Thunder_Gooch

Don't care, move on, annoy someone else, practice this virtue thing you speak so highly of. All you are doing is wasting my time.

Obviously you don't.

You can do whatever you want, I couldn't care less about anything you have to say on any topic. I am not interested in interacting with you. You speak often of Virtue, so use some of that virtue to go annoy someone else who cares, alright?

Alright.

Who's pretending, it can obviously be verified as true just by thinking clearly on the subject. You are an experience, not a thing. There is no one observing the experience occur, the experience itself is what we think of as the observer. An experience has no physical tangible reality to it, you can't pour a cup of experience any more than you can pour a cup of a dream.

Skydog, I want to make it clear to you again, I do not value your opinion on any matter. You would be better off arguing and trolling someone else who cares about your opinions.

As before when the analogy to a video game character it has reality and existence in the sense it can be experienced, yet however exists purely as energy and information inside a computer. A dream has existence in the sense that it can be experienced, yet exists purely as energy and information inside the mind of the dreamer. Had the Buddha been born in recent history I'd venture to guess he'd make use of such an analogy to explain the reality we live in. Everything we can experience, vision, smell, taste, hearing, touch, memory, intuition, visualization, verbalization, emotion, dreams, the entire gamut and sum of our experience, is purely energy and information being exchanged in our neural nets. So what you are seeing right now as a computer monitor isn't external to your mind, but rather you are viewing your own internal mental processes and believing such to be an external reality, which is about as silly as looking at a painting of a pipe and believing it is a pipe.

A character in a video game is non-existent, yet it can be experienced even though it has no reality to it other than energy and information in a computer. That's what I am getting it. The same for a dream, it can be experienced but has no reality to it outside the confines of one's own mind.

It wasn't a misinterpretation.

My concern is Russia, they aren't going to put up with their oil interests being sequestered for much longer, there is a line drawn in the sand and when we cross it there will be a war. Syria may be the Rubicon for WWIII.

That doesn't make "I hate it when it cold, it makes me feel uncomfortable." a Quasi-Skydog quotation, because you actually said it.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/iran-thousands-of-missiles-to-rain-on-israel/ Iran: 'Thousands of missiles' to rain on Israel Threatens massive strike if military action launched on Syria

The issue for me was not if it was helpful or unhelpful, so much as if it was attributed to Buddha. You can't say a teaching directly attributed to Buddha isn't Buddhist, or is quasi-Buddhist. That is just an absurd position to take.

Quotes by Buddha who lived 2500 years ago, wouldn't fall under "new" age teachings. It is necessary to be grounded during meditation to absorb yin chi, and there are only 10 real masters on earth you could learn under.

http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2013/08/us-no-longer-seeking-un-nato-permission-strike-syria/69446/?oref=d-topstory U.S. No Longer Seeking U.N., NATO Permission to Strike Syria

I was going in another direction.

Not necessarily a right, I just have a quibble with the way you worded the: It's as if somehow Buddha did not come right out and say exactly what he did. It's sort of like people who ask me what my favorite bible verse is, and I tell them Ezekiel 23:20, and they get really upset when they read it. It's your path so you are free to pick and choose which parts of which teachings you listen to and ignore. My only quibble is you saying the bits you don't like aren't really Buddhist, to me this is like a Christian saying Ezekiel 23:20 isn't in the bible.

A dream could be said to be empty and non-existent, yet obviously as it is being experienced it can not be said to have non-existence either.

You don't have to, you said you were tired of "hearing quasi-Buddhist sayings" I posted just some regular plain old Buddhist sayings and referenced them.

It gets results: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTvyP_KWv50

How about we dispose of the quasi-Buddhist sayings, and just use some regular plain old Buddhist sayings on the same topic?

Right now right here you are already emptiness, so nothing is going change at all except your perspective on the matter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btErI0w8IUg

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Hey MH, Actually if you want I can offer you proof of your own nonexistence if you like.