Moral Philosophy of Doni Popularly Known As the Fables of Bidpai Popularly Known As the Fabl... Book

My Dutch Uncle Tom had a good ending of his trilogy. But the ending is only my beginning.

I like the sense of wit and lightheartedness with which the concepts are explained.

The Great Work of Thomas Cambell is only the beginning of our inner work.

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One who is successful at acquiring, assimilating, and manipulating intellectual objects is said to be knowledgeable and is capable of doing great things (has good quality ideas). In contrast, one who has successfully evolved low entropy being objects is said to be wise and capable of being a great person (has good spiritual quality)

Our perceived past or history can also be described as a specific sequenced subset (previously actualized states) of the all-past-states database. Likewise, our probable future is represented by a dashed thread snaking through a vastly smaller database of future possible states, picking out only the states with the highest likelihood of actualization, as it moves sequentially from generation to generation

Though your over-soul is immortal (disregarding a few rare exceptions), your present personal identity will only persist as long as your over-soul finds it profitable to maintain it. The Fundamental Process urges the over-soul to maintain and progress only what is profitable.

One attribute that makes entertainment so popular is that it occurs at a distance — the one being entertained does not have to participate or get personally involved

I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that absolutely nobody but you can block your path toward quality consciousness. The bad news is that absolutely nobody but you can unblock your path toward quality consciousness

What we perceive as our local physical reality is actually a nonphysical virtual reality, a subset of a larger more fundamental reality. 2) The doorway to experiencing this larger reality is through the individual's subjective mind. 3) The larger reality is based upon consciousness, which is the basic substance, energy, or media of existence. 4) The larger reality is discrete and must be the result of digital computation: The consciousness of (3) above is a digital consciousness and that the virtual reality of (1) above is a digital simulation.

The delusional always believe that they are non-delusional and that the non-delusional are delusional — such is the nature of delusion