Thinking

That statement does go to show how important philosophy is so that we treat our experience of reality in the correct ways. Right now the current extre...

Whatever your philosophy is on the general subject of philosophy.

Exactly what I think. The words are associated to a certain image, and so are an overextended way of thinking rather than in the images themselves. If...

exactly

Perhaps the duality in the universe is less of the current "yin and yang" idea or polarity (qualities) and infinite and finite (quantities), but somet...

I absolutely agree that It would be cumbersome to think of the individual written words. I go back and forth between thinking in spoken word and image...

paradox. If we didn't create our own reality then in no way does that knowledge serve us since we cannot leave the reality we live in. Potentially unl...

I am giving you a point of view to debate for and against. Also, a lot of what you would call "spiritual" and "religious" is heavily backed up by the ...

The source and cause of COVID is controversial. I will say to not buy the major narrative media is giving the majority, and to not act out of the fear...

Unfortunately that is the case today. I will say that even if we use science and technology in positive way it would not be a perfect worldview that i...

The whole concept of separation as I see it leads us to the numerous problems we have today(on many levels of being, both political and scientific). T...

Humorous. Is it because man started to take things apart and started analyzing it which leads to excavation, rather than elation of nature and life as...

It could be information from past lives or it could be thoughts themselves that already exist on another plane of being that is partially tapped into ...

So then it must be true for if it wasn't then it would be paradoxical and therefore it couldn't exist.

You've hit it right on the head with that statement, although not pertinent to the Tao directly I think that the knowledge of how we think shapes our ...

Your post was very informative. It is a little long and brings about several points that would be worth discussing, but is difficult due to the length...

Perhaps the entity that created the mutual relationship created the duality in the first place and therefore created the known Universe?

I view the Tao as obtainable somehow when you live your life in complete balance, and a union of opposites occur. As both you and the universe is comp...

There are countless examples both physical, energetic, ethical, philosophical as both us humans and the universe is a formation of a union of opposite...

Nature itself when left alone (from our imbalanced actions that lead towards the non-existence or anti-rationality side of the spectrum), will eventua...

I am thinking that the duality of non-existence lies in space and vacuum. while existence comprises of matter and energy.

And hopefully just living life.

Isn't our own minds but a reflection of the capabilities of the Universal mind? if so then does that mean it can be understood by looking inside?

if it's is deception then I am surely fooled!

Can we get a show of hands?

I love the list you made up. These are all good qualities for an individual to have in any relationship. Then, could you answer what properties or cha...

I do try not to look down upon others who are less gifted than myself, for we are all in this together as this generation breeds the next. All I hope ...

Perhaps he doesn't need to know why but just live life and be elated that that's the way things are. I like your adage as I would think reality wouldn...

I more so mean childlike in "nature" as in inheriting all the healthy aspects of youth rather than the unhealthy irrational/emotional aspects. As I fi...

The image portrayed by many commentators on this forum give a very grim view of reality and treat it as the way it should be or is. Lets say if that w...

Good comment. So then a whole societal shift would be required in order to sustain such a philosophy. It would be tough to do it alone, especially sin...

I think the problem would be simpler than it presumes. When you read a word you obtain an image in your mind Associated with that word, for example th...

But doesn't writing serve as a artificial replacement for the capacities that already exist within the mind? If so you are in the end weakening your m...

Great post and very detailed, two thumbs up. I was just reading C.S. Lewis' abolition of man in which he speaks of the Tao which I find interesting as...

I highly appreciate your input especially on trying to turn your thought off for a while. I know it is possible to also overdo the thinking process in...

I see the speed and quality of peoples thoughts vary from individual to individual. An extreme example would be retardation. I think that if we were t...

Could it be simplified even further to I am? As it seems irrelevant to state you are conscious of this existence.

I don't think it would be necessary. For in many cases which victims are subject to extreme trauma the memory erases itself in order to sustain the we...

There seems to be a bit of convergence between imagination and memory. Due to their qualities being similar and precisely are derived from thought, I ...