GENIUS FORUMS

If I am in all things and all things are in me, this particular event of experience through Cathy Preston is expedient. There is no state in which to constantly keep "himself", once you learn how to tie a shoe do you even think about the process at all. Do we have to "think" abo...

Consciousness cannot perceive all that is not itself, except as a category. I did not say Consciousness can perceive all that is not itself. My vantage point is not my consciousness. But I can only perceive that which is within my range of perception. And the fact that you perceive your world actua...

If I experience that a chair is 1 meter away from me then I am also experiencing something called "me"(e.g my body). Yes. To quote myself: 4.1.1 My ego is that vantage point ('I' is a vantage point). 4.2.1.1 My world is all that my consciousness perceives and all that is not my vantage po...

Depends on what I would be conscious of. Regardless of how many sense organs are present, the consciousness of the same thing will be the same in all cases. Even when more than one thing is perceived, it is still the consciousness of a single thing - i.e the category in which we include those many ...

While it is true that the ego is an illusion, but if enlightenment - as commonly implied - necessarily involves the total disappearance of 'ego-consciousness', then I am rather skeptical about whether a person can completely get rid of 'ego-consciousness' even if that person is 'perfectly' aware tha...

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How many infinities are there ?

If you wish to know you can start counting them yourself.;)

OK in that case I would say that the consciousness of a thing is itself a point of view. There is no point of view that it belongs to or is located in. Also, it is not possible a single consciousness to be of anything more or less than one thing. If you have ten eyes, some of which are located in y...

Presumably by "vantage point" you mean its location? A vantage point is a point of view. But I guess what you were getting at is a consciousness which is universal. I would say this is impossible. It is good if you can say: "I am 100% sure it's absolutely impossible" and support...

As I said, regardless of what you are conscious of, you are conscious of reality. I did not really disagree with that. To quote myself: I am not saying: if you had an altered state of consciousness that perceived golds as red metals, your reality would be superior to my reality. My golden-colored g...

Alex, allow me to call you Alex, as others do. Are you interested in Truth and truths?

fanciful. consciousness is defined, in some way, by the constraints of our physical world. it may have evaded the three tangible dimensions of our world, but i find it incomprehensible that consciousness is devoid of time, albeit a conceived dimension--more appropriately; it is confined by a certai...

All ordinary movement of consciousness remains trapped in the duality of the point of view and the pointed, of the viewer and the viewed, of the observer and the observed, of subject and object. This is where you lost me. There is no ordinary or extraordinary movement of consciousness. Any consciou...

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must pass over in silence" - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Our subject is consciousness. I will hereby attempt to briefly introduce my thoughts and observations on the subject. Modern western philosophy began with Descartes's st...

Any news about the boy?

Oh dear dear, he was a cute boy, wasn't he? Though he was probably older than me when those works were written. Excitement oozes from his writing, like that of a child getting a new toy everyday. He is unable to hide his childlike excitement, nor does he want to. There is a kind of purity in his wri...

Well, this discussion is embarrassing. Simply embarrassing.

What is a "right livelihood" that leads to enlightenment and why should I accept any person's answer? The enlightened person's livelihood, speech etc. is right, but you have to judge for yourself whether a person is enlightened or not. Does that mean what you need to do is to determine wh...

It seems paradoxical, but it isn't really. Enlightenment itself is one of the delusions that needs to be abandoned. It is in fact the very last delusion to be abandoned. As soon as you think you have found or experienced enlightenment, you have been snared by delusion. You have been taken in by the...

Of course, in that piece I am assuming that the Buddha was a rare guru who lied with the best of intentions. - Interesting. John. E. Coleman asked Jiddu Krishnamurti: ''Which of the great religious leaders came closest to teaching and realizing the ultimate truth ?'' Krishnamurti replied: ''Oh! the...

Ramakrishna definitely understood the Infinite, but he was corrupt enough to hold up samadhis and other altered states as being enlightenment experiences. He knew his followers wouldn't be able to understand the Infinite and so he gave them what they wanted - conventional mystical trinkets familiar...

I'd sum him up with his own quote- "Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy". Great. Heidegger's most often quoted out-of-context quote. Another one who knows nothing about him and yet is quick to make judgement. To quote him in context: Those in the crossing must in the end ...

Don't be too quick to conclude that: who's to say that the spiritual scale does not have an absolute beginning and end, or at least an absolute middle? In any case, why would one's level of spiritual development be "ultimately" meaningless? Isn't what's "ultimately" meaningful/m...

Traditional notion of good and evil is surely a central theme that Nihilism seeks to destroy, but not all. I think Nietzsche's prophecy that within two hundred years Nihilism will cover the Earth is not far-fetched, and even if it does not occur within two hundred years, I can see its growing influe...

these "rights" might in fact be consequences of our level of spiritual development In other words, it is relative. And ultimately it is meaningless. If you found proof that a young man you knew was trapping women and children in his basement and raping and torturing them slowly before sla...

I think sometimes 'you' are some.sorts.of 'spiritual nazis' or is that too.strong a word? If a grammar Nazi is someone who is correct about grammar and try to correct other people's smallest grammatical errors, and correspondingly a spiritual Nazi is someone who is correct about spirituality and tr...