Philosophical Speculations

I think it's dangerous to conceive of philosophy as a tool - you are again conceiving your thinking activity as a tool, operated from outside the tool, but never mind. Philosophy is a specific way of thinking activity, and there are other ways. When we become skillful in exercising our thinking abi...

Do you think that Buddha or Allah are all different names for the same being or 'thing' ? Yes, except for that it's not a "thing" :D. Not if you listen to Islamic or Buddhist fundamentalists of course, but if you study and practice esoteric versions of Buddhism and Islam such as Dzogchen ...

Naturally there's not much of a concrete, actual *way* in recommending to "experientially realize the reality of the spiritual activity of the egoless Aware-Thinking-Feeling (ATF) as the source behind the world of our thoughts, feelings and perceptions". So how do you go from this stateme...

Seems also true when we divide into "ego" and "not ego." In spiritual work we must guard against developing an anti-ego ego. I try to focus on the fulcrum rather than the swings. I like the notion of Francis of Assisi that the perfect joy is to have a peaceful heart no matter ho...

Have you considered things from this angle? It's easy to imagine being stared at from another vantage point since this is how things feel in the physical world. But can you conceive that there are higher order Intelligences which stare in your soul not from the other side of the dissociative membra...

The fact of experience is that we feel responsible for thinking, it is our intention which we manifest in the form of thought pictures. In pure thinking we feel maybe the stressfulness of the process we willed to understand something. In thinking (active thinking) we feel as the causing force behin...

I used the word "I" because Lorenzo said, "if I throw a ball against a wall or break balls in billiards". He then concluded the motion of the balls can be explained without any insightful agency. I responded and referred to the "I" as the "active and insightful fo...

Strangeeeeer! I was glad to see you back, before I read your statement here :evil: :x :evil: Staying away from the forum didn't suit you well. Why do you want to add your name to the list of those who state A, state B, but are unable to do A + B... As if the idea of I - in a reality that one states...

Is the desire to reach out, to connect, to share love with another, to harmonize, to attain and maintain peace also related to the same idea-feeling of "I" ? Is it similarly dysfunctional? If not, why not? Yes, while we are within the "personal" (separate self) layer, the good d...

Eugene, I thought we've grown beyond these Newspeak arguments years ago. The questions that stand before humanity are how our individuated streams are placed within the spiritual Cosmos, how they are related (are they spatially separated or do they increasingly overlap in the higher regions), how t...