People want (the illusion of getting) something for nothing and seem to do just about anything to those ends (including selling-out their kids, parent...
99.99....% of what you perceive leaves no time for interpretation. Just think about how much is going on in your field of view at once (an infinite nu...
Zen, by definition, answers no questions. It is your own realization that accomplishes the task. The meaning and purpose of life becomes manifest in y...
Is that why BIG tech, mass media, social media, corporate America, Wall Street, Education, and entrenched government are all on the left? Who is the p...
The working wealthy pay almost all the taxes in the U.S. The top .01% might not pay much because of their exotic shelters, but the rest pay it and pay...
Human social interaction breeds corruption. It is present everywhere, not just in capitalism. So the best you can do it try to control the corruption....
My friend, you need to read up on how this economic system actually works. If you do not understand the monetary system, international trade and finan...
Yes, it's called political corruption and it is non-discriminatory. What system would you rather live under, corrupted capitalism, corrupted Communism...
It is what it is and you make the best of it. There is no other economic system (unless you have come up with another one). In all human (social) ende...
Capitalism is the only economic system there is. "Communism" is state-capitalism and socialism is capitalism with the profits redistributed. The botto...
Zen is the Japanese word for meditation. Zen doesn't understand anything. It's not about understanding, instead it's about realization through direct ...
Nothing against Plato, I am sure he was a brilliant guy and all that, but making the pile of bullshit higher doesn't make it any more correct. This is...
I am afraid that people like you who desire salvation (from the challenges of life) feel that everybody else must change the way they think in order t...
Just like the people in the USSR, Communist China, and Nazi Germany had to "reconceptualize" what freedom and living up to your potential was. No than...
How much socialism do you want? Who doesn't want to live in a country where you are free to live up to your potential? Socialism is about lowering the...
It's not difficult to understand at all if you realize that the words are merely pointing at the truth. It is conceptual thought that creates attachme...
Getting back to the point of the thread, you can only have one situation on the ground, either individuals are free agents or groups (corporate-state)...
Regardless of external conditions, any company that can not remain solvent should be forced into bankruptcy. Had the government saved no businesses du...
Most people who died were in their 80s and were going to die of something anyway. Although people are saddened at another's passing, if they have live...
Experience can be had outside of conceptual thought. Getting into all the other philosophical stuff is really above my pay grade and,as well, specific...
Zen (Japanese, for meditation). There is only one lesson in Zen, meditate. The words simply point to the practice and it is in the practice is where y...
No, I am the one who says that we cannot really understand anything. What I am trying to do is suggest to a bunch of folks with inquiring minds that t...
What I am claiming is that you think you know but you don't. You can go along with the system that says that 1+1=2, but so what. It's only true if you...
From the frying pan to the fire, eh? Some days I can put this stuff into words and other days the words are far, far away. I'll give it a shot... Onen...
Just because we can do something does not mean we can understand it (especially considering that we are incapable of understanding anything :). For ex...
Of course it is, but you would be amazed at how many people refuse to grasp this truth (lowercase t). Understanding impermanence (intellectually) is o...
Thanks for giving me the credit but you'll have to go back around 2500 years ago (or better) to find the originators of such thinking (Truth and truth...
Those things that are purely experiential open up entirely new possibilities and leave thinking in the proverbial dust. Even your ultimate internet fa...
That's EXACTLY what it is. But it's literal. It's only when you give up the idea of understanding can you understand. Real understanding is not an int...
No, I believe that (literally) we cannot understand anything. It's pretty easy to prove. Just consider the fact that everything is changing. How is it...
I guess when you believe that you cannot (really) understand anything, philosophy is like the extra button sewn on your shirt (just in case you happen...
Once when I was a novice student, my teacher told me that when I feel the need to intellectualize, I should go find the nearest tree and tell it every...
It's been decades since I have really gotten into anything overly intellectual (other than my work). As far as NOW is concerned, the idea that we cann...
Of course it is. Some of the most serious Zen students are Christian mystics. If it is word-play you seek, then you can pretty much prove anything you...
Jack, as you know, I don't believe anything can be understood, but since we are human beings attempting to communicate with one another, language is p...
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