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by Cahoot
Sat Aug 29, 2015 2:18 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

"I think you are confusing the act of thinking with egotism, which is characterized by clinging due to delusional beliefs. The wise learn how to think without clinging." Apologies for my limitations in transmission. And I agree with your assertion about thinking without clinging to thought.
by Cahoot
Sat Aug 29, 2015 1:48 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Perception and Reality
Replies: 173
Views: 131356

Perception and Reality

Views about whether or not the fellow in this video is experiencing reality are appreciated.

Maybe discussion will appear … later for me if it does, maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHCYHldJi_g
by Cahoot
Fri Aug 28, 2015 5:57 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Sorry for the short and delayed responses. Still been a little busier lately. No Russell. Your characterization of meditation as a suppression of thoughts, and your assertion, is in error. If you'd rather call it a release of thoughts, or whatever you like, I'm ok with that. It doesn't matter. It d...
by Cahoot
Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:34 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Well I'm glad the culmination of your reasoning/tolerance has surfaced. It seems only to evidence the widespread disregard for the aforementioned qualities crucial to a logical discussion. But of course, that's just this time . Enjoy picking and choosing where it suits you. Oh, I've already address...
by Cahoot
Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:32 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

To simplify the experience: Slowing thought (defining thought as a movement of mind), no sensory stimulation (defining sensory stimulation as movement of mind), no thought. Subsequent to this, no movement of mind caused by thought or sensory stimulation, no experience, no relationship, no self, nob...
by Cahoot
Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:11 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Seeker: "I see this sentence as having implied a number of philosophical assumptions, in the same way that one might state with unwavering belief that when the body dies their existence will end, having completely overlooked the fundamental philosophical reasoning (that should be) needed for s...
by Cahoot
Thu Aug 27, 2015 5:55 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

That’s funny. You create a world and then accuse when others don’t step into it. What I expressed was the inability of any person to use language or expression to clearly express any deeper understanding of the 'workings' of the 'infinite'. Really? What you wrote was two words. Visual cortex. Then y...
by Cahoot
Thu Aug 27, 2015 8:00 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

To simplify the experience: Slowing thought (defining thought as a movement of mind), no sensory stimulation (defining sensory stimulation as movement of mind), no thought. Subsequent to this, no movement of mind caused by thought or sensory stimulation, no experience, no relationship, no self, nobo...
by Cahoot
Thu Aug 27, 2015 4:32 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Howdy. Question: Is this an experience you are familiar with? Answer: Are there people here describing experiences they have not experienced? The experience of emptiness is not an experience, since experience requires two. The experience of emptiness does not require two. Call it a Happening then. C...
by Cahoot
Wed Aug 26, 2015 8:13 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Cahoot wrote:the first drop of stimulation in response to the experience of emptiness, unfiltered by thought or judgement, can be stimulation of the visual cortex. I see this sentence as having implied a number of philosophical assumptions, in the same way that one might state with unwavering belie...
by Cahoot
Wed Aug 26, 2015 7:35 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

The main point I'm getting at in my quote above is that all things, abstract and physical, are carved out of reality by discernment, no matter how mundane the act of discernment is. (Discernment isn't quite the right word here by its definition; demarcation is a better fit.) I think this relates to...
by Cahoot
Tue Aug 25, 2015 5:57 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

I disagree that there is only "I Am" without thought, because the two are inherently connected. Without thought, there is only indiscernible, undelineated nature. Being exists only where it is discerned to be. Does discerning require thought? A month ago I had to be on a crowded beach. Wa...
by Cahoot
Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:55 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Following SeekerOfWisdom’s advice, I read with the intent of understanding before responding, and detect a source of static. Cahoot: “When you consider that I Am is true, and all else is inference, then inferences of the world without inference can be made.” Russell: “Yet 'I Am' cannot be concluded ...
by Cahoot
Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:19 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Moreover, what is the physical world other than what our senses inform us? I think this is what you were hinting at in reference to Mind. The more you investigate into the source of what we gather to be 'physical reality,' the further inward you have to look (physical reality can only be what we ga...
by Cahoot
Mon Aug 24, 2015 1:18 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Since I have left that belief behind, I have discovered that this path of the rejection of the intellect prior to its acceptance vis a vis enlightenment is quite common. It seems as if most who experience the dropping away of matter (distinctions, contrast, boundaries) believe this to be the discov...
by Cahoot
Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:37 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Since I have left that belief behind, I have discovered that this path of the rejection of the intellect prior to its acceptance vis a vis enlightenment is quite common. It seems as if most who experience the dropping away of matter (distinctions, contrast, boundaries) believe this to be the discov...
by Cahoot
Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:13 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

The gap between the outer world of physical reality and the inner world of thoughts is a wedge created by the illusion of will. The nature of our awareness includes a sense of control. Nature has programmed us this way in order to accomplish things (creation) according to Her whim. While the illusi...
by Cahoot
Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:24 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

The inner and the outer is an interesting concept and I read something about it years ago. I found it was all change internally, I appeared the same to others but I could not relate to them or understand their world anymore. My world had taken over the world view and others views held little intere...
by Cahoot
Wed Aug 19, 2015 10:35 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

ardy, If present jnana is necessary If not present jnana is not necessary Sooner or later all paths lead to jnana As all streams lead to the sea In other words, to say some of what is, for reasons expanded upon in the postings between here and when the concept of breakthrough was introduced, I agree...
by Cahoot
Wed Aug 19, 2015 8:36 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Hey Russell. Keeping you busy, looks like. Thanks for the feedback and insights. One thought leads to another. No rush. Thoughts obviously exist, or we wouldn't need brains. Thoughts are like software on a computer. That thoughts exist implies that thoughts have physicality. After all, other than th...
by Cahoot
Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:15 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

I think the more important thing to realize is that all thoughts, as with everything else, are caused. But are thoughts really like everything else? Logically, thoughts don’t even exist. Existence means: “the state or fact of having being especially independently of human consciousness.” (Merriam-W...
by Cahoot
Mon Aug 17, 2015 10:31 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Hey Russell. I looked up the definition of flattery. It does not accurately describe the situation. The transmission was respect. The reception was flattery. Brevity of transmission may be a condition creating static in the reception. The original discussion can be condensed to the question: When a ...
by Cahoot
Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:50 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Everything that exists is necessary. Because the giraffe is at the party, it is necessary that the giraffe be at the party. If it is not there, its absence is also necessary. If it is not there and you think it should be, what exists is your desire for the giraffe to be at the party, and because th...
by Cahoot
Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:58 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

Thinking requires awareness. Man is aware, rock is not aware. An existent I/I am is the delusion. Decartes was called the father of modern dualism for a reason. Based on this, then we can say that you are Totality, manifesting as awareness, and awareness is a condition required for thought. It foll...
by Cahoot
Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:14 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What Insights Have You Experienced?
Replies: 260
Views: 128199

Re: What Insights Have You Experienced?

movingalways wrote:When the Totality appears as a man, The Totality is thinking.
I am therefore I think

Think requires I am

I am does not require think

(said the skunk with a lisp
sorry, I couldn’t resist)