OneEyedGiant

@OneEyedGiant (181)

Indonesia • Age 42

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Is the mind different from the thinker?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 27 Apr 09

Is the thinker different from his thought? Does the thinker exist without thought? Is there a thinker apart from thought? Stop thinking and where's the thinker? Is the thinker of one thought different from the thinker of another...

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Know yourself

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 25 Apr 09

Can this incessant search, this longing, give us the extraordinary sense of reality, that creative being which comes when we really understand ourselves? Does self knowledge come trough search, through following someone else,...

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What is the goal of life?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 23 Apr 09

For me attain the Ultimate Truth, i want to reach a state where i know myself that i have conquered, that i have attained, that i'm embodiment of that truth, so that all the little struggles, the little turmoils, the little...

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What is taking place in this world?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 21 Apr 09

The problem in this world is so great and any of the politician, any of the religious leader throughout the world see the problem as a whole. They see it according to their limited political, religious point of view, or according...

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Is it possible to live in this world non-violently, in freedom virtuously?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 21 Apr 09

Freedom is absolutely necessary, but not freedom for the individual to do what he likes to do, because the individual is conditioned whether he is living in a country or anywhere else, he is conditioned by his society, by his...

life

non violently

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Surrender to what is?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 18 Apr 09

Surrendering to the will of God implies that you already know the will of God. You are not surrendering to something you do not know, if you know reality, you can't surrender to it, you cease to exist, ther is no surrendering to a...

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The problem of prayer

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 18 Apr 09

The response of that we call the inner voice. When the mind is supplicating, petitioning, its comparatively still, when you hear the inner voice, its your own voice projecting itself into that comparatively still mind. How can it...

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How can reality, God answer your particular damand?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 18 Apr 09

Can the immesurable, the unutterable, be concern with our petty little worries, miseries, confusions which we ourselves have created? there for what is it that answer? obviously the immeasurable can't answer the measured. At the...

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reality

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What can we do to stop the war?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 15 Apr 09

Obviously the ever-impending war can't be stopped by you and me, because its already in movement, its already taking place, though at present chiefly on the psychological level. As its already in movement it can't be stopped. The...

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What are the causes of war?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 14 Apr 09

Desire for power, position, prestige, money, also the disease called nationalism, the worship of flag, and the disease of organized religion, the worship of dogmas. All these are the causes of war. If you as an individual belong...

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The cause of sorrow

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 14 Apr 09

Each man seeking to free himself from sorrow. Desire is life,and constantly battling against limitations. It seeks to be free. In search for happiness its constantly breaking away from limitations. Men are all the time looking for...

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Is believe in God "a powerfull to a better living"?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 13 Apr 09

Why do you want an incentive to better living? Surely, your incentive must be your own desire to live cleanly and simply? if you look to an incentive you are non interested in making life possible for all, you are merely...

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god

life

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To believe in God is not to find God

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 13 Apr 09

Beliefe is a denial of truth, belief hinder the truth, to believe in God is not to find God. Neither the beliver nor the non believer will find God, because reality is the unknown is merely a self projection and not real. There...

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What do we mean by prayer?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 11 Apr 09

In prayer there is petition, supplication to what you call God, reality. You as an individual are demanding, petitioning, begging, seeking guidance for something which you call God. There for your approach is one of seeking...

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What exactly do we mean by helping the world?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 10 Apr 09

Who wants you to help the world? are you so very superior to me or to ordinary person in the outer world? in what way is your knowledge lasting and certain? is that what you give born out of certainty, out of your own...

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What is the purpose of human existence with it's struggles?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 10 Apr 09

Joys and sorrows, the whole purpose of life consist in the coming down and climbing up. The coming forth from the flame, the gradual development of the spark till it becomes again one with the flame.As the flame , so will all...

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Eternal teaching

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 9 Apr 09

Why should you know someone else's teaching? You know there is only one way which is not distant from that truth, there is only one method to that truth, because the mean are not the distinct from the end. Why do you want to be...

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What makes a place religious?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 9 Apr 09

A religious brain has no shelter, it is not scattered, its unshackled, it has no schedule, it is actually free of all ritual, dogma, faith, it is wholly free in its own independent and it is that quality of love and compassion...

What is God?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 8 Apr 09

How are we going to find out? are we going to accept somebody else's information? or try to see what God is? Are we going to accept what anybody say about it either buddha or jesus, it doesn't matter who i might be mistaken. The...

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truth

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What is society?

OneEyedGiant @OneEyedGiant (181) • Indonesia 8 Apr 09

A set of values, a set of rules and regulation and tradition? you see the condition outside and say "can i be here and have a practical relationship with that? why not? after all if you merely fit into that condition, into that...

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