02-09-2013, 12:00 AM
Uncle Sam wrote:No, and it is confirmed by both yoga and buddhism traditions (including real Zen - not american - tradition, what you are obviously ignorant about too).
You see, this is problem with you, and you have "FI" too.
It is foreign energy in head centers. Buddha called it monkey mind, parasite. Flyers were called "deer hunters".
The FI is only energy, nothing else. So no: "The Devil made me do it"? i.e., transferring responsibility for ones thoughts and actions onto some ephemeral other?"
Look up what is phenomenology.
"Phenomenology: the philosophical study of the structures of subjective experience and consciousness." I'm not exactly sure how that fits into what either of us said here.
I would be interested in your sources when you quote Gautama.
Relevant here, quoting Gautama from "The Dhammapada" is, "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." That says nothing about some potential other "thing" inhabiting one's being and influencing it's actions and thinking. Therefore, I continue to suggest the notions of the FI and the Flyer (neither of which have been corroborated by anyone anywhere to my knowledge) are possibly convenient excuses for behaviors and thoughts and notions we carry about and are reluctant to accept.
You see, this is problem with you, and you have "FI" too.
It is foreign energy in head centers. Buddha called it monkey mind, parasite. Flyers were called "deer hunters".
The FI is only energy, nothing else. So no: "The Devil made me do it"? i.e., transferring responsibility for ones thoughts and actions onto some ephemeral other?"
Look up what is phenomenology.
"Phenomenology: the philosophical study of the structures of subjective experience and consciousness." I'm not exactly sure how that fits into what either of us said here.
I would be interested in your sources when you quote Gautama.
Relevant here, quoting Gautama from "The Dhammapada" is, "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." That says nothing about some potential other "thing" inhabiting one's being and influencing it's actions and thinking. Therefore, I continue to suggest the notions of the FI and the Flyer (neither of which have been corroborated by anyone anywhere to my knowledge) are possibly convenient excuses for behaviors and thoughts and notions we carry about and are reluctant to accept.