GENIUS FORUMS

Regarding the koan, I think it is quite an excellent teaching because the commentary is part of the koan. The commentary does not disrupt the wisdom of it.

I (the causality) caused the mountain, the mountain did not cause me. The separation between the mountain and the true self is ultimately formless. Yet consciousness is still an "eye" because it is, by definition, the total sum of everything that appears in consciousness, and that include...

Which is why reasoning is assumptive, not objective. Is this statement an assumptive or an objective truth? Is it relative or absolute? Is it inherently true, or a product of causality? To be able to say that a tree is not a tree separate from what is not a tree is to concurrently say that a tree i...

Assuming that one who has the liberating wisdom of the impersonal nature of spirit is dedicated to liberating the world of its delusion of "I, a person, exist", would this individual not do everything he or she could to remove the suffering of this core illusion/delusion? And how can this...

He's not a Demon. As the one who first mentioned the concept of “demon” in this thread, I wish to add that by no means did I mean that Trump is an actual demon or contains something that is a demon, but that metaphorically, he represents the desires of others. This is my observation based on talkin...

A man going by Marcus made this video inspired by David Quinn’s essay: “The Limitations of Academic Intelligence”. Video: On Stupid People With a High IQ - MGTOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh29fASlAiI Here is a transcript of the video. http://archive.is/CkuBl Marcus described that he returned t...

A political news story is a collection of trivial facts about an appearance. These facts do not contain the opposing observations on the same topic. Nor do they contain the connection between the positions of competing factions, thus failing in a threefold manner. The political wonks, desperate to p...

Yes, this is an issue. The “globalist” perspective is too abstract and lofty for many people. It is not unlike how most people have difficulty dealing with the formless nature of reality and can only engage in spirituality via simplified, tangible, prepackaged beliefs in a finite god. And they need...

Dan, How many are free, given the politics of their nation, to pursue philosophy to its end? I presumed the list represented how small, relatively, is the number of people who commit personally to philosophy, in toto . And that most of those people on that list would probably say they have not met h...

You'll note that a Buddha is defined as having absolute freedom from dependence of happiness on external sources, so I certainly am not referring to physical love or sex when I refer to 'making love.' Instead I am referring wholly to the love of the forms of The True Self as mentioned above. In oth...

Where you (and most here) define this ideal of the highest as being that of reasoning, I define this ideal as being that of emptiness realization, of which reasoning is the intellectual aspect of 'making order' and feeling is the playful/enjoyment aspect of 'making love.' As long as emptiness is ke...

Diebert, But my interest is in enlarging the understanding of the social dynamics which causes people, of various background and mental capacity, to form political movements aimed at radical changes in the fields of immigration, foreign policy and cultural discrimination. If you find it wise to spen...

Jupiviv, Making observations of part of human activity, or rather, the activity of a common type of individual, is not a model in this sense because I don’t claim it is scientific nor predictive. Why make those observations then? The goal of a genius is to be able to encompass all other beings. This...

Diebert, And yet it doesn't stop you from analysing and opining on socio-political structures or society. Or analysing even all the other analysis! There's a weird contradiction there which you should try to explain. It depends on your definition of model or structure. If by model or structure, you...

David, I agree that they wouldn’t be able to do it on their own, nor would they be able to do it in normal times when the West is operating with confidence. But these are not normal times, and the West is experiencing a crisis of faith. In such circumstances, the Russian influence can be amplified....

By the way, today in the United States we are celebrating President’s Day. It is a national banking and government holiday being celebrated by protests around the country against the sitting President. What a day, indeed. Diebert, There's way more to be said about it. For example the ideology of the...

Could it be that one by one Westerners are being “turned” by Russian operatives through on-line propaganda techniques aimed at eroding belief in Western democracy? Are we in the middle of a serious war which threatens our modern civilization, a war that has already claimed many victims, some of who...

I’ve lived outside the United States and in addition have met countless people from various countries and if they are thinking persons they have a nearly universal penchant for criticizing the United States. I say they don’t criticize it enough! What I mean is that their view of the nation focuses o...

A reputable psychiatrist will not diagnose someone with a narcissism disorder unless the patient complains about a negative effect on their own life. As far as Trump is concerned, I imagine that he's having the time of his life. This psychiatrist vehemently disagrees with Trump but nevertheless says...

FYI, those two links are identical. I don't know. It doesn’t seem that bad a term to me. Almost a badge of honour. They would have applied it to Socrates had it been around back then. He was basically sentenced to death for “sealioning” the populace, after all. Kevin has been called worse. As have ...

I stand corrected. I did notice that my two links were identical and I did look up the correct second link but alas, I still blew it. Here is the correct link with the cartoon that depicts "sealioning" and list that targets Kevin.

http://archive.is/KLslS

My hope is that the progressive movement of the past few centuries will withstand the current right-wing/medieval onslaught and, having been shaken to the core by all this tumult, will intensify and deepen its efforts to eliminate its many flaws. Part of the problem is that the SJW movement is seen...

This is an existential distance. As an aside, I remain convinced that most people have never actually listened to another person . The cold, clean line that is drawn in the process of thinking clearly gives the impression of detachment, but I argue that my action in doing so is the opposite of deta...

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. Reading your opening post again, I see that I was probably a little harsh. You can be assured that no offense was taken. That is because I contend that these two principles of good writing hold true and are not contradictory in any way. One is that there is such a th...

I am a bit taken aback that my position in my previous post was interpreted to underestimate Trump. I can accept the interpretation as it is the reader that is informed of the message; nevertheless allow me to add the following: Politics has an inherently random element. A single political event cou...