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  1. Papoon

    What is wrong with you ?

    How much longer than forever will it take ? LOL. Only kidding. #&%@$# almighty ! That was probably very rude. Maybe I have sadistic tendencies as well. And I'm beginning to suspect I may be a hypochondriac.
  2. Papoon

    What is wrong with you ?

    It's getting worse. I am obviously a self obsessed narcissist, because I am posting replies to myself on a forum. I must be a hysterical attention seeker. But I think that's at least a bit funny. Does that mean I may have psychopathic tendencies ? Because honestly, none of my faults really...
  3. Papoon

    What is wrong with you ?

    This could be serious. This thread still hasn't appeared in New Posts. Although it does show up in recent posts. So...I'm paranoid, suspicious and impatient. And I'm home alone drinking and smoking. And I have been putting up with an abusive relationship because the sex has been amazing. Wow...
  4. Papoon

    What is wrong with you ?

    I don't know what is wrong with me. Whatever it is, this thread was posted about 30 minutes ago and has not showed up when I reload 'New Posts' So maybe I am paranoid and insecure. Although, maybe I'm just perceptive, and notice stuff which could make me paranoid if I thought about it too...
  5. Papoon

    What is wrong with you ?

    Feel free to admit it.
  6. Papoon

    Are you okay with prostitution and porn and are you fine with your family practicing them?

    Sex is fundamental to all life. The love of it is the love of life. I have enjoyed porn since early teenage. Possibly earlier - when I was very young (pre adolescent) I enjoyed the bra and panty ads in my mother's Woman's Day magazines. I have worked in a sex shop selling porn and toys. It was...
  7. Papoon

    Evolution

    This does not explain how a genegic mutation resulted in building fortifications however. That is the kind of question that the theory tends to gloss over. I'm not trying to refute evolution BTW, but sometimes the explanations given for examples like this are somewhat glib, and tend to have a...
  8. Papoon

    Arabic Music

    I'm a big fan of the Erguner brothers (Turkish sufis) and you can't go past the Sabri brothers from Pakistan (qawali).Not exactly Arabic I suppose, but in a similar vein. And definitely not pop. I play various instruments, and the Arabic scale features heavily in my playing. For musicians - flat...
  9. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    The trying is futile. One is aware. The attempt to understand or analyse awareness blocks the profound peace, and the siddhis. In our culture we overvalue the analytical mind, IMO. There are 75 trillion cells comprising a human body. Of these, only 100 billion or so are brain cells (some...
  10. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    Not deliberately. It's just how it is. Yatha bhuta. ;)
  11. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    For fun, and deconstruction of certainties, and BTW, you asked me questions too. Also, because Buddhist logic is often presented as if it contains answers to philosophical questions, such as the one posed in the OP, which it does not, nor was ever intended to. Your turn...why were you asking me...
  12. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    I wouldn't. It's imponderable.
  13. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    So is it something ? If not, thoughts cannot be said to arise in it.
  14. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    So what is this 'space' ? Does it have inherent existence ?
  15. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    Exactly what is ' a moment ' ?
  16. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    I just quoted you back to you with 'self' and 'mind' swapped in sentence position. The two terms are pretty much interchangeable anyway, and especially to a Buddhist. By which I mean - the Buddhist position is that the aggregates (effectively, 'mind') are anatta (' not self' ) - which statement...
  17. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    No
  18. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    Yes, and in post-meditation as one's practice develops. The distinction between meditation and non-meditation is what is dissolved through right use of method. The important point here is to allow the meditation method to dissolve that distinction, rather than preempt the process by a...
  19. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    Yes. Purpose is the noetic act of becoming, and one cannot become what one is.
  20. Papoon

    What is self-awareness?

    Exactly. It is the 'focus on oneself' which is one and the same as 'the natural world'. Ba, or The Higher Self, is the reification of unfabricated mind. Transcendence is the natural state when the noetic act of 'being someone' is not active.
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