Hi Paul!
As far as practical application of Buddhist's, Seth's, or anyone else's explanations of Reality goes, I hope you don't mind me being a bit reflexive in briefly quoting Seth himself...

"All of this is fine theory, esoteric but hardly practical- unless you begin to question the nature of your own thoughts, and begin to explore the reality of those events that you seem to encounter" (my emphasis) The "Unknown" Reality, Vol.2, Session 729

If I could put my "practice", then, into its most condensed form, it would be the fully experienced momentary question: "WHAT IS THIS?"

....and then I just take it from there. I simply find support and encouragement in the words of Seth, Buddha, or anyone else willing to ask the same question with equal or greater intensity. I don't remember the source, but this is exactly how I interpret the well known quote..."The unexamined life is not worth living".

If you don't mind me saying so, I feel that we have strayed quite far afield of Seth's "Three Dilemmas". I hope you don't mind if I start another thread specifically dealing with Seth and Buddhism. I am still researching the work of Nishitani, Thurman, and others in this respect. Many of my musings may fall into the category of "fine, esoteric theory", however. I will admit (without apology) that I enjoy purely theoretical banter per se, as a form of play, regardless of the "so what?" consideration. Also, I still feel that many of Seth's statements concening "Eastern philosophies and Religions", although highly apropos at the time of their delivery, are somewhat misleading in light of the greater understandings of these subjects that are currently available. Please be patient, I'm a slow thinker!

Peace, kenny

ps Augustina, I don't know about the Borg imagery.....I find that more or less "all too human" in its symbolism (the "detatchment" of human technology run rampant)...I'm just curious...do you prefer the transhuman? Superhuman? Nonhuman? I'm not teasing. I really am curious! k

Kenny wrote:


Hi Kenny,

because I find no place for the purely theoretical in my current stance, this is a good time/place for me to bow out of the thread. As I mentioned before the sumarfi approach to reality is not mine and the purely theoretical or mainly theoretical approach holds no allure.

The 'we' who strayed doesn't include me since from the onset of the topic I have been aware that the dilemmas if they are to be real rather than purely theoretical ( with cross reference to other theoretical texts ) would best be understand in reference to my personal identity actions and life, while being human and yet recognizing that essentially I am not.My actions hold a type of charge that reflect back to me my identity in a manner than mere theorizings do not.

I suppose my compass will always hold to the true north of the lived actioned life, , rather than the life theorized or speculated about.The materialization of consciousness that is me( within the physical field) is first most evident in my embodied actions, Not exclusively so , but if I am to take a human reference point, certainly importantly so.

keep on doing that sumarfi thang

Hi, gang!
Kenny, feel free to start a thread on Buddhism. We'll see who's interested. As for the "three dilemmas," perhaps we've exhausted that theme, or at least our appetite for discussing it. Whether this is so or not I'm quite open to other themes within this forum. For example, I've been reading Volume 9 of Early Sessions and came across Seth telling us that:

Information must be sifted through the layers of the medium's personality. The nervous system reacts to the information even as it translates it. Nothing is neutral.

Seth goes on about this, but it leads me to think about the fact that no material, even the Seth material, is some disembodied truth that we can all read and understand perfectly and identically. The philosophical and practical question then becomes: do we need to compare the Seth material with other sources of information, including, of course, our own experiences, in order to find the truth that "works" for us? Or, is the Seth material the purest source and other sources will only lead us astray? This could be another thread within this forum.

What I'm doing here is trying to find a useful and helpful topic of discussion.

Love 'n stuff,

Paul