fatherpaul

as you wish

all i can gather from this reply is that sex is a privative as for the need to distinguish between the 10,000 things show me where one ends and the other begins and i will distinguish them

Laozi was not a taoist Christ was not a christian

i dont cure my body cures it is doing its best

whats on second and i dont know is on third the bottom of the ninth. 2 outs, full count, game on the line, just focus on the next pitch, ok?

i disagree that it is a bhuddist concept it is a universal human concept that, by your definition of privative, is privative. the concept is privative, for that matter all of our concepts are "privative" for they are not realities. why do we need new words to discuss the same old thing? as to hot and cold, they are mutually realised as is long and short, etc. it is your mind that is "ultimate cold or ultimate heat" this too must be privative...why bother with this?

most excellent post freeform the basic questions ; how? and why? (where, what, who and when yield much as well.)

pietro says: Now a last question: is enlightenment a privative? what is your answer pietro? oh and by the way define "enlightenment"

sorry i was going to reply but thought stopped

who is focusing

it is said of the sages of old: "upon hearing a single word, they would abandon learning and live in spontaniety" i can dig that

simplify

welcome, im just here for the pancakes

" one dog barks at a shadow, a hundred dogs make it a reality."

farther and farther down the rabbit hole

"its easier to keep up than catch up" anon.

there is no such thing as a "taoist"

it is there in the wind in the trees in the heartbeat it is there and nowhere alone all one it stands alone

this hollow world flows slowly through the Void all creation cracks open quickly fading into enptiness

please add: "anything fatherpaul says should not be taken seriously." other than that, looks good.

there is only thought , not my thought your thought. it is useful to build a house, but useless in discovering your true nature. thought creates the "thinker" who then sees himself as seperate and able to control thought.

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"does thinking stop?" no. thought does not stop, it is useful, but only when used correctly.

thank you pietro and karen but it is not my place to intervene with the natural course of things call it burning off bad karma or some such, it is what it is. that said i have little use for "modern" medicine.

it is due to a doctor that i am dying of end stage hepc, let the body relearn how to heal itself.