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This is like shooting tin cans, I gotta stop after this one. As a concept, love is perfectly logical when you really think about it, and does not require a cosmic source to explain its existence. All creatures instinctively act in their own self-interest. All forms of life are...

Good to hear. By the way, 'dja get that spinach problem licked yet?

Well, I found it frickin' disgusting, but that would hold true regardless of the names inserted. Which, in its own way, leads to further emphasis of a key philosophical point. Why would a being bigger than the entire universe care about any humanly conceived insult, no matter how...

p.s. A deist conception of reality could arguably mesh with the impersonal nature of the universe. One could entertain the idea of a 'higher purpose' with such a view -- the notion that we are headed somewhere meaningful. But such a conception would require an emphasis on long-run...

It is hard to read an article like this one and not be awed by the mysterious nature of existence. But it is equally hard, from my point of view, to imagine quantum complexity and old testament laws regarding the stoning of homosexuals coming from the same intelligence. When you look...

You illustrate the problem quite nicely. The possibility that an intelligent person could fall in love with the Christian God, and then fall out of love with same--going so far as to cease all belief in same--is wholly reasonable. Nothing exceptional about it. People fall in and out of...

What is the qualitative difference between this experience and the experience of the devout muslim, endowed with the holy wisdom of allah? Or, for that matter, the schizophrenic endowed with the spirit of Napoleon? If I told you I've met Xenu, you would dismiss me as a crackpot. But what...

Now you assume I am upset. You sure do a lot of assuming. You make a nice foil -- a living contrast between what is good and what is mumbo jumbo. What zen is and what it is not. In that role, you have done a nice thing for the readers of this thread. (And provided entertainment to...

First you assume zen equates with mysticism. When this view is challenged, you assume your challengers equate zen with science. Perhaps you have not tasted zen's true flavor at all -- hence your weak approximations and oddly insecure boasting.

You misappropriate the term. Feelings of beauty and awe are not automatically 'mystical.' Objective understanding of reality, born of clear insight and coherent thought, is not 'mystical' either... at least as the dictionary defines it. mys·ti·cal (mst-kl) adj. 1. Of or having a...

Maybe that's true for you. To suggest it is true for everyone is just foolishness. To me there is nothing more breathtaking or awe-inspiring than reality itself... and thus I find no need to dress it up.

How do you know what the great traders do or don't do? PTJ worked with Tony Robbins for a while. He never talked about it (though Tony Robbins did). Stevie Cohen hired a performance coach for his traders. Why wouldn't they consider meditation, just to see what it can do? Bill Gross does a...

To let such infuriatingly stupid comments pass by without losing composure -- this is one aspect of zen.

There is so much blatant ignorance in the world, getting mad at one more instance is pointless... like shouting down a fly for disturbing one's picnic. p.s. as with a few other things, I learned this the hard way.

Perhaps the rah-rah quantum stuff is an attempt to placate the monkey mind. Plain zen is boring in the way plain charts are boring... just crying out for bells and whistles.

Yes -- this is the barrier that turns many away. How many have the will to consistently evolve and improve... to face their deepest fears and embrace the hardest truths... to shed ego, cut away all distractions, and deliberately change their lives? Very few.

http://www.tommyangelo.com/articles/betcha_cant.htm By way of poker, this article highlights the valuable self-discipline aspects of meditation, which in turn relates to trading. Kind of a tenuous thread, but it's there. :D

As Napoleon Dynamite would say... Friggin Sweet! SEC to ease margin rules in cost-cut move By Jeremy Grant in Washington Published: October 15 2006 22:11 | Last updated: October 15 2006 22:11 The US is set to relax margin rules in force since after the Wall Street crash of 1929 with...

Thank you for those links Karma Yogi. Most Excellent.

In my experience, meditation is useful for mundane but powerful reasons. If you have a short attention span or poor concentration skills, meditating calmly for prolonged periods is a form of mental exercise... like pushups for your arms or squats for your legs. It strengthens the will and...