Originally Posted by Seismosaur
...and while you're at it, write a book about life on Neptune, and publish it as 100% factual evidence to the scientific community.
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I must thank you for stopping in , for you have unwittingly and unknowingly provided some of what I have been looking for, and your short commentary has ironically tied in well with the theme of this thread.
For starters, it has brought to light the necesity for a correction in the title of this topic. Rather than "emancipation of thought", it should read emancipation from thought.
More specifically it is the idea of grasping at ones thoughts that one must be free from. When one is in the in the state of awareness, beyond the I sense free of consciusness and body, there are no thoughts to arise. While one is embodied where consciosness then arises from the awareness, thoughts then arise. Ignorant of our natural state of awareness we grasp at our thoughts either pulling them towards us and acting on them or pushing them away and trying to block them. The point brought to experience by this reply, demonstrated that once one is aware of this awareness, to be free of grasping at thoughts one must simply acknowledge or recognize the thought and its arising without grasping at it at all. Doing so thoughts simply arise and fall again just as waves on the surface of the ocean or temporary gusts of wind on a summer afternoon.
This reply also touches on both the Gunas and free will. You really had no choice but to reply as you did, You were compelled to by nature and the gunas born of nature. You have no real free will of your own in regards to the body , its mind, and personality. All are products of circumstance or Gunas.Such circumstance is influence by what is called Karma. Karma and the Gunas seem to work hand in hand.
My watered down way of looking at Karma at this moment is that such is based on the only real free will you do have, that being the decisions to move either towards non-duality or towards duality. Moving towards duality is selfishness, ignorance and delusion. Such creates karma and continues to carry one further in such direction. Moving toards Non-Duality is selflessness, more specifically towards abandoning the I sense all together. It is enlightenment and true reality Such removes Karma and carries one further in that direction.
The circumstances of your birth, ie race, nationailty, economics, family type, etc, determine how you will see the world around you and you yourself in it. Such molds your personailty and your consciousness.Everything around you works to physically determine what you will do in every decision you make. It is the duality that makes the decisions for you. Likes/dislikes, pleasure/pain, attraction/aversion rules your embodied self. The only free choice one has is whether or not to reach outside of the physical and grasp at the non physical, faith again required herein grasping for something one has no hard evidence for. Hence the scriptures of one religion or another become the starting point of true free will.
Enough for now. I want to hear from those who are aware, as I am still looking for more yet to be uncovered.
Again, I thank you for your contribution, and working to keep this thread on track.
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