Intellect, mind and condition. 12 Replies

When someone is telling me something, I follow what is said with the intellect. Even if they are talking about something not of the intellect, like peace, meditation, soul, spirit. I follow with the intellect. It is the intellect which is finding this interesting, making sense, or not. It is with the intellect I try to see how this information fits with what I already know or what I can do. The intellect collects more information, and then puzzles with the ideas, categories, comparisons, and…Continue

Tags: soul, spirit, meditation, peace, mind

Started by Peter Stephens. Last reply by Peter Stephens yesterday.

Breakdown 1 Reply

At work, or with the computer at home, talking with someone about a technical problem, where it is difficult to pinpoint what it is and what exactly you are having difficulty with, and not being able to frame a precise question, it usually requires setting out very clear, unmistakable steps, for the other person to easily follow and repeat, and see the problem, if at all.However, so often, after it is all done, perhaps later, perhaps someone different, they come back with a very polite, very…Continue

Started by Peter Stephens. Last reply by Therese Okamoto on Wednesday.

Is not the self an impediment in life? 5 Replies

Is it not?

Started by Behy. Last reply by Clive Bunnett on Monday.

Time 84 Replies

I want to look into time, not only as a crucial issue in meditation, but to see if it's possible to live without time psychologically and what that would mean, what are the implications etc. I will be reading what K has to say about time and I will be exploring and relating my own investigation, inquiry.  Surely, living without time psychologically must be an extraordinary thing, it is an extraordinary thing, it means living in the present.  As I, am both the teacher and the student, both the…Continue

Started by MJK. Last reply by Clive Bunnett Apr 14.

Happiness 2 Replies

Do you think it is possible to be simultaneously happy and aware that one is happy? Similarly, is it possible to love someone/something and at the same time be aware that you love them?K said that as soon as thought butts in saying "I am happy," "I love this," then it is no longer happiness. When asked, he said that he did not know if he was happy.Does anyone have any thoughts?Continue

Started by Laura Christine Campbell. Last reply by Clive Bunnett Apr 9.

Subconscious. 3 Replies

Someone was talking about the conscious and the subconscious. It was an interesting way of talking about this thing called a subconscious. They said the conscious, all what occupies the mind in the ordinary environment, all this dominates the mind. The subconscious works through the conscious, and is mostly unable to be freely expressed.The conscious state of conditioning operates with regard to the normal circumstances, while a subconscious state of conditioning is hidden away from conscious…Continue

Tags: gift, special, talent, God, soul

Started by Peter Stephens. Last reply by Peter Stephens Apr 8.

A place in the world. 1 Reply

I wonder do you think about your place in the world? What are important issues? A lot of what I think about is prompted by TV, Radio, Internet, Movies. Very little is actually from other people. People seem to be just getting on with the business of life, or is it the disaster, and rarely talk about issues. Yet in retrospect there are themes, and there are policies, and there are trends, as there are fears, and people do harbour these psychologically. Even if I think, obviously, I have a place…Continue

Started by Peter Stephens. Last reply by Ute Mar 30.

The Case Against Conditioning 1 Reply

A review of Beyond Freedom & Dignity by B.F.Skinner Noam Chomsky: The New York Review of Books,December 30, 1971 I A century ago, a voice of British liberalism described the "Chinaman" as "an inferior race of malleable orientals."1 During the same years, anthropology became professionalized as a discipline, "intimately associated with the rise of raciology."2 Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: What is the…Continue

Started by Therese Okamoto. Last reply by Therese Okamoto Mar 29.

Happiness or Bliss

What do we want ? Happiness or Bliss?On going thru my notes of a lecture at a local theosophical center the other day,I came across this topic, which is very common in all philosophies.The topic was Theosophy and K.Happiness is momentary , but bliss is permanent.Therefore we must be always aware of our state while living in the world in all the stages of life.Is it not true?Thus transformation is very important.Otherwise bliss is far away!Continue

Tags: K, life, theosophy, transformation, happiness

Started by kant Mar 22.

Tao 6 Replies

http://thesecretofthegoldenflower.com/ch1.htmlthis book converted me to Taoism and i see zero hope of changing denominations since this is inclusive of all religions and all of their dogma and their goodnessall of the differences between all the religions becomes the same difference in this book COMMENTS ARE NOT BEING MONITORED (monitored isn't the word i'm looking for here but another one very like it, when i think of it i will come…Continue

Started by Therese Okamoto. Last reply by Therese Okamoto Mar 12.