Philosophy Now Forum

Nick_A wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:27 am

waechter418 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:39 pm Lets not forget - mind is also the home of IMAGINATION !

It is also the home of creative BSing which allows one the egoistic satisfactions of imagination.

What is "BSing" ?

Lets not forget - mind is also the home of IMAGINATION !

Being great enough to pervade the whole Universe, mind should not be busied with trivialities and idle talks.

(Hui-Neng)

This is not a proposal to get rid of mind, but to liberate it, in order to be able to unfold (use/apply) its tremendous potential

Mind accumulates and transforms external/internal events - Self is the core of Mind

this is just the beginning of the illusion - follow it through, and you will get a surprise

Liberation from the confines of mind, has been tried for at least two millennia, and proven to be a Sisyphean task, as the respective undertakings tend to add to the complexity of mind.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, mind is apparently able to liberate itself through Self-realisation.

In the Orient there are plenty of schools and teachings which attend the different needs and temperaments of seekers of enlightenment. That they seem rarely able to cover the needs of Occidental seekers, is mainly because latter are mostly subject to Dualism, respective rationalism and intellectual ...

Wholeness comes to know itself by dividing. The mind is a dividing tool of wholeness dividing itself, secretly hidden within it's totality of being appearing as other. Who you are is NOT A THING - NO THING and simultaneously EVERYTHING You can't find NOT A THING....Everything is appearing out of NO...

Suggestion: make your traps less simpleminded

a primary cause might be reason - which is a function of the intellect - which is a feedback mechanism

osgart wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2017 3:18 am the materialist refers to object, and material always in explanation of self. This is inane reasoning that doesn't come close to explaining love, and thought.

.....nor music, poetry, dance, haute cuisine, blue movie, football, morals, religions, surrealism............

Rituals, mantras, postures are most commonly used to fortify & increase concentration.
But there are many other methods - and in my opinion it is best to develop ones own.

This thread is to remind of enlightenment - what to do with it is every ones own business (the same for the threads about consciousness)
Apropos: i like very much your responses !

Good choice

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