PeterJones

Did you ask this man in the street if light and gravity, governments and currencies, species and rectangles, love and beauty, pieces of music and rive...

Some relevant comments... "One might almost say that our surface being is only the deeper eternal self in us throwing itself out as the adventurer in ...

And the message is presented in the medium of thought, that which by it's inherently divisive nature destroys the experience of oneness. Yes. The mess...

and avoid a schism which would be perhaps be caused by a radically new interpretation of the vinaya. — TLCD1996 Aren't schisms inevitable in every phi...

Given that some may seem to confuse Buddhism with Hinduism or conflate them (I've heard so much that Buddhism is rebranded Hinduism), given that some ...

“It is the goal of spiritual life to open to the reality that exists beyond our small sense of self. Through the gate of oneness we awaken to the ocea...

...that's why I'm not one to say that all other religions are wrong, but I will not hesitate to say I'm skeptical that they all lead to the same place...

?TiredThinker "Ch’an is the Chinese transliteration of the Sanskrit ‘dhyana’ which means ‘meditative absorption’. The Japanese version is the more fam...

Right now that line of thought is being questioned, and I think it ought to be because it's rather speculative. Ajahn Geoff, who I respect and right n...

This is a significant statement in relation to my ‘project’ because it inspires curiosity as to why you’re not a Buddhist. It’s natural to suspect tha...

Well, this is brilliant. We may have transcended our difficulties and this is quite an achievement. We should pat ourselves on the back. Our discussio...

In recent years Hippyheadism has speculated that this phenomena is space. Ever present at every scale, both real and non-existing, transcending simpli...

Ah, I see. Well, I have no idea who the Theravadans are, but this sounds like the kind of ideological divisions which inevitably arise in every ideolo...

I'm going to have to break my rule again in order to apologise (dammit). I should not have asked you to go away. . I'd rather you stayed, as a useful ...

You asked about the substrate that is the continuum underlying life and death and is our immortality. This would be the ‘spirit that rolls through all...

"I started off in this reading Jiddu Krishnamurti, who is very wordy and analytical. Yes he is. But a reliable teacher. I see it isn't only trees and ...

And thanks for your helpful contributions. As for suffering, I'm not sure I would have survived certain experiences over the last few years without th...

My critique of religion would be that it typically attempts to address problems generated by thought by piling on more thought. That's kind of like an...

Well, what have you got nearby? It seems good to find something within 30 minutes range or so, that way you can go often. You don't imagine we still t...

It's a koan, and yes, it can withstand a lot of thought, but best not. I despair. Please go away. I've given it my best shot but enough is enough.

The source of the problem is not Buddhism, or Catholicism, or religion in general. The problem arises from that which all these things are made of. Th...

I'll assume I misremebered and you;re right about 'kill'. It makes the point even stronger. You raise an important issue. . . ---"Sceptics will say - ...

How lucky you are. I always planned to emigrate to the forests of Canada but never got around to it. Nor did I ever get around to buying a double-deck...

I simply have to say something about this discussion. It's the first one I've had here and as a veteran of philosophy forums it seems to me almost mir...

I'm talking about all religions and all religions depend on faith, specifically and significantly faith in ultimate authority. — praxis Oh hell. I'll ...

This all makes sense, and represents my view too. I think we're just working on a translation from Buddhist language to armadillo worship language. :-...

You explain the religion issue very well. I should make clear that in my view likewise Buddhism is a religion. It would also be a science, a philosoph...

I give up. I will not respond again.

Likewise, thanks for being open to an apology. .

I cannot uderstand why you make no effort to understand Buddhism. It is all about discovering what is true. It is not about being told!!! If you do no...

Thanks for sharing this! I think I'm understanding a little more of what you're saying; it's a bit tricky for me to get through the technical language...

If true, then the vast majority of the God debate (all sides of it) is built upon a foundation of sand. Exactly. Meister Eckhart dismisses the argumen...

As I may have said too many times, I see the origin of human suffering as the nature of that which we are made of psychologically, thought. Yes. This ...

I get that typical Western thought seeks simplistic dualistic answers such as the classic "exists or not" paradigm of the God debate. I've argued agai...

These questions are undecidable in dialectical logic because both their available answers are logically indefensible — FrancisRay Confused by this. Re...

Good grief. Do you not ever listen? By your defintion of religion Buddhism is not one. I toid you this some time ago. You clearly know little about Bu...

Yes, you;re right, it was useless. I was just frustrated at how complex the issues are made by this sort of approach, but I should have engaged with i...

Looking at zen, we see the usage of Koans, which to my understanding are meant to help us break through a habitual tendency to crave logical clarity. ...

---"If you wish, I would welcome a further expansion of this too. How does mysticism allow us to make sense of metaphysics? I suppose it might help if...

I bow to an enlightened being.

I see what you're saying and it makes sense. But in mysticism when someone states where the truth lies they are expected to know, not to have just a f...

Hmm.... Don't quite get this. Would you like to expand on this a bit? Do you mean, like, the moon is made of thought? Probably not. Obviously, I don't...

"The Truth" lies just beyond the symbolic realm. It's right there in front of our face at all times. On what grounds do you make this claim?

Imho, the source of the binary thinking is thought itself, how it operates. " This is what Nagarjuna proves. The psycho-physical is a world-of-opposit...

Perhaps try reading something about mysticism. There's too much ground to cover to answer your question here. .

Or, to chant this in Hippiehead dogma, what if the problem we are trying to address arises not from thought content, but from the medium of thought? R...

And if a perspective should consider "the truth" to be the real world, and not any collection of ideas pointing to it, then concerns about dogmatism, ...

Any method of observation which succeeds in shifting our attention from the symbolic world to the real world would seem to be sufficient. As you know,...

I see no attempt by you to understand the issues. I cannot see the point of your approach and clearly it prevents you from learning anything. I will n...

I'm talking about all religions and all religions depend on faith, specifically and significantly faith in ultimate authority. Okay. So this is your d...