I said "single minded focus." A consciousness that juggles worldly desires and thoughts about God, for example, does not have single minded focus.jupiviv wrote:Any consciousness is single-minded by nature. Since you want to separate the absolute from the relative, the meditation upon the absolute you propose is of the conventional, *Epicurean* type. There's nothing wrong with that, necessarily, but you shouldn't consider it to be anything more.
I do not separate the relative from the absolute, which is impossible. Relativity is finite, whereas the absolute is infinite. Therefore the absolute includes the relative, but the relative is not absolute.
You mean the part that says not to become attached to attachments? "Non-attachment to attachment" still leaves attachment, thus leaving in place a roadblock to full enlightenment.You went through the trouble of finding the post where I said that, but couldn't quote the entire *sentence*? And then you accuse me of egotism and an inability to reason?
I brought it up not to defame you, but to encourage proper focus. If you want to get married, that's fine. You can be like the householders that Ramakrishna talks about. Just don't expect to become a full blown sage.It doesn't need to be said in a discussion where it is not relevant. You're trying to discredit my character, i.e., a supporter of marriage like myself cannot have wisdom. You have demonstrated that you are prepared to abandon reason if your ego is at stake.
Ah, but just before this you said that you are a supporter of marriage. Cheeky or not, that must have motivated you in some way to say what you did.By the way, the sentence was quite *obviously* not meant to defend or support literal matrimony. It was a cheeky comparison between David Quinn's "thing" with Sue Hindmarsh (they have a son I believe) and Kierkegaard's exploration of ideal matrimony (spiritual love and partnership between man and woman) in some of his books, as well as a comment on the "marriage" between consciousness (husband) and unconsciousness (wife). Either you are too stupid even to understand the humour, or being deliberately obtuse.