goinfor11x7 said:
God said to Moses: "I am that I am." (Why bother asking the question to begin with?) There is no answer--just as there is no beginning and there is no end.
No answer? Yes!! No answerl!! Ahhhh, yes!!! I feel such relief!!!!
That's very interesting. I came across some OLD Buddhist text that said 'The very act of asking or raising a question brings into existence the need for an answer.'
But still I very much enjoy debating and thinking about THIS. It just seems so very weird to me that we exist and that we know that we do. It does not matter how far you go to understanding the way things work it is still baffling that anything exists at all. I mean, what is this all about?
Many schools of thought think that getting in tune with nature is the correct route to happiness. I can see how this could be true. They propose that nature asks no questions. It simply IS. So the way to tune in to balance and harmony with nature is to just BE. To simply experience and be aware of yourself. Very much like a certain type of meditation.
I believe that a balanced way of being is to meditate on awareness or in other words simply be but be aware of yourself at all times. Then at other times question everything. Never simply accept what some book tells you or what some person tells you. THINK, THINK and THINK some more. This is what has led me to many of my conclusions so far. I have a natural tendancy to question everything, to think about things in my own way for very long periods of time. It's just how I am and I've done it since I was a child.
I also think that reading or listening to speaches is important and has gone a long way to show me many different ways of interpreting reality. But what it comes down to is participating in the act of thinking about everything for a long time.
I find that many people have never really considered reality at all which to me seems pretty insane. Some think about it for a small amount of time and then say 'I'm an atheist.' or 'I'm a Christian.' but this is not based on very much thought. Also many people will just absorb what a book says and not have to think about it for themselves. We are here so it would seem logical to try to work out the nature of reality but many people (Watermelon heads) simply become totally absorbed in the culture of the time and never dare to go beyond and really ask the big questions. These people often become uncomfortable when you throw a big question at them and are usually totally unequiped to deal with it. They are, in a word, scared, of what may be so they never delve into it.
I think it is a real blessing to have a mind that thinks for itself all of the time. I do come across people and philosphers that I will agree with on a few points and sometimes I'll agree with everything that they say but only because I've thought about it myself and have come to the same conclusion as them.
Kal-el you asked me where I got this information from. It's a combination of things. Reading, listening and thinking but more of the latter. I listen to speaches on the nature of reality every night and I read philosophy, mysticism, physics, etc during the day. But the most important thing is just thinking about it for yourself which it seems to me that you do. That is the most important thing of all. Having a logical and inquisitive mind are the main necessities for progress. It is a life long quest for me. I spend hours researching and just thinking over different solutions to any given problem. Wanting to know is what it is all about. Then you will find ways of working it out. The more you want to know, the greater effort you will go toward finding out. I enjoy the journey very much so in that sense it is very worth while. Also my quest has led me into some pretty amazing, ineffable, inexplicable states of mind.
Some of the knowledge I've come across has been pretty well guarded for a long time. Only being given to the highest members of secret societies. As a rule, the more difficult to grasp or find the knowledge is the more usefull it is.
I won't just show you where to find it because if you are ready and if you are to a point of psychological development where you are ready to absorb and understand the more subtle information then it'll come to you on it's own, which it seems to be doing.
The fact that you agree with me on some of my logical statements shows that you are partaking in some form of discovery and as I said before, that is the most important thing. You see I make posts like the ones past in this thread and very few people probably understood what I was saying. That is because it takes a certain amount of development to understand such concepts. If you are to a level where you can process the more complicated ideas then chances are it would come to you on your own anyway. The way to move up the levels of capability of understanding more and more complicated concepts is to think. To think for yourself. An understanding of many of the things that I hold as truth depends apon an understanding of some easier to grasp aspects of the nature of reality. Like a foundation on which to build. That is why many people miss the point because you cannot skip any stage of the development. Without the foundational knowledge there can be no understanding of the really important stuff. You can lead people through a series of logical statements to attempt to take them to a point that is hopefully beyond their usual way of thinking but aftreward they will usually return to where they started. The more time you spend pushing your boundaries the further you will go.
