Amun

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  1. Following is from the red book:

    "On what basis should I presume to teach you? I give you news of the way of
    this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your path therefore I
    / cannot teach you. 24 The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings,
    nor in laws. Within us is the way, the truth, and the life.

    Woe betide those who live by way of examples! Life is not with them. If
    you live according to an example, you thus live the life of that example, but
    who should live your own life if not yourselfr So live yourselves. 25
    The signposts have fallen, unblazed trails lie before US. 26 Do not be greedy
    to gobble up the fruits of foreign fields. Do you not know that you yourselves
    are the firtile acre which bears everything that avails you?There is only one way and that is your way. 27
    You seek the path? I warn you away from my own. It can also be the
    wrong way for you.
    May each go his own way."

    Leo´s way is not your own, nor anyone elses and there is no reason what is true for Leo should be true for you.

     


  2. 5 minutes ago, Amber said:

    Amun, you don't get it. And your comment is nasty and primitive and humiliating. You have no idea what was going on.

    David, I find your your insights and practical guidance among the top commentators here. Wisdom and time that you are willing to share! Please stay. It would be such a loss if you go. I have so many questions for you!  

    Your insights are priceless!

     

    I know, I wanted it to sound that way. See how it made him reconsider how he has been treating this fellow? The arrow hit the mark. I don't personally hold grudges against david or against anyone for that matter really. 


  3. 14 minutes ago, David Hammond said:

    Don't get me wrong..I genuinely don't like you. Ive been honest from the start..That's the effect you have on me..I'm not pretending to be a saint. I'm being honest with you because I think it will help you see how people feel about you. Nobody is playing sgt major with you. This is real. Im an enlightened being, i don't hide the darkness. I will respond to darkness with the same darkness. Like the world responds to you. Nobody likes big egos that lie to themselves. It triggers disintegration, causes emotional upheaval. That's why people don't like you, you're not genuine, you are controlled by a spiritual ego. You deny the potential of your ego to grow into a decent person and you hide away in spiritual concepts. That is not not good.

    50 minutes ago, David Hammond said:

    Michael doesn't want help. He doenst love himself enough to help himself. For me this conversation hopefully will act as a deterrent for anyone who thinks about going the route Michael has taken.

    Hopefully others will say that they don't want to end up like Michael and that will motivate them to make serious commitment to getting their life together.

    At the moment Michael is acting as an example for others. 

    1 hour ago, David Hammond said:

    Oh come on. Stop wallowing in self pity and stupid jokes that only you find funny. Start cultivating a mind that is useful in samsara. That's the point of all this. Until you do that you will be perceived as an idiot. I'm just a reflection of what others may think about you. Pathetic is the first thought that springs to mind. It's probably the first thought that springs to mind for women who feel your vibe. 

    4 hours ago, David Hammond said:

    You need to stop lying to yourself. Gambling is gambling. It's not an investment. Investments are more likely to give you returns because the game is set up that way. Gambling is a situation where suckers are taken advantage of.

    Lmao if that was what enlightenment was like then it would be ten times better to be "pathetic" as you say. You don´t carry a noble message nor noble intentions. You are using enlightenment as a free pass to be an asshole to Mikhael. Altough he isn´t the most normal fellow i have seen over here at least his defence mechanism isn´t as destructive as yours. Please go be "enlightened" somewhere else and don´t spread your "enlightenment" to us. Begone devil.

    -Sincerely, an unenlightened "pathetic" motherfucker.


  4. 2 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

    Don't tell me what to do.  How arrogant of you.  You're full of arrogance, anger, Ego, stress, a need to win, a desire to control, and a need to feel right and good.  And your words are not coming from a place of heart or a place of compassion, but from a desire to root out an "imposter" to use your words.  You need to do a lot more work on yourself before you attempt to castigate me or others in this kind of manner on here.

    I will adress the extended edited part of your comment. I do have a desire to root out an "imposter". So what you say is true. However it is not relevant in any way how arrogant, angry, egoic i am in the face of arguments i presented. If you adressed my arguments and showed me how i am wrong i would actually be quite happy to accept i am wrong. But you won´t adress them because i am such a lowly arrogant angry peasent that i am not good enough to criticise you. Only those who are as enlightened as big daddy Joseph can criticise Joseph. You need to take your own advice.


  5. 1 minute ago, Joseph Maynor said:

    Well, you're exhibiting a lot of Ego and the initial premise of your post was criticizing others for exhibiting Ego, so I am addressing your argument.  I'm showing that you're doing exactly what you're criticizing.  

    My Ego or my actions have nothing to do with the validity of my arguments. I never claimed i am egoless. My arguments are valid and you won´t adress them because you know you can´t.


  6. Just now, Joseph Maynor said:

    Look at all these words that you're invested in.  You're obsessed with being right.

    You didn´t even argue back and try to show how i wasn´t right. This is an invalid reply. If you had put up an argument and tried to show how i was wrong than i could have been obsessed with being right. You are putting no argument at all, you are only talking about my person rather than the content of my replies.


  7. 4 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

    You're not taking criticism so well yourself.  In fact, it's not resonating at all with you at all apparently.  Let he who is with out Ego virtue signal to the rest of us about Ego.  I will not let you stir up an old fight just to boost your own Ego and sense of feeling right.  That discussion was between me and Shin and it's over now.

    Translation: I know i am wrong that´s why i am going to avoid answering. I told Shin i am better than him and resorted to ad hominem.

    If you so badly need to know why i am being so bashy right now on you is because from many other discussions i have read involving, you made numerous claims of enlightenment, and even claimed you are so good because your blog posts have like views in 3 digits. I will tell you the truth. You come here everyday seeking validaiton that you are enlightened, then you feel good subconsciously because you are so enlightened and therefore better than others. This part of your psyche already surfaced when you attacked Shin´s person rather than his argument. Only if you could get out of your own head and face the critic you would know. The reason why you are avoiding critic so bad is because it will destroy your opinion that you are so enlightened, that you are so good. I do not make claims of enlightenment myself, but i know for a fact that you are an imposter.


  8. Just now, Joseph Maynor said:

    So, you're fighting me now based on the premise of whining that others were fighting?  Shin pointed this out to you too.  

    You are still avoiding critic. Shin told you that you need to let go of pride. You said you won´t take advice from him because you are better than him. Now you are avoiding the original content of the discussion because you know you are wrong and too proud to admit.


  9. Just now, Joseph Maynor said:

    No, you're trying to fight.  Examine yourself first.

    If you read my comment again, i didn´t make any claims about whether i am trying to fight or not. I said your reply was empty of content and you resorted to ad hominem in face of an argument you couldn´t take. You are still avoiding the original content about the criticism about you and making it about how it is about me trying to fight. Whether i am trying to fight or not is not important. What is important is that you avoid critic about yourself by making it about me.


  10. 1) "The same impressions are not produced by the same objects owing to the differences in animals."

    2) The same impressions are not produced by the same objects owing to the differences among human beings.

    3) The same impressions are not produced by the same objects owing to the differences among the senses.

    4) Owing to the "circumstances, conditions or dispositions," the same objects appear different. The same temperature, as established by instrument, feels very different after an extended period of cold winter weather (it feels warm) than after mild weather in the autumn (it feels cold). Time appears slow when young and fast as aging proceeds. Honey tastes sweet to most but bitter to someone with jaundice. A person with influenza will feel cold and shiver even though she is hot with a fever.

    5) "Based on positions, distances, and locations; for owing to each of these the same objects appear different." The same tower appears rectangular at close distance and round from far away. The moon looks like a perfect sphere to the human eye, yet cratered from the view of a telescope.

    6) “We deduce that since no object strikes us entirely by itself, but along with something else, it may perhaps be possible to say what the mixture compounded out of the external object and the thing perceived with it is like, but we would not be able to say what the external object is like by itself."

    7) "Based, as we said, on the quantity and constitution of the underlying objects, meaning generally by "constitution" the manner of composition." So, for example, goat horn appears black when intact and appears white when ground up. Snow appears white when frozen and translucent as a liquid.

    8) "Since all things appear relative, we will suspend judgement about what things exist absolutely and really existent. Do things which exist "differentially" as opposed to those things that have a distinct existence of their own, differ from relative things or not? If they do not differ, then they too are relative; but if they differ, then, since everything which differs is relative to something..., things which exist absolutely are relative."

    9) "Based on constancy or rarity of occurrence." The sun is more amazing than a comet, but because we see and feel the warmth of the sun daily and the comet rarely, the latter commands our attention.

    10) "There is a Tenth Mode, which is mainly concerned with Ethics, being based on rules of conduct, habits, laws, legendary beliefs, and dogmatic conceptions."

    source: wikipedia


  11. 2 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

    It's impossible?  Says who?
     

    What is that which says it's impossible?

    Who are you to judge my heart?

    Brother, the fact that you are defending suggests you have something you want to protect badly, and i can tell you what that thing is; it's your opinion of yourself. Take our word for it, we look from outside, you look from within. We can see certain things about yourself that you are unable to see and vice versa.