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    What @salaam123 said rang a distant bell for me… and reminded me of a novel. Protagonist there said, he doesn’t like the feeling of being loved, it’s egoistic, suffocatingly sweet and sticky, makes one grasp for air, - what he wanted was to love in vain but to attain little (maybe wrongly estimated) steps towards a possible fulfillment. 

     

    Not sure if anyone follows. No, @Daniel, I don’t think he has been redundant but the language barrier, words and meanings lost in translation, who knows. 

     

    Along the lines of: no peace as in a lovey dovey harmonic union - where people magically change and adapt to a fruitful god wishful lifestyle in the way it would be done as a present to a or the deity - but in a way - through the sword - that nothing remains but that one. Being forced to giving up the parts that don’t belong. Getting empty, as others call it. Pervasive maybe, but to the right cause and origin. Who or what that ever is might be akin to perceiving something without senses. And the danger, grave danger… “a million candles burning for the help that never came”… no guarantees and just probabilities, no real prophecies, eh? Self shouldn’t be relinquished before time and never forced against the rhythm and one’s personal melody. 
    Haven’t got the chance now to clear this into understandable words, might try later again, thanks.

     

     

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    On 17.4.2024 at 2:54 AM, Nintendao said:

    the look of slightly concerned bemusement that my pet cat gave me while this video was playing is absolutely priceless 😂🥰

    In my case it was a wild bird who checked on the fence if I was okay. 🤣

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    3 hours ago, forestofemptiness said:

    So people who dispute or close their mind to the absolute may never know it. Or they may create an object or experience of it, and take the thief for one's own child, as the Chan masters used to say.

    Very much agree with your first observations and paragraphs. 
     

    How should there be knowledge of the absolute? We may have conceptions about it in our own relative minds, no? 
     

    Or perhaps you mean that all relative conceptions of the absolute together are the Absolute because they appear on the projection surface of mind?

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    2 minutes ago, blue eyed snake said:

     

    seem to remember they were described as such

    Thanks, that’s probably the most helpful answer. 
     

    I‘m also not sure what is kabbalistic ‘tradition’ and what is nungalis interpretation here…

    Spoiler

    @Nungali (always knew you were very fond of neptune… but to put him on the top? Wouldn’t he get trouble with jupiter and don’t forget the sun…)

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    14 hours ago, Nungali said:

    Depends ;   there are the three pillars 1  and the four worlds contained  within2, they are  .... 'static'  not linear . It is also continuous in that the lowest sphere of one level is the  highest of the next lowest level 3, or the reverse of that  .  It is linear in consideration of certain energy flow  ; ' The Lightening flash ' 4 ... and  'circular' in that you go down through the spheres to come back up again5 .

    It would seem that the differentiation between ‚four worlds‘ is arbitrary and not necessarily a consequence of the diagramm. Why are several spheres a world?

     

    Is this intuitive or experiential gnowledge for you? (Seems I‘d need to take a look at that book of yours, bes! Seems very complex.)

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    13 hours ago, Nungali said:

    my take is a little different ;  I see justice as the  principle  ( the 'dao' part ) and  mercy and severity as the polarities (the yin and the yang ) .  Justice is cruelly unbalanced if it is too severe and justice is also unbalanced is it becomes too merciful .

    How can there be any deviance from the principle (the dao part) anyhow?

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    6 hours ago, Nungali said:

    here is a modern view of the three pillars ;  

     

     

     

     

     

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    For whom is this relevant? Is it a ‚travel route’? Shouldn’t it be more like a cycle? I don’t think it’s linear, is it? 
    A few symbols don’t explain themselves in this context…

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    On 16.4.2024 at 10:30 PM, forestofemptiness said:

    It is interesting that Advaitins have to contend with the idea that things are impermanent and constantly changing, whereas Buddhists have to contend with the idea that things are enduring and lasting! I suppose it depends on how one tunes the mind. 

    I am a little rusty in the lingo. Especially with the Advaitins. And I lack understandable explanations - which are not available in my language, as far as I see.
     

    Where do the concepts of „substantiality“ differ concerning svabhava… ?

     

    @dwai could you provide us with a translation of 

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    So interesting. Yet it is the Buddhists who say “kshanikam kshanikam sarvam kshanikam” and the advaitins who say, “sarvam khalu idam 

    brahm

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    please? (Don‘t know how or why this got an orange colouring…)
     

     

    So the Advaitins despite their focus on impermanence see ‚God‘  while the Buddhists do not? 
     

    Empty of substance in both views?

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    Does anyone else find it funny that the measurement unit for high impedance is called ohm? I wonder whether good old Georg did some meditation on his last name.

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    7 minutes ago, Apech said:

    understandably… explainerly

    Is this not a word in the English language? :D 

    sorry… there should be one like this. there it is…

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    3 minutes ago, Apech said:


    I can’t understand it explainerly.

    When treaded categories fall away, the search for structure continues for the functional mind. Garfield/Priest discuss it nicely, Why mountains are mountains or the like… (I forgot).

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    無?
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)

    mu is translated as "no thing", saying that it meant "unask the question". He offered the example of a computer circuit using the binary numeral system, in effect using mu to represent high impedance:

    For example, it's stated over and over again that computer circuits exhibit only two states, a voltage for "one" and a voltage for "zero." That's silly! Any computer-electronics technician knows otherwise. Try to find a voltage representing one or zero when the power is off! The circuits are in a mu state.[22]