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Post by maxdprophet on Oct 9, 2015 13:17:27 GMT -5
"The basic premise of The Denial of Death is that human civilization is ultimately an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality, which in turn acts as the emotional and intellectual response to our basic survival mechanism. Becker argues that a basic duality in human life exists between the physical world of objects and a symbolic world of human meaning. Thus, since humanity has a dualistic nature consisting of a physical self and a symbolic self, we are able to transcend the dilemma of mortality through heroism, a concept involving our symbolic halves. By embarking on what Becker refers to as an "immortality project" (or causa sui), in which a people create or become part of something which they feel will last forever; people feel they have "become" heroic and, henceforth, part of something eternal; something that will never die, compared to their physical body that will one day die. This, in turn, gives people the feeling that their lives have meaning, a purpose, significance in the grand scheme of things." wikipedia entry on Boris Becker's book The Denial of Death |
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Post by zin on Oct 9, 2015 13:21:29 GMT -5
"The soul in which this birth is to take place must keep absolutely pure and must live in noble fashion, quite collected, and turned entirely inward: not running out through the five senses into the multiplicity of creatures, but all inturned and collected and in the purest part: there is His place; He disdains anything else." "Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well. " "Since it is God's nature not to be like anyone, we have to come to the state of being nothing in order to enter into the same nature that He is." "So, when I am able to establish myself in nothing, and nothing in myself, uprooting and casting out what is in me, then I can pass into the naked being of God, which is the naked being of the Spirit." "It is a certain and necessary truth that he who resigns his will wholly to God will catch God and bind God, so that God can do nothing but what that man wills ." "For he alone is a good man who, having set at nought all created things, stands facing straight, with no side-glances, towards the eternal Word, and is imaged and reflected there in righteousness. " ~ Meister Eckhart=========== In the last quote, what is "the eternal Word"? One angle. Also.... In the beginning was the Word. The 'eternal Word' is synonymous with Logos. Basically, God's plan. There's God, and then there's what God wants. That's 'the Eternal Word.' Right now, I'm thinking of it as similar to Ramana Maharshi's 'I thought' which stems from Self. Definition of NESCIENCE: lack of knowledge or awareness : ignorance I don't have an answer but I am thinking on these : ) |
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Post by maxdprophet on Oct 14, 2015 12:25:25 GMT -5
"The world is the projection of your spontaneous presence." ~Ramakant Maharaj
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Post by maxdprophet on Oct 15, 2015 7:11:41 GMT -5
"Be the type of person who, when entering a room, luck goes to the person who needs it most." ~rumi
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Post by maxdprophet on Oct 15, 2015 7:18:30 GMT -5
"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. "~ Mark Twain
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Post by maxdprophet on Oct 16, 2015 10:05:34 GMT -5
Who is it that says "I'm not the same person I was 10 years ago"?
~Peter Russell
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Post by enigma on Oct 18, 2015 1:32:15 GMT -5
"But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow. But the ultimate potentiation of every passion is always to will its own downfall, and so it is also the ultimate passion of the understanding to will the collision, although in one way or another the collision must become its downfall. This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think." ~ Søren Kierkegaard, in the Philosophical Fragments. As with all intellectual pursuits, the consort of paradox is infatuated by a puzzle, not knowing it is of his own making, and as is the case with most infatuations, it is not the prize that is sought so much as the challenge of the chase. It is mind defining it's own boundaries, and then seeking a glimpse of the world beyond. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2015 1:56:29 GMT -5
"But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow. But the ultimate potentiation of every passion is always to will its own downfall, and so it is also the ultimate passion of the understanding to will the collision, although in one way or another the collision must become its downfall. This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think." ~ Søren Kierkegaard, in the Philosophical Fragments. As with all intellectual pursuits, the consort of paradox is infatuated by a puzzle, not knowing it is of his own making, and as is the case with most infatuations, it is not the prize that is sought so much as the challenge of the chase. It is mind defining it's own boundaries, and then seeking a glimpse of the world beyond. Yeah I recognise that now. It would hurt to have a prey other than myself. |
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Post by zin on Oct 18, 2015 11:34:55 GMT -5
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired so long as we can see far enough. - Emerson
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Post by zin on Oct 23, 2015 13:52:25 GMT -5
If we wish to know what anyone is like, we have only to observe on whom he bestows his care and what sides of his own nature he cultivates and nourishes. (from i-ching, Richard Wilhelm version)
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Post by maxdprophet on Oct 26, 2015 11:29:52 GMT -5
Excerpt via centerlesscenter where he says: "These Banter Verses 1-23, which we were given only a glimpse of in ZF, ZB <Zen Flesh, Zen Bones>, are a prelude to the 112 ways, and introduce us to the Goddess (Devi) and her lover Bhairava (Shiva) as she questions him about Life. The beguiling eloquence of this mystical and majestic exchange is more than enough to end the search for good – an unequivocal pointing to our true self." |
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Post by quinn on Oct 26, 2015 19:48:10 GMT -5
Excerpt via centerlesscenter where he says: "These Banter Verses 1-23, which we were given only a glimpse of in ZF, ZB <Zen Flesh, Zen Bones>, are a prelude to the 112 ways, and introduce us to the Goddess (Devi) and her lover Bhairava (Shiva) as she questions him about Life. The beguiling eloquence of this mystical and majestic exchange is more than enough to end the search for good – an unequivocal pointing to our true self." Wow. |
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Post by maxdprophet on Oct 27, 2015 9:50:24 GMT -5
upanishads:
“The scriptures even proclaim aloud:
There is in truth no creation and no destruction.
No one is bound and no one is seeking liberation.
No one is on the way to deliverance.
There are none who are liberated.
This is the absolute truth, my dear disciple.
This, the sum and substance of all the Upanishads,
The secret of secrets, is my instruction to you.”
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2015 4:50:28 GMT -5
"Hallo humans..
Can you feel me thinking?
I assume you're seeing everything I'm thinking."
~ David Bowie. (1991)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2015 16:37:37 GMT -5
"If there's even the slightest distinction made between "you" and the "flame," the Shadow will appear.
~ Chuck Hillig.
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