Joseph Maynor

How does the relate to what people call the cosmic joke in spirituality?

Yes. Even swimming 1 mile in a lake requires a lot of effort and pacing for an ordinary person.

Me too. I love it.

You had me there are a second lol.

I was never really into this, but I can respect people who love words and wordplay.

I will look up words I don't know and I did that a lot when I was younger. But I try to speak in a common tongue as much as possible because my aim is communication with everyone. I'm not talking about technical terms in a field, those need to be learned. I'm talking about using big words when a more ordinary word would suffice.

If a word I already know works, I would rather not learn an unusual word to refer to the same thing.

This is true, and I don't like it because although I like to create humor, I don't find wit or wordplay particularly fun to engage in terms of creating humor.

It seems from what I read that he swam out and became exhausted.

I actually agree with you. Where I am currently is I don't think the Infinite doesn't know the finite, but rather that the Infinite is joined with the finite.

@Inliytened1 I actually watched this entire video. It is fascinating to me.

This is a great pointer IMO.

Some women are very masculine too. Just because someone is a woman doesn't mean they have the stereotypical feminine personality.

Going thru the death of a loved one is really hard. I understand.

Women are attracted to entertaining guys.

Um Hm. Great!

I don't think this fits all of Thailand. It is a little bit too generalized.

It is a more profound pointer to say I am in such a world than you are in such a world, but this is a great insight!

If you have read Shankara you will realize he gives many pointers to basically say the same thing. But it is over hundreds of pages.

@Olaf The I Am is not ego. This is what a lot of people don't seem to understand. Shankara called it the Self = Pure Undifferentiated Consciousness in one place in his voluminous writings that I read. I Am is the Self. You may call that God if you want, but he calls it the Self.

@Breakingthewall A great pointer I got from Shankara is -- "The Self is Pure Undifferentiated Consciousness".

This is a great question. Maybe someone here can answer it. I'm not sure.