Carl-Richard

Your purpose should be to differentiate between the relative and The Absolute

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3458764513820554733/

Who's to say that the next mutant does not have a significantly higher mortality rate?

You gotta be more specific than that.

17:56-19:12 Destiny accidentally explains the difference between the introverted judging functions (Fi/Ti) and the extroverted judging functions (Fe/Te).

You first

Yes it happens a couple of times a week and it scares me shitless.

What do you call an infinitely intelligent being?

Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective and distilling it down to its essence. JP at his best.

I sense a hidden prescriptive statement in there somewhere...

Therein lies your confusion. Pain, physical or mental, will arise dependently on some immediately identifiable condition. Suffering can arise independently of such conditions. For example, you may suffer something today that you experienced 10 years ago that caused you a lot of pain, simply by reliving the memory and identifying with that pain. That process is independent, because there is technically no limit to how much you can keep repeating that experience in your head. To reiterate, the pain that is remembered and that occured in the moment itself, that pain was dependent on the situation (e.g. the actuality of stubbing your toe or losing something you value), but the process of remembering it, identifying with it and then suffering it may happen independently of that type of situation. So even though suffering can happen independently, suffering may indeed include the experience of physical or mental pain (or be triggered by such pain through association), but then that pain is dependent on the situation caused by the suffering (namely the recall of and self-identification with a memory). The end of suffering simply means that you end the repetitive, compulsive and mental reconstruction of and identification with past events in such a fashion that it no longer enslaves your current state. This is through the progressive relinquising of attachments and desires through spiritual development.

Treat the source of all addiction.

The problem is that in order to be this obsessed about Islam in particular, you're most likely also harboring some sketchy right-wing views.

It means that if you want to end dissatisfaction, you should abolish desires

Jens Stoltenberg July 22. 10 year anniversary speech https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_185902.htm

If you understand what is meant by suffering and what is meant by desire, it makes perfect sense. My first ever trip was a lesson in The Four Noble truths. I'll try to rephrase it for you: 1. You're never satisfied. 2. You always try to gain satisfaction. 3. Satisfaction is attained by letting go of the need to gain satisfaction. 4. Spirituality is the path to letting go of the need to gain satisfaction.

Brilliant.

Somehow they managed to make it sound even spookier than the original ?

I'm not denying that animals or children or autistic people may have a vastly different experience of reality than "normal" people, and that this state may be devoid of many of the kinds of thought-laden suffering that the majority of humans experience. However, historically and pragmatically speaking, enlightenment is a term created by "normal" people in order to describe a level of attainment or a process, namely the human experience of self-transcendence. When you take a term that is so tightly meshed together with a specific context and start separating it from that context, it kinda starts losing its meaning. After all, when you're thinking about "enlightened people", you're thinking about humans.

It could be a case of the pre/post fallacy in a broad sense. People think the same about animals and small children. They conflate the lack of presence of the thought faculty with the lack of thought-identification. I think the term enlightenment deals with a transformation from a thought-identified state to a non-identified state. If there didn't exist the capacity of thought-identification in the first place, it doesn't make much sense to call it an enlightened state. Enlightened people are very capable of deep thought. They might not either experience thoughts the same way as a thought-identified person, or they may lack the first-person experience of it all together. Regardless, they do indeed express the behavior associated with having a thought faculty. Small children and advanced animals are also capable of a degree of cognitive activity that may be classified as thought, and some may even be capable of creating a self-concept and thus identification. So even there, it may not necessarily be the case that they would qualify as existing in a state free of the drama of thoughts.

Orange stomping on Blue while Green is watching:

I'm the third person who thinks God is everything but is too afraid to fully commit to that reality.

There is this girl at work who has a certain energy that makes me think about this. Like, what past lives lead to her to become like this? Maybe I'm just fooling myself because of her Indian ethnicity

So powerful! Every time I'm at the gym and about to do a heavy set, I imagine that I'm Eric Bugenhagen and it makes me 50% stronger

i.e. it's all Love.