SOUL

Infinite potential is a state that all is possible and nothing has been determined. I did not say finite produces infinite, you misunderstand once again.

You misunderstand, I did not say consciousness is the beginning of infinite potential.

It comes from infinite potential, it could be said that consciousness is the initial form of infinite potential.

I simply responded with my experience but gave no opinion either way about it, I didn't think it was a big deal of my not reading and replying on it. If you value the book then enjoy what you got from it, although what value do you get by projecting stuff onto others because they didn't read it? It's not fear or uncaring or being above something, it's just a book, I have no opinion of it, I just didn't read it. if your attitude towards me is an example of what reading this book brings to someone then I surely have no need for it.

You have clearly displayed your own limiting beliefs with this statement but it doesn't apply to anyone except yourself. Does an amoeba have any awareness? Of course it does, it is a primitive sense of awareness of it's surroundings but it is an awareness nonetheless. Does it have a mind? No, it doesn't. This is just one example of awareness without mind.

@Vanish I do appreciate the sentiment of the book but I have no need to read it.

@Vanish I am intimately aware of now.

Revelation is insight that doesn't use logic to acquire it, logic may be used after to examine it but the initial revelation happens when awareness transcends the mind and all it's trappings. Of course, that insight is revealed within the context of mind even though it isn't the product of it yet the mind will attempt to lay claim to it. Enlightenment is a function of awareness, not logic and to achieve the the illuminated insights it behooves us to shed the confines of the mind which logic is part of.

@Shin That's just projection on your part, so this fear you see may be something to examine in your self. I didn't say i never will, I said I have no intention to, two different things.

Never read it and have no intention to.

Developing is a natural process that happens regardless of whether we are aware of it or not but we can attempt to be an active influence in the process or we can let it happen randomly.

To harm or hurt, which essentially is the inspiration behind concept of evil, has gray areas that are subjectively assessed.

When pooping outside don't dig the hole in the same spot twice.

@rrodriguez11 To put it simply, typically people are referring to the awareness part of consciousness that can observe the rest of the consciousness do it's thing. There is the subconscious, ego, thoughts as well as the emotional impulses and physical senses all of which comprise what is often called the self. Awareness, which is commonly viewed as distinct and an eternal aspect of consciousness can observe the self and all it's machinations happening. That is generally what is meant by self observation in spirituality.

Woah awesome

Y'all blissininnies

Yea, when I was a kid I called it happy but eventually I grew to understand it as being at peace.

Seeing someone as an authority is a widespread issue within the enlightenment and spirituality community and it even extends to speakers assuming a role of an authority even if they deny they are. It also includes the ideas and concepts that often get canonized as "truth", not just a personal truth but a universal truth that is said applies to everyone. I rarely go into the details about specific ones to dispute because I prefer to not to be contentious on subjective matters and that's what most of spirituality is, it's a personal experience with subjective revelations. It wouldn't surprise me that there are many who create a stumbling block for themselves from other people's ideas because it may not be reflective of their own experience.

Buddhism has dogma., if it doesn't why would anyone question if a teaching fits. There is even a significant amount of dogma with the ideas about illusion, beliefs, the mind, the self, ego and what or what doesn't exist or is real. Don't think so? Present a contrary view to the accepted one on any of those and see what happens. There are people who engage in spirituality just so they can learn a way to enjoy their life and have little interest in adhering to the belief system of 'nothingism'. Spirituality is subjective and there isn't a right way to do it any more than what works for the individual to accomplish what they seek.

Sound is an amazing tool for inner work.

No amount of intention, thinking or believing I am a unicorn will allow me to be a unicorn. There are dynamics and variables that influence everything so being aware of how these affect our life can allow us to work more effectively to achieve what we seek.

Being open to infinite possibility isn't the same as believing something is possible or not.. One is an indeterminate mindset, the other is a mindset that has been determined by taking a position. It's a nuanced understanding that is to stay open in being at peace with not knowing while the mind is always trying to decide it knows.

People keep trying to place things in and on the void, I guess that's what the mind will try to do, think it can know something that isn't knowable, The whole undefined and non-delineated everything-less that appears as if it's no-thing is still something so not the void. The "one" of all existence is not part of the void, neither is consciousness, everything didn't come from it and nothing goes to it. The void is absolute and infinite in it's absence of anything and everything. Meditate on that.

Not any more or less than it is to pleasure.