posted May 15, 2008 02:18 PM              

And ultimately,

LOVE is FAR more POWERFUL than hate!

posted May 15, 2008 02:22 PM              

Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty".

posted May 15, 2008 02:30 PM            

India would have remained poor a long time if it followed the worlds greatest socialist Mahatma gandhi and kept on producing clothes on cheap charkhas, than go for modern machineries.

That is he would be responsible for not killing people directly like Stalin, but indirectly.

Thank God Indians woke up to reality.

He may be a good person at heart. But a bad economist.

India is on path of progress because it is awakening itself to dangers of socialism. Its leaders and people love democracy. They love freedom.

You have to be stronger first before you start uplifting the poor. Otherwise its like a blind will lead another to pothole.

posted May 15, 2008 02:38 PM            

Ego is cunning, it wants you think that you are happy, ready to share your love. Ready to come out to the world and declare yourself a epitome of peace and love.
Beware of such falsity. Its all from ego. You know its ego because very soon you fall in to depression again.

I have said this before, a enlighened one cannot be depressed. If you ever are depressed you are not enlightened.

Geez - why I am discussing spirituality in a GU forum.

Mute.

posted May 15, 2008 02:42 PM            

Overgrow yourself LTT.

posted May 15, 2008 02:46 PM              

- From the film Amelie.

posted May 15, 2008 02:50 PM            

I am going to have both of you for dinner.

posted May 15, 2008 02:52 PM              

quote:

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I have said this before, a enlightened one cannot be depressed. If you ever are depressed you are not enlightened.

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Would you say you were "enlightened"?

posted May 15, 2008 02:58 PM            

Yes. we must learn to differentiate between loneliness and aloneness. The latter is more good for the seeker.

>>>If so, then I suppose nothing would ever make you upset or angry, right?

Yes, they could not.

posted May 15, 2008 03:00 PM            

I admire your willingness to take such a controversial position.

But I have to disagree with you about Gandhi.

He encouraged the Indians to make their own clothes in response to oppression from the British.
At the time that he proposed this method, it was to protest the overtaxation by the British.
It did indeed have the effect he intended; the double effect of saving poor people money,
and delivering an ecomonic blow to the government that sought to exploit the Indian people.
The movement he pioneered and spearheaded led to Indian independence from British colonization.

He was truly a Mahatma, a Great Soul.

I dont think you will feel any better about yourself
by looking for reasons to put-down a man like Gandhi.

If you are reading Nietzsche, please, be careful.
You would not be the first or the last to slide into a moral abyss.
Nietzsche was a great artist and thinker, and he has his place.
He took positions which were not necessarily his own,
because his mission was to counter-balance an atmosphere of sterility.
He claimed that he was actually serving morality by opposing it;
that he was exercising the muscles of a complacent morality,
by providing it with tests to oppose and overcome.

It is said, "Every artist needs a nemesis."

So, Nietzsche made himself the nemesis of morality.
But even this was a justification on his part,
to excuse the pathology that he suffered from,
and to find a positive element in his own sickness.
He did not have the will or the inclination to be humble,
so he discovered a kind of virtue in arrogance.
Although his ideas did help to prune and curb the excesses
of a blindly submissive humility, they were excesses themselves.

He is a truly compelling thinker and personality,
and it is easy enough to fall under his sway, if you are not careful.
He has a power to inspire and infuse us with enthusiasm,
and a will to break free from the grip of stagnation.
But he does not have the quiet, mature virtue of persistence.
And he had far more passion inside him than compassion.

Please, dont forget your heart.

posted May 15, 2008 03:34 PM            

I don't even take him seriously now because of his screwed morals and ethics.

http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum16/HTML/004096.html

posted May 15, 2008 03:37 PM            

Sorry, he is the most cunning person here on earth.