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In defense of Poetry, I think poetry can be used to convey Truth pretty effectively. Allow me to post some of Jiddu Krishnamurti's poems, exposing his 'enlightened vision'. Though not poetry, this meaning is pretty clear. “Out of my confusion, bewilderment, uncertainty, the feeling of being incapab...

Both UG Krishnamurti and Jiddu Krishnamurti were anti-guru. UG's teaching, however, was just a poor imitation of J, an overly aggressive, superficial repetition of J's insight. It also seems that you are down-playing or explaining away K's core position of 'existential angst'. I hate that term "...

If this last part (in 18 board inches of Liberty Sea's posts) is true [language drives us] poetry (a peculiar, freer, spontaneous, inspired and 'non-harshly rational or arational combined use of language, meaning and message) can have and sometimes does have message and meaning that is 'superior' t...

"Tuy nhiên, tôi sẽ cho phép bạn dọn dẹp gian hàng của tôi." Kunga: Một con lừa không nghĩ rằng, anh chỉ là. Tuy nhiên, sau khi có trở thành một Kitô hữu sinh-một lần nữa, tôi hạnh phúc bạn giữ lại cảm giác hài hước của người Do Thái của bạn! Và đối với phần còn lại của bạn (mặc dù tôi hứa...

In defense of Poetry, I think poetry can be used to convey Truth pretty effectively. Allow me to post some of Jiddu Krishnamurti's poems, exposing his 'enlightened vision'. I have no name (from The Song of Life) I have no name, I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains. I have no shelter; I am as th...

That seems pretty close to me. Where do you see the mistakes? - Aside from the second to last sentence, it is not so much mistakes as insufficiency in conveying the spirit of the original words. I feel as if one must be born in a somewhat of a close culture to his to fully grasp it. The word "...

http://i.imgur.com/ftOcs.jpg Here is a different translation of that passage: My words are easy to understand, and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them. My words have ancient beginnings. My actions are disciplined. Because men do not understand, they have no knowledg...

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David is still too soft. He is not playful enough with his heartlessness.

"Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats the people as straw dogs."
-From my brother Lao Tzu.

http://i.imgur.com/IcoNP.png I would respond, then, that there are certain constraints by definition on the words "good" and "moral" that do not permit a totally relative morality: if the devil calls torture, pestilence, disease, famine, poverty and war "good", then he ...

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It seems to me that the key to the confusion that prolongs this discussion is our difference in the unspoken definition of Evil, our presupposed understanding of what evil is. It is important to clear that up. To be evil is to be wrong. It is clear to me that such is what David means by evil. The De...

Woman, all too woman. Haha, excellent! That would make a great title for a book. - It was just a crossing idea. But your comment makes an interesting suggestion. Maybe I will employ that title for the book on woman I plan to write. A conversation related to the topic: Man: Society has corrupted wom...

It is Kant in your avatar, right, Jupivix? Many a woman tries to endow the rational thinking man with their sensational romanticism. "Under this rigidity of logic is a tragic love-story!", "Behind this cold, harsh mask is a deeply wounded bird!" - think they, and try to find, or ...

Transcend both duality and non-duality.

I've already said that absolute non-being and absolute being are the same. I was interpreting Nagarjuna's words differently from you. I.e, he meant that inherent existence, inherent nonexistence etc. are just concepts which we may find useful in revealing the nature of things, but none of them are ...

It is possible to understand that absolute nothingness cannot exist in any particular location, and therefore must be present in all locations(absolute existence.) So, is the existence of this Absolute Non-being dependent on the existence of Absolute Being? If so, it is not absolute. Correct. In ot...

Inherent nonexistence means not existing inherently. It is a quality that must be attributed to a thing, otherwise what is it that inherently doesn't exist? Whatever it is, it is not absolutely nonexistent, otherwise we couldn't make any statement about the nature of its existence or nonexistence. ...

The world beyond the mind is not infinite(i.e, everything) because there is something else that is not it(the brain.) Hence, it is finite. I have proved that the brain has no definite form, hence anything beyond the mind is formless. Inherent nonexistence means not existing inherently. It does not ...

If all things are illusions, then they are real for precisely that reason. There can't be anything real that all things are hiding from your sight. Yes, because their existence are just as inherent as a dream. That's right. My point was that there is a world that is beyond the brain or the mind. Ye...

Reminds me of the preacher whose sermon was about God's perfection. He bellowed from the pulpit: "Everything God made is perfect!" Way in the rear of the congregation, a man with a hunched back interrupted loudly, "What about me?" Not missing a beat, the preacher thundered, &quo...

If nobody has done this before, I think it's appropriate for you two to open a new thread in the Crucible section to debate about the role of logic in spiritual aspiration, and settle for once the war between the pro-logic school and anti-logic school. Similar to Yogacara school v.s. Madhyamaka scho...

This turned out to be an interesting discussion on the nature of the self, even thought it started from a joke. The good-evil/perfect-imperfect topic that originated this discussion has been finished in my last post, and now it drives to a total different direction. If the "you" is an illu...

Kelly Jones brought it up once, going so far as to say that it was a sign of a weak mind, and that I was not focused on the concepts when I write. I don't know who Kelly Jones is, but this just means you have no talent for words, especially if you were brought up in an English environment. What you...

The problem and confusion of this argument may stem from the difference in each side's definition of logic. To me, logic is a faculty of reasoning to bring about clarity, correctness and certainty in systematical formulation. An intuitive understanding that is yet to be clarified out [with the help ...

Cory Duchesne wrote:I think you might have been blinded to DQ's true colours, attacking his movement and not his playful meaning. :)

Then again, the beautify of metaphor is the multiple meaning, it's up to you to laugh or frown at it.

I was not attacking him, but playing along.
BTW, 'beauty', not 'beautify'.