I prefer not to prefer and just let things happen. That's why I am here.
Some are blinded by their logic...
Thank you for your response. A. I'm not really scrutinising, just trying to understand where you are coming from. It's an interesting choice of...
Hi A, please don't get me wrong, but would you say that you have a big ego?
This is a link to some very hard-to-find lectures by Alan Watts (audio). These ones are called "Wisdom of the Mountains" are are definitely...
I guess that's why I said, better find a real teacher. This is a very complex question and I'm not sure if I can really address it well and explain...
Hi, Mr A. Perhaps the best way is to be totally honest and open with yourself and that means a warm, non-judgmental attitude to whatever comes....
In Eastern philosophy, at least in Buddhism, meditation is the oppositite of "disassociating one self with the universe". This may be more of a New...
Sorry, Shushupti, if I didn't express myself clearly. I wanted to say that this guy got you to really lose your cool, and for me that's a great...
I am with you there, Anomalous, humility and communication. We can certainly have more of them, and also respect and thoughfullness.
Yazdajerd is certainly a very patient and tolerant person, hats off to him/her!
This is a really common idea, and I wonder what if the truth is right here, but we've lost the skill to see it? We search and search, read tonnes of...
I wonder if Gondolin is still checking the thread he had started... A very interesting source is J. Krishnamurti, who taught that meditation should...
This forum is pretty lively, though it gets off the track an awful lot! What happened to meditation? Shushupti, you know perhaps this guy can be your...
Why are people arguing and getting aggresive here? Isn't there already enough of that in the world? I thought this forum is about learning from each...
What is this "yourself" that is discovering the way to discover your "self"? If your self is as yet undiscovered, or obscured, wondering around,...
Thank you, Watcher, for a beautiful piece of advice in this debate. I'd just like to add that Transcendental meditation or TM, can have some serious...
"I am wondering about the Buddha's advice on heedfulness. If you try to be aware, what about being aware of what's trying to be aware?" This...
Why don't other people post some replies, and share their spiritual practice with the rest of us?
I think I understand you now. What you call indifference is what some call equanimity, and basically spontaneous (wu-wei, like in Tao Te Ching)...
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