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- Sun Jan 24, 2021 6:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
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Re: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
Ooops... my sincere apologies, Dana No worries ... Speaking of identity fluidity, wondering now, what's the problem with exploring and playing at the role of being a 'doer', or say a 'co-creator' ~ so long as it's not reified as some exclusively fixated, segregated, suffering-prone entity/identity ...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
- Replies: 91
- Views: 11015
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 4:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
- Replies: 91
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Re: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
'It' thinks it is liberating itself. However it is more accurate to say that conditions have transpired to allow for self enquiry. I'm sure that while you're typing on the keyboard you can completely dissociate and look at the letters appearing on the screen and say "there - that's the state o...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 1:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
- Replies: 91
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Re: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
With the belief in doership, we always have a nagging sense that life could have been different than it was or is. All human suffering arises when that could becomes a 'should'. Wants or desires are not the problem - it the false idea that life 'should' go 'our' way. It is quite correct to say that...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Can Idealism be without thought?
- Replies: 112
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Re: Can Idealism be without thought?
if one believes that one's 'self' is a living extension/expression of All -Creating / Ever -Flowing Brahman, one's thinking and choice/decision-based actions will be calm/secure/easy-flowing/seemingly-happening-without- personal -'effort'/at-' home '-among-others/etc. I would like to ask you someth...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 9:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Can Idealism be without thought?
- Replies: 112
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Re: Can Idealism be without thought?
In my language 'attention' is huomio , and to 'take into consideration' is to ottaa huomioon . The still aspect of attention grows by the moving aspect bringing more content and context into attention, revealing new relations, old trauma etc., feeding positive loops and soothing and releasing negat...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:20 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
- Replies: 91
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Re: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
Dana hits the point here. In a similar sense, here: Society could be less predatory if people got over the illusion of free will. words like "could be ... if ..." should have absolutely no meaning if everything is predetermined at the Big Bang. But anyway. The problem is of completely diff...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 12:10 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Can Idealism be without thought?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 17318
Re: Can Idealism be without thought?
Attention on some general level of experience is constantly moving. The experiment suggested was not to keep attending some thought-object, but to "chase" attention itself with attention. Is it possible to "directly" catch attention so that it stops moving and stays still or imm...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
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Re: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
Sorry, I really feel dumb in this momentBrad Walker wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 9:16 pm Should pay day loans be legal? Should soft drinks be sold in schools? Etc.
I still don't get it. Soft drinks would be illegal in schools if everyone believed that free will is an illusion?
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 9:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Can Idealism be without thought?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 17318
Re: Can Idealism be without thought?
Question is purely empirical ;) OK. Empiricism it is :D Attention is a more elementary act of cognition - we simply observe a perception and experience certain meaning in relation to it - its concept/idea. In this sense, it is the same to ask if attention can attend itself or if thinking can think ...