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by Kelly Jones
Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:59 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."
Replies: 76
Views: 46670

Re: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."

Hey, so far no one has taken the thread seriously in terms of the "visible in today's world". I'm assuming you mean sharing interest in enlightenment to a large number of people. Clearly forms of media are needed (not simply being a great guy as jupiviv suggests), books work well for thos...
by Kelly Jones
Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:57 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."
Replies: 76
Views: 46670

Re: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."

Dennis Mahar wrote:Fuel burns.
no fuel no fire
fueled with desire
ashes to ashes
You're contradicting yourself again. If you really believe there is no fuel to burn, then why are you posting? Because you're trying to burn fuel (destroy delusion).

Try to think before you post another mantra.


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by Kelly Jones
Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:53 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."
Replies: 76
Views: 46670

Re: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."

Kelly I think the ability to cross to the other shore en mass ... I'm only ever talking to an individual. ... could require that we embrace our animal heritage. How can you live in the moment when the next risk you take is crossing the road? Getting eaten, or starving to death is far more productiv...
by Kelly Jones
Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:45 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."
Replies: 76
Views: 46670

Re: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."

KJ: Why do you think it is impossible to kindle the world, practically speaking? Just lighting a fire to heat (or disintegrate?) as many as possible, rather than trying to convert everyone oneself, is what I'm thinking of in "starting a fire". J: Because of a host of reasons. One of the m...
by Kelly Jones
Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:30 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

The nutters and the pretenders are part of the territory and maybe the price you have to pay on this site to get the great interactions that happen from time to time. Just ignore them and they will go away [unless you think you can help them in which case offer advice offline? if you feel up to it]...
by Kelly Jones
Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:21 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

You do not understand emptiness jones. you are acting out because you are confused in the matter Yes, so you keep repeating ad nauseam . You clearly believe you're right, but when your errors are pointed out, you refuse to respond to the points raised. You just go on repeating, "You're wrong, ...
by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:43 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

Jupiviv isn't treating you with hatred. He's being playful.


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by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:38 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."
Replies: 76
Views: 46670

Re: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."

A new admin who can monitor the forum more thoroughly and regularly won't hurt either. Agreed. KJ: Why do you think it is impossible to kindle the world, practically speaking? Just lighting a fire to heat (or disintegrate?) as many as possible, rather than trying to convert everyone oneself, is wha...
by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 9:49 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."
Replies: 76
Views: 46670

Re: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."

any new posts/threads that are good or spawn decent discussion chains should be moved to the archive as well, Strangely, the Help Desk seems to be doubling as an archive. It's a bit of a mess. I'll ask Kevin if he could move the genuine archive threads into the archive. I was initially for banning ...
by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 8:07 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."
Replies: 76
Views: 46670

Projects for: "I have come to start a fire..."

Hi Genius Forum members, What are your ideas on how to ignite the world-burning fire, that drives people to cross the river of philosophy, and reach the other shore? How would you make the spiritual life visible in today's world, in a practical and down-to-earth sense? I'd like this thread to be pur...
by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:44 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

All of that because of Dennis? For the others, posting about it won't stop all the weekly crazies and trolls from creating new accounts. No, not merely Dennis. There aren't many posters now, but Dennis is the most prolific of the culture of insanity prevailing here. He posts like an addict, and he'...
by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:31 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

As to the view that concepts are empty of meaning, that's more obstructive nonsense. Every one of your replies shows you don't believe such a thing. You'd be posting gibberish, like "Oo-ja - cum - spiff", or, "Wokra got dammy turgidity", otherwise. Like many of the more obviously...
by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:26 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

You are wrong, Dennis. All things are empty of intrinsic existence, naturally including concepts, meaning, they are all part and parcel of an indivisible stream of causality. So, first off, everything is always directly experiencing, i.e. subject to, emptiness. Directly, because "indirectly&quo...
by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:09 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Calling The Next Generation
Replies: 21
Views: 14883

Calling The Next Generation

(I am reposting this, from "Suffering Revisited".) Hi everyone, I think it's time this forum was emptied out in a very real sense. Emptied of the nonsense culture. Emptied of the idiotic obstructiveness. Emptied of senseless postings and evasive ditherings. Emptied of the spiritually weak ...
by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:59 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

Hi everyone, I think it's time this forum was emptied out in a very real sense. Emptied of the nonsense culture. Emptied of the idiotic obstructiveness. Emptied of senseless postings and evasive ditherings. Emptied of the spiritually weak persons dominating here. The Genius Forum has become a wastel...
by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:27 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

Language and concepts are empty Yes, so you you keep saying. But you need to apply this understanding. You know the story about flowers raining on Subhutu, because he hadn't said anything about emptiness? Jump off the pole and live it. Or can't you hold two thoughts in your head together at the sam...
by Kelly Jones
Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:22 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

Cahoot, the reason Jupiviv is right to tease you, is because the cessation of thought, or even trying to stop wanting to think, has absolutely nothing to do with the process of enlightenment. Any time you try to explain your theory, using ideas, thoughts and concepts, you look a right drongo. It's d...
by Kelly Jones
Fri Nov 08, 2013 8:50 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Women Aren't Funny
Replies: 98
Views: 40535

Re: Women Aren't Funny

I've been thinking about chivalry, after watching some of the Jeeves and Wooster series by Laurie Hughes and Stephen Fry. I don't know if Wooster's endless inability to say no to a woman, except deviously, is actually comedy (probably not, it's more about silly and inept ways to avoid tragedy). But ...
by Kelly Jones
Fri Nov 08, 2013 8:28 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

Dennis, your evasive answers, hiding behind your constantly-repeated mantras, don't fool anyone. You are constantly on the repeat mode with these mantras, using them like a Roman foot soldier his shield in a phalanx. And, just like the phalanx soldier when attacked, the only time you put the shield ...
by Kelly Jones
Fri Nov 08, 2013 6:20 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

DM: the direct experience of emptiness discovers a complete absence, groundlessness, nothingness. You have not thought thru' causality. KJ: So you think language and concepts have to be got rid of, before one can directly experience emptiness, do you? DM: an end to philosophy obviously. job done. T...
by Kelly Jones
Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:14 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

You haven't got a clue Jones. sure emptiness is conceptualised or philosophised as a theory of no-theory and that's not it.-, its just an attempt to circle the wagons around it with language to possibly convey it. the direct experience of emptiness discovers a complete absence, groundlessness, noth...
by Kelly Jones
Fri Nov 08, 2013 11:26 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

It strikes me that trying to embrace emptiness or trying to perceive it are both nearly impossible. Do you think it is something that falls on you [like enlightenment] or can you find it in any ordinary mind? Enlightenment is perceiving emptiness, namely, the true nature of all things being empty o...
by Kelly Jones
Fri Nov 08, 2013 9:47 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Women Aren't Funny
Replies: 98
Views: 40535

The Preux Chevalier

The Disciple asked: What is a misogynist? The Master replied: I do not know; but it is used by cowards as a term of abuse for those who say what everybody thinks. Cowards are the men who cannot approach a woman without going out of their minds and becoming treacherous. They buy the woman’s favour b...
by Kelly Jones
Fri Nov 08, 2013 9:26 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suffering Revisited
Replies: 502
Views: 67548

Re: Suffering Revisited

you do not understand dependent arising the Interminable chain of mental fabrication appearing real. Everything constructed by mind is real, because it's all part of Ultimate Reality. If you think it's not real, then you're despising Reality itself. Emptiness means absence of thought What rubbish. ...
by Kelly Jones
Fri Nov 08, 2013 9:05 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Tathagatagarbha
Replies: 4
Views: 3202

Re: The Tathagatagarbha

All that is required to be the Unconditioned light we already are (enlightenment) is to realize that both masculine and feminine are but two of the countless kleshas (conditions) to be removed. Purposed to be borrowed for a while, needed for a time, and ultimately to be released never to arise agai...