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Good. Those whom seek nirvana, will not find it and those whom do not seek nirvana will also not find it and yet nirvana may still be found, neverthel...
February 15, 2021 at 04:17
I agree. However, I’m not suggesting that one puts words in a religious figures mouth, but rather that the accuracy of what was actually said thousand...
February 14, 2021 at 16:38
Yes, and the same may be said about Jesus Christ. In the days before tape recorders and YouTube videos, hearsay was about all most had to go on and th...
February 14, 2021 at 01:36
There is no such thing as an enlightened person, there is only an enlightened moment. All religions are based on someone else’s words. If you google B...
February 13, 2021 at 18:03
The words attributed to the Buddha have formed the basis of the Buddhist religion. After achieving enlightenment, the Buddha taught that “desire is th...
February 13, 2021 at 17:11
In Buddhism, desire of any kind leads to suffering. Nirvana is the absence of desire, a presence of mind which is neither for or against whatever IS i...
February 13, 2021 at 00:53
This is my view on electromagnetic energy. If you were on the surface of the Sun, the light which left there 8 minutes ago would be considered to be i...
February 11, 2021 at 22:48
By physics, I mean the properties of matter and energy.
February 11, 2021 at 00:26
People who believe in physics, know time to be an illusion. The difference between past, present and future does not exist. Everything in the universe...
February 10, 2021 at 03:48
In the practice of zen, a “koan” is a question which has no logical answer, like “what is the sound of one hand clapping”? Nevertheless, the student i...
February 08, 2021 at 05:48
There is no ending point in time. No matter how far back one goes in time, one may always go back another year. Time is not finite it is infinite.
February 04, 2021 at 21:48
The starting point is now and one may measure as far back or forward as one wants, the reason it is referred to as infinity.
February 04, 2021 at 21:43
The present moment IS the starting point. Since time is just a measurement and nothing may be measured sooner then NOW, now becomes the starting point...
February 04, 2021 at 19:50
if I’m going in a circle, is it possible to go MORE in a circle then I’m already going?
February 03, 2021 at 19:48
To attribute powers to something which may or may not exist to begin with, seems like an odd starting point to any discussion.
February 03, 2021 at 16:31
Is it possible to have something more infinite then infinity? How could something that goes on without end, have MORE without end?
February 03, 2021 at 05:34
One may not “prove or disprove” God’s existence, one may only believe or not believe. One does not believe in God based on evidence, but rather based ...
February 02, 2021 at 19:15
I believe that there are limits to human imagination, however, I also believe it is possible to imagine a being or thing which does not have limits. A...
February 02, 2021 at 16:43
Let us imagine a God so powerful, that he could make an entire universe from absolutely nothing. A square circle would be child’s play to such a being...
February 02, 2021 at 04:28
take the colour green, for example, you say it and I say it, but there is no way of knowing whether we are both seeing the same colour, only that we a...
February 01, 2021 at 19:09
A map is not the territory and a word is not the thing itself. Words are simply sounds in the air which point to things which are not sounds in the ai...
February 01, 2021 at 04:19
The reason I am me is because everyone else is taken.
February 01, 2021 at 02:19
I agree that my opinion or your opinion are irrelevant when it comes to what actually is! However, your example of a square circle reminds me of the q...
January 30, 2021 at 23:07
An imaginary God will naturally be able to do imaginary things. Truly, there is nothing that an imaginary God could not do, since there are no limits ...
January 29, 2021 at 00:58
Love is an emotion, a feeling of attachment towards a person or a thing. Humans are social animals, making love, the bonding agent keeping people toge...
January 25, 2021 at 06:00
The purpose of life is to convert oxygen into carbon dioxide, which humans do through breathing. The resultant energy given from the burning of oxygen...
January 24, 2021 at 05:29
Our first exposure to music, was hearing the rhythm of our mother’s heartbeat while in the womb. Rhythmic sounds are everywhere in nature and melodies...
January 20, 2021 at 05:47
I agree that we measure the going by of time, but that measurement always begins from NOW (the present moment). One could measure an hour from now or ...
January 19, 2021 at 14:04
If time is passing, what exactly is it passing?
January 19, 2021 at 03:55
How about “I am, therefore I think I am?
January 18, 2021 at 04:18
Time is the measurement of change. Like all measurements, one needs a zero point to measure from and that zero point is the present moment. Put marks ...
January 17, 2021 at 19:23
Life seems real, WHILE we are living it. My childhood seemed real, when I was a child and my dreams seem real while I’m dreaming them. However, since ...
January 17, 2021 at 05:43