light and not for any "j...

Translation: Reality isn't one single attainment. Rather, it is one single attainment (that nothing needs to be changed) ..... This isn't an attainment because this is nothing one can achieve other then stop trying to achieve, which becomes an achievement in itself - and around and around it goes. ...

First poster is onto it. All words are abstractions of Actuality -- 'Actuality' being itself an abstraction of 'Actuality' and so on -- and if reality is naked perception free from abstractions then, yes , talking about reality is meaningless in the sense that it is taking you away of direct percept...

The whole thing shows me that his relationship to Reality was inauthentic Reality isn't one single attainment or atonement - it is all things at all times. It's the understanding that nothing needs to be changed because there are no-one to do the changing. I mean, this is a lightning-flash that cha...

Yeah, sure, this goes back to our discussion about UG, who supposedly read 'detective novels regularly' (which he in my view definitely didn't, but that shit doesn't matter - what he said about that was of course a way to take the air of the pious bastards surrounding him), while you my brother writ...

I was never really bothered by his drinking. He was clearly a sensualist and he wasn't contradictory about it - and he talked about it in many of his books, and as a person wrote on another site: He writes of alcohol and his relationship to alcohol in a number of his works, including his autobiograp...

The Joker by Alan W. Watts : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZIrFYtG14k (Part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_1g2ynWsYA&feature=related (Part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVWg_GJh4E&feature=related (Part 3) ----- Quite long but well worth the time and very interesting, clear and e...

Just wanted to share a quite beautiful, sharp and poignant essay I stumbled upon, written by the late John Wren-Lewis. Another essay written by him where he goes in-depth about his 'perception-shift' can be read here: http://www.nonduality.com/dazdark.htm Unblocking a Malfunction in Consciousness by...

a fact is a concept of thought

This is a quite beautiful passage from I Am That; Nisargadatta Maharaj which relates well to the above discussion I'll close our exchange with this one: By being with yourself, the 'I am'; by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than to j...

So, was the question rhetorical? It was meant as a way to express a belief of what I consider to be the hardest part of true, fruitful, silence - the often constant discussion within oneself which one is identified with as ones own words, but it was also a question to whom that wanted to reply if t...

So there's always one "main" delusion left to grapple with, no matter how "direct" the path is you're suggesting. The ten thousands arms are just contained in this one, so one is not really bypassing anything really. Even "going to the main delusion" might be another o...

... but alas, how does one not talk to oneself constantly? Sphere70, you are intelligent and enthusiastic with an affinity for Advaita, and unless the question is rhetorical you are seeking to know the answer via experience. However, as you have the capacity, you may find that non-dual concepts fro...

Is Godman a friend of yours? We’ve never met. This book is excellent. http://www.amazon.com/Be-You-Are-Teachings-Maharshi/dp/0140190627/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305141626&sr=8-1 A direct practice that everyone can cultivate though is the attempt to be silent. In conversational-mode this is v...

The absolute only comes in sight, by itself, with no effort, when delusions, desire, attachment, emotions and their source are recognized, understood and given up. Agreed, but I'm saying, go to the main delusion / attachment directly instead of grapple with its ten thousand arms - and if you also p...

Godman is accessible, you know. I bet he would appreciate hearing thanks for his work. The word Love (as all words) is dualistic. I would say that communicating with words is a dualistic activity, and that certain words such as “love” imply dualism. “Relationship,” also implies dualism. “Friendship...

By default the mind is always in place, telling all sorts of things which are in need of debunking. While I agree at one level, the problem with this though is the belief and value of the debunker. Like there is an aspect outside of mind who debunks the faulty concepts, who weighs and measures and ...

Watch out for upcoming doc. about UG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKSCvftq ... re=related

So what am I? Whatever I say will be wrong. Not really. You did say this: But I am not the body, and I am not the taste of this sensation - dependent on this body. And that's not wrong. You will argue that it is easy to say what I am not , but if one tries to answer what I am , then the answer alwa...

Yes, in the link U.G. did specify in his first sentence that he wasn’t talking about: “That nonsensical state that those bastards, those so-called enlightenment people, (are) talking about.” And he also said that love is a filthy word because the implication of two creates a division. What he impli...

Nis. talks about Consciousness as the One manifested and experienced as duality. UG talks about romantic love.

The part I put in bold is where any philosophy which denies the existence of the self loses me. A delusion is not the same thing as an illusion. One has to be practical. Identify delusions, and thereby eradicate them, yes, but denying that one's own self exists? How is it possible to identify that ...