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The kind of enlightenment I am talking about can only be reached by a transformation of consciousness. It does involve a radical change of mind - not a sudden change, but a gradual, almost imperceptible change over time. By the end of it, one has a very different subjective relationship to the rest...

Teaching the Dharma involves pointing to a reality which is already present. It is all already around us. It is already in us. It is everything that we are. So when a Buddha teaches the Dharma, he is not actually adding or taking anything that is not already there - and the person who becomes enlig...

Q uinn, R owden, and S olway. QRS is an abbreviation commonly used on other forums to refer to the philosophy promoted here at Genius. It's a bit problematic and probably even somewhat unfair, but it's convenient. If "QRS" themselves want to suggest a better term for the view promoted her...

That "Enlightenment for Beginners" post was great. A lot of soild guidance there. One could sense the ring of authentic Eastern instruction - a sense one rarely gets from today's offerings.

I decided to post this here to see what kind of reaction it gets. ---------------------- The thing with QRS, in my view, is that while they are technically correct in most of the deductions they make about existence, they are incorrect about how broadly these realizations apply. What do I mean by th...

Thanks for the tip, Nick.

And for a religious leader and his dutiful follower to join forces in scolding me about "fundamentalism" is pretty rich.

You guys are a hoot. :)

There are some things in the wide world of psychology which one doesn't necessarily have to be a rocket scientist to figure out. :)

I don't think you do - not fully. You have some insight into it, but it still quite narrow and not all that deep. And it will only remain that way if you keep refusing to factor your own attachments into the equation. At the moment, you are keeping your insight into the Tao tightly compartmentalize...

What does leaving one's attachments behind, and relying solely on one's reasoning in order to live a a life dedicated to God have to do with someone saying "KATZ," "Mu," "Buns," and "dung-stick"? Absolutely nothing. The only reason a wise person would say thi...

I object to females being reduced to an object utilised for cooking your dinner and you tell me I need a psychologist? Okay, I'll concede that referring to cooking in this context was a very bad choice of words. But my point stands - women are "connected" while men are "abstract,&quo...

Dave said: That goes without saying. Love is only possible where there is belief in separation. Buddhas are too undivided to love. Interesting. I think that genuine love is only possible in light or the recognition of shared identity. Separation has no place in real love, although it may be of great...

Earthy "grounding" = irrational, incoherent, emotional, changeable, unconscious-of-the-bigger-picture form of consciousness = cooking dinner? Fuuuuuck, of all the things you might've said. Talk about dripping with misogyny! Only from your viewpoint. Some of us appreciate the gender-based ...

Good grief! Why so wordy? Hehe... Touche. :) It's just obvious that you are worried about being percieved as someone who is worried about their self image. Which is simply another way of worrying about your self image. I agree, there's no reason one should care about it one way or the other. That's...

Nick, For most people it is, it's all about image, but for a select few it is about finding Absolute Truth. You won't find that with anything written here or elsewhere. Nor will you find it with thoughts, beliefs, positions, struggles, efforts, or any thing else. You can't "find" what you ...

Hmm. Okay, what have we here? Jamesh says the Heart Sutra, a foundational text of Mahayana Buddhism and the sutra most often described as "Buddhism in a nutshell" is deluded. Oooookay... :) David makes the "it's too advanced for you nitwits" argument in regard to the "no tea...

David, I think the best solution would be to phase "woman" out of existence via genetic technology, selective breeding over successive generations, cultural education, etc. After a few generations, no one would miss her. Most of the wars and violence and foolish behaviour would vanish with...

No "followers" around here. No sirree, Bob. Not a sycophant in sight. :)

To tell you the truth, your teaching methods are actually quite ineffective when compared to the methods of Jesus, the Buddha, or David Quinn and Kevin Solway. Now I hope you don't take this as some kind of an attack on your character and go off on some ego trip. Not at all. I thought it was a hoot...

Indeed. But there's no ego-gratifying heroic quest in that, so I predict it will be dismissed or ignored. Only Mighty Strivings are worthy of Lofty Thinkers. Dung-stick and toilet brush don't edify that sort of thing, so they aren't psychologically useful. Addressed in this way, noble Avalokiteshvar...

A red headed person doesn't need to strive to become a red headed person because that's what they are??? Your logic is terrible. O RLY? A person attached to Woman doesn't strive to become a person attached to Woman, they strive to overcome this attachment. Oh, you though that's what I was talking a...

Some more babble on the ego: The events in this or any other world are no more or less real than we are. We are like waves on the ocean. If we look at ourselves from the perspective of independent existence (as individual waves), all other waves have independent existence and the world is full of th...

And that, O Shariputrid, is the Zen Teaching of Toilet Brush, as expounded by The Zen Masters Super Mario and Luigi-tse.

Of course if you have no goals and wish to remain passive in the face of opposition then certainly you will never have anything to overcome. Yes, an enlightened world is a world in which everyone throws out their goals and aspirations to become as passive as a dead man! What could possibly stand in...

Just keep telling yourself that over and over again. I'm not obligated to accept anything, I'm not obligated to accept anything. Sure will, because I'm not obligated to accept any view of "Truth" or "Enlightenment" or "Wisdom" or whatever else. And what's more, I don't...

It's not that we don't know that this whole world can be illusory, but you might as well make the most of it. Agreed. Besides, if the world is an illusion, so are you. We are no more or less real than anything else. It's all either "real" or "illusory" - which label we choose ch...