Aliens...silly SETI

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Originally Posted by Lozzie

But I always come back to the same conclusion...just live my life, and don't clutter it with silly questions, that really, are insignificant.

That's pure Tao/Zen Lozzie. You won't go far wrong with that, provided you live it in relation to all the other beings on the planet. That's where it gets difficult lol! Just as you get yourself in the zone, someone or something comes along and kicks you up the arse!

I've ALWAYS felt that we have an in built understanding of what is right and good. Funny Amy mentions she does philosophy, it reminds me of a university class I took where the lecturer was insistent that morality is false, human created. I told him that was a pile of shite, much to everyones amusement. When he asked me to prove it, I told him that I would prove I was 100% correct if he could and the argument ended right there.

When I did the retreat in a monastery a senior monk gave a lecture that essentailly said that logic philosophical argument (dialectic) was simply that, two poles that could always be argued back and forth. What Zen and the Tao suggests is that while this view is fine, true enlightenment realises that your understanding can go beyond this. There is a state of 'mind' which understands that the dialectic is simply two opposing views. But there is also a state of mind conciousness that goes beyond this.