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Impermanence is an illusion. :nerd: I challenged him to name a secular scholar that will admit that the Buddha's original teaching was not emptiness o...

This stood out: "there is no word that can be traced with unquestionable authority to Gotama Sakyamuni as a historical personage, although there must ...

Okay, name a secular scholar that claims this and I'll look it up for myself since you are apparently incapable of supporting your claims.

:lol: Yogic meditation told you that certain things attributed to the Buddha are wrong? What exactly?

In Buddhism a sentient being is as you say, just the fleeting aggregates that arise from dependent origination. If mistakes like this happen in Buddhi...

Don't know what you're trying to say but I think it would be better to say that emptiness is the essential feature of Buddhism. Significantly, you did...

Change is considered illusory in Buddhism as well, so what? Gods are merely considered another type of sentient being. I know next to nothing about Hi...

Kindly explain how then. You say yourself that "perception is indeed transient." And all sentient beings have sense perception, right? What exactly? T...

Yeah, Buddhism got formless realms too. But nut'n escapes the rule of transiency, not even stuff in the formless realms. Perhaps if someone thought up...

The rule of transiency, my friend, is definitely incompatible with atman.

The Hindu atman apparently contradicts with the Buddhist concept of emptiness. I imagine that there are all sorts of ways to talk around the issue, bu...

What do mean by inherent meaning?

I didn’t suggest there is no meaning. In fact, I believe that we are all utterly saturated in meaning.

Nobody in the USA (a capitalist society) does either. Meaning is used by those in a position of power or influence to control the masses. If a society...

Well, this is supposedly the normal curve of happiness. https://www.margithenderson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Happiness-U-Curve-1024x791.jpg

Do you mean to say that only you know how thinking works?

So Hrvoje bested me in our 16 day game. Looked like this at the end where there was no way for me to win so I resigned. https://designpraxis.biz/img/b...

We can only make decisions based on our thinking. Reacting without thought is not decision making. It's an involentary conditioned responce. We can de...

It's not necessary to think for ourselves, that's true. We can rely on others to see things for what they really are and inform us on how to respond w...

"Nobody has a clue as to how thinking works." "Oh, yeah?!" "Yeah!" "Yeah?!!" "YEAH!!!" :lol:

K, if you're as convinced as you seem there's no point in trying to convince you otherwise. :victory:

Including old Shakyamuni?

Several Dr. Suess books have been banned for being racist and consequently their value as a collector items has skyrocketed, so if you have any racist...

Well, no, people think of all sorts of things while driving and don't crash. Well, no, it's just ordinary driving. High level driving, life profession...

You mentioned specific events, numbnuts, and I addressed each. Without bothering to check, if I recall correctly, "blow up the White House" was part o...

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No one under 21. I guess we don’t need to worry about corrupting minors.

It’s primary purpose is to bind groups in common values and teleology. It’s all about the tribe and all other concerns are secondary. This is why reli...

There’s probably a difference between poetic and comedic expression and protesting police brutality on the one side and mindless insurrection on the o...

As someone who works as a creative (graphic designer) I can say that the general formula for creative ideas is to saturate yourself with material rela...

God would have created atheists to train the faithful.

Not a white guy, not an asshole, or neither a white guy nor an asshole?

I'm not worried about shamanic techniques, :grin: I'm curious about how art can be about entering into different states of consciousness. Maybe I'm ta...

Don't recall if they're shamanic but there are techniques where just the breath is used. Anyway, never heard of art to induce different states of cons...

I remember thinking who would want to rule a world of orcs?

Sounds more like self-discovery/expression than conscious or deliberate transformation. I see things very differently. Deliberate practice in meditati...

And myths may facilitate this in the ways I mentioned, if not other ways? I'm still curious about exactly what you're talking about. For instance, it ...

We can learn from stories and in a sense be transformed by them in that way. Stories can also reinforce prejudices or influence us in other ways that ...

I'm just curious about how or why anyone would utilize myths in an individual spiritual pursuit, basically.

Of course you don’t, human knowledge is superficial, except for the human knowledge that we subscribe to. :lol:

We can pursue spirituality without religion, I agree, but the reason I was asking about the value of myths is because I believe that the value is in r...

I don’t see how anyone could doubt that, and that this ignorance extends to all human endeavors, including the sacred ones.

First we can distinguish between objective truths and social truths. Clearly, myths and legends fall into the category of social truths. The shallowes...

I don't think you're being obscure. Right, what I'm asking is what's the value of this method? There are other ways of viewing experience and grasping...

There's a saying that spiritual life begins with the introduction of pain. And maybe after a nice simple balanced life. Nothing wrong with that!

Okay, what's the value of packaging truths this way?

A random collection of goofy gods is imaginatively richer than a random collection of atoms? Frankly, the later requires more imagination. I could nev...

So are you saying that this is your experience and the benefit of "going for it"? If your child or loved one got diagnosed with terminal cancer, for e...

I hope you’re not suggesting that only a teacher (religious authority) can speak for your own experience. A nice simple balanced life. :love: