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  1. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    And why can't you understand the difference between 'wrongness', which IS real, and that which is wrong, which if wrong, cannot be real? 1+1=3 is an incorrect statement. The statement itself is real, but the content is not real. The fact of having content is real, but being incorrect...
  2. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    No, I never said that. However, that Brahman is Consciousness itself is integral to both the Vedas and the Upanishads, and is taught by all of the MAJOR schools of Hinduism. "In Hinduism, Brahman connotes the highest Universal Principle, the Ultimate Reality in the universe. In major...
  3. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    That 'brain is responsible for consciousness' is known as 'Emergent Theory', which is not actually a bona fide scientific theory, but merely a hypothesis offered up by the materialists as an explanation for its presence. What they cannot tell us is how the material brain creates non-material...
  4. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    No, you did not give your thoughts on Osho's content, but on his person as ad hominen attacks. To call it 'word salad' only demonstrates ignorance and convenient dismissal due to prejudice against the person making the statement. Did you not say that words are accurate descriptions of...
  5. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Have you ever asked the question: 'Who is it that is working, eating, and sleeping?', and if you have, what answer did you come up with?
  6. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Brahman is referred to by Hindus as 'Pure Consciousness'. Is that so? Is the brain responsible for the existence of consciousness, or is consciousness responsible for the existence of brains?
  7. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    But perception can be illusory and even delusional. We perceive a 'real' material world via our senses, but the 'material' world may, in fact, be an illusion. Now some Quantum physicists see the particle as not existing at all. That everything is the result of energy fields, 'particles' being...
  8. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    hmmmm....I guess you're just not understanding what I am saying to you: I don't care about his reputation; I only want to know what your thoughts are on the content of his commentary which I provided. What? If there was a reason for its coming into existence, then some intelligence had...
  9. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Please provide just one example in which words can accurately describe experience. re: 'Reason': Do you suppose that The Universe was reasoned into existence? You say you 'understand' Osho, then in the very next sentence resort back to an ad hominem attack against him. That is not being...
  10. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Do you agree that Brahman is the 'ground of all Being', which is the general Hindu view? Without consciousness, there is no mind. Something must already be in place for mind to come into play. Without mind, there is no subject/object split which sees 'this and that'; there is only Pure...
  11. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    But if mind is no longer coming into play, then one understands via insight, without mind, and therefore, without words. It is for this reason that the Buddha was able to pierce the facade of the phenomenal world and understand that 'all phenomena is empty of inherent self-nature", a seminal...
  12. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Because you have a prejudice against Osho, you have missed the meaning of his message. Would you care to comment on what I quoted from Osho, or have you not understood his words because you are still attached to this doctrine and that doctrine?
  13. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    'Mind' does not originally exist in consciousness, just as a cloud does not originally exist in the sky. I am using the word 'mind' as the agent of thought. However, we can be perfectly conscious without having a single thought. Consciousness sees; mind thinks. Thoughts arise and subside...
  14. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    The FACT that a wrong view exists is a reality, but the wrong view itself is not real. An illusion is a reality, but the content of the illusion is not real. That is why it is called an illusion. I see water up ahead on a hot desert road and think it to be real. My view is incorrect, but...
  15. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    There is no future; all is in this Present, and in no other time. New discoveries; new insights, are not made in the future; they are made in the here and now...always. The understanding comes before the words, and without words. Words are an attempt to encapsulate Reality in some...
  16. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    The right view of Reality is Reality itself; the wrong view is not-Reality, as it can only be either illusion or delusion. The reality is that wrong view is not-Reality. How can it be otherwise?
  17. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Mind not apart from consciousness, but still distinct from it, as it comes into play out of consciousness, already present.
  18. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    A child once asked a monk: "Grampa monk, what color is that tree?" to which the monk replied: "Why, it's the color that it is" :D
  19. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Uh huh. Before words; before thought; before mind, even, there is consciousness. Consciousness simply SEES directly into the true nature of Reality when it is uncontaminated by thought; mind attempts to define Reality by forming conceptual frameworks about Reality. As Maharishi Mahesh...
  20. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    ...which is where all the confusion and misunderstanding originates. It is far better, is it not, to silently point to That, to SEE directly, and without thought, what is, rather than to form conceptual frameworks about Reality. I mean, is it apparent to you that Reality is bigger...far bigger...
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