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<t>Dave Toast wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>. . . the explanations would surely have to be psychological, on a deeply ingrained, completely unconscious level.<hr><br/> <br/> The explanations can be conscious too. They don't have to be unconscious.<br/> <br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>What matters is...

There is "Schizoid" and "Schizotypal", and now a new, third "Schizotypoid" condition, defined at the start of the thread.

<t>cassiopeiae wrote:<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>A person on the verge of Buddhahood could be lacking many things, all of which are significant, for they are the reason the person is not perfect. It could be they are arrogant, still have attachements, or any number of things dealing with the Myriad Practi...

<t>Cassiopeiae wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>No where have I read anything about the "almost" perfect Buddha.<hr><br/> <br/> Imagine a person one moment before they become perfect (what I call a "Buddha"). At that moment they are "almost" a perfect Buddha. They are 99.99 percent perfect, but not...

<t>cassiopeiae wrote:<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Well, from the Buddhist perspective, there are various degrees prior to becoming a Buddha, none of which knows everything to do with Truth.<hr><br/> <br/> It depends what you mean by "knowing". Someone who is almost a perfect Buddha knows just as much as do...

<t>JimHaz wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>"The Buddha is the only one who has nothing left to learn."<br/> -Shurangama Sutra, Individuals Able to Receive the Teaching<br/> <br/> jimhaz: Why would a supposedly enlightened person bother reading such works? In what way would it improve on their abili...

<r>The Shurangama Sutra can be dowloaded from the following URL, in 8 PDF files.<br/> <br/> <a href="<URL url="http://www.gbm-online.com/Sutras.asp">http://www.gbm-online.com/Sutras.asp</URL>" target="top"><URL url="http://www.gbm-online.com/Sutras.asp%3C/a">www.gbm-online.com/Sutras.asp</a</URL>><b...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>As you have labeled the "Schizotypoid" using various criteria, the "Schizoid" is also labeled through certain criteria.<hr><br/> <br/> Yes.<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>..now are you arguing that the "Schizoid" is merely labeled by the average person<hr><br/> <br/> Usually, yes. As ...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>I agree for the most part, but as the "Schizotypoids" is extreme in vanity, materialism, egotism, the "Schizoid" is extreme in other areas, which also includes egotism, in such scenarios as interacting with society, creating the effect of hermitage and complete alienation...<br/> ...

The way I see it, the "Schizotypoids" are in fact just normal, average people. One of the obvious problems of treating patients with this disorder is that the patient tends to deny there is anything wrong with them, and will not seek treatment, or be responsive to treatment.

<t><br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Of 'QRS'? Do all three of you folks set up as being enlightened? Do you claim Buddhahood or something? To be Buddhas or Bodhisattvas?<hr> <br/> <br/> We certainly don't claim to be Buddhas, but we would claim to be enlightened, allowing for minor differences in definition.<b...

I hereby coin the "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder". Indicated primarily by a split with reality, and with the following symptoms: 1. Desires emotional relationships with others, and tends to selfishly impose themselves on those around them. 2. Tends towards group activities, seeking aff...

<t>John wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Kevin: Think of it this way: If you meditate on the question "Does a dog have Buddha Nature?" but without reasoning about it one iota, where do you think it will get you? Answer: absolutely nowhere.<br/> <br/> John: This is where you are mistaken.<hr><br/> <...

<t>John wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>I would like to continue with this if you don't mind.<br/> <br/> "The koans do not represent the private opinion of a single man, but rather the highest principle ... [that - tmc ] accords with the spiritual source, tallies with the mysterious meaning, destr...

<t>Robert Larkin wrote:<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Kevin, if you're familiar with that school then you should be able to find some evidence backing up your position, shouldn't you?<hr> <br/> <br/> Here's a piece of brilliant use of the intellect by Hakuin:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>&nbsp &nbsp &a...

<t><br/> Robert, you have a serious attachment to the word "truth".<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Nagarjuna points to awareness which holds no concept to be the truth<hr><br/> <br/> It is important for you to acknowledge that Nagarjuna, unlike yourself, never says that no statement can ever be true.<br...

Robert, when a person says that something is "true", it doesn't automatically mean they are deluded on that count, and it is irrational to think that it does. It fact, it reveals your own attachment to the word "true".

<t>John quoted Hakuin:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>"...he will surely come to see that the ground where the ancients lived and functioned is not found at any level of intellectual understanding."<hr><br/> <br/> Unfortunately, your intellectual understanding of that teaching is wrong. However, Hakuin'...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>David Quinn is the other side of the coin: You cannot be one with the law of causation (or truth or Tao) if you are clinging to it.<hr><br/> <br/> I won't write at length here, as David will probably reply. But you should provide the reasons why you think David is clinging to the ...

<t>Robert, all you have done so far is accuse someone of being a fraud (which can, in Buddhist terms be viewed as a serious form of slander) just because they believe in what they call "cause and effect". You'll have to do better than that.<br/> <br/> Did you hear of the story of the Zen Master, who...

<t>Robert Larkin wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>To express truth via thought is impossible.<hr> <br/> <br/> So you are telling us that the above statement is a second-hand picture of at best relative usefulness, right?<br/> <br/> Also, if you don't believe the above statement (quoted) is true, wh...

<t>cassiopeiae wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>So, really why argue free-will in the first place, and why continue to acknowledge illusion as any truth (reality)?<hr><br/> <br/> Free will is one of those illusions we cannot escape, like the illusion of "self" (in fact, free will is dependent on th...

<t>Re: Compatibility of free-will and determinism<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Fire away Kevin.<hr><br/> What we call "free will" is our perception that we are, to some degree, in control of what we are doing. And it is based on our lack of ability to predict the future. That is, even though the futur...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>There is no such thing as extra knowledge of what you refer to here. However, hypothetically, if there were, it would not be "extra knowledge of what lies behind quantum events", it would be extra knowledge of what lies beyond Uncertainty theory, and nothing more.<hr> <br/> <br/> ...

<t>Thomas wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Kevin: Lots of things are random. <br/> <br/> T: That's a funny thing to say for a determinist, don't you think?<hr><br/> <br/> Not at all. Things are random because they are caused to be random. Determinism and predictability are two different things. Why...