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Originally posted by Shamatt
My faith in the etherial is no less justified than your faith in logic.
Originally posted by RRokkyy
Originally posted by Shamatt
My faith in the etherial is no less justified than your faith in logic.
It is also no more justified.
Originally posted by RRokkyy
I suggest you go beyond mere faith and
take up Radical Understanding which is
God Communion as explained in The KNee of LIstening
but don't be surprised if you start getting challenged on that assertion
People instinctively know that they exist, and that the fact that they exist is not a personal failing on their part. You can chastize them for embracing their unique personhood, but in the end, you'll fail to make people disappear. Even a million of you can't make people disappear. They exist and they exist as unique and inimitable entities that have value regardless of what anyone tries to insist.
Now, this is where I get really irritated. You're suggesting that my "being" is not to the same level as your "being". That I don't accept this because I haven't transcended to wherever the hell you're sitting. The truth is that you and others like you play that same damn card every time you're pressed on whatever it is you're selling. And yeah, you're selling. I used to prep and dispatch marketing shills, and I know how to cluster them on sites like this. I taught high tech companies how to market on boards like this. I'm not a kid to this environment.
Its not something anyone should try to prove to another...or something that anyone should claim as a fact for all. Its a personal discovery and if one really understands it, this will show in their 'being'.
Originally posted by RRokkyy
Originally posted by NorEaster
Thou hast given me bullsh*t, Grasshopper . It is not an argument.
People instinctively know that they exist,
I dont believe that you have read The Knee of Listening
as your ranting doesnt address its argument.
You do admit that people instinctively know they exist. However I believe a better word than instinct is intuit. They intuit their existence. Thus you admit that existence or consciousness is intuited.
You have an incomplete concept of Knowledge.
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT ANYTHING IS. Yes people do know about things and how things work.
Apples fall from trees. You can calculate the speed and force with physics and math. Yet nobody knows what matter,space,time or energy is. Nobody.
Your ego is fear. It is your own creation in each
moment. If you examine your consciousness
in each moment you will see you are always
seeking. You seek because you are suffering.
You have separated yourself and are separating
your self or consciousness. That is what you are
doing. The act of separation is fear. Primary to
to that separation is Reality or Love/Bliss.
You have two choices. You can continue to seek
or you can Understand that you are Seeking.
You are the caterpillar becoming the butterfly.
You must let go of the caterpillar mind.
Its not so hard if you really want it.
If you dont want it, then why deny it?
Originally posted by LeoVirgo
There is nothing wrong with knowing you exists lol. I sure hope that we all know we exist! I have not chastized anyone for embracing their uniqueness at all. But it is also a fact that embracing such too much, can cause pride which can cause a very selfish attribute. As one can embrace their own uniqueness...hopefully they can be mature enough to embrace everyone elses. This is not about making anything disappear...but its about seeing and understanding...we are all a part of eachother. You could not be...without many others influencing you and nature and nurture effecting you. We all respond to other people and nature, we all influence reactions from other people, we all react towards other people....we in a sense, dont need a spiritual perspective to see and understand that in a sense, we are 'one'....in perpetual motion of expressions and reacting and responding to those expressions. Take away ever other unique person that has influenced your life, every family member, friend, every author of every book you have ever read, every film maker and actor of any show or movie you have ever watched, every stranger that you have crossed paths with that stirred feelings in you or influenced a 'thought' in you. None of us 'are' without many others. Take away all the history of mankind that makes us 'think', makes us react in emotion, makes us respond in expression. We cant change the fact that none of us would be who we are...without the 'many', without nature as well. So you dont ever have to be spiritual, to understand and give reverence to the 'greatness' of 'life' that is in 'cause and effect' constantly.
Unity does not suggest that any 'one' part of the unit...needs to not embrace their own unique part in the unit. It takes all the ants of every hill...to make the hill bigger and better. They work in unison. Imagine what a ant, by its own self, without the rest of the unit....trying to build its own hill all because it knew it was unique in its own right...refusing to join the 'unit' out of pride for its individuality. There are many things in nature that show us how unity will take us further...then standing divided as 'unique individuals'. Each acorn is powerful and unique in its own right....but they are all of 'one' kind, the oak. All the oak trees are unique and powerful and beautiful in their own right....but they all are rooted in the one earth.
Its common ground that brings us together to be stronger and better.
Now, this is where I get really irritated. You're suggesting that my "being" is not to the same level as your "being". That I don't accept this because I haven't transcended to wherever the hell you're sitting. The truth is that you and others like you play that same damn card every time you're pressed on whatever it is you're selling. And yeah, you're selling. I used to prep and dispatch marketing shills, and I know how to cluster them on sites like this. I taught high tech companies how to market on boards like this. I'm not a kid to this environment.
First...lets look at what I said.
Here....
Its not something anyone should try to prove to another...or something that anyone should claim as a fact for all. Its a personal discovery and if one really understands it, this will show in their 'being'.
I never said anything about any level or anyone being better then ect. I said...if one has really experienced the Spirit within them....it will show in their 'being'. What this means in 'being' is that their 'understanding' will show in their 'nature'. Their actions towards others, their values, their morals, their 'being' OF the world, OF a species, Of a oneness that they see living all around them.
No one feels pressed here...Im not playing a card. I can simple sit back in time before I experienced what I have...and see why another person telling me of such things would not of been enough for me to understand. I know...that another telling another...is not enough and it should NOT be enough, for anyone to 'just take something as truth'.
What am I selling? What am I benefiting from spending my personal time sharing with others that bring such topics up? Im against any teachers charging others for any spiritual understanding...Im against others making books about spiritual growth and how to obtain it. Im all for how Jesus passed on his own personal truth...which was standing by the road side....opening his heart.
There is not one single thing I am trying to sell..and if people are spending money on such things...that is their own fault.
I actually stand up for those that give people a hard time for not accepting something they have no foundation to stand on through understanding or experience. Ive seen many wanting to call all the skeptics names like sheeple, zombies, blind....and its uncalled for.
The world needs common grounds, places where all likes can meet. We are one species and we live on world world where the air and water is something we all need and share. This is a fact. What other do to the air and water...is going to effect those around them. I dont give a damn how unique of a person the 'one' is that is pouring toxic waste into the river....that one great unique individual is effecting others with his or her actions.
There is cause and effect, there is action and reaction. We all influence eachother and nature. Life...is a unit....no matter how we all, spiritual or non spiritual, want or wish to see it as not. Im not here to prove anything to another...Im here to try to get all types of people, to be aware that we effect and influence each other. When we make a choice or express our feelings through a action, we need to consider first, what is the benefit or the hinderence to the world or another person that my actions can or will cause.
We can focus on how unique we all are as individuals....or we can focus on how unique we are as a species, amongst many many many other species.
My best
LV
Originally posted by Agarta
And finally Jesus brought to the world the great ideas of Love and Self-sacrifice and the Kingdom of God which is within,
Although the origins of Gnosticism are still largely enveloped in obscurity, so much light has been shed on the problem by the combined labours of many scholars that it is possible to give the following tentative solution: Although Gnosticism may at first sight appear a mere thoughtless syncretism of well nigh all religious systems in antiquity, it has in reality one deep root-principle, which assimilated in every soil what is needed for its life and growth; this principle is philosophical and religious pessimism. The Gnostics, it is true, borrowed their terminology almost entirely from existing religions, but they only used it to illustrate their great idea of the essential evil of this present existence and the duty to escape it by the help of magic spells and a superhuman Saviour. Whatever they borrowed, this pessimism they did not borrow — not from Greek thought, which was a joyous acknowledgment of and homage to the beautiful and noble in this world, with a studied disregard of the element of sorrow; not from Egyptian thought, which did not allow its elaborate speculations on retribution and judgment in the netherworld to cast a gloom on this present existence, but considered the universe created or evolved under the presiding wisdom of Thoth; not from Iranian thought, which held to the absolute supremacy of Ahura Mazda and only allowed Ahriman a subordinate share in the creation, or rather counter-creation, of the world; not from Indian Brahminic thought, which was Pantheism pure and simple, or God dwelling in, nay identified with, the universe, rather than the Universe existing as the contradictory of God; not, lastly, from Semitic thought, for Semitic religions were strangely reticent as to the fate of the soul after death, and saw all practical wisdom in the worship of Baal, or Marduk, or Assur, or Hadad, that they might live long on this earth.
This utter pessimism, bemoaning the existence of the whole universe as a corruption and a calamity, with a feverish craving to be freed from the body of this death and a mad hope that, if we only knew, we could by some mystic words undo the cursed spell of this existence — this is the foundation of all Gnostic thought. It has the same parent-soil as Buddhism; but Buddhism is ethical, it endeavours to obtain its end by the extinction of all desire; Gnosticism is pseudo-intellectual, and trusts exclusively to magical knowledge. Moreover, Gnosticism, placed in other historical surroundings, developed from the first on other lines than Buddhism.
56. Jesus said,
“Whoever has come to understand the World
has found only a corpse,
and whoever has found a corpse,
is superior to the World.”
Originally posted by NorEaster
I went through several articles on that site, and I did so because after I published my own book on the subject of God and humanity's relationship with God, I needed to find out what else had been published recently on the subject. KneeofListening is not hard to find on the Internet, and was one of my earlier studies. In fact, I have a lot of it pasted into Word doc and in a file, as I also have done for many other complete notions.
My primary issue with your community is that there is a palpable appearance of assumed superiority that threads throughout (mostly) the general communications between leaders in the organization (I'm assuming) and the rank and file. This superiority seems to be aimed at creating an "us versus them" mentality within the community that I honestly find repugnant. The teachings seem innocuous enough, but the obvious effect on the "enlightened" that rate high enough within the community to have their own public forums seems to be extremely negative. "By their fruit ye shall know them..." I've look at the fruit and I'm not impressed. I guess it's as simple as that.
Sure, I have a completely different way of seeing God and humanity, but it's the dismissive, superior tenor of what I read on that site that turned me off. I don't have to find that sort of thing acceptable. There is no requirement that insists that I must.
I believe in logic and I believe in empirically defensible proposals, and this leads me to admit that the human being experiences its own existence as a result of its consciousness. The true human being is not the body or the brain any more than the music is the instrument or the person playing it.
You have no idea just how insanely complex the actual linkage between humanity and (God) the existential being that initiated this contextual environment that contains it and allows it development really is. It took me 118,000+ words to simply sketch it out, and I've written tens of thousands of words since then as raw elaboration for future publications. The technical aspects are crushing, and the implications of only a handful of pages within this book are enormous. Hell, the ramifications of getting rid of particle-centric physics alone is revolutionary. And that was a small part of Section II that had to be tossed in there to establish the indivisible unitary nature of physical sub-structure. That's a friggin PhD by itself. Too bad I never made it to college.
I don't have fear. I have enthusiasm. I seek because I'm fascinated by what I find. I love the way I am.
Or I can understand that I'm seeking and enjoy the hunt. And why not? The search is exhilarating.
Again, you simply don't realize that I am the butterfly.
I want to give the 21st century human being a shot at finally having it all make sense. I can take the heat.
I'm not trying to get elected mahatma.
Originally posted by LeoVirgo
reply to post by NorEaster
I would love to read your book. And I should add...I dont mind at all paying for a good book. A person that has a deep perspective to share...is not only going to write it through a book...they will share their ideas with those close around them and maybe some fortunate friends and strangers.
What gets me is these people that call themselves gurus and priests (self claimed spiritual leaders)...and have websites..and at the website you are directed to 'go buy' all of their ideas. Ive seen some start out small in forums and groups talking with others...then a few years later they are having conferences around the country and charging a couple hundred bucks to people for 1 freaking conference.
I must admit..though the road side service as Jesus did shows a great nature to him...in todays world with the many lands and many people in many lands, such a sharing on the road side would not reach many ears or eyes, such as books do today. I commend you for taking the time and putting it all down into writing and wanting to share it with others.
Soaring high above a full orchestra’s rendition of a symphonic masterpiece, a solo violinist offers a packed house a stunning performance. Some in the crowd swoon under the spell of each note’s strength and nuance, while others focus on the entire presentation as a whole. There are those who find themselves enjoying the performance in spite of a preference for other forms of entertainment, and then, there are those who can never be satisfied with what this or any other violinist can produce. In fact, the music that each mind in that hall hears is unique, even though the notes that soar from the stage to the farthest reaches of the hall are simply what they are and nothing more or less. With this in mind, as the violinist pulls passage after passage from his instrument, and fills the evening with the art that drives him to such intense devotion and disciplined dedication, a question becomes, at what point does the man, himself, end, and the man’s art begin?
When the violinist draws his bow across the strings of his violin, where does the violinist – the human being wrapped in skin – end, and the music that transcends that corporeal confine, begin? Is it at the end of his fingertips, where the strings are set to vibrate? Is it as the sound waves leap from the violin’s soundboard to touch the air in the hall? Is it where those sound waves press against the inner ear of the listener? Or is it within the mind of the listener as the whole of it is translated into what that specific mind has determined to be music? And what of the mind that is – due to any of a host of reasons – incapable of perceiving that sound as music? How do we factor in the unique perspective of the listener, and how that perspective was built until that instant when the violinist’s sound waves struck that listener’s mind to be either accepted or rejected as that which can be defined as music? Or does the music always remained trapped within the mind of the violinist, and the effort to release it, a repeating failure that can never be rectified?
When we look at just a short list of unique physical components that combined as the music that was created – the brain/nerve/muscle activity of the violinist, his hands and fingers acting upon the strings, the bow drawn across those strings, the strings vibrating and resonating against the bridge of the violin itself which caused the wood to resonate, the sound waves pushing through the open air of the hall, the reverberation of the walls and ceiling that smoothed out the harsh tone of the raw sound of the strings and made it sing as it did, the ears of the listeners, and finally, the minds of each listener at that instant that the sound became music as interpreted by each mind – we have to accept that if we took away any single stage of this list of contributing aspects alone, the result would cause the music in question to either be radically altered, or destroyed entirely.
Then there are the preparatory components. When the violinist struck his first note of the evening, that note was a C#, but to simply state that it was a C# is to lose sight of all that this single note presented to the unique identity of this particular moment. This C# note does not exist in a vacuum. It didn’t simply appear from nowhere to launch this specific performance.
As the first note of a composed symphony, it was chosen and placed by that symphony’s composer. That choice imbued this C# with all that came about, as historical context, to create that choice. What historical context? Let’s see.
This composer lives (or once lived) a life that contributed to the notion of choosing and placing that note in that specific part of the composition. In fact, it stands to reason that the composer spent some time and thought about which note to place in that specific part of the piece, and likely spent considerable time deciding how long the note should last, how loud it should be played, and whether it should be physically manipulated by the musician in such a way as to provide it a specific expressiveness at any point within its existence as a performed musical note. All this thought came as a result of study and experience, as well as the direct impact of those specific events on the inimitable human expression that separates that composer from any other composer – or any other human being, for that matter.
As the definite result of such a causal chain of events – education, experience, consideration, and even the invention and establishment of notes and staff as a form of written musical documentation (if one wishes to run the history of that note all the way back to its origins) – this C#’s historical context becomes a primary identifier when selecting it from any such expression suite for precise examination.
In this case, history is not the only progressive chain that brought this C# to lead off this orchestral arrangement. There is also the direct contribution from the author’s own intellectual continuum to consider. That composer provided a full level of intellectual context to that note, and that context grants a distinction to that specific note that is not shared with any other C# note in that or any other musical piece. The identity of that note is affected by that very specific context, and makes that note unique before it is even performed.
Of course on this particular night, that note was performed, and this fact isolated it even further as its singular identity was further amplified with the additional impact of the performer. After all, this was an audible note, and not just a conceived note, within this particular composition.
When the violinist struck that note, he added his own contextual contribution to that specific note on that specific evening. This piece was not composed by him, but the creation of that C# note as sound – the physical interpretation of that note by way of the violin as a sound generation tool – was accomplished solely by the violinist. What flowed through the hands and fingers of that violinist as he struck that C# note, represented all that had been his life to that point in time, and the whole of it caused that C# to suddenly belong to him as an artist who had taken the composer’s suggestion and had had his way with it – for good or ill, as the case may be.
The years of study, practice, and personal sacrifice; the career that he’d already had, or still envisioned; the surging elements within his own body and brain; all coming together as he hit that first C# and gave its execution his own unique signature. This is the historical and intellectual context that the violinist provided, which combined with the historical and intellectual context that the composer had already provided, to further distinguish this first C# note as a contextually isolated unique whole that expressed the unique identities of both artists in a manner that is both actual and logical.
But there are other contextual layers to consider. This was a performed note. There is the instrument itself that actually generated that note's sound.
The musician’s violin is a rare and valuable model that was produced by a celebrated craftsman who died hundreds of years ago, and since its creation, it has been played by a line of brilliant musicians who’ve carefully preserved its beauty, its tone and its overall utility. The very fact of its unique excellence, and the history behind that excellence, contributed its own level of context to the sound of this first note, as well as the causal impact on the violinist’s psyche (again, flush with critical context) as he skillfully honored this rare treasure with his committed effort to produce that sound.
This blend of causal/historical and intellectual context – somewhat different in nature than the blending of purely intellectual context of two artists in tangential collaboration on the piece, but just as powerfully isolating in its impact – was yet another contribution to what had already come together to distinguish this first C# of this particular musical piece.
Then, we must include the actual event and environment into the contextual whole, since the note did reach into a real environment during a real moment in time. For this, we must include the environmental aspects of the concert venue itself, the relative humidity of the atmosphere and its impact on the violin’s tone and the “carry” of the note within the hall, the impact of competing and sympathetic frequencies from the other notes filling the hall, and whether people were buzzing among themselves as this note was struck, or even if the hall was full or whether people were still finding their seats. From there we can continue to add contextual qualifications until we run out of atoms and quarks and strings to pick over.
So, where does the artist end and the art begin? I don’t know. There may not be a point where one ends and the other begins, and that may be exactly the point. Context identifies and isolates, but it can also unify and relate one unique with another. Our violinist – as he struck that C# – became forever associated with that composer through the contextual confines of what both men contributed to that one note, even as that C# broke free and isolated itself from the whole of reality with its full load of inimitable context, never to be duplicated again as the fact of its existence lives on into eternity.
The artist adds to the whole, while establishing his or her art as both contribution and identification. Of course, as humans we each experience reality in relation to ourselves and to our own unique identities, so we focus on the identifying/isolating aspects within the artistic expression, and we look for that point where the art itself becomes released from the artist. After all, it must exist if we are to take from the artist what we see as beautiful and claim it as part of our own identity.
Originally posted by RRokkyy
You think you are the new mahatma.
If you are happy where you are,
then you need not look to far.
If you have found your place at last,
then you need not use the looking glass.