How to cope with being in Lockdown.

[Dontaskme]

"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? Strengthen your power of faith more than ever." - Nichiren Daishonin

[Dontaskme]

For some people, they may feel as though they have lost their freedom. And yet you have never been free nor have you ever been incarcerated. Either which way, true freedom is in not desiring either outcome but just resting in pure being ...this is what it is to be a real human being.

Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
If the Buddha-Nature is seen,there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.

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[Dontaskme]

No news is good news.




Zen Cat say: Zen isn't a philosophy.
It is beyond words
and intellect.

[Impenitent]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SsIgXp00aA

-Imp

[Arising_uk]

Be of the generation who play online computer games then the lockdown can be viewed as govt sanctioned play.

[Arising_uk]

Zen Cat say: Zen isn't a philosophy. ...

Dead wrong there.

It is beyond words
and intellect.

And yet here you are writing and intellectualizing about 'it'.

[Dontaskme]

Zen Cat say: Zen isn't a philosophy. ...

Dead wrong there.

It is beyond words
and intellect.

And yet here you are writing and intellectualizing about 'it'.

The 'you' that is assumed to be the writer / author of the story is just another story within a story. Many authors / stories appear here, but there is only one reader, reading writings that no one ever writ.

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[Arising_uk]

The 'you' that is assumed to be the writer / author of the story is just another story within a story. Many authors / stories appear here, but there is only one reader, reading writings that no one ever writ.

I can understand your problem. You appear to misunderstand what language is and confuse the inner voice with thought.

[Dontaskme]

The 'you' that is assumed to be the writer / author of the story is just another story within a story. Many authors / stories appear here, but there is only one reader, reading writings that no one ever writ.

I can understand your problem. You appear to misunderstand what language is and confuse the inner voice with thought.

First of all, I have no idea what you are talking about, or what is meant by your thoughts, nor do I have any desire to even try to understand your thoughts.

So you can stick your pretentious dumb arse practicing wannabe Dr psychiatrist act where the sun don't shine. Your incessant need to dish out one diagnosis after another at me is futile, for I make my own mind up about the way my mind works thank you very much.

Really, you do not have to try and know how my own mind works, for only I know that, not you. Also, you might want to consider not to project your own confused and frustrating misunderstandings about other peoples ways of thinking at those other people as if it was their problem.It's getting to be a habit of yours. If you don't understand what you are reading, then ask for clarification, rather than just make your issue their problem when it's clearly yours.



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[Arising_uk]

First of all, I have no idea what you are talking about, or what is meant by your thoughts, nor do I have any desire to even try to understand your thoughts. ...

So what are you doing on a philosophy forum?

There is a distinction that can be made between 'thinking' and 'thoughting'(if you like). 'Thinking' is when you use the inner voice to vocalise one's thoughts to oneself but having a thought is when you use memory to construct a sequenced complex or melange of the representations from the senses, i.e. the images, sounds, 'feelings', etc.

So you can stick your pretentious dumb practicing wannabe Dr psychiatrist act where the sun don't shine. ...

Philosophy of Language not Psychiatry.

Your incessant need to dish out one diagnosis after another at me is futile, for I make my own mind up about the way my mind works thank you very much. ...

What 'mind' according to your metaphysic? And what 'my' or 'you' come to that?

Really, you do not have to try and know how my own mind works, for only I know that, not you. ...

And yet I can see it in the words you write as you are telling how your mind works by the words you write.

Also, you might want to consider not to project your own confused and frustrating misunderstandings about other peoples ways of thinking at those other people as if it was their problem.It's getting to be a habit of yours. ...

The only problem I see is from a philosophical viewpoint as this is a philosophy forum. What is becoming a bad habit upon this forum is people who have not bothered to read what Philosophy has said getting upset at philosophical critique as they apparently have no intention of philosophizing about their beliefs in order to make them more robust. Hence you continue to contradict your own metaphysic with pretty much every post you write that does not concern your pet metaphysic.

If you don't understand what you are reading, then ask for clarification, rather than just make your issue their problem when it's clearly yours. ...

But I do understand what I am reading, I'm just giving critique of it. Once more, it's a Philosophy forum!

[Dontaskme]

So what are you doing on a philosophy forum?

Because that's what's happening. I can't think of any other reason, nor do I have to, I'm just doing what is happening in the moment.

But I do understand what I am reading, I'm just giving critique of it. Once more, it's a Philosophy forum!

That's weird, and it's alien talk to me, the idea of critique-ing your own understanding. I'm just not understanding that ok.

I'm sorry but critique-ing your own understanding makes no sense to me.

And yes, I know it's a philosophy forum, do you think I was born yesterday? I only know real philosophy, I don't do fake philosophy.

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[Dontaskme]

The only problem I see is from a philosophical viewpoint as this is a philosophy forum. What is becoming a bad habit upon this forum is people who have not bothered to read what Philosophy has said getting upset at philosophical critique as they apparently have no intention of philosophizing about their beliefs in order to make them more robust. Hence you continue to contradict your own metaphysic with pretty much every post you write that does not concern your pet metaphysic.

Oh Gawd, not again. Isn't that what we are doing philosophizing about our beliefs, ? ...just because mine are different to yours don't mean there is a contradiction, it just means difference that's all, geeze stop taking yourself so seriously.

I say tomatoe you say tomato...it's no big deal, ok

[Dontaskme]

And yet I can see it in the words you write as you are telling how your mind works by the words you write.

But it's just your own interpretation of what you want to see in my words...you have no idea what my words mean to me, except what you want to believe is there according to your own world view. . which is not mine, like I keep telling you, how many more times?

Also, there is no mind, it's just an idea, and ideas clash, they don't always agree with each other, but that doesn't make them invalid, so there.

[Walker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SsIgXp00aA

-Imp

I take it to mean, coping by becoming an escape artist. It could also mean coping via sharpening up trivial pursuit skills starting with Houdini, or it could mean coping through the distraction of a séance, perhaps a Ouija board when for some strange reason seeing how much it gets referenced, I’ve never explored. It could also mean always be prepared for an unexpected punch to the gut, as the world economy is learning. By the implications inherent in potential dialogue that begins with no exposition, it could also mean the commencing of red light green light.

[Walker]

... and confuse the inner voice with thought.

That's a hell of a statement. Your own?

Are you familiar with Castaneda's references to the Foreign Installation?

What about thoughts that pop in from nowhere, from out of the blue, from way out in left field, apropos of nothing? You think of someone you haven't thought of in awhile, and a minute later they call ... or you hear about what happened.