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this thread, the ideas, the participants and then you arrive, to introduce this . And then you appear, the idea appears, with concept, with quote, with interpretation. It's way too late to wash your hands from it now. I was under the impression 'worldly matters' was a different discussion altogethe...

Please realize this scripture is usually used to argue for mortification and many times understood as such. It suggests to solve the itch, the stress of knowledge, of body or aging by rigid amputation or suppression. Solving life by running to death or sleep. Or sitting still in a bubble protected ...

How I read the current struggle of the collective human mind is that it is the struggle of awakening to wisdom of the eternal infinite. A struggle that includes awareness that the unconscious non-conceptual eternal is valueless and meaningless while the conceptual conscious cannot function without ...

absolute reality and conventional reality (names) are not separate realities which means the name 'family', ''son, 'grandson' do exist when they are being spoken by the absolute self. All those things exist in the same way as they did when you were seventeen, (which seemed like very much so) the on...

Since 'emptiness/void' implies nothing to see, you could have simply left your statement as 'there is literally nothing to see.' The way you spoke of awareness is as if emptiness/void is an object. Alright: There is literally nothing to see, there is only emptiness/void. It is not true that there i...

The Causality causes the body as it causes everything of which Man is aware. It also causes cats, but I doubt you'd reason a possible end to your being (or unknown)when one of those comes to dissolution, hence my presumption that you've necessarily implied the body as a dependent causal factor for ...

I have elaborated on death as I understand death to be, which is the concept of rebirth, a dynamic, ever-changing process of the infinite. My body and thoughts are a part of this dynamic process, as I understand yours to be also. How one interprets this ever-changing process of the infinite will ef...

Bingo. Perhaps, tho today I'd lean more toward the other possibilities I gave, and remain uncertain. Irregardless, many of the practices would be similar, such as mindfulness meditation. This was all mostly evident from the start of the conversation tho, there's still been no elaboration on your vi...

I was referring more so to the online debates and 'wars' that you'll find on youtube and the such, the engaged persons are most unlikely to make any kind of difference achieving a better world or whatever other delusions fuel them. The usual mindsets and attitudes you see in these discussions exclud...

What it comes down to is which side has the worst principles overall, or "the greater of two evils", and obviously in my opinion I think the Left is significantly the worst at the current time. Obviously both are crap, so I don't understand supporting Trump or Hillary and playing that gam...

Where can the mind, consciousness, escape to when its nature is, as it always has been, the infinite being finitely expressed? In other words, the totality (of you) has no escape hatch with which to leave you. Ignoring that your infinite/finite reasoning here seems too much like conceptual metaphys...

There was no need, but I re-read my words to find where I stated, or even indicated one understand life, but found no such wording as you have stated I wrote about understanding life. Perhaps I have overlooked this statement and should I have, then I will acknowledge my saying of such. The importan...

Its decision why It did what It did. And what base can my sentient minds stand upon to conceptualize, debate, or even think upon this thing man calls creation? So what is the point of the desire to talk that which one does not know? There is a reality. All who has been read about who lived through ...

"we" are the experiential infinite (we are God experiencing God) but that in many cases, the "enlightened" mind then contradicts this realization by declaring "worldly" experiences to be ungodly. What is to elaborate vis a vis the infinity of God? God experiences world...

do not interpret an enduring self or an enduring world. Just an individual consciousness that you reason may cease at death, one that in some way must be distinct from reality if you reason it as being caused? What do you reason caused "I, consciousness"? Am I not correct in presuming you...

It appears to me that your focus is too much on what seems logically sound in concept rather than what is logically sound and aligned with the individual experience of being. The Buddhist doctrine of no self teaches that there was never any self to begin with, not one created at birth, not one now, ...

"I was speaking about wrong view of the existence of (a) subject. Period. Consciousness is not an existent subject, therefore I was not speaking about the literal end of the consciousness experience itself. Things and consciousness are one and the same experience. I am, you are, that experience...

It's odd how you manage to brush over something so obvious. You were speaking about the literal end of the consciousness experience itself, an end to the arising of sensation and thought, a literal end to the being and existing you know now...the common concept of "death is the end" that m...

If you think I blindly believe anything It does seem that way. o with evolution you need to make distinction between adaptation, genetic drift [statistical redistribution], gene flow [mixing of populations, all the strange pairing], mutations [errors, viruses etc], natural selection ["fitness&...

It might be a good time to realize, that in the experience of "Things are what they are", there is only reality, nowhere to be seen is there "death is the end", is there? "The end" is barely even a fantasy. Fantasies can at least be conceptualized. At least two of the w...

To sum up my point, I doubt that it is actually possible to make "worldliness" ( A life including those common aspects listed earlier) compatible with a life in which wisdom is the priority. Your reply did not seem to provide reason (if it exists) to alleviate this doubt. In reply to your ...

would seem to be the more reasonable path/choice. It might seem that way, but in what way is it actually more reasonable? As far as I've come to understand it, beyond what might be described as intellectual or conceptual insights into the truth, there is the core of the path to enlightenment, the t...

That all seems accurate to me. to an end. It seems to be an obvious and unavoidable truth that this 'goal' is an incredibly unlikely occurrence as long as one maintains a 'worldly life'. "Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness." Hakuin W...

Pam Seeback wrote: If desire or longing was not present to bring you here to post what is right and true according to John, then what brought you here?

But it was, the desire for non-desire.

Most of the talking you'll hear is due to ignorance. Why is there so much ignorance? There's nearly zero education in wisdom going around. Generally people are about as ignorant as they were when they were five, probably a lot more so. Talking is just one of the ways in which people seek to quench d...