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I would say that bravery is a relative term, as it depends on the circumstances and the individual in question. If something is easy for an individual to do then to do it is not brave. You have to be risking something in order to be brave. This could be done by sticking to your principles or...

I like your Avatar picture. What does it represent?

Thanks Snoopy!!

If I had the money to buy you a car, the car would be yours. TU:D

Maybe I need to find myself a teacher. TU:p

I am a firm believer in the idea that all religions, and philosophies too, are based on universal truths. This is why the scriptures of so many different religions agree with each other. So the defining of each religion is either to give the person making the definition a sense of spiritual...

Agreed. Very good point.

Thanks Sancho. Maybe I created this Koan because I felt that I needed to think more about the subject of the self, or maybe as I have some understanding of No Self then I created it to prove this point. In which case it was created to fan my ego, which would render this Koan useless to me...

If I didn't have an empty bank account that would be fine.:) TU

This is difficult to answer. I am reading a book called No Boundary by Ken Wilber which states that you are your senses, you are your experiences. There is no boundary between you and your experiences. In the book this is referred to as Unity Consciousness, meaning that there is no boundary...

I agree that all of these places are part of one whole, of course, it is our body. I was referring to the self which considers the body as 'mine', that thinks my toe is hurting, I have banged my head. That is the self that does not exist. The body exists but the kind of mind that considers...

Hi Snoopy. The middle way of the Buddha suggests that the self simply doesn't exist in the way we think it does. It is actually a mental continuum that is ever changing. It is a rejection of the "inherent, independently existing self," but not without replacing it with something else. TU:D

. Too true. Thanks for your comment shawn. Buddhists believe that there is not a self in the way we usually think of the self (Captain Kirk self on the bridge controlling all of our actions), but in fact this permanent never changing self doesn't actually exist, it is an illusion. We have a...

This is for the Buddha-Heads out there. After thinking about that famous saying 'Know Thyself' I wrote a Koan on what is meant by the self. I would love to know if anyone thinks that it either has some wisdom to it or whether you think it is nonsense. To know yourself is to know that you have...

Thank you nativeastral, I enjoyed watching that talk. I'll watch some of the others now. TU:D

Oh sorry, I miss understood. UT:D

Thank you for your comment Thomas. From my point of view your statement here is incorrect as I don't believe that the 'I' exists in the way you suppose here. Our capacity to make distinctions between things is the reason why we believe we have an 'I' or a self. We make a distinction between...

Presumably the Idiots Guide is written by someone else, not Ken Wilber himself. His book No Boundary is quite accessible and explains his ideas in an understandable way, though I do agree with a lot of what he has to say, so this will help with getting into the book. Regardless I don't think...

Two very good questions c0de. The answers maybe beyond me but I'll have a go anyway. I am a believer in the concept of Yin and Yang, Yin being 'negative' and Yang being 'positive' Qi, or energy, which permeates everything in the universe. . This last sentence is exactly what I meant by...

Thank you Snoopy, I will certainly give that book a read. I am reading a book at the moment that I can definitely recommend. No Boundary by Ken Wilber. It's mind expanding, in the best sense. :D