Vmarco

Everything is wrong with "me"....Me is always false...Me is a delusion. Me = Falsity. "we need to draw our attention to what is false in us, for unless we learn to recognize the false as the false, there can be no lasting transformation, and you will always be drawn back into illusion, for that is how the false perpetuates itself" Eckhart Tolle

Smart people, like Cosmologists Steven Hawking and Jim Hartle in their No-Boundary theory, say that since time loses characteristics that separate it from space, the concept of a beginning in time becomes meaningless. There is no BigBang, no singularity, creation or creator, because there is no time. Buddhas said, "A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real." "Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present." Friedrich Nietzsche "Change is an illusion of the senses due to motion. There is no change whatsoever in the universe. There is only an illusion of change set up by the two interchanging lights (positive and negative) that divide and multiply within moving matter and mass." Walter Russell "From beginningless time until now, all living beings have mistaken themselves for things and, having lost the original mind, are turned around by things." Buddha, Shurangama sutra "Phenomenally, we can know no present, as it must be in the ‘past’ before our senses can complete the process of recording it, leaving only a suppositional past and future; noumenally, there is no question of ‘past’ or ‘future,’ but only a presence that knows neither ‘time’ nor ‘space.’ " Wei Wu Wei "There is no present in time; and thus, because the present is, there is no time." VMarco "Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future" ACIM "The world of time and space is a projection." Robert Monroe

Eating meat manifests heart attacks,...not heart consciousness http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51459488/ns/health-heart_health/

??? In 1995, at Stanford University, physicists made two particles of matter by supercharging a trillion-watt laser through a linear accelerator. If they had access to all of our sun’s power in one spot, there might have been enough power to make one ounce of matter. Thus, it would take the energy of more than a thousand stars to make the physical mass of a person.

The Tao is only an idea for those who have not realized what the term Tao point to. The Tao is not an idea, nor arose from an idea. Although the Tao is the fulcrum upon which idea's express themselves, the Tao does not give birth to idea's, nor is any idea the Tao. Thus, if you have an idea, you can be assured, it is not the Tao. IMO, Manitou's statement,..."We are the movie projector projecting the movie"...needs further explaination. The we that we think, feel, and sense we are, is the projection,...which is as real as any movie,...the Tao is as the Still Light in the projector. The Still Light does not produce the idea's on the film being projected. The Still Light did not produce the projector. One could say however, that the idea of separation from the Still Light, manifested the projector. The statement..."We are the movie projector projecting the movie"...can be confusing, and interpreted as ,..."We are the movie projector projecting the movie." This romantic notion that for duality to exist there must an individual observer, as if Bohr's Law implies that observers and the observed need a human connection,...that humans somehow effect things into perceived reality,..is insane.

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All identity with "divine" is foolsome,...in other words, only a fool identifies with the divine. In my opinion,...if one followed MLK sayings in a chronological way,...it would had been less than another year before he denounced all divinity. As Chogyam Trungpa said, to realize the essential meaning of the Buddha's teaching, we need to let go of theism. The essence of Buddhism, of Daoism, is non-theist,...that is, devoid of divinity. To understand Buddhism, take refuge in Buddha,...to understand Daoism,..that refuge in the Tao,....Buddha neither Comes or Goes,...the Tao neither Comes or Goes. The divine comes and goes. I would have loved seeing how MLK transitioned after letting theism go.

For those with a penchant for enlightenment, it would surely be a good idea to have an idea of how to recognize it. For many, enlightenment is having super powers, like those proselytized in science fiction films. For me, enlightenment is the awareness of things as they are. However, to arrive at, or uncover, the way things are, one must first realize the way things are not. As a New Age purveyor said, "we need to draw our attention to what is false in us, for unless we learn to recognize the false as the false, there can be no lasting transformation, and you will always be drawn back into illusion, for that is how the false perpetuates itself" When one becomes serious for an awareness of the way things are, there is a realization that the 6 senses cannot observe the way things are,...for the 6 senses arose from the way things are not.

"It is man Who is in movement Against the background of immobility. But who moves the moved?" Wu Hsin

There is no "here and now"...to have a "here" there must be a "there"....both are of duality, and thus thus cannot be "Now." From a past or future (hope) mentality, all appears as if in a Now,...yet from the Now's point of view, their is no past or future. "When here becomes Everywhere and Now becomes Always, then One has succeeded." Wu Hsin The language of Heart Consciousness is very, very specific. Relatively speaking, matter does have intelligence,...for example, water has a molecular intelligence to attract to itself, minerals that sustain life. Thus, if one were to live off of purified or distilled water, that is, water in which minerals were removed, then when that water is drunk, it immediately attacts to itself, life sustaining minerals from your body, which are subsequently urinated away, manifesting a slow, negative transition or death of your form. Whereas, if one was to drink artisian water, the opposite effect would occur. As for the question "Why matter holds its form"....IMO, every Daoist should consider that,...for within that question is the understanding of the Dao itself. Although not a Daoist book,...one of the best books on Daoism is "A New Concept of the Universe"....which thoroughly explains "Why matter holds its form."

If you had 1 Week to Live....what would be important? "99.9% of the World's so-called wisdom, East and West, for the purposes of awakening, is about as useful as a glass of warm spit with a hair in it." Jed McKenna Perhaps that .1% would be worth paying attention to. Huang Po said, "If you students of the Way wish to become Buddhas, you need study no doctrines whatever, but learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything." What does the .1% of valuable wisdom look like? VMarco says, Neither Bodhi, nor the Tao, can be uncovered through the sentient mind.

What you believe to be bland, is the 7th and 8th consciousness of enlightened beings. "When it is seen that An empty cup is receptive and A full cup cannot receive, Those with wisdom choose emptiness." Wu Hsin Or as Lao Tzu said, "Recognize that eveything you see and think (the 6 senses) is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over the truth."

"Anything in time cannot be eternal. That which stands outside of time is Eternity itself. Hearing its call is The end of time." Wu Hsin

Yes,....enlightenment is ALWAYS the Now, the Instant, the Present,....the 6 senses cannot observe the Now, the Instant, the Present. Those who believe that their 6 senses,....seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touch, and thinking,...can observe the Now, Instant, or Present,...they are deluded. There is no Now, Instant, or Present in time, nor divided light. When you reach Undivided Light (186k mps) time ceases, and the matter that manifests the 6 senses no longer exist.

What does that mean? "nice poem"....what is nice about it? What moved you to say it was nice? Did it bring your an epiphanic insight? Do you have any comprehension of what was being said? Did you find some sort of coherence from sentence to sentence,....or was your statement fully dishonest, and propelled from sentient compassion?

"Real Compassion...as light, has no hesitation, no inhibition about reflecting on things, it does not discriminate whether to reflect on a pile of shit or on a pile of rock or on a pile of diamonds. It reflects on everything it faces." Chögyam Trungpa Relatively speaking, you (sinansencer) are void of any real compassion. Because you have no clue what emptiness is, and thus obscured of any cognition regarding light or real compassion,...you lash out, as above,...protecting ego and the idea that ego can recognize truth. All Buddha's and all known enlightened Beings, have said, as Shantideva, "The whole of the Bodhicharyvatara is geared toward prajna, the direct realization of emptiness, absolute bodhichitta, without which the true practice of compassion is impossible." But such is not palatable to ego,...and thus, as you admit, you get highly annoyed. There are Two Empty's. There is relative empty,...such as Form is Empty, and Empty is Form,...and there is the Other Empty,...the Absolute Empty, which has nothing to do with Form, as the Tao has nothing to do with Yang. Lao Tzu correctly said, "The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things....The Tao gives rise to all form, yet is has no form of its own." The 6 senses are part of the delusion,...a part which keeps persons as yourself, fully ignorant of life. Lao Tzu said, "the ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle; totally fascinated by the realm of the senses....if anyone threaten it, it actually fears for its life. Let this monkey go. Let the senses go."

No,....those who know, don't gnow! As Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche said, unless theism is let go, the heart of bodhi cannot be accessed. Hollywood is part of the dishonest, disfunction of current humanity. I've found nothing harder in life than being honest,...not that I'm not honest,...but in having any conversation with the more than 99.6% of humanity that are unable to be honest. No theist is honest,...it is absolutely impossible. By definition, no atheist is honest,...atheism is merely a belief that no god exists. All beLIEfs are lies. Dishonest people promote dishonest views of life, to make their dishonesty appear palatable.

I watched a sickening, Judeao-Christian propaganda film today, called Lincoln. The Director, Producer, and Writers of thos lying film should have an anvil tied around their necks and be thrown into an abyss. Does Hollywood ever make an honest film? "Mr. Lincoln was not a Christian." Mary Todd Lincoln

Very interesting prose,...I don't get it,...sounds like an incoherent schizophenic rant-about,...but wanted to post to keep if visible on the first page so to read others opinions. Keep in mind, that my critique of the imaginings of sentient beings and their relative viewpoints all appears schizophenic to me,...yet I'm always curious how they come up with the strange things they do. For example, many sentient beings feel compelled to talk about the "heart"...as in "Their hearts opened up the chanting." How is it that sentient beings, meaning those attached to sentience, or the 6 senses of delusion, for their identity, bring up the term "heart" as if it could be understood through the 6 senses? Basically, the title "Delight of Light" attracted me to open this thread,...yet the prose has nothing to do with "pure light." Light is a favorite subject of mine. http://thetaobums.com/topic/19803-what-is-light/?hl=%22what+is+light%22

Nice line,..."fake it till you make it",...absolutely,...the problem however, is the downplaying on the faking, to point where MOST believe the faking is real. By all means fake,...fake it 24/7,...but also understand 24/7, that it is all a fake. Not once falling asleep to the fact that your compassion is a fake,...until it's real. Calling fake compassion, real compassion, will not make the fake real,...but it will forever obscure real compassion. A New Age correctly purveyor said,..."we need to draw our attention to what is false in us, for unless we learn to recognize the false as the false, there can be no lasting transformation, and you will always be drawn back into illusion, for that is how the false perpetuates itself"

In Gen. 2:21–25, the second creation story, the Elohim cast Adam into a profound sleep to make out of him a faithful, subservient companion called Eve. This Eve was not "created" or equal, as the female in the first creation story, but "fashioned out of a rib." The deeper comedy, however, is that nowhere does it say that they ever woke Adam up. The first creation story, Genesis 1:26–27, the Elohim (a plural for God) create "male and female" equal. It is said that this first woman, Lilith, was demonized by the Hebrews, and subsequently by the Christians, for leaving Adam in Eden’s garden. Yes,...waking up may be a noble pursuit,...but who will pay the price,...of letting go of the dream.

Frugality to me, is merely that which is not wasteful. To me, a sage, unlike one consumed with sentient beingness, see the world as it is. The sentient being cannot see the world that surrounds them, but only the world that surrounded them,...they do not, and cannot see the way things are. This is where Daoism is inexplicitly synonymous with the essence of Buddhism/ Lao Tzu said, "the Tao doesn't come and go." Buddha said, "the Tathagata does not come and go." To not "come and go" or instantly come back into oneself as one goes out, unfolds the seeing of the way things are,...the only frugal way, from a spiritual point of view, to not be wasteful . Everything focused on the past, which is the only thing those attached to their sentience can see, is wasteful, and squandering away the treasures. "Relative and absolute, These the two truths are declared to be. The absolute is not within the reach of intellect, For the intellect is grounded in the relative." Shantideva

Athough at first, the train noise is annoying, that first book on youtube shared many important ideas,...a dialogue where few would venture. I agree with McKenna,...follow the recipe for Truth Realization, and you will uncover Truth Realization in 2 years or less. Colin Wilson's book 'Mind Parasites'...which arose from the Gurdjieff philosophy...suggested that it would only take 50 Truth Realized persons to shift the world's current paradigm. Can you imagine that? Half of the Hundreth Monkey,...to change the world. "If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of your self." Lao Tzu

I feel compassion for all of those duped by such a sentient orientated BS. Different schools of Buddhism have differing views on compassion. The prajnaparamita tradition says there can be no compassion or Karuṇā without prajna. Thus, for the above Western Zen fellow to suggest honesty is not needed to express genuine compassion, is disinformation at the very least, and sure contains neither compassion, nor prajna. In other words,...only one that is fully attached to sentience would suggest such a statement as Ravens "It doesn't begin with honesty." But such is par for today's faith-based Zen fellows,...like the compassionless, prajnaless, fully ignoraant Thich Nhat Hanh. Yes,...the inter-faith-based love stuff like Robert Aitkin's cute animal sayings,...it supports their own faith based, sensory intelligence. It glorifies dishonesty.

But at what point, if any, does one have a burning desire or interest to see things as they are?