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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 10:04:46 GMT -5
"The stork-market system is not meant as a place for gamblers, but nowerdays it is only that, It is meant for companys to lend money from the members of the society they do buisness in, for the sake of making long-term healty investments to further and broaden their influence on a particular market, under the premise of not harming the environment, nor the society they are a part of, nor their employees. Only in this manner a stock-market system is justified. Otherwise it leads to gambling with the life-sources of other people, the distructiion of nature, for the sake of egoistic purposes that benefit nobody, not even the gamblers themselfs, in the very end."
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 10:13:46 GMT -5
And you get off your elitist high horse. I would like to remind you that you have been a factor in Anja getting banned, by jumping in and saying something along the lines...."yeah, she..... on Enigmas heart-felt expression..." Thanks for that, Satch. Real buddys don't betray each other. And regarding Laughter, at least I know what kind of dude he is and if he points fingers at me, I'm not surprised. . If you talk crap I'll say so. Verstehst du? Verstehe. And you are not sat-chit- ananda. If you would be my "buddy" in a life-and-death situation we would encounter together, I think I'd prefer to be on my own instead of relaying on you. But feel free to call me out on any kind of crap you think I'm talking. |
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 10:22:47 GMT -5
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 10:41:37 GMT -5
"Spiritual inquery does not lead to the same result for everybody in the very end, when the questions:
- Who/what am I?
- Where am I and why and what for am I here?
- What is that/this place I find myself embodied in?
are answered by not letting them unanswered.
And yes, what Adyashanti called "spiritual winter-time" is a part of it. But for some that's all there is left. They are at the beginning of accepting the eternal Dharma. And some are already a long way down or up that road. Having done their karmic dutys life-time after life-time. And others have denied and neglected their karmic dutys life-time after life-time. And there is a gap between the two of them.
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 10:53:34 GMT -5
Isle of Klezbos: "Mellow Manna" klezmer-reggae (by Pamela Fleming):
Isle of Klezbos: "Mellow Manna" klezmer-reggae (by Pamela Fleming)
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 11:39:07 GMT -5
Don't ask me why that was neccessary. I just don't know. But NOBODY keeps me from saying what I wanna say. I'm too stubborn. I wouldn't bet on that. Stardustpilgrim, I would be interested in talking about what you think Gurdijeff's core teaching was. I think it was the enneagram. But not merely as a personality-typology for group-therapie. The ennegram, IMNHO is a means for evaluating and developing all nine types in one self and it also can be used for all kinds of other stuff to understand it better. I read many books on the enneagram by different authors a few years ago but non of them really seem to get it properly nailed what it actually is. How to use that tool in a way that is more than just an archetypology. For example: How are colours related to the enneagram? I once draw a 12-part colour-circle and into it the enneagram. Interested in a discussion about that? |
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 11:59:12 GMT -5
"A national economie has the duty to deliver and produce products and services that benefit the society in which it is the econimical system. Nowerdays globally operating companies are only interested in pleasing the major share-holders expectations of making quick money, and they, the big shar-holders, are "iniciated" into how to do that, while the normal guy, the lower middle-class hard working people can't even get their money back they have invested. And that is purposly organised that way. It is called: un-restricted capitalism, roaming around globally to find oportunities to make quick and easy money for the big investors, who have no interest, whatsoever, in long-term and healthy growth. THAT is what capitalism is all about."
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 12:03:56 GMT -5
"And here is how spirituality and economie are inter-related:
If a certain part of a population of an economie, or even a major part, is constantly struggling for making ends meet, having to work overtime and double or tripple jobs to just pay rent and feed a two-kids family, how can these people have time to do spiritual inquiry? They don't even get the idea that that could be a way of knowing themself because they are to buisy and too exploited to even start such undertaking."
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 12:16:02 GMT -5
"And here is my definition of the term "spiritual materialism":
It is the accumulation of so called spiritual knowledge, without having experienced any of the "requirements" that makes one a knower of certain spiritual stuff, other than having read or heard about it. And then these people, having made their money by having been "iniciated" into the gamble with the stock-market and gained a little fortune by that, become "zen"-masters, sitting infront of real seekers, pretending to be wise in spiritual matters also, but they are just this: spiritual materialists, who exploid seekers by letting them pay for retreats and all kinds of other "services", like giving them a little group-mind experience of belonging. Or giving them some so called shakti-pat energy, herded from the crowd by the spiritual materialist, who knows how to put a crowd in "samadhi" for a while. And they are not zen-masters, but sorcerers."
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 12:51:59 GMT -5
"The sanskrit term sat-chit-ananda can also be viewed as tamas-rajas-sattva. In this sense it is an expression of the actions (or the lack of action) that are performed by sat-chit-ananda. Which can be seen as stability/rest/unconsciousness-forward action-bliss (in action)."
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 12:57:13 GMT -5
"If Billfromtexas/anja would be completely banned also, I think I would loose a valid sparring-partner, or someone I could dump my crap on, for the sake of Bft/a eating it all up and then saying, "einer geht noch, dude."
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 13:02:52 GMT -5
Currantly I'm at page 30 with reading the new Jed McKenna book: Dreamstate - A Conspiracy Theory.
Anybody who wants to discuss what I think about it so far? Just ask.
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 13:17:23 GMT -5
"You got your law-school degree from the lottery, Bill?"
"No, I printed it."
"My dad payed a lot for mine."
"My dad got me a printer....49,99 dollar at Staples."
"65.000,- was worth the investment, my dad thought."
"Well...I think you gotta make it anytime soon into becomming counsler, and you don't have to call me Don."
"As you know, I already have this one client, Bill."
"Too bad."
"Maybe I can affort a second client...because...well...I think you really need one."
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 13:29:46 GMT -5
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Post by billfromtexas on Aug 30, 2016 13:40:17 GMT -5
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