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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7864137 - 01/11/08 09:42 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

In the mean time will you get me a beer?:lol:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: Icelander]
    #7864138 - 01/11/08 09:43 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

I thought you were going to congratulate me on being humble :frown:

Humbleness is not weakness! I am a warrior too! :mad2:


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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7864156 - 01/11/08 09:48 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

If you need congrats then it is not humility. But you took a step in the right direction by bowing to my superior wisdom.:lol:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: Icelander]
    #7864166 - 01/11/08 09:51 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

Because my humbleness was not rewarded I shall never back down from an argument again :rockon:


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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: Icelander]
    #7864173 - 01/11/08 09:52 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

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Icelander said:

If he's talking about the Buddha, then that's just bullshit. He set the precedent of allowing women to be initiated. At first he wouldn't let them, but he was eventually convinced by Ananda. Hence today there are monks and nuns.


I lifted this from my other thread on Buddha. I've been thinking about this.

A lot of people equate enlightenment with some above average humanity. I really don't think so myself and the above quote is why.

Now here's the Buddha who has recently become enlightened by tremendous personal effort over many years of contemplation, meditation and experience . Yet he had a bias against women that had to be overcome by the arguments of another. Now I would think that allowing women to be nuns (with all the ramifications of that action) would be a no brainer. But not for him. He had to overcome lots of resistance and ignorance in himself.

So what is enlightenment?




Buddha had to start with something people could understand. No vagabond would take women on the road. It wasn't until enough women made for having an official womens order that Buddha conceeded that it was needed.


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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: eve69]
    #7864178 - 01/11/08 09:55 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

No vagabond would take women on the road. The Icelander does. Especially pretty ones.


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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: eve69]
    #7864180 - 01/11/08 09:57 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

the world could blow apart in a fiction worthy wind it wouldn't mean a thing now that you're here...


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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7864184 - 01/11/08 09:57 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

Quote:

EternalCowabunga said:
Because my humbleness was not rewarded I shall never back down from an argument again :rockon:




Well now that isn't very Buddha like, is it? But here is a more honest feeling from you as you really are in your humanity (at least in part) and I do honor that.:thumbup:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: Icelander]
    #7864223 - 01/11/08 10:08 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

zhuman eyez

"the middle way"

theres a light on in the attic dear eliza


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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: Icelander]
    #7864337 - 01/11/08 10:35 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

In each action you do, a degree of selfishness and a degree of selflessness exists. It doesn't revolve around you unless you think it does.

And the post is titled what is enlightenment? The answer is neither subjective or objective, however I was giving you my conditioned opinion. What did you expect? A factual statistic?


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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: psyka]
    #7864508 - 01/11/08 11:19 AM (16 years, 21 days ago)

a degree of selfishness and a degree of selflessness

You need to provide one example of selflessness for me to accept that as a possibility. No one has done that yet.

The answer is neither subjective or objective,

Now you really have me confused.

What did you expect? A factual statistic?

Just some logical debate although facts never hurt.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
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Re: What is enlightenment? [Re: Icelander]
    #7866903 - 01/11/08 09:35 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

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Icelander said:
I think it would be possible to base our actions on something which doesn't adhere to human logic.

Impossible my friend and you can't give me one example of it.

My last post demonstrated to the best of my ability the fallacy of your position. You would never open a window for someone if you didn't consider it "the thing to do" as you say. How about I ask you to kill someone. Will you just do that also?




nothing we do is based upon LOGIC
everything we do is associative - memory and training in response to signals and triggers.
LOGIC is not associative it is rules based-
it is a fallacy to imagine we are rules based.

even our morality is associative.
associative processing is the essence of archetypes.
this with that,
not
this because of that.

of course, many pretend to be logical, we have excellent role models who are great reasoners
(they put on a very dignified show)
mostly in literature or television
like sherlock holmes and Mr. Spock.


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