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@egolessHere is the middle way! We should all watch this one together in peace.

@egoless You are absolutely right and I was about to issue a warnings. That is totally uncalled for and not what we're about on this forum.@Salvijus

@egoless It's all cool. I feel the same. You've been around here for a while now and it's always been a pleasure. And I totally respect you sharing your new found peace with us here. But this is surely going to cause riffs at this level. Could you tone it down and maybe integrate the two?

@egoless You started a topic so you initiated it. Just speaking truth here.

@egoless That was never said. Of course you don't hate anyone here.

@egoless Nothing wrong with your beliefs per se but it seems they are now 180 deg. from what most ppl experiance and are sharing on a forum about consciousness/spirituality. Maybe you could find a nice christian forum to join where ppl share a similar view as yours. That way you talk the same language, so to speak and you won't have to convince anyone else why they should change their view to match yours.. Peace.

@brovakhiin I'll check that out. Love Shinzen

Great video here. It's a slightly different view from the way some of us may practice. But it's still worth a look.

@Highest What a coincidence! This just popped up as on youtube.

@WildeChilde Sounds like Goku has found true Wu-Wei (effortless action without attachment).

@Faceless I believe the average person on the street experiences time almost as walls that define their life. Everything is partitioned by time. Even their view of what "God" is.

The English word for �God� has become a source of confusion for Christians since at least the Anglo-Saxon era.� Webster�s New Collegiate Dictionary says that the origin of the word �god� comes from a Germanic word �gad,� pronounced as �gohdt.�� The following information on the origin of the word �god� will help to understand why we use it in our vernacular. GOD - The English word God is identical with the Anglo-Saxon word for �good,� and therefore it is believed that the name God refers to the divine goodness. (See Oehler's Theol. of Old Test.; Strong's and Young's concordances.)� (From New Unger's Bible Dictionary)� (Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois.� Copyright (C) 1988.) Further information on the source of our word for �God� is listed below: Word origin:� God - Our word god goes back via Germanic to Indo-European, in which a corresponding ancestor form meant �invoked one.�� The word�s only surviving non-Germanic relative is Sanskrit hu, invoke the gods, a form which appears in the Rig Veda, most ancient of Hindu scriptures:� puru-hutas,� �much invoked,� epithet of the rain-and-thunder god Indra.� (From READER�S DIGEST, Family Word Finder, page 351) (Originally published by The Reader�s Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville New York,��� Montreal;�� Copyright�� (C)� 1975) Now if the sources noted above are accurate, then the word that we use for the Supreme Being, God, comes from a very pagan origin.� Thus the word god is used generically by many different religions to refer to their deity or �invoked one.��

@Mikael89 I agree completely with what you said about the word "God" and it's religious overtones. That's just an idea of what God is. A conceptual God.

@Faceless Sure. The source of true creativity comes from beyond time and movement. But the expression of creativity happens within time and movement.

@Highest You can't put a name on something which has no attributes. You could just as well call it " The Big Booty" for all it matters.

@Faceless Yes it is cyclic. It ebbs and flows like the phases of the moon from waxing to waning or the changes of the seasons. So it is with creativity and everything in existence. When winter is here we know that spring is coming.

@Faceless A Taoist regards time as being no different than solid matter. That's quite an interesting view of time.

Thanks @Outer , that was nice of you to say.

The Tao and Creativity http://mindfulessays.blogspot.com/2011/05/creativity-and-tao-te-ching.html An unexpected, creative learning process took place as I put together this paper. I thought I was going to articulate in language how one generates through some step-by-step process, the paradoxical state of mind equivalent with Taothat leads to creative action. But I didn't really know if there was some specific technique that I would discover or be able to communicate to the reader. As I worked through the various texts with the thesis of creativity in mind, I slowly discovered that there is no specific, step-by-step technique (we Westerners always want a logical "how to" method that progresses through understandable steps!) Rather, I discovered that Taoist creativity simply begins with shifting one's psychology and worldview to coincide with the Tao, letting it become the ground from which all one's thoughts and actions go forth. In short, don't try be creative, but simply be like the Tao with its spontaneous movement and interpenetration of form and formlessness. Then natural creativity cannot help but come forth from your particular body-mind form in a unique way. As you do this, you come to realize that attachment to what you create is itself a preclusion to future creativity.

@pluto That sounds great. Humbling is the word for it. Sometimes the cosmos will even throw a shooting star your way. You may be the only witness in the universe to have experienced it's short appearance. In other words, it wouldn't exist if it wasn't for you. We are the eyes of God.

@electroBeam Exactly. Am I in this vast universe or is this vast universe in me?

@How to be wise The Tao is a natural flow of creativity within itself. One doesn't use the Tao but flows with it.

@Leo Gura You say a lot with few words.

@B_Naz Put something together. Make a retreat out of it or find a retreat to go to. When I go camping for a week that makes a really good retreat. The forest, the animals, the rising and setting of the Sun. Birth and decay. Sometimes it's so silent in the forest you can hear a breeze coming from far away. Than it arrives and passes by you as it moves into the distance like an unseen force.

@B_Naz Light pollution sucks. Take a trip out to the country. Go camping solo or with a friend or two. Just to mention also, there are astronomy clubs that have open to the public sky tours. They are really cool to attend. Ever see Saturn or the Andromeda Galaxy close up in a big telescope? If not put it on your list. You can travel millions of miles in one night. haha