tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41459184988587497372024-03-14T13:21:02.081+00:00Consciousness FirstMonitoring the all-embracing quality of consciousnessinfinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-18204174879888222422019-05-24T13:33:00.002+01:002019-05-24T13:33:41.245+01:00Does God Exist?<div style="text-align: justify;">
Actually, God is an entirely human concept. What else <i>could</i> it be? Please take the time to consider that carefully and give it its due.<br />
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It could be said that God is humanity's attempt to describe what is beyond itself, beyond its own knowledge—which, it would have to concede, according to its own logic, is theoretically infinite. Even that should be moderately impressive. We cannot award it higher marks than that because, sadly, we have not yet exceeded the bounds of thought and convention.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">This charming little drawing, archly done in a mock childish style,</span></div>
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infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-11190821090879304502019-04-30T17:27:00.001+01:002019-04-30T17:34:30.336+01:00Knowledge and Being<div style="text-align: justify;">People prize knowledge over being. So they are always trying to assimilate knowledge, which they believe will help them get around in the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But getting around in the world, one is always trying to reach somewhere. In other words, what one is trying to do is to BE. It's called 'living,' but in fact, it's just forever trying to reach something. It means involvement in a process of becoming, rather than <i>being.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">BEING is the big challenge, because the whole of conditioning tries to kick you out of being into a frantic world of search and grasp. Of achievement, realization, 'fulfillment.' And it's all going the wrong way! It is running away from a self that accompanies you where ever you go anyway. It is turning one's back on being in order to become something. </div>infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-37120650919778549002018-08-14T11:38:00.002+01:002019-04-30T17:35:01.218+01:00As To The Future<div style="text-align: justify;">
A <u>completely mistaken attitude</u> is always to be trying to grab for the future, to be trying to get to the future before it arrives. One has no presence; no presence of mind; no peace at all, as long as one is scrabbling to get to a future which will <i>NEVER ARRIVE!!</i></div>
infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-4947421156868809582018-08-09T10:59:00.001+01:002019-04-30T17:35:18.540+01:00Then and Now<div style="text-align: justify;">
The people of the past: where have they gone? They have not 'gone' anywhere - that's the fact.<br />
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Because ALL the people of the past have never been anything <i>but</i> the timeless presence of awareness (which is now). This is the truth of it, the 'open secret.'* It's a secret because it seems to be hidden from the human point of view. One can't understand it at all. Everyone who has ever been must be <i>now? </i>From the human viewpoint, because of birth, which is bound up in time, it is ruled out totally.<br />
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One says, 'I don't understand at all. I can't make head nor tail of it. I'm sorry: it's beyond me totally. I've got things to do.' It's only those really interested who will find out that there has never been anything else but presence.<br />
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Imagine: all those countless billions of people, the figures of history, never were <i>anything</i> but this very same awareness, which is strictly speaking <i>nothing at all</i>. Not an object of any sort.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">*Wei Wu Wei</span></div>
infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-38423752841727391822017-09-15T15:29:00.000+01:002017-09-15T21:13:52.698+01:00The Stream of Awareness<div style="text-align: justify;">A word about the basis of everything: above all, note that awareness is without <i>detail</i> of any kind, so that detail may appear to exist. Existence itself does not appear; appearance is the manifestation of existence. Included detail is all that is felt to go on in one's personal mind—to be voided in a single flash of awareness or clung to as a sort of virtual reality.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Hoefler Text'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br>infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-64066048712757884202017-01-19T15:38:00.001+00:002017-01-23T14:33:11.029+00:00On The Road To Enlightenment<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">
To the end of exposing the self-centredness bundled into the notion of 'personal enlightenment,' the quest can be imagined as hiking up a fairly steep, winding road to get to a mountaintop. It's a tortuous way up, but it'll be well worth it, one imagines, to get an amazing view over everything, a sense of immensity, a feeling of being on top of the world—ah! the pinnacle of spiritual endeavour. Persevering in spite of any and all difficulties, including much tedium, one eventually reaches the last turn in the road and—surprise! there on the summit is a huge car park and an enormous coach is slowly disgorging a lot of people in wheelchairs. Privately one feels a strange sense of disappointment because that view<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> was for one</span>self</i> alone. One desired the exhilaration of looking out from the top of the mountain, with the overview and the sheer aloneness that should have been there. Still, it was a bit churlish on the part of a spiritual seeker such as oneself to mutter a complaint. They're in <i>wheelchairs,</i> dammit! So it's a good thing that they get to enjoy the view. One turns to go, thoughtfully.</div>
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Another time maybe. Anyway, it's only a dream. In the meantime, it may be useful to bear in mind that 'Spirit' is already and always all the 'enlightenment' there could be, so that the seeker is an irrelevance. Oh, and 'Just find out how to put a stop to conceptual thinking.'*<br />
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infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-69062042072481260222016-09-23T22:16:00.002+01:002018-08-10T07:20:43.574+01:00Respect - an analysis of the break-down of relationship<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We frequently hear complaints from those who feel they are not getting the respect that they feel is their due. People often demand respect for themselves and their 'views'. But the fact is that irritability, contempt and general bad behaviour is more likely to be expected from another. As the world population swells, respect is lost.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But that's no good, because when respect is lost, everything starts to go wrong!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Just look at what happens in relationship. First things get casual, causing people to cut off from each other just a little bit. I</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">n other words,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> they don't give each other the proper </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">respect</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Then quite a lot of misunderstandings occur; people don't mesh properly and they end up hurting each other through </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ignorance</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, because they are not paying attention. They hurt each other, in small ways, but it builds up until they get heartily sick of each other and feel angry and annoyed. Well, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">yes</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">—ignorance is very </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">annoying</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> it easily becomes a question of, "One of us has got to go—will it be you, or me?"</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">So it's very important not to lose respect! Surely it's not so difficult? However, it's respect for the </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">whole environment</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">, not just for people.</span></span></div>
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infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-87712425995645573032016-04-11T22:50:00.000+01:002016-04-12T22:28:32.174+01:00Mind Clear. Hopefully.<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i>This letter sent today from IRI to some close colleagues is exceptionally comprehensive, and accessible:-</i></div>
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'This is just a brief note to acknowledge your message of appreciation. When we investigate these vital matters, we have to struggle through a dense fog of human hopelessness. This is because the sense of deadendedness permeates a society that no longer possesses faith to provide hope of eventual salvation, release and remission of sins. It is thought better and even right for everyone simply to indulge themselves in every sensation, overriding any promptings of morality, but the result—plain for all to see—is deep depression, exhaustion, despair and sickness. And then, what hope is there for those past, well past, the mating age? Of course this state of affairs has been building up as history for a long time now and stress is such that men are breaking down in tears and crying that they want to be women. Women get all the attention and even though they increasingly take over men's roles the womb remains the cradle of all meaning for humans. And if death is increasingly seen as the sole and only release, how could life not be felt as overwhelmingly depressing?</div>
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'The weather today, being drizzly, overcast, cold and sufficiently foggy, gives us the perfect opportunity to study all this, doesn't it?</div>
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'To be able to see and acknowledge this sense of hopelessness at once gives us a little distance, enables us to probe more effectively into what on earth consciousness is up to!</div>
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'You write that 'the study, in fact, is preparation for release.' The trouble with such a statement is that it presents us with a victim or victims who are being harassed by life and who hope to be released at some time <u>which is not now</u>. There's that idea of 'hope' again! Hope allows for postponement, so that we can continue to be hapless members of a disintegrating society, but hopefully—who knows?—we might get some sort of relief eventually—especially if we study hard. </div>
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'Whatever meaning can be ascribed to the ideas of 'release' or 'relief' or any other term indicating a total cessation of suffering, <u>that meaning</u> must be present here and now and forever, so to speak. It's just that we're addicted to the pleasures and pains of humanhood, which require us to continue as entities, that is, as (imagined) objects.</div>
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'What can I do but try to state it all as clearly as possible? </div>
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'Surrounding us, at all times, is the absolute clarity of 'mind,' and we are right in the middle, as it were, seeking and finding objections! </div>
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'"Sorry, but it's what we do!!" </div>
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'And this is where the joker bops the sufferer on the head and the audience laughs.'</div>
infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-37234348298926269212015-12-06T11:23:00.001+00:002015-12-09T10:50:33.761+00:00Should consciousness be studied in the first-person, the second-person, or the third-person-plural?<div style="text-align: justify;">
Neither 1st, 2nd nor 3rd, nor any other number!</div>
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The basic point is that awareness is not personal, contrary to what we are taught. Awareness is bodiless, and doesn't know dimension at all: it's undimensional. And 'it' is not something <i>else</i>, something other. It's what we <i>are</i>, and it's what we are <b>now</b>, not some other time <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">— </span>in the past, in the future, or in the present.<br />
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Not in the <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">present</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">!?!</span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"></span></b></i>No, because the present is only part of the same imaginary time-sequence. Why does Awareness need to bother with terms like 'past,' 'present' and 'future?' It's only <i>people</i> who engage in mind-games like that!</div>
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infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-22263305533897163442015-09-17T11:12:00.001+01:002017-01-29T14:02:36.499+00:00Religionis when one tries to objectify the first principle.
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Atheism happens when one imagines that principle is oneself.infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-90543123960144144682015-03-18T22:40:00.001+00:002017-01-29T14:00:43.244+00:00God—Beyond Belief*<div style="text-align: justify;">
Whether you say, 'I believe,' or, 'I don't believe in God' (the atheists), doesn't it come to the same thing? Because <b><u>WHAT IS IT</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> that is either believed or not? That's when everyone gets rather <i>VAGUE.</i> What is the point of bringing in <u>belief</u> at all? The whole argument is so stupid! Just human shenanigans, entirely missing the really interesting points, <i>as USUAL.</i></span></b></div>
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infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-31455005087510389572015-02-14T21:54:00.001+00:002015-12-09T10:50:33.757+00:00Striving for the Good<div style="text-align: justify;">
'Good' just means pleasure, even though we don't like to admit it. The one seeking to be happy is in a false position right from the start - it's just an actor on the stage.</div>
infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-48985666245422921912015-02-06T22:50:00.002+00:002015-02-26T06:28:08.844+00:00Out Of Time<div style="text-align: justify;">
Not, <i>'Liberation in this very life,'</i> but <i>'Liberation while still seemingly engaged in this experience.'</i><br />
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To say, 'In this very life,' is <u>misleading</u>, because it seems to indicate that it could happen <i><u>at any </u><b><u>time</u></b><u>.</u></i><br />
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Likewise, when we state that this study is <i>a whole life,</i> that doesn't mean that it is <i>spread out</i> over time. The 'whole life' means more like, 'acquainting yourself instantly with the basic understanding'<i> </i>(of the obvious).<br />
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'Understanding' normally means fitting something into one's own frame of reference, and as such is useless. But there can be this <i>basic understanding,</i> <b>without which</b> one is just too full of oneself to be interested in anything but oneself. (N.B.: This is a technical observation rather than a moral judgement.)<br />
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'On the instant' sounds like a moment in time, but it is actually not <i>in</i> time. That is the truth of the matter—that there is no time.<br />
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<b>But isn't it possible to waste time?</b><br />
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infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-16633588063402743842015-01-11T13:23:00.000+00:002015-02-09T17:43:05.072+00:00In Quotes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Short comments, jokes and aphorisms from IRI:-</i></span></span><br />
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<li>"Hello, Mankind, this is God speaking. I know you think you are wicked. Well, I can't argue with that!"</li>
<li>Personal insights are a theft, or rather, an attempted theft, of the absolute.</li>
<li>Thought is always <i>after</i> the fact.</li>
<li>Is consciousness clever?</li>
<li>"I used to say that human beings were not very intelligent. But I won't say that anymore. No—no more Mr Nice Guy."</li>
<li>The forgetfulness that often comes with old age tends not to forget the worries that are held dear.</li>
<li>The brain is soft-wired. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(For what? Oh, just to mess around and impress itself. It's longing to get it's own autograph.)</span></li>
<li>Assumption is the root of dullness.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (E.g., the assumption that everything is<i> so.</i>)</span></li>
<li>"I'm sure people don't realize that it actually makes sense to say, 'to infinity and beyond.' They think that's a joke—but really, 'infinity' is a <i>word</i>."</li>
<li>The fringes of knowledge fade into areas described as 'not well understood,' i.e., unknown.</li>
<li>Remember that worry puts more people in hospital than hot dinners.</li>
<li>"I think that these days it is too much hard work for people to consider anything other than themselves."</li>
<li>Sheer ease of reading is just for layabouts.</li>
<li>"You know, I think everyone really <b>misses</b> the past."</li>
<li>Humans are the <b>only creatures</b> that <i>know</i> that they are 'meming.'</li>
<li>Never trust a human.</li>
<li>A man walks into a bar and says, "Ow!" because he hurt his leg on it.</li>
<li>Life is transitory. So, behave well <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">while you <u>can</u></span>.</i></b></li>
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infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-55561911021869282922015-01-09T21:22:00.003+00:002015-01-09T21:29:15.189+00:00So you think the spiritual is weak, do you?<div style="text-align: justify;">
Take away appearance, and take away all sound, and what you are left with is pure <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><u>spirit</u></span><b>.</b></i></div>
infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-20959844682661695082015-01-08T11:34:00.000+00:002015-01-09T21:00:10.379+00:00Science Update<div style="text-align: center;">
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"The big question in neuroscience is where consciousness comes from," co-author Giovanni Petri, a mathematician at Italy's Institute for Scientific Interchange, told Wired. "We don't know."</div>
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infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-2259560546023781882014-12-25T13:27:00.003+00:002015-01-09T21:01:17.116+00:00HEARTY SEASONAL SALUTATIONS!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This blog post says everything and more that I would like to say right now , and I really couldn't put it better than this:-</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://overpopulationtoday.blogspot.com/">OVERPOPULATION TODAY!: HEARTY SEASONAL SALUTATIONS!</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">: </span>"We take this opportunity to wish our countless readers a very happy holiday season! May all the usual family quarrels be just little one... Wishing you clarity, instead. And now the social criticism for which this Blog is becoming famous...."</blockquote>
infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-30872177921271604632014-12-20T11:13:00.000+00:002015-02-06T22:53:16.374+00:00'Facts Are Sacred.' Oh, Really?<div style="text-align: center;">
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infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-63016778854812535062014-12-20T10:57:00.000+00:002014-12-20T21:08:25.796+00:00The Assumption of Identity<div>
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Lacking a genuine identity we have to <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b>assume </b>one</span> </i>(i.e., take it up, put it on). Such is education— from day one we learn what to assume. Because each must assume <i>something</i>. One cannot legally be <i>nothing!</i> This <i>educated sense</i> is the <b>human assumption,</b> which we put on each day. In fact, we have to assume our identity each <i>moment</i>, and only through this constant repetition does it become that perhaps all-too-familiar sense of '<b>ourself</b>.'</div>
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Occasionally, the assumption can lapse, and it's strange how completely lost one can feel without it. It could even result in a panic attack. Not to mention complete unexcelled awakening.</div>
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infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-26029774283863984292014-12-16T21:27:00.003+00:002015-01-09T21:24:47.466+00:00Back To The FutureTo put it another way:-<br />
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Preoccupation (that is, plans and worries) about the future involves a huge amount of thought. The fact is, though, that however hard we try to anticipate the moment, the future <i>NEVER ARRIVES</i>. We remain always in the same place, the place of consciousness.</div>
infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-55514609305720641462014-12-16T17:20:00.003+00:002014-12-20T20:24:27.018+00:00Knowledge Is Ignorance<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Well look at it this way—once you have a piece of knowledge, you are equipped to ignore; once you don't know, you are equipped to look, to find out, to study. But if you are full of knowledge, why should you <i>bother</i> about anything? You know it all. You know where you're going, what you are doing, who you are and where you're at.</div>
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A person going about his business, full of the knowledge of all the things he is going to do, is an ignorant person. Knowledge is like a cocoon. To be full of knowledge is to ignore. And you have to ask: does Truth need knowledge? That about wraps it up.</div>
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<br />infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-40351126821121859502014-12-09T08:05:00.000+00:002014-12-16T17:38:27.582+00:00The FutureThere is NO future. The future is <b>completely</b> illusory. We never get there. We <i>never, EVER</i> get there! There is no THERE. That's why we can't get there.infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-30550272116333166002014-11-23T22:31:00.000+00:002014-11-23T22:53:05.751+00:00Allowing For 'Us'MR H: Do you ever feel that we won't <i>get</i> to the bull's-eye 'together'?<br />
PROF: Do I ever <b>feel</b> that?<br />
MR H: Yes.<br />
PROF: I am positively sure that we won't!<br />
MINI: ...because for one thing, there is that question of<b> 'we'</b>.<br />
PROF: 'We' is just a social convention, and society is just—well, you know for yourself. It's a whole mess of mind.<br />
MR H: It's funny that, because why should mind be messed up?<br />
PROF: Imagine! Mind, so absolutely pure, being messed up by us!<br />
MINI: That sounds really stupid!<br />
PROF: It really does. You'd never think that intelligence was <i>infinite</i>, would you?<br />
MR H: No! You'd definitely say there must be a limit somewhere.<br />
PROF: Yes, and the limit is that it allows for the existence of ourselves, who really are obviously nonsense.<br />
MR H: That's fascinating what you say about allowing for 'us.'<br />
PROF: I think that's what 'love' must mean: that infinite intelligence actually allows for 'us,' when you would think that there was <b>no excuse <i>whatsoever</i></b> for 'us'!<br />
ME: Right — except just sheer <i>grace</i>!infinitybabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268114539190690560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145918498858749737.post-82668715716360545802014-11-04T20:50:00.000+00:002015-01-09T21:25:26.844+00:00Worried?<div style="text-align: justify;">
If you feel worried, it must be because you are checking into humanity. Humanity is definitely worried. It is aware that it has overreached itself. And it has its own historical record to confirm the fear that any organism that reaches its fullness tends to collapse in on itself. The crash has just about begun, and everyone is wondering how far it will go, and how it will affect them personally.</div>
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To be locked into humanhood is like being someone 'glued' to a television screen: just sitting there all day and all night watching it, until sleep takes over. First thing in the morning, on it goes again, to be watched even while eating and drinking. </div>
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If the screen is blank, as in the case of boredom, one mutters to oneself: "Oh, well, it's just an interruption in the service. I'll stay watching; it'll come on again in an hour or so, I expect." </div>
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Meanwhile, we are totally unaware that the whole universe is flowing through, round and about us all the time! Our attitude and our belief say, "No, no! This is the real. I know because, here it is. And I've got to concentrate on it. Don't disturb me." </div>
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Reflecting this way, doesn't it seem moronic to be locked into the human experience like someone fascinated by a television or computer screen? It's cloddish and stunning. What's more, the available programmes don't get any more interesting. </div>
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The condition of being locked into the human experience has a fatalistic rigour about it. It's a total belief system. There are numerous beliefs floating about in the human noösphere, causing no end of trouble, but no other belief than this one is necessary. It's a complete, hermetically sealed belief system, already containing all the sub-beliefs such as religion, etc., which attempt to come to terms with the dark side of human living. Bereavement, for instance. But one mustn't worry because there are new ones constantly appearing. Adjust to the flow. That's the way. Grow old, die off. </div>
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To finish with this propaganda, one has to find out how to end the fixation on the screen of human experience. The first step must be: all-round awareness, minimizing fixed focus and integrating the senses so as to sidestep thought.</div>
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