What is love, compassion? 11 Replies

I am really interested in finding this out. It is a question, a matter that is always avoided, or the most obscure thing to people. But it may hold the key to everything else. Some may claim that they have insight first and then love comes. It does not really matter as long as it is there. So, can we go into it?Continue

Started by Si. Last reply by Peter Stephens 14 minutes ago.

Talking about awareness. 54 Replies

Can we look at this tendency to maintain a divisive attitude while talking about awareness? So often we are left with a personal interpretation and this is obviously not awareness. Of course if you have a point to make it may be questioning something of an unrecognized attitude, and this makes it difficult to understand. Let's say we don't start with awareness and ask, what is it we are trying to do? Please, I use the word “we” to say, you and me together, so let's not get bogged down in…Continue

Started by Peter Stephens. Last reply by Peter Stephens 28 minutes ago.

On Understang desire fully 1 Reply

What is it that man moves through a lot of desires only.what is this desire and why?understanding of this in all its aspects will probably give us utmost peace and happiness.

Tags: movement, happiness, understanding, peace, Desire

Started by kant. Last reply by kant 9 hours ago.

What is the real purpose of life? 2 Replies

Real purpose of life, if not understood, then one moves in darkness only, which is , therefore productive of bitterness and frustration only!

Tags: frustration, bitterness, life, purpose, Real

Started by kant. Last reply by kant 9 hours ago.

"You are the world" 231 Replies

It is a great responsibility.Continue

Started by Si. Last reply by Si 13 hours ago.

Is Revolution Enough? 40 Replies

Krishnamurti spoke of a psychological revolution. But is revolution enough? Why not a total dissolution?The psychological is put together by the brain through thinking and memory. It is a mental construction, a mental "world," and at its center is the ego, the "I," the thinker, the self or whatever else one might choose to call it.This psychological world has no reality other than thought until it is "activated" and made physical. In other words, "the past" is brought forward into the present…Continue

Started by Marcus. Last reply by Marcus 15 hours ago.

Perception

Interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyu7v7nWzfo&feature=em-subs_digestContinue

Started by Chris Dent yesterday.

What Does it Mean to Transcend? 48 Replies

Reading a description of thinker-thought authored by Marcus:"The nature of the self is thought. The structure of thought (hence the structure of the self) is the comparison, evaluation, judgment of memory to arrive at the most favorable outcome for the thinker -- the self. The thinker and the thought are one, a unity. There is no thought without the thinker, and vice-versa."my response was this is a good model to describe conditioning.  It seems safe to say that it is how at least 90% of the…Continue

Started by Thalia. Last reply by Thalia Jul 17.

An Important Distinction 44 Replies

There is a difference between what is meant by "pleasant" and what is meant by "pleasure." "Pleasant" is a sensation. "Pleasure" is a remembering of that sensation and a thinking about it.The distinction is critical. "Pleasant" is an awareness of a physical condition. "Pleasure," on the other hand, is the thinker and his thought -- " That felt good. I (i.e., the thinker) want more of it.""Pleasure" is desire. "Pleasant" is awareness.Continue

Started by Marcus. Last reply by kant Jul 13.

Living and Experiencing. 9 Replies

A friend said to me, they don't have a lot of experience, don't have much awareness of history, or culture, and think they need this to broaden themselves. But experience is always the past. History is the past. Tradition is the past. Of course I can study, research, get training, and gain skills and ability. But to actually be seeing clearly and completely understanding the world, I have only to look right now, immediately, and be alert, and there is fully all the experiencing.Continue

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