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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: How controlled are we by Objective reality. [Re: Icelander]
#7424315 - 09/18/07 03:39 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Calcium deficiency?
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Icelander
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Re: How controlled are we by Objective reality. [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#7424373 - 09/18/07 03:54 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, that's it Veritas.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: How controlled are we by Objective reality. [Re: Icelander]
#7424397 - 09/18/07 04:02 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Icelander said: Yeah, that's it Veritas.
Dang Ice, you don't need to type out what you're saying IRL in real time. This is a family site.
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Icelander
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Re: How controlled are we by Objective reality. [Re: Lion]
#7424405 - 09/18/07 04:05 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, like the Addams family.   
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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dblaney
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Re: How controlled are we by Objective reality. [Re: Droz]
#7424810 - 09/18/07 05:39 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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One could sit still in silence all day and not worry one bit about objective reality.
That's true, one could do that.
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Imagine meditation everyday for like 12 hours a day. Meditation and fasting for a week.
How will one become enlightened by the lack of food and lack of objective reality.
Can this be done? I'm sure it can but what do you think we'd get out of it
Meditation isn't a lack of objective reality. What you describe sounds like a form of escapism
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What are your views on meditation? Would one accomplish something by meditating like 12 hours a day and fasting?
Intelligent meditation means total awareness. Awareness of your mind: your thoughts, your emotions, your reactions, your ideas, your ideals, your desires and urges, etc. This requires a great deal of patience, loving-kindness, courage, and discipline. And what do you get out of true, intelligent meditation? Nothing. You get nothing you didn't already have.
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Re: How controlled are we by Objective reality. [Re: Icelander]
#7424833 - 09/18/07 05:47 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think meditating 12 hours a day could defeat the experience of being alive
Ultimately, of course, life is just experience, and there is no better or worse experience or way of experiencing.
Sitting 12 hours per day in meditation doesn't sound like living to you, because it's not your life, nor is it mine. But it may be for some people, and for those people, all I can say is damn, that's impressive!
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No one to my knowledge has ever become enlightened by meditation.
Could you elaborate on this statement? What do you mean by "enlightened"? And do you mean that you don't know anyone personally, or that you've never heard of anyone, ever, becoming enlightened by meditation?
-------------------- "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?" "Belief is a beautiful armor But makes for the heaviest sword" - John Mayer Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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