UnbornTao

Almost everyone haha

@Rishabh R cool

No.

Why? Isn't there a conflation here of consciousness with something relative such as ability, or state? What if you were able to use your body more skilfully after enlightenment? Maybe you'd be able to walk straight for the first time!

How come every civilization throughout history has fallen? I'm extracting juicy insights from the series Foundation on this matter. Asimov was a smart fellowñ.

Consider that the nature of happiness may currently be unknown to us, hence the confusion on the matter.

The truth is that nobody knows. Since anyone who can respond to this thread is alive, what happens after one dies hasn't been gone through. Maybe you can get what you are which might already be free from life and death but presently this is a possibility that's yet to be realized.

Our culture's notion of intelligence is rather narrow. A lot of intelligence and mindfulness are involved in sports.

just a joke

Banana!

@Thought Art Just wanted to share that photo.

The Tao of Cooking.

Two words: walking

I'd venture to say cultural programming.

Why making up so much bs? Contemplate.

Exactly, that's my point. Being isn't a being.

Resorting to mind and making arguments is useless. Your communications stink of conclusions and cosmology. You're full of it. Stop speculating, wonder and contemplate. Saying that eveything is a thought doesn't say much, does it? You're making an assertion of something that's left to be known. If we were to contemplate what a thought it, that'd be better. Thought has a form and is relative. How could the nature of reality be contained in it, which is a function of mind?

I think short of profound direct consciousness, we're all truly full of bs. Remember to be honest.

Enlightenment isn't a thought, a state, an experience or a perception. It's a direct consciousness of the absolute nature of you, existence, space, etc.

No speculation. Grasp what you are first, the rest of your related questions may sort themselves out afterwards. That'd be every being, I imagine.

Not sure about Leo and won't be able to tell in the end, but the most likely scenario is that nobody here has become conscious of what love is. We should start with that.

What is love then? Go contemplate.

You choose. I'd prefer starting a dedicated account from scratch so that "personal" and "professional" are clearly delineated. You'd start afresh, with less reservations and resistance over what you share.

It's clear how easy it is for people to fall into believing good-sounding claims about love. It makes us feel good. You can see they want to eat it up indiscriminately. How come? Doing this easily leads to fantasizing about it rather than grasping it. We must start by admitting we don't know what love is. Why do you want to contemplate love but not death and suffering? There might be a bias there. You don't call an experience of dog shit an experience of love. Why?