GENIUS FORUMS

Because it exists implies that it is necessary. Unknown cause of that necessity implies a limitation in knowing. Ergo: Thoughts exist because they are necessary. To whom are they necessary? Whether or not the cause of that necessity is known, The Finder of the thought is a likely possibility. That ...

A foundation question: is it necessary? On immediate reaction - absolutely not! Injecting “absolutely” opens the door for absolutely yes. Because it exists implies that it is necessary. Unknown cause of that necessity implies a limitation in knowing. Ergo: Thoughts exist because they are necessary....

I listened to a fascinating discussion with a psychologist on our government ABC radio a couple of years ago. He was indignant about the state of his own profession where they seem to think that every human condition can be fixed by analysis or by drugs. I can't remember the exact number but the nu...

So where do we go from here? Is the conundrum of enlightenment worth human endeavour to discover? I would have thought so. The Western world has spent over a trillion dollars on global warming yet after 25 years of effort we have little to show for it. Maybe a few million $$ to study the most perpl...

You can be thick as a brick and still break through. ardy, could you expand on this? HI Cahoot lovely to hear from you. I heard an enlightenment story in the mid 90's from the philosophy instructor we had. Amongst a Japanese Monastery's monks was one so thick that he could not understand most of wh...

ardy wrote:You can be thick as a brick and still break through.

ardy, could you expand on this?

Anti-Science “The former vice president focused on the need to “punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science,'” said the Chicago Tribune.” http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/16/al-gore-sxsw-punish-climate-deniers/ Since long-term programming has been...

I suggest you read the suttas only when your mind is calm and undisturbed. I suggest you read the Heart Sutra : http://usashaolintemple.org/chanbuddhism-heartsutratranslation/ (As we hold hands around the circle, I now speak in the disembodied voice of Kunga Heart Sutra …) lights dim You know movin...

Jappa is kind of cousin to koan. Look at it this way. There’s nothing wrong with jappa. Jappa is introductory, the first, body and mind. Lungs, throat, diaphragm, posture, face, thirst, hunger, boredom, psychological reactions, energy, control, attention, focus, time, awareness. Wake up. Jappa wears...

No big deal. I understand the gist of what you’re saying, though the saying allows for dualistic contradictions such as: Fearless people need not be free, fearless people can be slaves to conditioning, slaves to love, slaves to delusion, or bodhisattva slaves to compassion. Inquiry leads to self-inq...

acceptance of logical reason over the natural rise of understanding that comes from samadhi This never has been the main topic of my posts or the drive of this forum in my view. Did you read something else than I did or did you draw some conclusion at an early stage which made you read into things?...

To bring this back to the original poster - freedom or quiet fear are really the two alternatives for life and you and I seem to have spent a fair amount of time looking for freedom. Such an arrogant thing to do yet it binds completely. Ardy, come on. Surely you can see the false dichotomy of this ...

A man has to fall off the bike a couple a times to find the balance. That’s why young people are resilient, they can bounce back up with little damage. Once he can ride and gets over his fear of going fast, he learns the gyroscopic effect of the spinning wheels, and that going faster makes for more ...

The classification of men has been of some interest to me. A good friend of mine claims to have slept with over 1000 women during his working life. We both worked in the same industry and other men hated him for not being able to 'keep it in his pants'. Strangely he never chased these women they ch...

I've never given 100% to anything and, after nearly 60 years, I'm thinking about giving it a try. However, every time I think I'm ready to make a move, I argue against it. I thought I'd come here and pose some questions, the answers to which might move me off dead center. If anyone knows of a good ...

I've never given 100% to anything and, after nearly 60 years, I'm thinking about giving it a try. However, every time I think I'm ready to make a move, I argue against it. I thought I'd come here and pose some questions, the answers to which might move me off dead center. If anyone knows of a good ...

So, what has yet to enter the accumulation is the why and how of transcendence.
Also, the topics of mind and creating have entered the mix, to be sorted out.

Very good. Brings to mind Whitman. For he learns to understand the expression "It was," that password with which struggle, suffering, and weariness come over human beings, so as to remind him what his existence basically is--a never completed past tense. Oh yes. Old karma. * “I think I cou...

Everything is as it must be. Is this not the most terrible thought? Of course not. Included in “Everything” is the will to change what will be, and if that give comfort in the face of the terrible, then good! And if it doesn't? Consciousness is also a curse. Right now, all we have against this terr...

Cahoot, Isn't the desire to modify natural law (sin) itself a part of natural law? Nothing that exists is outside of natural law; hence, sin is nothing. Beneath which and contradiction aside, without an "ought", there's no particular reason to sin or not to sin. What you are describing is...

Trevor wrote: This turns opinions into facts, and I am not sure I am willing to make that mistake. Morality tells us what we should do; facts describe what is. The simple fact that I could disagree with the normative belief that we all should hate sins and not sinners without needing to add any fur...

Cahoot, How does one find non-relative definitions of sin? I assume that if you want morality to be absolute, and you can't base it on facts without running into the is-ought problem, you are forced to create morality from thin air. You may as well be arguing about aesthetics: which set of morality...

This turns opinions into facts, and I am not sure I am willing to make that mistake. Morality tells us what we should do; facts describe what is. The simple fact that I could disagree with the normative belief that we all should hate sins and not sinners without needing to add any further informati...

Some limitations are real,
some limitations are mind creations.

Real limitation:
Man cannot fly like a bird.

Mind creation:
Man cannot fly.

Transcendence:
Man can fly like a man.

So we can say that transcendence refers only to mind-created limitations.

That being said, if I quit all that I do now, I'd be dependent on someone else to take care of me, and I don't relish that thought, and I don't think it's fair for others to be responsible for taking care of me. It's not that easy to just go off into the wild and survive alone, like the wandering h...