Jetsun

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  1. Physical aspect of cultivation

    Its an interesting question how physical conditioning relates to cultivation. Certainly I think one could be obese and out of shape and be far more spiritually realised than a profession athlete, in many traditional Buddhist three year retreats you get very little exercise if any at all in some cases. Yet if the body is strong and healthy it is far easier to calm the mind and be comfortable in yourself, exercise helps the body release a lot of toxins and release dense stagnation and remaining healthy, so exercise is an important part of living well and skillfully and treating yourself with compassion in my opinion, so at a certain point it is difficult the separate out daily living from cultivation.
  2. Non-duality

    Language is always dual in order to make distinctions between things - for practical reasons and functioning. Therefore it can never adequately describe non-duality because as soon as you use a word you have gone back to duality. Yet language can point towards it.
  3. UK tech: gender and skills gap

    Its not faith it is experience. I can't prove it to you but you can experience it, just like I can't prove to you what an orange tastes like but you can experience it for yourself, and that experience is going to be far greater than anything my reason can say about it
  4. UK tech: gender and skills gap

    Well, to asssert that reason is mans only absolute is to deny all the wisdom traditions which have been discussing these subjects for thousands of years. It is deny the entire spiritual wisdom of India and of the traditions such as Buddhism, Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, as well as the experiences of thousands of Saints and Sages from all traditions through world religious and spiritual history, many of whom had far greater minds than you Karl. I am not here to guide seekers, yet what I often talk about isn't faith it is experience, experience anyone can reproduce. Your issue is that you classify anything which you haven't personally experienced or anything you can't grasp with your own limited mind as faith or imagination. I am not fighting for peoples feelings or for faith, I am saying that there is something.. experience, awareness, wisdom, intelligence beyond reason, which transcends reason, is ultimately far greater and more profound than reason. You mentioned the analogy of the finger pointing at the moon in another post which is a saying originating from Buddhism, do you really think that what the Buddha was pointing at in all the thousands of Sutras and teachings is reason? He had to point towards whatever that is rather than speak of it directly because it cannot be grasped by reason or by the intellect, yet it still exists. Why do you think some religious texts speak in Parables and Zen Koans are contradictory and nonsensical? because they are trying to break you out of your normal mind of reason into what it is that is beyond, into the embodied experience of it rather than a mental understanding of it. If many hundreds of thousands of people throughout history in all different countries and eras have said that there is this transcendent aspect to reality which can be experienced by anyone it is folly in my view to just assume that it doesn't exist, or that is just some kind of emotional imagination, you just limit your own life and potential.
  5. UK tech: gender and skills gap

    What are you fighting for? seems like aggressive posturing and an obsessive need to win and be right to me. Just regular warlike mentality and just another person who thinks their own limited world view is the correct one . It can't really shock you that people come here for different reasons than fighting surely? this is a Daoist board where people discuss their individual experiences and practices as well as debating, once in a while people clash heads, whereas you clash heads with over 90% of the people here, so it is clear not everyone has the same mentality as you do.
  6. Disillusioned with "ancient wisdom"

    Studying anything gets tiresome and boring at a certain point, even if your into it, G.I Gurdjieff explained this phenomenon of energy by law using what he called the 'law of octaves' which describes how we start out with a lot of enthusiasm and energy doing something but then eventually it becomes difficult and tiresome so we give up, but if you persist and give extra energy when it is most difficult, or get a shock to motivate you, then it will revert around again to being easy and flow with energy rather than being destroyed.
  7. UK tech: gender and skills gap

    There is a fundamental dishonesty in just filling in the gaps of your knowledge with assumptions, an intellectual dishonesty towards yourself and others. The reality is you just don't know, you may think this persons philosophy fits in with models you have in your own mind but in all truth you simply don't know, but you aren't willing to admit or live with not knowing, which is why you fill in the gaps with whatever suits your own agenda the best.
  8. UK tech: gender and skills gap

    The common theme I see from you is that you make assumptions from people's posts and then demolish an argument based on those assumptions, which may have nothing to do with the persons beliefs or intentions. This thread is yet another example of this. So maybe you don't see as much as you think you do.
  9. UK tech: gender and skills gap

    So you are omniscient now Karl the Guru
  10. Globalist Slave Labour

    As far as I can see nothing I have said contradicts anything you have said. If you work 9 hours a day you are far more likely to chat and go on facebook because you need a break, 6 hours a day not so much. The main thing I was pointing out is the difference between the USA and the rest of the OECD
  11. Globalist Slave Labour

    When I heard about how little holiday you guys get in America from the companies you work for that seemed like slave labour. Here we get 4-5 weeks a year and public holiday which I consider quite a small amount, many other European countries get far more, which is better for society, family and the individual. Companies convince us that they need to squeeze everything out of you in the name of being competitive, yet studies have shown that you work far more efficiently doing about 6 hours work a day with decent holiday to keep you fresh and motivated.
  12. Hillary and Trump

    One of the most disturbing things I think Wikileaks is showing is just how much Goldman Sachs runs the US government. It pretty much decides who gets what post in government https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-revelation-isnt-hillary-clinton and Hillary is clearly their person https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/16/wikileaks-hillary-clinton-wall-street-goldman-sachs-speeches, and as Joeblast links above shows they even have the meetings of the Clinton Foundation at Goldman HQ Where is the democracy if an investment bank runs your country? It got its claws into Europe too during the financial crisis
  13. UK tech: gender and skills gap

    I would say there is a lot of negative culture and ideas in schools in all sorts of areas, at least in state schools. When I was there there was generally a very negative attitude towards intelligence in general, so you would pretend not to be intelligent and pretend you didn't work hard or do your homework, at my school the geeks would get bullied and beaten up. There is certainly a negative attitude around girls doing things like maths, science and computing in that it was seen to be not cool or geeky and girls generally enter puberty at an earlier age so the desire to fit in, attract a partner and the whole teenager thing where you like to be part of the herd kicks in a bit sooner. So many girls may give up on maths and computing sooner than they should even if they may be good at it or enjoy it.
  14. This isn't true in my experience, one can through devotion or submission to a higher power become a vessel for that intelligence to do the healing. For example the healer who probably comes closest to Christ in terms of miracle healing is John of God, and he does it through submitting to the intelligence and skill of Master spirits and allowing them to work through him rather than him being enlightenmed himself.
  15. UK tech: gender and skills gap

    Baffling set of opinions to me, can you personally code in any language?
  16. UK tech: gender and skills gap

    When you learn one coding language it gives you the basis and teaches you the fundamental approaches to learning any of the others, even if that language is out of date. I don't see coding being useless for a long long time, in many ways it is becoming more and more important now, its in all our fridges, kettles, watches, cars, etc, its pretty much the basis for everything these days. I'm all for a revolution in education, but before that happens all kids at a young age should be learning to code in school, it can even be quite creative and fun.
  17. UK tech: gender and skills gap

    The government are late at introducing ICT to the national curriculum, all school kids should have been taught to code at least 5 years ago. It will take a while to catch up but I'm sure they will
  18. One way of looking at it is that anger is protecting something, so at least from its own perspective it is doing something compassionate. Getting in touch of the love behind this dynamic can soften things enough for the more tender and hurt feelings to emerge, and from there it can be enquired whether there is actually anything to protect or whether the anger is operating from old outdated beliefs, programming and defences which are no longer appropriate. Just thought I'd add a practical way of working with anger seeing as we're on the subject.
  19. Well anger can arise at any time, it doesn't have to disturb awareness or take your identity. But what I mean is in daily life anger arises once in a while in everyone, if you have a liver there can be anger, so what use is a Sutra which says you should never get angry or you will go to hell for it? It's just guilt tripping to control people
  20. When it comes to the teachings on anger that is one thing in some Buddhist scriptures I don't agree with, I think modern psychology has a far healthier relationship to it by accepting it's place and function. It is probably a distortion of the teachings or something inserted to disempower people to tell them they should never get angry.
  21. Has anyone here achieved super consciousness?

    This just proves that the brain has an effect on states such as thought and emotion, it says nothing about what causes consciousness, which is why it is still regarded as the "hard problem" of neuroscience. With regards to OBE and NDE there are numerous cases of people obtaining information about things in their OBE which they couldn't possibly have known, the story of Anita Moorjani is one example. Also when you lose consciousness such as when you are sleeping another form of consciousness is still present such as dreaming, plus it is possible to train yourself with Yogic techniques to be aware and lucid in such states even during the deepest part of unconscious sleep. Alan Wallace is a good resource about the dogma surrounding consciousness studies: "Many materialists argue that mental processes are identical to or are nothing more than functions of their neural correlates, while others dogmatically propose that consciousness and all kinds of subjective experiences don’t really exist at all! Although many materialistic theories of the mind-body relationship have been proposed, none of them lend themselves to scientific verification or repudiation, so they are merely hypotheses or speculations, not scientific theories. And they are certainly not scientifically established facts, despite the fact that the scientific and popular media commonly equate the mind and brain, without any compelling reasoning or empirical evidence." https://cup.columbia.edu/author-interviews/wallace-meditations-buddhist-skeptic Also I saw a programme on tv yesterday about a boy being born with only 2% of his brain, yet he was still alive and functional and conscious, how is that possible if consciousness is created by the brain?
  22. Has anyone here achieved super consciousness?

    Scientists haven't found anywhere in the brain which is the cause of consciousness, it is still a complete mystery to science But you could say that he was a scientist in the sense that anyone can experience and reproduce the different mental states by using specific techniques and meditation.
  23. Has anyone here achieved super consciousness?

    There is very little consensus on what comprises this existent reality. For example some say there is just consciousness and no super consciousness, whereas someone like Sri Aurobindo (who many people recognise as one of the greatest Indian philosophers and Yogi's of recent times) classifies mind as Higher Mind, Spiritual Mind, Inner Mind, Psychic Mind, Mind Proper, Thinking Mind, Dynamic Mind, Exterior Mind, Vital Mind, Physical Mind, Mechanical Mind, Mind of Light Intuitive Mind, Overmind, Supermind. There is no consensus in almost anything, it all depends on what perspective you look at things from.
  24. Has anyone here achieved super consciousness?

    Well you can do it without denigrating others experience as fiction/fantasy
  25. Has anyone here achieved super consciousness?

    That is pretty much what has happened every time I have tried to have a conversation with him.