welcome... i can get you a bag of chips...

And I have a bag of pearls.

Intellectual stimulation can be passive or active. You may elect simply to read the threads and watch the videos, or to venture forth by contributing to discussions and dialogues that interest you.
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Regards,
John

MCFarrell,

Welcome aboard the good ship philosophy forum, no shortage of sages in this forum. Relax make yourself at home and enjoy and be enjoyed. Again Sir MCFarrell, Welcome, we are pleased you have chosen to join us. boagie

Welcome.

Wisdom is in the ears of the beholder.

Enlightenment is a state of mind reached by those with too much time on their hands.

On the other hand

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.


Welcome Welcome. It is nice to see new faces as I am one as well. So far, this place has been amazing and wonderfully challenging. Enjoy it.

Is this the place to talk about meditation?

I am impressed by the similarity of meditation technique in Zen, Chogyam Trungpa, Gurdjieff, Eugene Gendlin, Peter Levine, Kurtz and Ogden's Hakomi . The key to all these methods is using "the felt sense", which makes meditation NOT thinking, but an exercise in awareness.

This difference between thinking and awareness might raise the question: does "philosophy" only do thinking, or is awareness a philosophical activity too?

I have a blog on Livejournal under the user name Michaeldee, where I ruminate about this. If it is permitted, I would love to link it to the Philosophy Forum.

Welcome to the forum, hope you will find what you are searching for. Uhmm ..dind't catch your name? :Not-Impressed:

Imo you are partially right, for ~80% are easily swayed by some cheap rethoric, whilst ~15% accept only partial factual and intelligent reasoning, and ~5% skeptics are difficult to convince and live in their own belives, or in belives of uncertainty.

..well that's just my personal view of humans and their understanding of things.

My name is as registered.
Can you help me find what I am looking for, i.e., a thread on meditation?