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...But is nature suffering? That seems uniquely human. The suffering part is to believe that what is clearly plainly happening should be other that what it is, to scream against reality in the name of unfounded imagined ideas. I share randomguy's take on this, but the only thing is that I am not su...

Hi Valentinag, welcome to the board. :-) This is my personal perspective, so please take what is of help and discard any or all of it if it doesn't apply. From my understanding of Eckhart's "non-reaction", he is pointing to those instances when someone - through their egos - purposefully elicit a "r...

randomguy wrote:

td wrote:...if every ox herder decides to live blissfully in silence, how would any of us come to our understanding?

From simple recognition that the silence already is.
Understanding occurs fleetingly within it.

Recognition dissipates against the rays of Knowing.

A related question though is "Can unconditional love in action appear very conditional?" How do we find unconditional love in Krishna urging Arjuna to fight? Is strapping a drug addict to a bed for three days an act of unconditional love? Is cutting off an allowance to a twenty-something child who ...

This may be the original video you are referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-l28k-be4 First, understand thoughts are not your enemy. Thoughts may be required when you are trying to solve an engineering problem for example. There are different categories of thoughts. Eckhart does a great j...

Hopefully this helps people to stop putting so much pressure on themselves to achieve some spiritual status that doesn't exist. Thanks E2B, I dont think spiritual attainment is "bad" or "useless" per sae. But I find it fascinating, when "enlightenment" occurs from Buddha to Eckhart and others, ther...

Ah, so explore the answers, if you can find any. I have and have a loose understanding that was sufficient for the mind to relax. Ultimately, it (the afterlife) is just a continuation of the dream, the play of consciousness itself...it serves to continue the play. Who said you can't? More important...

Ok, this is not going to be the same reply I was going to make last night, because that was deleted unfortunately. Anyways, I wasn't saying you can't explore the afterlife, no I said "explore" it actually. So why you went into " who said you cant" and talk about "isn't it apathy to not" is beyond m...

Who said you can't? More importantly, how do we know for certain there aren't any contradictions? The afterlife may be a continuation of a "dream", but isn't it apathy to just throw our hands up and say "such is, now I am going back to bed"? I would suggest this is more of the mind's way of trickin...

Um, you are the Self, that's fundamentally what you ARE appearing to appear as a human being....forgetting what you are naturally. Thoughts, feelings, emotions come and go through the form and can be felt fully in the moment they arise without an invitation to stay and cause misery. I think maybe t...

Ah, so explore the answers, if you can find any. I have and have a loose understanding that was sufficient for the mind to relax. Ultimately, it (the afterlife) is just a continuation of the dream, the play of consciousness itself...it serves to continue the play. Who said you can't? More important...

I feel there may have been a lot of simplification in the teachings of past gurus Most won't find it that simple, since most are still sleepwalking, but I think I know what you mean. However, I will say every time I've made it complicated the more lost I became. The afterlife topics is a big one to...

There is only "one" Self...appearing as many. Who is this "you" that which you are referring to? And how are we so sure that were made to forget? The "you" is consciousness, also the substratum which is the Self. Isn't your experience one of forgetting your true nature? Edit- I see you added to ur ...

Um, you are the Self, that's fundamentally what you ARE appearing to appear as a human being....forgetting what you are naturally. Thoughts, feelings, emotions come and go through the form and can be felt fully in the moment they arise without an invitation to stay and cause misery. Hi dijmart. Yes...

While the ones who are still denying their humanness or denying the relative and speaking as though they are existing from some non existent absolute place where nothing exists, are the ones who are trapped in a concept and likely full of....you know what, and that concept is very very difficult to...