This is all too immense for thought 65 Replies

For new readers, this is a continuation of the discussion thread about memory: Is there any part of us which is not memory? Paul: Why does thought have to be involved? You are not even questioning this. Involved in what? If it's just the shoddy little game of making oneself feel better, which we all seem to play, then thought is there, heading the field. But I might not be whom thought says I am, and you might not be whom you are, or think you are. Sir, this is all too immense for thought. We…Continue

Started by Paul D. Last reply by Paul D 49 minutes ago.

The desire 'to know' 2 Replies

Socrates was told at Delphi « Know your Self ».Did the oracle mean: ‘re-cognize’ who you are Socrates…or, rather did she mean.. ‘Heal Thyself Socrates’?To re-cognize (roughly speaking: ‘to know again’) - implies searching for ‘the one’ I want to know about…and this search is a ‘trick’ played on itself by thought - this search means suffering. While ‘I’ tries to finds out’, ‘realizes’, ‘recognizes’…I suffer!This ‘recognition’ turns ‘the ignorant’ into ‘one who knows ‘ and who ‘sees’ that he(she)…Continue

Started by Joseph Valencia. Last reply by Peter Stephens 2 hours ago.

If you Remember, Then you cannot be Listening.

the spirit will move you when the words enter your souland in that response only Listening will create an intelligent question instead of knowing instead of thinking that you know think about what you don't know if for no other reason that the only way you are really Listening no matter how much you SAY you're Listening is when you're wondering so just by thinking that you are Listening you're not really actually Listening to be what is Listening you are waiting to share how wonderfully the…Continue

Started by Therese Okamoto yesterday.

Time 35 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 Ken yesterday.

The Higher Pantheism by Tennyson

The Higher PantheismBy Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) THE SUN, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains— Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns? Is not the Vision He? tho’ He be not that which He seems? Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Earth, these solid stars, this weight of body and limb, Are they not sign and symbol of thy division from Him? Dark is the world to thee: thyself art the reason why; For is He not all but thou, that…Continue

Started by anyone on Tuesday.

Last Lines by Emily Brontë

Last Lines By Emily Brontë (1819–1848) NO coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven’s glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. O God within my breast,  Almighty, ever-present Deity! Life—that in me has rest, As I—undying Life—have power in Thee! Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts: unutterably vain;  Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main, To waken doubt in one Holding so…Continue

Started by anyone on Tuesday.

Indian Meditation By Arthur Symons

Indian Meditation By Arthur Symons WHERE shall this self at last find happiness? O Soul, only in nothingness. Does not the Earth suffice to its own needs? And what am I but one of the Earth’s weeds? All things have been and all things shall go on Before me and when I am gone; This self that cries out for eternity Is what shall pass in me: The tree remains, the leaf falls from the tree. I would be as the leaf, I would be lost  In the identity and death of frost, Rather than draw the…Continue

Started by anyone on Tuesday.

Of Mere Being

Of Mere Being by Wallace StevensThe palm at the end of the mind,Beyond the last thought, risesIn the bronze decor,A gold-feathered birdSings in the palm, without human meaning,Without human feeling, a foreign song.You know then that it is not the reasonThat makes us happy or unhappy.The bird sings. Its feathers shine.The palm stands on the edge of space.The wind moves slowly in the branches.The bird’s fire-fangled feathers dangle down..Continue

Started by anyone on Monday.

Is there any part of us which is not memory? 111 Replies

Is there?Continue

Started by Paul D. Last reply by Paul D Feb 28.

Self is within the whole 1 Reply

The whole includes the self.this may be remembered always while interacting in the society.

Tags: society, interacting, whole, Self

Started by kant. Last reply by kant Feb 26.