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  1. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Those people state that 'chi is thought to be the life force'. They are indoctrinated by Western science, which says that chi is not provable via scientific means, science being the only valid form of knowledge, in the eyes of the West. Thus, the qualifying statement. Having said that, modern...
  2. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    You're obviously confused. Where did I express the belief that black cats bring bad luck? How does the mystical view imply the supernatural? I use the word 'supernatural' to mean an entity having power over nature. 'Chi' is the power of nature itself.
  3. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    "a finger pointing to the moon" is a Zen metaphor for silently pointing to Reality. The intuitive mind must be awake enough in order to SEE that the statement is not referring to the literal moon.
  4. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    The point is that, whether he knew he lost his keys inside the house or not is not the point. The point is that he's looking for them in the wrong place, the metaphor being that man is looking for the keys to reality outside his own nature, and he's using the wrong tools to do so, namely, the...
  5. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Everything that exists, has existed, or will exist, AS A TOTALITY, is The Absolute, since there is no relative 'other' to which that totality, whatever it is comprised of, known or unkown, can be compared. The physical Universe is defined as all of space and time[a] (collectively referred to...
  6. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    mmmm......I don't entertain a belief in a God having power over nature, so no. I am not into the supernatural. You? I am not involved with it, so don't know what you're babbling on about, and why it excites you so. Yes, you lie. Yup! Misinformed, for sure. Yup! Failure to see...
  7. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Why would he do that when he knows that he lost them somewhere inside the house? But there is no factual evidence for the mystical experience, something I have mentioned over and over again. So why do you persist in demanding factual evidence for an experience that is beyond mere fact?
  8. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    What evidence? The people who write these definitions must say it that way because they have been indoctrinated in Western rational thought, which says that 'chi' is not testable via scientific methodology. However, modern medicine is now slowly adopting many of these methods as valid...
  9. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Those proceedings require an observer. Arguing about whether the phenomenon exists in the absence of any observer is a sterile exercise, as no observable consequences result. Phenomena is only experienced via perception, and the tools of perception. Without perception, where is there...
  10. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    The Universe is THE Absolute. I am using the word 'universe' to mean everything that exists, including intergalactic space, mulitiverses, and alternative universes, etc. It is The Absolute because there is no relative 'other' to which it can be compared, and that is because The Universe is...
  11. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Convention. Now tell me why he negated the existence of particles. And how material reality can emerge from the Quantum Vacuum, which he calls 'absolutely nothing'. And why he said that we ouirselves are made of fields, and not particles.
  12. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    A 'serious' *cough* response may frighten you unless strapped into the buffer of a nice, safe metaphor.:p:D
  13. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    The only woo I detect is the woo that says that Chopra is a wooster, when no evidence is provided to support the claim. The problem with you is that woo is knit tightly into your brain preventing you from listening to the content of the alleged 'wooster', resulting in a kind of knit-wit...
  14. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Logic does not follow. Whether different or not, an observer is still necessary to detect the reality. That 'reality' is perception experienced in consciousness, always. What is it that knows it is experiencing perception? How can the fish know? It is born into the sea. You are born...
  15. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    You have just provided it. Your mind is still in a conditioned state, specifically, that of the subject/ object split. In reality, no such split exists in nature. If there is only one reality, as you have noted, then there are no 'parts' to it; 'parts' being only an idea in your mind where...
  16. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Sounds like an absolute statement to me. :p
  17. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    heh heh...I mean 'go to your room and meditate in silence'. The mystical experience is not a philosophy, so you have nothing to worry about. Where did I say 'my' mystic version of Hinduism and Zen is 'better'? I never said any such thing. I was just trying to demonstrate to you that they are...
  18. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    You demand evidence for something you are already in possession of. I cannot help you. Go inside, and stop your neurotic fidgeting about for 'evidence'. You're like the man who lost his keys inside his house, but is looking for them outside on the street under a street lamp.
  19. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    In a sense, yes, but the newborn is unaware of it. Empty and no-mind are as close as we can get using words. Emptiness, or Sunyata is what our true nature is, so how can it be contaminated? Don't understand your last statement/question.
  20. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    You and some of the others still don't get that Ultimate Reality does not fit into a nice neat little box, the kind you and they are used to. You want something palatable to the rational mind so it can make 'sense' of it, but there is no such thing. Ultimate Reality, as the name implies, is...
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