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  1. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    'constant, never-ending change' is maya. Your attention is caught by the foreground of existence, which is seeming 'change', just as the fish, born into the sea, is caught by the foreground, which is food and predator, and which does not know that he is in the sea. But you are forgetting the...
  2. godnotgod

    Do you sleep with stuffed animals?

    What? Stuffed Animalia? Nah, kidzstuff. I now cuddle up with my... PVC Inflatable Unicorn Girl Swim Ring:D:rolleyes:
  3. godnotgod

    Do you sleep with stuffed animals?

    My goodness! Soon you'll be asking us who wears... Have some sense of decency, boy! Cheez!:eek::p
  4. godnotgod

    Re-purposing old computer junk

    The EDUP line of USB WiFi adapters are pretty much plug and play with Linux, in my experience. No drivers needed and instant recognition of your SSID. Just enter your password and connect. Or, if you have a tower or desktop with an available PCI or PCIe slot, Netis internal wifi adapters come...
  5. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Brahman is maya, but the view from maya does not see Brahman as it is. It is an unclear view, because it does not see Brahman accurately. Conditioned view is not a clear, or pure, view. But Brahman is attributeless, so it cannot 'have' consciousness as a characteristic or property. But...
  6. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    We either see things as they are, or as they are not. Seeing things as they are is to see Reality as it is; seeing things as they are not, is to see Reality as something else. "The Universe is The Absolute, as seen throught the glass of Time, Space, and Causation" Vivekenanda If we fail to...
  7. godnotgod

    Some thoughts about the difference between Hinduism and the Abrahamic Faiths

    While we do say that the jiva 'becomes' Brahman, or that the seeker 'becomes' the Buddha, that is not actually the case. Nothing 'becomes' anything else, because in these instances, the jiva is already Brahman, and has always been Brahman; the seeker of Nirvana is an illusion, which is why it...
  8. godnotgod

    Re-purposing old computer junk

    You can run a program called DosBox inside of Linux for your old apps and games. If that doesn't work, you can install VirtualBox inside of any OS, and run the guest OS inside of it, fully installed.
  9. godnotgod

    Re-purposing old computer junk

    It's a lot different than Linux in days of yore. More highly polished, and easy to use, for the most part. The hardest part is in partitioning the drive, but auto partitioning is an option if you only want Linux on the drive. Try Linux Mint, XFCE desktop. Fast and stable and easy to use...
  10. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    By 'pure', I mean 'clear'. Hold up a distorted glass pane to an object, and it appears distorted to the mind, but in reality, the object itself is not distorted. The rational mind is a distorted (ie conditioned) glass through which we see Reality. We do not see that the Universe is, in fact...
  11. godnotgod

    Christian theology on salvation and being a witness

    There should be an AA for addiction to Christianity. Christians seem to have a fetish about 'Jesus'. We Buddhists have a saying: "Every time you say the word 'Buddha', you should wash your mouth out with soap!" Christians might follow suit. Alan Watts once said: "Christians are like men...
  12. godnotgod

    Re-purposing old computer junk

    If you want the best performance, use the XFCE desktop version of Linux Mint. If your hardware is really old, Zorin or even Puppy Linux Quirky are even faster.
  13. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Then it is pure, is that not so? That being the case, then, that which is ordinary and mundane is, in reality, none other than Brahman itself. Brahman's appearance as 'the world' is maya. ....and Brahman, being consciousness which constitutes all things, includes evolution. Therefore...
  14. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Question is quite simple: Is the consciousness of Brahman unconditioned or conditioned? Can you answer? Are they? Is the mnd that is deluded the same mind that sees the truth? Is the mind that dreams the same mind that awakens? Is the jiva that seeks Brahman, not Brahman itself?
  15. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    OK, so we agree that Brahman is conscious, but that there is something different about it than human consciousness*. The nature of Brahman has been referred to as being Unconditioned. So would it be fair to say, as it would agree with your view of Brahman, that human consciousness is...
  16. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    So first of all, the Brahman you give credence to is conscious, and it manifests itself as the interplay of several forces of nature. Is that accurate, so far, according to your view? Thanks for the physics lesson.
  17. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    What is 'possible' is only that more and more data leads to a hypothesis, that, when tested, remains consistent and stable, so that predictions can be made about phenomena, none of which reveals the true nature of Reality. So, no. Science cannot show us the true nature of Reality; only its...
  18. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Which is 'wrong view', right?
  19. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Then Brahman is conscious.
  20. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    We evolved a brain suited to navigating our environment for survival via perception. However, we continue to utilize perception in an attempt to navigate that which is responsible for our existence and that of our environment, when, as you pointed out, even our ordinary perception of our world...
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