IntuitiveWanderer

Pythagoreans celebrate sunrise by Fyodor Bronnikov

A supreme creator, as in, one among many? If the hypothesis of evolution would not have been so wrong, then I would have personally believed in it. I mean, the Cambrian explosion is a mystery, there are far too few intermediate fossils, the massive increase of informational patterns remains unexplained, then you have the systematic holism of it all....it's quite interesting. Although I wouldn't go with the idea that Allah or Yahweh designed it because that would not be correct, I would go with the idea of intelligent manifestation, as in not-random manifestation. Edit: Why would there be randomness anyway. Everything is patterns, patterns have structure. "The Prajâpati, having in the beginning created mankind together with Yajna, said,—"By this shall ye multiply: this shall be the milch cow of your desires." - The Bhavagadgita See? Everyone agrees. One sound, many frequencies. Never heard of that Tesla guy though...

Lol, it never occured to me but it would have been a good idea.

Well, it is indeed easy to make fashion statements in such a case. But if you realize the Tao (the true one) then you know that there is no one to be ill or upset. Of course, in our western fat fashion culture, such selflesness in accordance with the truth is seen as extreme.

You want me to accept your paradigm although you have yet to present a legitimate argument If there is truth/existence/Tao then it must be one and unchangeable. So yes, free will exists in the same way that dreams, thoughts and hallucinations exist. I thank you too, it was a fruitful discussion.

This song is really good. The first one...

*chirp, chirp*

This is why it is not enough to talk about the Tao (which is not the real Tao). We must meditate and clear our minds of the clouds of ignorance so that the light of truth may shine upon....so to speak. True morality comes about as a result of personal integrity which is itself resultant from reason coupled with emotions of love and joy. The idea of original sin coupled with the threats of eternal agony can only result in sorrow and self-mortification. Only a Christian who is joyfuly ignorant of his own dogma can live a live devoid of misery and suffering without fear of divine punishment. If seen from the perspective of an absolutely devout Christian, who truly tries to mold his mind to the Bible and maintain it so, most Christians today would be thought of as damned to burn in the searing fires of Hell for Eternity. "A hermit saw someone laughing, and said to him, 'We have to render an account of our whole life before heaven and earth, and you can laugh?'" - The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

Are you amazed? ..... Let us cease this running in circles and acknowledge the obvious. Namely, my dear sir or lady, that there is no circle.

Mental activity is not existence, mental activity is subject to existence.

This is one of the best that I have heard:

The body is not existence, the body is subject to existence; the brain is not existence, the brain is subject to existence; matter is not existence, matter is subject to existence. I is not subject to existence, I is existence. All, neither subject nor object, consciousness is Existence. I am I.

The belief that is crippling for me is the belief that I am weak. In otherwords, fear. Fear is the most cripling belief, this is why it is so widely used. If people would not fear to engage reality on their own, would not believe that they are too weak to understand, the con-artists, such as Krishnamurti was, would be unemployed. Edit: Authentic Gurus and Sages are needed indeed, but in order to get to the point at which one can receive guidance, one must trust his ability of doubt and discernment, in other words, one must use critical thinking. Untill one is enlightened, there is darkness and the only source of light, is one's ability to reason, a candle, it is necesary in order to reach the temple.

There is nothing to be filled, Krishnamurti was a celebrity acting out his role. If he would have been truly enlightened, he would have not spent his time in the cave dancing with his back to artificial light and projecting satisfactory forms upon the wall. Don't tell me he wanted to enlighten people through television? It would be like me trying to enlighten people through the internet or, in other words, trying to enlighten people by breaking their arms, putting a thick black plastic back over their heads and slowly tightening it. (slowly so they don't notice, otherwise they would escape and, having learned my method, steal my clients) Knowledge is not crippling, it is ignorance that is crippling.

The Moon Cannot Be Stolen Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. "You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler, "and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift." The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away. Ryoken sat naked, watching the moon. "Poor fellow," he mused, "I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."

A Parable Buddha told a parable in sutra: A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!