IntuitiveWanderer

The Stone Mind Hogen, a Chinese Zen teacher, lived alone in a small temple in the country. One day four traveling monks appeared and asked if they might make a fire in his yard to warm themselves. While they were building the fire, Hogen heard them arguing about subjectivity and objectivity. He joined them and said: "There is a big stone. Do you consider it to be inside or outside your mind?" One of the monks replied: "From the Buddhist viewpoint everything is an objectification of mind, so I would say that the stone is inside my mind." "Your head must feel very heavy," observed Hogen, "if you are carrying around a stone like that in your mind."

One Note of Zen After Kakua visited the emperor he disappeared and no one knew what became of him. He was the first Japanese to study Zen in China, but since he showed nothing of it, save one note, he is not remembered for having brought Zen into his country. Kakua visited China and accepted the true teaching. He did not travel while he was there. Meditating constantly, he lived on a remote part of a mountain. Whenever people found him and asked him to preach he would say a few words and then move to another part of the mountain where he could be found less easily. The emperor heard about Kakua when he returned to Japan and asked him to preach Zen for his edification and that of his subjects. Kakua stood before the emperor in silence. He then produced a flute from the folds of his robe, and blew one short note. Bowing politely, he disappeared.

If you give me one logical argument which proves that consciousness is not existence, that existence is not consciousness, then I will believe you. dahjfabdfbafhbaf ahbfakfnc cnbfanmsbd AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUuuuuummmmmmmmmm

There is no me, only consciousness. Lol So there was no consciousness? What was there then?

"Neither is there Bodhi-tree, Nor yet a mirror bright; Since in reality all is void, Whereon can the dust fall?...." - Hui-Neng, the sixth patriarch of Zen

Who is I ? I is cosnciousness, was there ever any I other than cosnciousness? I can have absolute epistemological certainty that I is consciousness, since I know that I can not be anything other than consciousness..without consciousness experience there can be no I, consciousness experience is all that validates existence, this is very logical. But your "ontological nihilism", on the other hand, is based on faith.

"It is there" is an idea. Reality is experience consciousness. The entire thing is experience consciousness. There is no matter, it is all Maya. This is what I am saying. These are lights.

And what is being discerned is consciousness (experience consciousness). But consciousness is neither subject to anything nor the object of anything, because it is all there is. Lux Umbra Dei

Don't tell me that 2000 or 3500 years ago, people used to drag 1.000.000 kg stones around, because I don't buy that, buddy. And stack them up: P.S. I don't think it was aliens, by using occam's razor we can dismiss the alien red herring. The world is full of wonder, this is why I wander.

Never heard of em. But I did make up my mind.

At the risk of making myself look even more foolish, I will say that I need to learn self-control anyway so, in this respect, it is ultimately irrelevant wheter I can or cannot access my account. But since I actually enjoy posting here, I would rather continue to do so... So, my apologies, I hope that the die has not yet been cast...

"That which is known as the Christian religion existed among the ancients, and never did not exist; from the beginning of the human race until the time when Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion, which already existed began to be called Christianity." Saint Augustine of Hippo, Retractions, Book One, Part 12, "One Book on the True Religion." I found this quote to be very interesting (edit: the quote is not rarely stated on the net). I haven't sourced it, so it may be a false. But if it is real, then it is true that there is an esoteric (secret) aspect of Christianity, which may even be traceable back to Egypt, as Gurdjieff sugested. Saint Aquinas may have said it metaphorically, to fool the clergy (or something?). But I highly doubt it. There are powerful parallels which would be almost impossible to occur randomly. (and since we all know that Tao is not random...)

Yes, I actually put that quote more as a question mark, in regard as to wheter Nietzsche was truly a lover of truth or a witty rhetorician / sophist.

Who, me? Can you elaborate?

Well, I have in fact contributed all that I can. All that I can do from now on is mostly just make fashion statements and divulge my narcisistic fakery (it's a secret). I need to break the chains of Karma, dispell Maya and attain Enlightenment. So just ban my account.

Yeah I totally exagerated, I just wanted to make a commentary. Don't even like that music anymore. But this, on the other hand, is trully excellent:

Nah.... I should wrestle the bull until it submits, instead of running away.

Ok.... then I will have to discipline myself...