GENIUS FORUMS

It's odd that today I got an urge to post on my own weaknesses, that after 25 years of working on and studying this stuff, I can't eat when I'm hungry or sleep when I'm tired. So I come here and you have already covered greed so I am left with sleep, or the lack of it. At 68 I find sleep difficult, ...

The ability to critique is lost as we all have opinions and none come without an agenda, or a care of those they are are criticising. The opposite is almost as prevalent and certainly as bad, a dismissal of any criticism as 'negative shit'. We cannot go anywhere or do anything effectively without cr...

Just read this and was hooked to the book: "But what saith God?—"Had it been possible, Epictetus, I would have made both that body of thine and thy possessions free and unimpeded, but as it is, be not deceived:—it is not thine own; it is but finely tempered clay. Since then this I could no...

Yes, indeed. Hitler thought his own humanity was fecal, so he tried to destroy his conscience in order to "get new and unhuman values"...refusing reason, love, reality, tenderness, even the possibility of hope...well the rest is History... Amazing insight into Hitler that I have never rea...

. It's hard to see the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear. Philosophy, REAL philosophy, is a vehicle by which one may search for a deeper truth. In my own experience, soooo much of our lives is in search of anything BUT the truth. I am surprised at how much one can accomplish ...

Congratulations for these words If our life is broken and if our existence is empty we got to find a way to mend and to fill them. There's something broken about all life like there's something empty about each existence. And something monstrous about all attempts so far to fill & fix. Like the...

Does anybody else find it strange that so many beliefs about genius say females are really incapable of it? I mean is it not ironic that Weininger, for example, should claim genius to include all possible persons, but he should think women nothing at all? He clearly thought he was a genius (and he ...

Hi Juva: to quote you "So tell me what has "Buddha, Jesus and any other number of men" done to release mankind from the dual mentality of 'dog eat dog'? I have heard of no Mount of transfiguration either of these people have established, out side of themselves, which will allow you, m...

ardy, the truth of emptiness does not overwhelm common sense (suggested definition: good sense and sound judgment in practical matters), instead, the truth of emptiness could be said to be one and the same thing as common sense. It is my experience that it is only when wisdom of emptiness or spirit...

We should be sure here what has been stated in my words does not deal with mass opinions and theories, for there is no comparison of individuality of experience (reality here yet to be defined as sameness from all points of view) to "the amazing ignorance in the vast mass of humanity. Pluralit...

ardy, the truth of emptiness does not overwhelm common sense (suggested definition: good sense and sound judgment in practical matters), instead, the truth of emptiness could be said to be one and the same thing as common sense. It is my experience that it is only when wisdom of emptiness or spirit...

Doubt is the wedge, if I may add a couple cents to the pot, which keep all men from realizing they are in a battle for the space of themselves. There is nothing anyone has to offer this world but the release of themselves from the belief of being separated from themselves. Doubt is the wedge of thi...

I have been in a state of heightened prajna and it certainly feels nothing like samadhi or any other state close to a breakthrough. It is like it comes naturally and although it is not what you would describe as logical wisdom, it appears more like another pathway opens. What's the difference with ...

There are many examples of those who have made an initial breakthrough and struggled to stay in that state, moving from complete clarity to a more prosaic state of insights or 'ships in the night'. There are also examples of those who have fallen out of enlightenment completely. If you have done so...

Hi - I am not sure why you are asking this simple question. The answer strikes me that the 'real' work begins after enlightenment and not just before. There are many examples of those who have made an initial breakthrough and struggled to stay in that state, moving from complete clarity to a more pr...

Finally! A real answer to the question that has surely been asked here a thousand times. What is enlightenment? And who else but Immanuel Kant could provide such a convincing and indubitable answer. Have a look. https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/What_is_Enlightenment.pdf Enlightenment is man's ...

"What is the most fundamental question?" must be the most fundamental question. Why not: why am I asking questions ? Or perhaps: "how did I come about to ask at all"? Then it seems that one has to arrive at a more fundamental position which is more like observation or a certain ...

Hi ardy, let me just ask you something first. Why post here asking what we think? Rather random is it not? Very true Glostick91 BUT you never know where some deep insight might come from. There are some people on this site who have done a fair amount of internal work and it shows. I would not post ...

You know movingalways, I thought about this thing that you wrote. At first I flashed hot, because when anyone tells me that they “suggest” I do something… well, I hear sarcasm and I see a little head waggin. So I gave it some time and that reaction faded away, and I could see that the only heat cam...

If you are falling deeper into intuition is it you doing it or something else? I think it's both. I've been going through a gut-wrenching decision the past year and 1/2, trying to make the best decision. My heart says one thing, my head another...constantly going back and forth. Then my intuition g...

My understanding of it is that the enlightened work from Nen that is not in your awareness yet. How the hell that works I have no idea... Well, I get premonitions in my dreams, that come true. Does it have anything to do with being psychic ? I just found this interesting article on NEN (just before...

Kunga and Movingalways: I try to keep my comments to what I have experienced and assume that what I have no experience of does not impact on me until I have some impact with it. Deibert will be frothing to get at that post BUT if you don't know doesn't mean it ain't so. I read an amazing quote by He...

Does this "devine", require the use of logic and thinking, or is it a spontaneous, all-knowing intuitive ? Maybe it is both ? Or, maybe it is neither ? Or, maybe it is both and neither ? If The Absolute is everything, then how can there be truth in all those lies ? Kunga - I suspect that ...

Obviously one cannot say clearly until they see clearly, which is to have right view, which is to realize the truth of the permanent unchanging "divine" law of ever changing impermanence. Keeping your mind on truth, how can confusion arise? To the one who desires to realize their "re...

To bring this back to the original poster - freedom or quiet fear are really the two alternatives for life and you and I seem to have spent a fair amount of time looking for freedom. Such an arrogant thing to do yet it binds completely. Ardy, come on. Surely you can see the false dichotomy of this ...