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SN7 User ID: 51691602 United States 07/05/2015 02:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with your after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.” - Terence McKenna "The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish." ~ Terence McKenna |
TheEqualizer User ID: 68467392 Canada 07/05/2015 02:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | you have never died, therefore you make a liar of death. until the day you die, you ARE A LIAR OF DEATH, for you are not dead, and probably never die. do the math. how many times did it all end for you? not once is the only answer. remember your worth! []+[] |
Bebe User ID: 61740167 United States 07/05/2015 02:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ok listen up folks: yes, death sucks. But you DO remember (duh) that physical death leads to a fork in the road depending on whether you retained Jesus Christ as your defense counsel or chosen (foolishly) to go pro se: in that case, you're toast. Infinity sucks if it's a cauldron of fire vs a veranda on a beautiful cruise ship. Don't let your stupid wimpy pride fuck up your eternal ride. How stupid are you?!!? |
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SN7 User ID: 51691602 United States 07/05/2015 02:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ok listen up folks: yes, death sucks. But you DO remember (duh) that physical death leads to a fork in the road depending on whether you retained Jesus Christ as your defense counsel or chosen (foolishly) to go pro se: in that case, you're toast. Infinity sucks if it's a cauldron of fire vs a veranda on a beautiful cruise ship. Don't let your stupid wimpy pride fuck up your eternal ride. How stupid are you?!!? Quoting: Bebe 61740167 Why does your book god love torturing people so much? "The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish." ~ Terence McKenna |
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Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 02:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Truly, true Adepts don't want Idolatry. Rather that it is this: It is not that "I" am a problem or disease to be cured (or a hopeless sinner to be saved). Rather, "I" am already and priorly one with the Perfect Condition and the perfect Form of all conditions that presently pertain, and "I" am simply operating in order to manifest it (or allow it to manifest itself) in the play of experience. The ego is a model of interpretation. It is a way of making sense out of nonsense. You are not a thing apart. No matter what arises, as experience, thought, emotion, circumstances, action, self sense, world, relationship, whatever.. We do not know what it is. Nirvana is eternal, and yet everything arises. There is no one making it arise, no one watching it arise. Nothing is known, and yet everything is going on, and can be done exactly as it has always been before. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
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Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 02:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The whole secret of spiritual practice is the freeing of attention. Most of your attention is being played on by ordinary concerns and points of view, beliefs, fears, and so forth. Your attention must be freed up from that, fully, absolutely, so that this simple gesture can be made. The secret of passing through the spiritual process without going insane is the heartfelt release of fear. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 02:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Liberate. Your. Attention. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 02:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do you know what anything is? Is knowledge what you’re up to? Do you know anything? This ignorance is your eternal, Natural and Divine state. That is the Truth. That is the Divine form, that ignorance, perfectly enjoyed. The illusion of knowledge is suffering. That is it. That is all there is to it. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 03:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When you find Truth, you want to shout it from the rooftops. Such is the nature of All_that-is. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
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Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 03:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nothing is greater than the love of All-That-Is except the way you were taught (via religion). Religions aims to hijack your soul and attention. Opt out. Rest in your ignorance, and you are completely happy, completely unthreatened. You are completely free of what arises. It never implicates you for a moment. You know nothing about it. Knowledge is not your connection to it. There is no connection. There is no “you” to find. There is ignorance, only, absolute ignorance. You imagine that knowing is what you’re up to. You imagine that enlightenment is some knowledge. But that is not what it is. It is this ignorance. You will not acquire any knowledge through any meaning whatsoever. Whatever it means, you still do not know what it is. You are released from knowing that. Even if you fail to understand that, it is still the same ignorance. Everything arises and you know nothing about it, not even the slightest Hint of what it is. No way to describe it, it is completely awesome and absurd yet workable. It is all of that. And is a paradox. And you know nothing. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
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Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 03:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Witness: Tried and trued, embraced and anchored, I, too, know that a "kelson of the creation is love". And a "man who walks without Compassion walks to his own funeral drest in his own shroud" "I know I am solid and sound ,to me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow, All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means. I know I am deathless, I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass, I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night. I know I am august, I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood, I see that the elementary laws never apologize, (I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.) I exist as I am, that is enough, if no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is my- self, and whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time." -- Walt Whitman _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 03:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You say it is a modification and yet it is still the same ignorance. It makes no difference whatsoever. There is no knowledge arising at any moment, only arising itself. No knowledge whatsoever. Even so-called knowledge is only arising, and you know nothing about it, you haven’t the slightest idea what it is. Independent of what you are thinking it means, you haven’t any idea of what it is. So you exist in this complete ignorance, you are this complete ignorance, everything is this ignorance, there is only this complete, Absolute ignorance that makes no difference whatsoever. What it is not the kind of thing that makes a difference. And yet it obviously makes all the difference, You know what i mean? Nothing is realized. You do not know what anything is after that experience Any more than before it. Nothing changes or qualifies this ignorance. There is no knowledge, Only complete ignorance. And that is the Truth of it. You know nothing. There is no knowledge. Profoundly realized, You are absolutely released In this ignorance. This is perfection. You see how the recognition Of this ignorance Is itself meditation. This is the only true meditation. This must become ordinary, constant. This is Samadhi, Enlightenment. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 03:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That day...I thought it was Mother Mary. It was pure Ecstacy. It wasn't...it was an illusion....only years later did it click into place like a cosmic jigsaw puzzle. I saw a vision of Mary at 21...it was unmistakeable Grace. But not. For hell must balance heaven as the Tao as I believed at 21. The Tao saved me at 21. The vision of Mary was bullshit, but the Truth behind it was Eternal. It was a Confirmation. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 04:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And one day it will be suddenly obvious. Your experience is complete ignorance. You do not know what anything is, you don't know what a word is, you do not know what anything is. It does not make any difference what happens, you still do not know anything about it. It is the noticing of this with the Full force of one’s being, so-called, That is enlightenment. Enlightenment is so brief, so simple, it is only a matter of knowing this, so-called knowing of this. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 04:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | But, as always killing is useless, and realizing ignorance brings the whole Thing to an end even while it continues. It does not become single, it becomes a paradox, A condition of which there is no knowledge whatsoever. Spiritual discipline Is essentially consideration Of the argument until there is enough free attention that it becomes completely obvious. And the argument appears in many forms, this is just one of the versions of it. Do you know what anything is? Do you know? No. Not at all. In fact, there isn’t anything that is anything like a thing about which knowledge could be possible, knowledge of what it is. Existence of something is not anything that has to do with knowledge. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 04:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When you realize that this ignorance is the same as your Consciousness, and are completely Realized In this ignorance, then all this begins to become Obvious in a remarkable way. Even when you seem to know what something is,...... You are still completely ignorant. Of the knowing and the thing. Knowledge has nothing whatever To do with it. You are not something That has knowledge or requires it. So what is wrong? Make no assumptions About knowledge whatsoever. Know that you exist As a complete mystery. And that is precisely what you are, in fact. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 04:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Your suffering is entirely your own, It is your own activity. And it is a radically present activity, Not caused by something else. You are not suffering What is happening Or has happened Or will happen to you. Your suffering is your own activity. Nobody put you into Your present state. No one is keeping you in it. It is a present activity. It is your present activity. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 04:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Suffering is not your symptom, It is your activity. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 04:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fear is the very mood of the ego. Fear is your creation, not something happening to you. Last Edited by Stu on 07/05/2015 04:32 AM _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |
Stu (OP) User ID: 23181919 United States 07/05/2015 04:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | f you are troubled by what arises, You are not in your proper Relationship to things. You are not existing in relationship to what arises at all. _____________________________________ Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -Ramana |