#.enquiry.

[philosophybits]

The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise, and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

#philosophy #quotes #David Hume #An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding #god #goodness #good #wisdom #ultimate

[fremulon]

i just really loved the way they said a lot of stuff

#good omens #gos2 #nothing quite on the level of 'celestial harmonies' or 'help us with our enquiries' or 'oh lord heal this bike' though imo #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #Youtube

[vesora]

original post by bumlehri on instagram

Q: I am convinced that I am, but I am not convinced of what I am. Intellectually I know I am the Self but I don’t experience this. I have to make a lot of effort.

Annamalai Swami: To experience the Self you have to dive deep into the consciousness ‘I am’.

Q: You mean I should keep the mind there?

Annamalai Swami: Yes. When you see the rope as a rope there is no snake. You also know that there was never a snake. When you cease to imagine that you are a mere body and a mind, reality shines of its own accord. If you stabilize in this state you can see that the mind didn’t go anywhere; you understand that it never really existed. ‘Keeping the mind in its source’ is just another way of saying: ‘Understanding that it never existed.’

Q: But how is one to awaken from perpetual body-consciousness? For consciousness to manifest one must have a body.

Annamalai Swami: If there is constant meditation that consciousness is your own reality in which all phenomena are appearing and disappearing, that meditation is the activity of the sattvic (pure, clean) mind. It is this activity which erases and dissolves the tamas (e.g. inertia or dullness, inactivity) and rajas (selfish desires e.g. sexual lust) which cover the reality.

The human body is the only vehicle in which it is very convenient to realize the unmanifest Self. With the body and the mind we can investigate and discover the Reality that remains unaffected by the body and the mind.

We should regard the body in the same way we regard a car. …

Q: No matter how quiet I get or how still my mind is, I never get to see the world as an indivisible whole. Even when my mind is completely still, if I open my eyes I still see a world of separate objects.

Annamalai Swami: When the one who sees vanishes, the world of multiplicity goes with it. You don’t see the unity and indivisibility, you are it. You can never see the Self or Brahman, you can only be it.

The Guru may tell his disciples a thousand times, ‘You are the Self, you are not what you imagine yourself to be’, but none of them ever believes him. They all keep asking the Guru for methods and routes to reach the place where they already are.

Q: Why don’t we give up our false ideas as soon as we are told that they are false?

Annamalai Swami: We have identified with our false ideas for many previous lifetimes. The habit is very strong. But not so strong that it cannot be dissolved through constant meditation.

Q: The seeker has many ideas: ‘I am a jiva (personality), I am bound and have to do sadhana ("methodical discipline to attain desired knowledge or goal) to attain liberation’. Should we forget all these ideas?

Annamalai Swami: Yes, forget them all! ‘I am the Self, I am all’. Hold onto this awareness. All other paths are roundabouts.

Q: Bhagavan said that repeating, ‘I am the Self’ or ‘I am not this body’ is an aid to enquiry but does not constitute the enquiry itself.

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Annamalai Swami: The meditation, ‘I am not the body or the mind, I am the immanent Self’ is a great aid for as long as one is not able to do self-enquiry properly or constantly. Bhagavan said, ‘Keeping the mind in the Heart is self-enquiry’. If you cannot do this by asking ‘Who am I?’ or by taking the I-thought back to its source, then meditation on the awareness ‘I am the all-pervasive Self’ is a great aid.

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Bhagavan often said that we should read and study the Ribhu Gita regularly.

In the Ribhu Gita it is said: ‘That bhavana (mental attitude) ‘I am not the body, I am not the mind, I am Brahman, I am everything,’ is to be repeated again and again until this becomes the natural state.’ Bhagavan sat with us every day while we chanted extracts from the Ribhu Gita which affirm the reality of the Self. It is true that he said that these repetitions are only an aid to self-enquiry, but they are a very powerful aid.

By practicing this way the mind becomes more and more attuned with the reality. When the mind has become purified by this practice, it is easier to take it back to its source and keep it there. When one is able to abide in the Self directly, one doesn’t need aids like this. But if this is not possible these practices can definitely help one.

- Living by the Words of Bhagawan.

#nd #nonduality #advaita vedanta #nondualism #self realization #moksha #Annamalai Swami #self enquiry

[angryskarloey]

Historical Derogatory Railway Company Nicknames:

- Late & Never Early

- Green, Wet and Rusty

- Gresley Was Right

- 'Ell of a Mess

- Mud, Sludge & Lightning

- Money Sunk & Lost

- Slow & Dirty

- Erratic & Wandering Journey

- Slow, Mouldy & Jolty

- Wonkily Managed & Confoundingly Queer

- Where's the Money? & Continuously Quirky

- Wobble, Bobble, Turn-over & Stop

- Tramps, Hobos & Bums

- Old & Weary

- NoWhere in Particular

- Cheap & Nothing Wasted

- The Misery Railway

- Old, Worse & Worse

- Breakneck & Murder

- Dangerous & Rapidly Getting Worse

- Slow, Dirty & Aggravating

#posting this now #will probably add more as time goes on #some railways have more than one entry #not comprehensive #real true railway stuff #i will take enquiries as to what name corresponds to what railway as some of them are obscure #if you know any i missed pls add them

[wrightandco]

all I want in life is maya weirdgirling edgeworth and phoenix weirdgirling franziska

#ace attorney #the use of weirdgirling as a verb is mint #Maya is genuinely helpful to edgeworth but offsets his intensity with playfulness #they also secretly nerd out together #and have emotional moments together related to shared dl6 trauma #phoenix and fran on the other hand #she’s girlbossing it to the ceiling running the most efficient investigation ever #he’s chiming in with sarcastic comments but he’s actually being helpful #at some point he makes some comment which could unravel the case #she’s like shut up fool anyway - then proceeds to follow his line of enquiry as if she initiated it #and Phoenix knows he’s got her respect

[grrl-beetle]

Goldwin 0: Enquiry #1, #2, #3

#Goldwin 0: Enquiry 1 2 3 #Goldwin #Goldwin 0 #design #book #cover #color #shape

[spudplaysbass]

Listen… we all know the tory government has absolutely no care for the public and have always and will happily continue to treat us like shit… but the messages that have been revealed from the covid enquiry are chilling…

The sheer number of families that have suffered unnecessarily due to that government’s carelessness and utter contempt towards us, and especially vulnerable groups, is harrowing.

They have blood on their hands. And they’re quite content with it.

Fuckers should be in jail

#this country is a joke #fuck the tories #uk politics #tory government #covid19 #covid enquiry #the number of deaths that could’ve been avoided but they were happy to let them die is disgusting

[fallofcorruptbritain]

Scientists not consulted on Eat Out to Help Out - Sir Patrick Vallance - BBC News

Read this article to see how Johnson. Sunak and the other idiot, Hancock, who was Health Minister at the time, did not have a clue during the pandemic in Britain.

Far from managing and containing the spread of Covid, they made it worse by imposing Tory political dogma and sheer callousness ("let them die, they've had their time anyway" with regard to the elderly).

These men are guilty of lies, incompetence and sheer ignorance... and then covering up their appalling actions afterwards. They effectively committed crimes against the British public at large through their misdeeds and wrong decision-making. This cost people's lives.

They should all be prosecuted and jailed... but instead we allow them to get away with their callous crimes as if nothing happened, and then let them go on to make more stinking money on the back of it from tacky TV game shows and public speaking tours, as if they were heroes.

Britain is one messed-up country, and these political chancers have made fools of us.

#uk politics #british politics #conservative party #fuck the tories #britain #tory party #uk #rich v poor #cost of living crisis #tory covid disaster #covid deaths #covid19 #covid enquiry

[ask-zerotrio]

To the area 0 trio, if anyone harms you just know the anonymous shall make the lab's flooding look like a very minor hiccup compared to what we anons shall do to the assailant.

Clavell: I appreciate the thought, kind stranger, but would prefer to not resort to violence. Especially not on school grounds. That incident years back was an exception-

I doubt there will be any "assailant", especially in a place as peaceful as Paldea, much less in the Academy. Sada and Turo are back h-home and all is well—

Ugh... Apologies, you'll have to excuse me for a bit, my friend. I h-have a slight headache suddenly. Nothing to be concerned about, I'm sure.

#i'm sure professor turo has some acetaminophen somewhere #or nurse miriam #i'll ask them #i'll be back to respond to enquiries in a bit #no worries! #director clavell #clavell #zerotrioshipping #clavell x sada x turo #clavell/sada/turo #asks #//no assailants at all :)

[c-kiddo]

Tgirl cad means the world to me, hope youre ok

🫶 im ok :') thank u. . she means tha world to me too . girl of all time . i should draw more things but busy. but she is so <3 <3 <3 for ever and ever and ever

#thinking abt starting microdosing t .. . lets stay silly. i sent an email enquiry for it and have a reply quick so thats nice #asks #im very worn out tho (unrelated)

[philosophybits]

All our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words ... it is impossible for us to think of anything, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

#philosophy #quotes #David Hume #An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding #perception #senses #ideas #thoughts #thinking

[obstinatecondolement]

I feel bad complaining when I have a roof over my head and don't have to worry about access to electricity, heating, running water and food, but I am so fucking sick of having my disability payment adjusted to account for an additional income stream I haven't had for almost nine months.

#I don't love constantly owing people money and having Nothing in the bank at most two days after I get paid every week #like my material needs are all more than catered for so genuinely I am fine and I would be mortified if anyone offered to help #so don't feel that this is what this is about #and I would be able to get help paying the various medical etc. bills I owe if I sucked it up and asked my parents #which are also not urgent and Will Be Fine #I just have nothing left to save or to like #buy myself a chocolate bar if I want to crol #also no advice please #I have chased this up very recently and have an acknowledgement that enquiry has been forwarded to the relevant department #there is not anything else I can currently do

[labsafetyviolations]

The background color of your blog is SO PRETTY. Also, I want to eat it.

why thank you! please do let me know how it tastes if you ever manage to get a bite

#enquiries

[rolitae]

Ghost messages 👻

I cleared my cache, but still no messages. So if you sent any messages, know that they are lost in the aether. No escape.

I also hit "delete all messages" because seeing "3" while not being able to see anything makes me neurotic. sry.

#text blog #yap yap yap #hope they weren't commission enquiries ._. fml

[theodore-lasso]

???? Woke up today and did 3 things I've been dreading for ages with no issue

#sent an enquiry about top surgery #dollowed up with some friends about something i was majorly putting off yesterday #and followed up w someone about a job thing

[merlinemrys]

just read a gen fic where gwaine was a former witchfinder and it was SO fucking delicious 😵‍💫 the warlock and the witchfinder.. GOD WHAT A PAIR

#merwaine devotion 🧎🏻‍♀️ #shows #bbc merlin #gwaine #merlin #fic #fic: enquiries #text #tais toi lys