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Walker wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:14 am
Dubious wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 1:18 am
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?
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 ... the implication being, better to not walk that road unless you must.
Why not travel through the mountains occasionally instead of always being condemned to a flatland perspective...which means not searching for a path but simply enjoying an experience which doesn't come too often...and shouldn't if you wish its special effects to be repeated.
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Dubious wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 9:02 am
Walker wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:14 am
Dubious wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 1:18 am

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 ... the implication being, better to not walk that road unless you must.
Why not travel through the mountains occasionally instead of always being condemned to a flatland perspective...which means not searching for a path but simply enjoying an experience which doesn't come too often...and shouldn't if you wish its special effects to be repeated.
Well, they say that Buddha offered something like 88,000 teachings that carry the potential to reveal the nature of mind*, a potential realized under the right conditions until all conditions are right, so any path you can figure or experience has likely been mentioned within the fabric of time when considering what a long road that is when considered one day at time, in fact unending from the perspective of our physical experience … I’ve heard that Milarepa was a flyer from the mountains.


* Teachings about suffering, for instance, are for the purpose of revealing the nature of mind.
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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!
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Maybe that's why Biden yells, Get off my lawn! while squinting at the sky without his Ray Bans.

Everywhere he goes now people are shouting, "Let's go Brandon!"
(And even worse.)

How is Jill explaining this to him?

Maybe an ostensible Covid attack will put him back in the basement for awhile, like he hid out during the campaign? No wait, that wouldn't say good things about the vaccine. Quite a conundrum ... thus the variants.

(Gettin' in touch with my inner cynic.)
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Dubious wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 9:36 am
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!
No, really. Physically painful enough to be debilitating. You wouldn't think intellectual pursuits could do that, but age'ed identity hangs on like a pit-bull. Yutes can rebound. When the old walk a path they see too many regrets, the youth see an endless future.
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Walker wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 9:32 am 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 than at ground level.
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Walker wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 9:50 am
Dubious wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 9:36 am
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!
No, really. Physically painful enough to be debilitating. You wouldn't think intellectual pursuits could do that, but age'ed identity hangs on like a pit-bull. Yutes can rebound. When the old walk a path they see too many regrets, the youth see an endless future.
...that's probably one reason why life is often interpreted as an illusion...when one end finally meets the other end.
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Self-actualized people accept themselves and others as they are.
As verbs the difference between actualise and actualize is that actualise is while actualize is to make real; to realize.

The Self cannot meet itself. Imagine if you could meet yourself. :lol:

No further self-inquiry necessary.

No thing is being you, no one chooses to be born. If you know you are born, that is called the second birth. Knowledge of yourself can only ever point you back to the illusory nature of your reality.

No one is coming to save you. You will never experience salvation...hahaha! Christians are such deluded idiots. :lol:

Heaven and Hell are a state of mind. Mind how you go along your path to now-here, here now. :lol:

Fortunately, there is no such event as a second birth, any such coming is a myth. All women will be pleased. Heaven is at the feet of woman.




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You have never been broken. Rather, you have misunderstood yourself.


For you to be right another has to be wrong. Don't you realize you can stop disrespecting yourself any time you want.
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Dontaskme wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 11:57 am
You have never been broken. Rather, you have misunderstood yourself.


For you to be right another has to be wrong. Don't you realize you can stop disrespecting yourself any time you want.
Milarepa is known for his strong ego before everything changed, among other things. His was a big struggle.

Khandro Rinpoche comments on Milarepa’s significance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_36UK2p89U

“The remarkable example of Milarepa is about encountering human weaknesses: of human desire, of human aggression, of all the different deceptions that our human mind can encounter. And yet, how it can actually be the greatest blessing of a human being, that without suffering, without adversities, without challenges, we would probably not wake up to our own inherent, basic wisdom. However, the difference between ignorance and wisdom being, is how you can make adverse circumstances your best of friends.”
- Khandro Rinpoche (off the cuff, she only has one).

I think you'll enjoy her!
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Walker wrote: Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:01 am
Dubious wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 7:46 pm
Dontaskme wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 10:51 amWhat about Love?
Do you believe Love Exists?
I believe love exists but not in everyone.
Love is inherent within the psychology of every human, even the really bad ones, however actions of love appropriately or inappropriately appear according to conditions, or they may be crushed by conditions which include filters of reality implanted into the hosts of love *.

Conditions can exist that totally suppress and corrupt love, however paradoxically, it was under such harshness that Viktor Frankl realized the totality of love, as he recounts in Man’s Search For Meaning.**


* The implanted principle defined by inherency outlives the transitory host.

** A book title that could get canceled for unwokie language.


Would you be inclined to agree or disagree, and to what degree?
There are two ways to look at love. Love is an emotion or love is an expression of strong like.

You can try to corrupt either way but only if you are the corrupter.

Corrupter, get thee behind me,
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So too shall the cuckoos walk with the thoughtful.



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“How can you solve a problem when you can’t measure the consequence of your actions?”
- Jordan Peterson (speaking about the climate change movement).

Comment: this immeasurable will vanish when man discovers how to time travel, and prove it.
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Walker wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:23 am “How can you solve a problem when you can’t measure the consequence of your actions?”
- Jordan Peterson (speaking about the climate change movement).

Comment: this immeasurable will vanish when man discovers how to time travel, and prove it.
No one knows how or why the climate changes. Except in this artificially contructed conception, no one ever concieved.

Any attempt to name the nameless, is futile, and bonkers. Lets wait and see. Just reporting my surround. :shock:

Time travelling is such an overused cliché, it's positively toxic and vomit inducing.
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