GENIUS FORUMS

Isn't non-differentiation equally necessary? Hi DF, I’m not sure what your point is… equally necessary for what? Can you give an example? If you isolate a first-person perspective from the second-person, the first-person shows no differentiation (excepting any judgment). What are you exactly talkin...

Foreigner: J wont say because he wants you guys to figure it out for yourselves that his belief and god is identical to QRS's, which may explain why he's quit the old game to come here and cover for Q while on vacation. Well, ultimately, they all want the other to figure out that fundamentally ther...

DWD: Without differentiating , experiencing still happens , unimpeded by judgements , stress and need. That is logically impossible, since differentiation is a fundamental necessity for consciousness to be what it is. One does not need to verbally or conceptually differentiate between a self and no...

Is: Do whatever you'd like. Sure, I will, as surely can you, just that you (ambiguously) deny and accept it. Do not underestimate this freedom of individuality which facilitates the telling of ones own story to begin with. The only question is if you experience suffering or not. If you don't, you'r...

Is: People believe subjects and objects appear one way - as intrinsicially existing - while the reality is that they are dependent arisings, which makes intrinsic existence impossible. So instrinsic existence = the illusory oasis appearing to the mind of the uneducated person. Dependent arising = t...

. Is, just like most who defend the no-self doctrine, you seem to be quite choosy as to which part of my post you will address, which I think is not fair. I would rather prefer certain questions be answered, especially if repeated for a second time. For the third time… I would like to know one essen...

Is: By using the awesome analogy, your question becomes: "If the enlightened being can see that the 'oasis' provides no water, does this therefore mean that he doesn't need water to survive?" Firstly, I'm not sure if you know the difference between an “oasis’ and a ‘mirage’? And secondly,...

. With all due respects, this mirage or that dream analogy has become so stale that some new one is desperately needed. Is, you know what, assume that I understand your mirage or say a dream analogy thoroughly, now tell me what exactly does that actually point to? If an ordinary guy believes in the ...

Jehu: We sentient beings are the embodiment of the Absolute, and our experiences are its experiences. Well, you are absolutely inconsistent my friend, and it seems that since I do have the capability of disagreeing, I respectfully do so. I do not consider existence (Absolute in your books), as an “...

Sap: Well, what about the story “in the morning we wake up”? Who is this “we”? And what makes you think there is something awake to begin with, or was asleep from which it awoke? Is: That's my point. As Bodhidharma said: "Words are illusions". There is no one who wakes up - that's just a ...

Sap: for being conscious necessarily means a thing being conscious of something else… Is: Yes, that is the story I prefer, most of the time that is, that single sentences not be plucked out, for then the discussion takes on a different contextual direction, but I guess its ok for now. But if you in...

If by “free will”, you mean the ability to act completely independent of any extrinsic cause, then the straight answer is that there is but one will which is absolutely free. An “extrinsic” to existence (‘Being’ in your books) could not possibly (logically) exist to begin with, so “it” (which presu...

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Well, good for you. I'm glad you enjoy your experiences, syzygy :)
I'm no stranger to such feelings, but yet they remain simply a changed perspective, that's all.

it seems to me that you are looking at the map I provided, pointing to the territory, and are responding to what you see in the map, rather than the experience I point to. I suppose that is fair enough given the limited parameters of communication, and this format. I do understand that if I've neve...

So, in other words, or say in one word, are you saying…. no... ? No decision making, no freedom of choice, or say it would then logically stand to reason, no ‘thinking" (evaluating) on an individual level at all? Consider the case of the dream-personality; just because we deny the true existen...

the subject/object split always remains intact... But there is no such split. You are like a person telling himself there are cold water and cool shade in a desert mirage. Of course it appears to be that way to people who don't know the true nature of a mirage, but in actuality, there is no water o...

. What you describe is ONE of the ways in which the ego (“I”) likes to wishfully fulfill ones own need of self-centered-value-satisfaction, for that is the necessary ingredient that basically drives consciousness - self-centeredness. Like ‘altruism’ is actually a contradicting term, for any and all ...

Jupiviv. Knowing the ego or self to be a computer program, or a dependently arisen bubble - there is nothing wrong with it. It is empty, like everything else. So why the need to get rid of it? The attempt at getting rid of the ego is nothing else than the ego perpetuating itself. Just like a wave i...

So, the call is from the higher self, I agree. But the point we may disagree on is, I say the ego makes the choice to follow or reject the spiritual path. This must be true as the higher self would in its wisdom never reject the path, and we would all quickly be enlightened. This proves the ego sel...

Well, that is one of my goals, to break out of that. Yes, but this is the paradoxical aspect of reality, for we cannot achieve liberation without that we have the desire to do so, however, the desire for liberation can be the most formidable obstacle to its attainment. Before we return to the subje...

David: Prince might be an asshole, but I'm not sure that he's all that ignorant. It's hard to say what his understanding of things is really like, but he seems quite intuitive to me. He does have a nose for bullshit and a gift for summing up people in a few words. Until he is ready to flesh out his...

David Quinn, What if there was no wall, but a case of space just coming to a sudden end? There would have to be a boundary of some kind to divide the space that exists from the one that does not. You'd have to call that boundary something. I'm having a hard time visualizing this. A boundary need no...

Marco, Sapius wrote:"OK, so what about “motion”? Do at least ‘view points’ travel from point A to point B or not? Or does Space have no dimensions at all, and is actually a vacuum where nothing is actually happening at all? M: Again,you seems to be stuck on the wrong consideration that space co...

Jehu, sorry for the very late response… S: The very initial question that I had in the very beginning of this thread, still stands, and I ask again; what justifies a self-caused "entity"? J: It is reason that justifies the existence of the self-caused entity. Given the time you put into en...

[laughs] Judging by the comments, I think I just found Turkey's equivalent of Jimi Hendrix ! Hahahahaaa… Absolutely! I haven’t been to Istanbul for quite some time now if that’s what you are asking, but I just got back from London and Casablanca, will leave for Dubai, Milan and Geneva/Zurich in abo...