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Is everything I wrote after that :) You see, most of the time when people begin a discussion here at IO, I've noticed quite a bit of deconstruction of the form, and little attention to the substance. Taoism, Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, all of these are the ideas we overlay onto reality. What I...

Why not? Erudite is a valuable but rare mineral, similar to kryptonite, except it is used to sap the strength of Stupid Man instead of Super Man.

Contemplating the way is one thing. Seeing it all around, you become aware of the intrinsic nature of things and their non thingness. The eternal duality, the myriad forms. There is a deep peace in seeing how things arise have their time and then return to nowhere and nothing. The study of...

I should have known that someone as erudite as yourself would be familiar with Matthiew Ricard. :)

I'm genuinely sorry you feel this way. I cannot be responsible for how you see things or what you perceive my intent is. My guess is that you've been hurt pretty badly in the past, and most likely treated poorly for you to see criticism where none is intended. I'm talking about a very real...

So you feel that the phrase was belittling? In this case you may be seeing something I did not intend. I don't think people's faith is merely a support system, their thinking and feeling process around that faith is. So here I think there is a confusion of meaning. Every good counselor is...

Yes, that's the point. Which means that your point of view, your story is just as valid as mine, and like mine there are elements you choose and elements that are left out. That is how stories and even songs are made. If I wrote a song there would be notes I would use and some I would not...

I think that most threads I've seen over the years end up dead because the spirit of inquiry is absent. There is an intriguing issue here that isn't being touched, and that is the capricious nature of divine intervention. Apparently in most of our stories about miraculous events God decides to...

Now that's funny!

I think I'd been using mindfulness meditation mostly on the surface. Because of the CPTSD, I often didn't understand my own feelings or what was happening with me. Also, there was a lot of avoiding when I should have been facing things head on, and sometimes I cling to something when I really...

I've learned that my anger cannot be controlled in the normal way through force of will, or repression. As a Buddhist, I've learned that emotions come and go, especially because of mental illness. I'm bipolar, ADHD, and suffer from complex PTSD. It would be foolish to think the anger that arises...

Actually the author Peter Levine, who has written several books on how trauma is stored in the body as well as the brain, relates how a caring presence can help trauma from setting in after an emergency. As a sufferer of CPTSD, having a calm presence nearby when I'm in a flashback can be so very...

And this surprises you? o_O

The fact is, our brain can be fooled in so many ways it isn't funny. Most folks don't want to know that because they are only interested in how other people can be fooled. All it takes is a psych 101 class to point out how all our senses are routinely fooled, but we fail to notice. The list of...

You know what I like about you the most? That you are so genuine about your process, even when it isn't giving you the answers you desire. I find that charming and very human, thanks for that! I know that in everyday language this stuff sounds esoteric and maybe even nonsensical. When I say...

The whole point of the thread was to hold open the door to thinking about things in different ways. People who explore their own thinking might have fun doing this, but others are pretty sure they're where they need to be. It doesn't matter which really, because it's all just intellectual...

By George I think he's got it!

Are you sure?

Benjamin Whorf was the first person to really study the relationship between the way we think and our language. From there, the science of psycho-linguistics took off. Today we have psycho-neuro-linguistics, because we have the tools to map our neurology as well. But it all started with Whorf...

Maybe not that close, but somewhat due to culture differences. It really show up in collectivist culture as opposed to individualist culture. For example, Japanese students taking a test will answer questions one way, and when they take the same test in English the answers change. Another way...