Is thought practical? The mind is naturally abstract and this is it's practicality to us in being not bound by form and being able to reorganize. What is the dividing line between exterior and interior, these are distinctions of thought. The body itself is a conception. If all are present and accounted for here is not a discrete location nor now an isolated time. I like your magnet example. The magnetic lines of force are a torus engine so to speak. A circulation that we perceive as the biofeedback loop and the body or magnet is manifestation of an eddy in the ocean of ambient organizing principle. We are not separate from the field but a local concentration of the field itself. What makes us feel separate is our field of view. We have a blind spot as our eyes a binocularly focused in one direction. We see in physical terms of sensory apparatus but this is nonsense without vision. Interiorly we appear as an unobserved observer which follows the mind being naturally abstract. For example normally you don't consider that you know what I am thinking. My thoughts cannot be reliably identified by looking at me. Being abstract again the mind is transcendent of form. Our mind is common currency as we share our thoughts. We hold each other in place creating an ego or level of identification for ourselves and for others.
To the extent that you are interested in my mortality you will find a loyal friend. I am concerned as much for yours as I am of mine. We exist in this world for and with each other. Of what interest is it of yours to classify me as Demigod. If you find me somehow different than yourself it is because you are unfamiliar. What is on your mind?
Speaks as much to limited perspective as much as to inconceivably complicated mass, i.e. "this could only be"...a single thought can fundamentally illumine a whole mind. Our time is indefinite.
" We hold each other in place creating an ego or level of identification for ourselves and for others." Our magic, to revisit a term, does not work without each other and together we are a miracle or miraculous event.
Don,t concern yourself with my moral compass and I follow a peaceful path.I know all about this we are all here for and with each other I have studied amongst other thing as a interest Theology and Buddhist Cosmology for many years. You come across as if your own inner enemy is not put to rest. This can be done by a little tolerance both written and I guess spoken also.
I come symbolically across the electronic web space and your interpretation of me is of your own devising. How have I threatened you? What enemy do you think I perceive? My only enemy is personal anxiety and at this level only my own thoughts can hurt me. You come to this thread calling what has been discussed crap. An assault on the integrity of the proceeding. So much for your peaceful path unless you consider shit slinging a peaceful endeavor. I didn't reach out and tweak your moral compass. You seem insecure.having someone reflect your versions back at you failing to describe in any detail what you consider crap. Or simply your own images frighten you. I don't want to know your life story, I have one of my own, it does not excuse the current rudeness. We can share amicably that portion we all call life. I have no interest in theology. Buddhist cosmology is a well versed entity, you can read about it, it does not imply an esoteric mastery. This thread is not about esotericism but coming to know what may be previously unrealized. Studying is one thing, street cred is another.
Well the material effect of what you say and what you agree or disagree with is your own emotional state. In the final analysis certainly no one else really gives a fuck and in that sense talk has a certain cheapness. But your own speech transfixes your own experience.
Jeepers creepers where did you get those peepers Glass eyes can't see, do not bare scrutiny. I do sing lullabies to my grandchildren.
Aahhh, another well considered and thoughtful reply..... what's the matter, the concepts go sailing over your head?
NO. She misunderstood what I said in thinking she had been accused of something or given a quality she does not posses. Just a playing with the word calm as a disarming gesture.
I am not quite sure what you mean, Thedope.......playing with the word calm as a disarming gesture?....what does that mean? I am not armed. I seek to truly understand what is meant, so i can go about my way one way or the other...... now, this is called a hidden meaning thread.....so let us look at the word calm...do you mean it simply as it is meant.....? That is wonderful then...How I like to roll and do roll...I say what I mean and mean what i say...no hidden meanings....ever........I like to take things at face value and look no further for hidden meanings......but....there is the other..... is is meant as a code word? calm.....3.1.12.13 to mean something else? if so then was it that meaning.......? 29? or is it even further hidden? 56.34.34.58.34.56?.....272? add 29 + 272=301? or do we just loop the numbers as they are..... or does it go even more hidden in meaning and calculations? what language do you speak, so i understand you? This is where I get lost and lose my way....... This is where I get frustrated. This is where I get ornery. This is where I feel hurt and alone. I seek to understand what anyone means.....i know what I mean.....I have stated what i mean....purely and simply..... I want to know, so the road is clear, as I make no assumptions....although my heart tells me I can at times...i still will not...unless I am absolutely sure..... It takes two...not just my wishes.....not just someone else's...it takes a common goal....not one at odds......not one at war..... so now, that we have explored the hidden.......I am not convinced of anything..... As, the numbers....i do not want to keep calm....as the word plain and simple...it is a nice word.....a calming word. and Noxious.....would you like Manhattan chowder or New England chowder....i can make a good chowder.