GENIUS FORUMS

RZoo wrote: No more idiotic than requiring them to stay alive for up to 100 years straight.

Where did you find this requirement?

The last insanity in Zen I'll talk about is in some ways the worst. Its the elder worship. In Japanese culture small bows are like handshakes, and slightly lower bows show a sign of respect. This is completely fine. It is good to show respect to people who are old simply based on the fact that they ...

The next biggest insanity is the celibacy. I don't necessarily think that the idea of celibacy is a bad one. People are perfectly free to decide if they're ready or capable of cohabitating and having children with a partner. But Japan is a different story. Japan is literally going extinct. In an est...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfR_ZkRQz3Q Here is an interesting documentary where the filmmakers are allowed to shoot in a Zen monastery while the monks go through a period of intensive meditation called Rohatzu o-shessin. The first insanity I'll talk about is the lack of sleep. Scientific studi...

RZoo wrote: Wise men avoid discussion using short, witty, vague or meaningless phrases which always dodge the point and "challenge" their interlocutor.

*WISDOM HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.*

Are these short, witty, vague, or meaningless phrases?

Nothing exists.

All discussions are pointless.

Leyla Shen wrote:Moreover, it would be sensible (if you value such a thing) to make clear distinctions between the "you" doing the dropping and the "you" being dropped.

What if the you doing the dropping is chained to the you being dropped?

movingalways wrote:To be conscious is to be conscious of something, which is?

Self conscious

Tomas wrote: I'm the alien right here, right now.

Religion seeks control of you and your wallet.

I'd rather a local church use my money than the government.

Super advanced aliens would likely use religious mythologies to their advantage.

divine focus wrote:What is consciousness?

What isn't consciousness?

They become weak logical inferences when you'd say "the luminferious ether still won't be there after my death". People die every day, and the sun still rises. What difference would my body dying make to those still alive? Does the whole world die with me? To give you credit, saying 'most...

RZoo wrote: I don't know, otherwise I wouldn't be in need of clarification.

You are like a man, who when asked what absolute truth is, says, "I don't know."

I imagine that Jesus cried for the same reason that I decide. Go read the story in John 11. It will tell you why. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+11 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” Unfortunately such conclusions, while witty, won't help clarify the na...

Good point. I created this confusion and I'll try to explain it. There are 2 things to consider: 1) How Jesus acted 2) How Jesus would act if he got his way (if everyone agreed with and followed him) In the first case, how he acted, yes, he wept for others. But if he got his way, if his goal was re...

Part of waking up and smelling the roses is the realization how twisted, sad, damaged and alienated humanity is. And so the disgust ("shame") is the first sign of any deeper consciousness of the situation. For the average man this works mostly subconsciously, he will actually work very ha...

You're responsible to the degree you can respond to the knowledge or the symptoms. Various options are on the table and they'll be evaluated because that's what the mind does when confronted. The mind as scale: weights are placed on the left, the scale reacts, then some weights are placed on the ri...

Trick question - you can't eliminate anything without eliminating it all. Although that's a good question - would you happily eliminate it all? Let's discuss the human bias against life. Almost everyone seems to want to eliminate something, be it violence, lying, fallacies, poverty, or so on. Why i...

Cahoot wrote: Dead koans tell no tales.

Indeed. How could I tell this tale unless it happened to me?

That's just my impression based on so-called enlightened figures and general connotation and associations I've found with the term (Buddha, Jesus, Buddhism, etc). If we accept your definition, then know that we can't distinguish an enlightened from a non-enlightened person (unless they choose to co...

A: "What is your best work?" B: "Everything I posit naturally is my best." Hahaha, this reminds me of another koan. When one goes to Obaku temple in Kyoto he sees carved over the gate the words "The First Principle". The letters are unusually large, and those who appre...

I've noticed that I have a habit of saying I have eyes and I have a brain. Who has the eyes and brain? The one wondering. You ask it, you own it. If I own it, I must be responsible for it. But how could I be responsible for eye cancer or any cancer? Is that really me? Am I toward the middle of my e...

RZoo wrote: Not enlightenment, because I find it boring and wasteful of my talents.

How did you come to realize that being passive, restrained, detached, and shut off from your emotions is enlightenment? Isn't enlightenment just realizing the truth?

Ah, a question of values. Which is better for who? For the lazy, tired, weak and suffering, passiveness, restraint and detachment, and for the energetic, creative and healthy, passion, activity and attachment, perhaps? Life is pointless. Options: A) Live it anyways - why not. B) Make pretending you...

RZoo wrote:Every creation is also a destruction. It's only a matter of perspective. Why not let other people or generations worry about their own interests in changing the world?

Why not let yourself worry about your own interests? What makes your perspective less important?

Only when you believe you're still there to see it. Or that you believe any distinction between "you" and "someone else" doesn't matter. I've noticed that I have a habit of saying I have eyes and I have a brain. Who has the eyes and brain? Anyway, there's still not much "lo...