UnbornTao

I find beautiful the poetry and classical music that I like, among other things. When you're able to find a dog shit beautiful, that's when you know you've made progress. The vulgar example is meant to mess with our images of what beauty is or should be like. Trying to hint at a deeper form of beauty.

Good question. Consider it yourself: What is intelligence? How does it come about? What are its components and purpose? When we say and agree that something or someone is deeply intelligent, what is that recognition about? It's tricky. Seems like there might be a principle at work here.

Enjoy!

Hey, do you understand everything there is? Have you transformed and become absolutely free? Then there's tons of work left to do.

User @Danioover9000 has been banned for continuously exhibiting overly immature and reactive behavior despite several warnings. Starting a new thread is preferred over reviving old ones.

Sounds good; I like her. On another note, it feels like impressions and other superficial stuff drives 99% of politics. Naive take of the day.

Looks like a Gotham City mayor.

Ok.

The idea that you have to literally die (what I got from your post) in order to get enlightened.

@Princess Arabia @Schizophonia I might make those at some point.

Whatever's true is true already, so don't promote silly ideas.

What if a brownies recipe were to be shared on this thread?

Your nature (you) getting itself vs thinking about what may be true based on rumors, without a direct encounter.

Get what's true beyond hearsay and speculation.

I've heard David Richo has a good book on that called Shadow Dance.

@strika Conflating two different domains and bringing a fair share of fantasy into the current consideration is problematic. God is on vacation on Venus; best to leave it alone. Anyway, let's keep to the main topic.

Create them.

Hey, that's pretty much its purpose, hence the name. It's not a healing intensive, although some of that might occur.

Kick ass get enlightened and tell us the secret. You misunderstand its purpose, it isn't like you think, so be open.

There's a book called Christ Sutras by Bart Marshall which is recommended.

Absolutely, if you're honest. What you faced was an interpretation of being "near" death--the potential for it. Notice this existed as a concept, because you're still alive. Just addressing its reality in your experience is hard to do. Whatever you're identified with exists in contrast to whatever you're not.

I don't get where you're coming from on this thread. In any case... Everyone is afraid of death since it is the antithesis of yourself--no more you. You're holding an idea or notion rather than the fact.