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animus

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College
« on: August 31, 2017, 09:46:01 am »
Hello,
        I will be going to college next year.
 Do you have some general advice for what I should look for?Maybe what I should or shouldn't do?

Any feedback is appreciated :)

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Jed McKenna

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Re: College
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2017, 01:10:09 pm »
Please just stick to one thread... I believe you have more than one going.

Now, about college... listen intently, do your work and assignments well, and never, ever believe anything you hear.

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animus

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Re: College
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2017, 12:22:24 am »
Got it..
P.S Oh I didn't about that rule, no wonder people were sticking to their own thread

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Re: College
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2017, 03:10:02 am »
Not a big deal. Good luck with college.

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Parents
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2018, 03:48:22 am »
Hi Mr.Meckenna, It has been a while
Ill use my former thread as my permanent thread from now on
Ive had the fortune of having good parents.

Ive discovered three things about parents and wanted to hear your opinion on this

1)Being a parent doesnt make one right, it simply means your the guardian of the child who you support financially
2)The parent cannot be held responsible for every action the child commits. There are other influences at work other than parents
3)There is no such thing as parental love. Why only love your parents and not some other's parents...

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Re: College
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2018, 08:28:02 am »
No arguments from me...

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Love
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2018, 10:08:41 am »
Hmm...
I also wanted to talk about love...
Personally I know two kinds of love...
1)Agape- Love for everything and everyone as they are
2)Devotion- Similar to the experience of falling in love. Where you are devoid of your self and try to become One with somebody even though there is duality of lover and object of love. Of course the lover and the object of love are the same so a duality has to be assumed.
What is your view on this Mr.Meckenna?
Also in a H/A relationship, should there be devotion or is friendship enough?

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Re: College
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2018, 12:09:10 am »
It is not that clearly defined. Much depends on what ''level'' you are at.

I suggest you go to my rants... you might find info of value there.

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Re: College
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2018, 11:19:22 am »
OK so i read some rants and contemplated on my own question..the answer i got was if there isn't any kind of devotion in the relationship, then there isn't much point in being in that relationship; One can just be friends with the other person.

Also I have discovered something..
I used to get crushes when i was a lot younger but now that seems impossible. I don't get any feelings for a girl even if she is so called "hot" or "beautiful", or I have a deep connection with her. I have this feeling like I am totally complete and don't "need" anyone. I still want to have a relationship though with someone I love so I figured a way to manufacture that "need".
It is kind of hard to describe but what I do is I completely abandon myself to the person and hold that person as someone special and precious. There is no such thing as special or precious but that's the only way I am able to fall in love willingly.

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Re: College
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2018, 11:03:20 pm »
Sounds similar to something I do at times... which mean you are brilliant, we are brilliant, or (a distinct possibility) we are just human fools.

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Re: College
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2018, 01:55:28 am »
I see...I would say one has to play in the dream some way or another; The fact that there is no meaning in life gives one freedom to do whatever they like (as long as it doesn't hurt anybody). I think we are not human fools but persons who can experience something beautiful :)

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Re: College
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2018, 03:33:28 am »
''Fools'', ''Beautiful''... just human judgement that we use to pretend to be real... and everything we do, in the end, is to avoid the nothingness that we really are.

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Re: College
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2018, 08:54:30 am »
All judgements are false.. but to say that all judgements are illusory frees one up to use any judgement because it doesn't matter(like meaning). If I had to choose between foolish and beautiful to describe love...ah well...I'd say it is beautifully foolish.
Beautiful because one abandons oneself
Foolish because it yields no result

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Re: College
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2018, 11:30:28 am »
I ve recently come across a trend, people have been saying that enlightenment has some sort of different levels. One guy even said that journey of enlightenment never ends. I dont understand how do people come to this conclusion. If realising that there is no separation in reality and reality is One is enlightenment. How can there be levels in this? In my experience the enlightenment was always binary. Once the journey is over its over. When all layers of false self melts away and only Truth is left.
It still baffles me how do people come to this conclusion.
What is your take on this Mr. Meckenna?

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Re: College
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2018, 05:37:19 am »
My take is quite simple. Stop listening to other people and find out for yourself. That's all that matters and stories, all stories, about anything, are NOT the thing. Get that ''thing'' and you will know... really know.

Further.

Love ya, Jed.