I found my God, he's in my head

[muir]

Nope, it's nothing. No value system. Remember everything is nothing. It can't be engineered or graded - if you engineer it and grade it, that's not crazy wisdom. Just like if you clean the dust off the mirror, that's not nothing, that's something.

There's no dust, no mirror, and really no crazy either. All same idea.

Yeah that's the thing....its like a rubber band....we stretch away from it and then are pulled back into it

I sit here now and laugh and ascribe no value...later today i have to fill in my tax return

In, out, build it up, break it down, attachment, detachment

 

[sprinkles]

Yeah that's the thing....its like a rubber band....we stretch away from it and then are pulled back into it

I sit here now and laugh and ascribe no value...later today i have to fill in my tax return

In, out, build it up, break it down, attachment, detachment

Did you know there was a time when monks were not even allowed to laugh? Even a smile that showed teeth was discouraged.

 

[muir]

Did you know there was a time when monks were not even allowed to laugh? Even a smile that showed teeth was discouraged.

That is an interesting expression

I wonder what they were getting out of it...neutrality i guess

 

[New Dawn Fades]

Did you know there was a time when monks were not even allowed to laugh? Even a smile that showed teeth was discouraged.

That is an interesting expression

I wonder what they were getting out of it...neutrality i guess

I think this is a good example for over-institutionalization (what a complicated word. ). Following certain traditions that don't make sense anymore.

 

[muir]

I think this is a good example for over-institutionalization (what a complicated word. ). Following certain traditions that don't make sense anymore.

Yes i tend not to focus too much on the old monks as they seem fairly harmless

They are holding on tight to their little world but its the war profiteers who are holding on tight to everyones world

They are the ones who are bumming out everyones trip

 

[New Dawn Fades]

The thread title really attracted me, being a big Nirvana fan myself. The thing is, I think Kurt Cobain would have said "I found my God, she's in my head."

Got it? ^-^

(Hope this is not too Off-Topic)

 

[sprinkles]

That is an interesting expression

I wonder what they were getting out of it...neutrality i guess

Well it was probably considered not only rude but giving in to one's passions too much.

However there's also some evidence in old Indian culture that humor was quite often pornographic and scatalogical in nature and the more puritan parts of society sought to erase this tendency. It was at times considered low class to laugh even among non-monks, also because of what was often laughed at.

 

[muir]

Well it was probably considered not only rude but giving in to one's passions too much.

However there's also some evidence in old Indian culture that humor was quite often pornographic and scatalogical in nature and the more puritan parts of society sought to erase this tendency. It was at times considered low class to laugh even among non-monks, also because of what was often laughed at.

I wonder if it is more than that...a form of haughtyness from the higher caste who would have lived in the more schemeing world of the court and would have needed to maintain a poker face more than the easy going commoners

Psychopahthy would be rife in the higher classes and i wonder of MBTI would play a part as well as the more serious and more schemeing types would rise to the top and thereby be the culture creators as people sought to emulate them due to their 'success' (ie power and influence)

 

[sprinkles]

I wonder if it is more than that...a form of haughtyness from the higher caste who would have lived in the more schemeing world of the court and would have needed to maintain a poker face more than the easy going commoners

Psychopahthy would be rife in the higher classes and i wonder of MBTI would play a part as well as the more serious and more schemeing types would rise to the top and thereby be the culture creators as people sought to emulate them due to their 'success' (ie power and influence)

It's possible.

I read a paper about it not too long ago and it seems that this is actually still going on in the process of westernizing and translating some ancient texts - humor is effectively being redacted, presently.

 

[digitalbum]

I feel like I have the basics down.

Is there a God? Who knows? We're too dumb.

Is there an afterlife or reincarnation? Seems possible, but again, who knows? How many dead people do you know? And not the ones with near death experiences, though I'd say they may have SOME light to shed.

What religion is the best? "The roads to enlightenment are as numerous as the grains of sand on the beaches."

Should I pray? If it makes you feel better, sure.

 

[Lark]

I feel like I have the basics down.

Is there a God? Who knows? We're too dumb.

Is there an afterlife or reincarnation? Seems possible, but again, who knows? How many dead people do you know? And not the ones with near death experiences, though I'd say they may have SOME light to shed.

What religion is the best? "The roads to enlightenment are as numerous as the grains of sand on the beaches."

Should I pray? If it makes you feel better, sure.

Yeah, there are a lot of questions which I think the only reasonable response is "we dont know/cant know that" when it comes to things such as God, although I've also heard that kind of reasoning refered to as the "God of the gaps" and that instead God is meant to be mystery and the abstraction "love" instead, I've read other authors who talk about a transcendent mind, like Jung's collective unconscious, or transcendent "humankind", Fromm talks like that but then he thought that humanism and ethics were the underlying and unacknowledged and often unconscious basis for all world religions and world philosophy.

 

[sprinkles]

Yeah, there are a lot of questions which I think the only reasonable response is "we dont know/cant know that" when it comes to things such as God, although I've also heard that kind of reasoning refered to as the "God of the gaps" and that instead God is meant to be mystery and the abstraction "love" instead, I've read other authors who talk about a transcendent mind, like Jung's collective unconscious, or transcendent "humankind", Fromm talks like that but then he thought that humanism and ethics were the underlying and unacknowledged and often unconscious basis for all world religions and world philosophy.

No, actually God of the gaps is the opposite. It is saying "We don't know, therefore God did it."