liminal_luke

I´m not on the list (so far).

If only Daniel were here to make all this clear.

My take is that the nature of reality itself is paradoxical, good and bad and everything in between. Whatever it is that transcends transcendence is omnipresent, the silent backdrop of the universe.

That´s the trouble with summoning the enlightened: they show up.

All good things are.

@stirling doesn´t have my sympathy. He may have "nowhere to go, nothing to do" but I don´t think he´s sitting around on a Saturday night drinking too much red wine and watching reruns of The Price is Right.

I don´t read Chinese and am not motivated enough at the moment to use Google translate. Is ChiDragon cooking up a shrimp stir fry with noodles and lots of garlic and ginger? Now that just might transcend transcendence!

@Daniel I´m an inveterate peeker.

Who woulda thunk that it would be Daniel would get us thinking about the nondual?

What is transcending transcendence? I don´t know but so far my experience reading this thread isn´t it. Interesting riddle though. Maybe I´d get closer watching a sunset or listening to birdsong. Feels like it could be a springboard to contemplation of infinity (or nothingness).

Christians are welcome to debate topics on the forum, of course they are, but I´ll admit that the question "is this Biblically sound?" turns me off. It´s an inquiry that comes, to my ear anyway, with a lot of embedded assumptions. Perhaps the biggest assumption is that the Bible is a book worthy of our consideration. Or, if it is, that we should use at as some sort of measure to judge our thoughts and actions by. I happen to think there´s a lot of wisdom in the Bible. That´s just my guess; I haven´t read most of it. Unfortunately, it´s hard to find mystical truth in a book whose main use through history has been as a blunt object with which to beat down nonconformers and innocent passersby.

Here´s a strange thing: I don´t know how to be an environmentalist. Like most, I want clean air and clean water. I want green forests with lots of lakes and rivers, bears hunting salmon and dragonflies flitting about. But I no longer trust the people who are selling me that picture. I wonder whether their true allegiance is with the dragonflies or with dollars.

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Love it! Unlike so many of these acronyms, this one oozes sincerity.

As with so many other things, I prefer to go old school with my insect eating. Modern-breed insects pushed on the population by climate alarmists? No, thanks. Oaxacan crickets fried up according to a centuries-old recipe with lime and chile? Si, senora.