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A self-reliant people would never allow a government to be more than a clearing house of information and an instrument for the investigation of, and the adjudication of, claims of life, liberty, or property violation. What's the difference then between where you live and China or Russia excepting l...

- Sri Nisargadatta’s observation means that each form accesses a portion of the same total consciousness. Well I guess we just have to live with our limitations since corruption is a fact of life. It's not likely that anyone was ever so uncorrupted as to experience the whole of consciousness... Chr...

A self-reliant people would never allow a government to be more than a clearing house of information and an instrument for the investigation of, and the adjudication of, claims of life, liberty, or property violation. What's the difference then between where you live and China or Russia excepting l...

- Sri Nisargadatta’s observation means that each form accesses a portion of the same total consciousness. Well I guess we just have to live with our limitations since corruption is a fact of life. It's not likely that anyone was ever so uncorrupted as to experience the whole of consciousness...what...

I suspect that your cockiness stems from the fact that you've already had the virus Nope. My beer virus run-in was earlier this year. I was just a certain in the year and change prior to that as is easily confirmed by takin' a gander at any of my beer virus-related posts since, what?, March of last...

The logic is straight-forward simple... Lordship over one's self is a given. If a person decides not to receive treatment for something - affecting ONLY that person almost certain to be in contact with others - he/she has the absolute right to do so. But *if your body is a vessel for transmission o...

The logic is straight-forward simple... Lordship over one's self is a given. If a person decides not to receive treatment for something - affecting ONLY that person almost certain to be in contact with others - he/she has the absolute right to do so. But if your body is a vessel for transmission of ...

But understand that it is not really the individual that has consciousness, but it is the consciousness that assumes innumerable forms. In which case, consciousness would be extraneous to the forms which contain it, as if it were some kind of spore infecting the organism. Haven't we seen this movie...

* The stronger and stubborn the ego, the more physically painful this can be. This is why self-enquiry is a young man's game. Yeah! It's when you gradually turn into an old fart having had both time and opportunity to know yourself better that you really turn cranky! No, really. Physically painful ...

I’ve heard that Milarepa was a flyer from the mountains. That wouldn't be so unusual. After all, Zarathustra came down from the mountains to dispense the wisdom he learned during a long period of solitary confinement in regions shaded from the survey of our disbelief's , the air being more rare tha...

Walker wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:28 am * The stronger and stubborn the ego, the more physically painful this can be. This is why self-enquiry is a young man's game.

Yeah! It's when you gradually turn into an old fart having had both time and opportunity to know yourself better that you really turn cranky!

Because only the physical exists, then whatever derives from the physical, is physical. I'm getting dizzy! Mind if I get off this merry-go-round? The only reason to stay on is when there's nowhere else to go but here and now. Of spiritual matters, Trungpa Rinpoche advises, better to not start ... t...

Walker wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 12:09 am Because only the physical exists, then whatever derives from the physical, is physical.

I'm getting dizzy! Mind if I get off this merry-go-round?

Walker wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 2:06 pm

Dubious wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:29 am

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:10 am


Only the physical exists. Adjust notions accordingly.



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Yes, but it's the mysteries of the physical which culminate in the encounters with the spiritual.

Dubious wrote:Yes ...

Yes, means that the spiritual is a type of physicality.

It derives from the physical.

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:10 am

Dubious wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 7:46 pm I believe love exists ...

Only the physical exists. Adjust notions accordingly.



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Yes, but it's the mysteries of the physical which culminate in the encounters with the spiritual.