Sitting under the bodhi tree

Where 'you' come from or Where You Go?

From here and now.

Why do you feel that some refuse to except that of what they don't understand?

Why can't some just be and let be?

Well that is the great game isn't it. Sometimes we have to hide to find ourselves.

We are trying to figure something out with abstract thought. We think in abstracts, and to use the mind to find the mind is like riding an ox while looking for an ox. Just like how the teeth can't bite themselves, my left index finger can't touch itself either.

Last Edited by Eternium on 08/13/2012 06:08 PM

Will you have a afterlife?

It's a beautiful Monday here in Seattle today, how about where you're at?

Actually it's night here, with lot of artificial chemical clouds in the sky (Geo Engineering).

Last Edited by IWASTHERE on 08/13/2012 07:11 PM

"If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death — or shall I say, death implies life — you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. So, say in Hindu mythology, they say that the world is the drama of God. God is not something in Hindu mythology with a white beard that sits on a throne, that has royal perogatives. God in Indian mythology is the self, Satcitananda. Which means sat, that which is, chit, that which is consciousness; that which is ananda is bliss. In other words, what exists, reality itself is gorgeous, it is the fullness of total joy."

-Alan Watts

Does free will exist? If so, how does it work?

Alan Watts was a total alcoholic.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

I wanna ask question. What do you think about money and life security? thx b4.

I wanna ask question. What do you think about money and life security? thx b4.

Please discuss this OP. I posted this a day or so ago in another thread.





The music of silence is the boundless awareness of the true nature of eternal being.

Can you hear it? It is beyond sound. Can you see it? It is beyond sight. Can you touch it? It is beyond touch. Can you taste it? It is beyond taste. Can you smell it? It is beyond smell. Can you sense it? It is beyond sense.

Can you be it? It is beyond being, but it is you.

Please continue.

Although things do happen the way they will happen; choice and choosing cannot be predetermined or illusory. “Man is free to choose to the extent of his knowledge that guides him.

hugs:)

I've been trying to rearrange these words, and still nothing?

We confuse money with actual wealth. Life security? Well, to what extent? Security for what? If life is about attaining security then life becomes a drag. :)

stop quoting alan watts and think for yourself

Well since we are here sitting I will share what I find interesting today.


The Benben Stone and the Bennu Bird are the same thing.

The Temple at Heliopolis is the proof.


So what this implies is that the Phoenix is the Philosopher Stone.


And from what I know about Alchemy this makes since. Because they make the stone from Calcined Ashes.

Just as the bird is reborn from its own ashes.

I feel this creation is trying to make sense of itself, trying to find itself. Woven into countless dimensions. Being a part of the whole I cannot comprehend the whole, although, become a point in existence in which the whole becomes aware of itself.

We are trying to make sense of it, and that is our clinging, our suffering.

Last Edited by Eternium on 08/15/2012 11:13 AM

Thinking for myself is still just an act, no matter how you go about it. The real self is the self that goes on of itself, that is "when you look out of your eyes, you're looking at you, that's the real you, the you that goes on of itself." This personification, is a great act.

Last Edited by Eternium on 08/15/2012 11:17 AM

You're still parroting Alan Watts FFS!

And Alan Watts is parroting Zen teachings?

How does it work then? If it is deterministic then it is not free and if it is random then it is not will. Or is it that no free will is bad therefore, free will.

Exactly, duality is the illusion. Maybe spontaneous is the word I'm looking for here, when hinting at the universe, and us happening.

I am not saying I know the answer but I do think it is a fundamental question, maybe one of the most fundamental questions. The problem I see is that if it cannot be defined or explained it is a meaningless concept, therefore, it needs some sort of definition or explanation. Otherwise it is nothing.

There it is! Also, there it is not! heh. Out of nothing came everything. We're trying to find the mind with the mind here. And it won't be found. Because no mind, mind is still only a,... myth? Concept...came out of nothing.

Everything out of nothing doesn't work for me. If something came from "it" then whatever "it" is "it" is something "it" is not nothing. Something cannot come from its very absence, that is a completely nonsensical idea. The entire concept of nothing is meaningless unless it is framed in the positive sense as the absence of something but as a concept of it's own, as a pure negation, I reject it as a useless superstition.