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by Shardrol
Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:04 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shardrol and Buddhism
Replies: 13
Views: 8577

Re: Shardrol and Buddhism

There is one thing in Buddhism that isn't method & that is emptiness. Yes, but that is in everything. Even if all understanding of Buddhism should disappear, and only the outer shell of "Buddhism" remain - a lifeless husk - Buddhism will still lack inherent existence. Yes. I didn't me...
by Shardrol
Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:21 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shardrol and Buddhism
Replies: 13
Views: 8577

Re: Shardrol and Buddhism

Buddhism is method rather than truth. I would agree that it contains methods. Even simple explanations of the law and cause and effect cannot really convey the truth of cause and effect to a person whose mind is unable to generate that truth within itself. So the explanations are themselves a kind ...
by Shardrol
Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:19 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why do you all react?.
Replies: 32
Views: 19616

There is no reactor or reaction. It's all in your mind. Let go of your delusion & you will find peace, Unknown.
by Shardrol
Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:14 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Most enlightening book/author
Replies: 19
Views: 9062

Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud.

Before I read this (when I was 13) I had no idea I wasn't the only person who was obsessed with understanding why people are the way they are.

I no longer see Freud's theories as the revelation they were then, but that was the beginning.
by Shardrol
Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:03 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shardrol and Buddhism
Replies: 13
Views: 8577

Re: Shardrol and Buddhism

I have met countless Buddhists who think that they can't achieve great realizations, or participate in advanced Buddhist practices, without having first received some kind of transmission, empowerment, authorization, from a physical teacher. So something terribly wrong has happened somewhere along ...
by Shardrol
Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:59 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shardrol and Buddhism
Replies: 13
Views: 8577

Re: Shardrol and Buddhism

My problem with guru-yoga is that it depends on gurus. If gurus and guru yoga actually work to create wise people, then I have no complaints with it. But often there are no genuine (wise) gurus to be found, and still a person has to develop their own wisdom. You could argue that, in the absence of ...
by Shardrol
Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:03 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shardrol and Buddhism
Replies: 13
Views: 8577

Re: Shardrol and Buddhism

I was wondering if your understanding of reincarnation might have changed to what I call "the esoteric interpretation". You can see it explicated in The Questions of Kutananda . By this understanding each of us is spinning off countless "future lives", simultaneously, each momen...
by Shardrol
Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:54 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Writings of Foxylaythee
Replies: 33
Views: 14242

Re: Shardrol

ksolway wrote:Shardrol,

Are you still teaching Buddhism? Have you made any major realizations lately?
This sounds a bit like 'are you still beating your wife?' but yes I admit it, I am still teaching Buddhism.

I'm not sure what you'd call a major realization, but probably not.
by Shardrol
Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:47 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Writings of Foxylaythee
Replies: 33
Views: 14242

It's interesting that so many people (men & women both) judge a woman first by her appearance, no matter what the context. Women are required to be pleasing to the eye - an ugly woman is an offense to all. I think this is a genetic thing. Women are judged on their physical appearance, which tra...
by Shardrol
Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:11 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Writings of Foxylaythee
Replies: 33
Views: 14242

I would disagree with Carlyle here (& I'm probably taller than him as well). Ugliness is not an objective quality - it's an aesthetic opinion. Certainly a person's character will show in their face to some degree, but height seems independent of personality. I don't know what you mean by a 'shor...
by Shardrol
Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:56 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Writings of Foxylaythee
Replies: 33
Views: 14242

It's interesting you mentioned the other women there - one of them was vile. Short, overweight and a weird personality. . . It's interesting that so many people (men & women both) judge a woman first by her appearance, no matter what the context. Women are required to be pleasing to the eye - a...
by Shardrol
Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:11 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Death Penalty Sux
Replies: 54
Views: 21459

Hello, Faizi. The way to understand people is to study the part of yourself that's the same as them. So if you want to understand Ted Bundy you have to find the 'serial killer within' (he's the one that got rid of that pesky inner child). The real live Ted Bundy is irrelevant to this process. He pro...