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1 Jul 2006 @ 14:15, by vector8. Spirituality
[[Profound and tranquil, free from complexity,
Uncompounded luminous clarity,
Beyond the mind of conceptual ideas;
This is the depth of the mind of the Victorious Ones.
In this there is not a thing to be removed,
Nor anything that needs to be added.
It is merely the immaculate
Looking naturally at itself. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche)]]
All is Light.
When the Light was first revealed during meditation, I lost all sense of "I"; I was a drop of water merged into the ocean. Words cannot describe the bliss I felt, so I won't attempt it. As I never realised one could experience Light in my every day life, I saw life as polarised: the ordinary life that seemed devoid of bliss; and my real life as Light that I could only experience during meditation. Unfortunately, as I wasn't able to experience the Light all the time, I was depressed a lot of the time. More >
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28 Jun 2006 @ 21:46, by inanna. Spirituality
Krishna Chaitanya/KK Nair explores the betrayal of Krishna in the texts and men who taught the schools that grew up after 150 BC and Vyasa’s Bhagavad Gita.
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28 Jun 2006 @ 14:49, by ming. Spirituality
There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. Human beings come into this world to do particular work. That work is their purpose, and each is specific to the person. If you forget everything else and not this, there's nothing to worry about. If you remember everything else and forget your true work, then you will have done nothing with your life.
- Jelalludin Rumi, from "The One Thing You Must Do",
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19 Jun 2006 @ 15:57, by vector8. Spirituality
We all share the one love but our experience of love depends on what you're prepared to give. What you're prepared to give is what motivates you. If what motivates you is personal love for your family, friends, job, music, money, personal interests, then that's how much love you are open to experience. Love gives you the resources that commensurate with your motivation; no more, no less. The Queenis considered to be self-less. Thus, what motivates the Queen is serving the Commonwealth. You could say the Queen's experience of love is as huge as the Commonwealth. More >
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19 Jun 2006 @ 15:51, by inanna. Spirituality
The Betrayal of Krishna – Part 3 - Demotion as Cult Deity
- Krishna Chaitanya -
For those of us who have endeavored to understand the Sanskrit texts of Hinduism and especially the Bhagavad Gita, ‘The Betrayal of Krishna’ may be the most important book we will ever read.
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 13 Jun 2006 @ 23:54, by i2i. Spirituality
"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species. Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."
---Stephen Hawking, June 13, 2006, University of Cambridge
I don't know about that one, shouldn't it be the other way around? More >
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13 Jun 2006 @ 04:43, by oasiian. Spirituality
A strange day where it's warmer at night...somehow it always goes down this way where i live, the nights are always warm, pleasant... More >
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12 Jun 2006 @ 13:21, by vector8. Spirituality
[["Everything comes from Intelligence. There is nothing but Unity; there is nothing but Freedom; there is nothing but Completeness; there is nothing but Totality." The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes]]
Have you ever visited a House of Mirrors at an amusement park? It is a building filled with mirrors that reflect distorted images of yourself. Some mirrors make you look extremely tall with arms like tentacles; some make you look huge; some make you look skinny; some make you look flat; some make you look round; etc. Other distortions in the House of Mirrors include uneven floors that give you the false impression that you're sliding. More >
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11 Jun 2006 @ 21:36, by inanna. Spirituality
The Betrayal of Krishna, Vicissitudes of a Great Myth
Krishna Chaitanya/K.K. Nair
Clarion Books, 1991, New Delhi
Vyasa and the Exaltation of Krishna
In the first half of ‘The Betrayal of Krishna’, the eminent Indian scholar, Krishna Chaitanya/K.K. Nair, elucidates the metaphysics of the hero and deity Krishna presented in the Bhagavad Gita, which is within the epic Sanskrit poem, The Mahabharata. The remainder of Nair’s book delineates in detail the misunderstanding and thus betrayal of the eternal wisdom in Krishna’s Gita by such luminaries as Sankara, Ramanuja, and Madhva, the Alvar poets, and the Sanskrit texts, the Harivamsa, the Vishnu Purana, and the Bhagavata Purana (also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam).
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7 Jun 2006 @ 17:35, by gabacho. Spirituality
--Copyright 27MAR06 Don Heraldo Renacido B.
The origin of the universe (astronomy) and the evolution of life (biology) are fields of scientific inquiry. Creationism (religion), although it seems unrelated to science, is really just a pre-scientific attempt to explain the universe and life in anthropomorphic terms.
In my opinion, the two approaches are not as unrelated as they might at first appear. Let me explain.
The latest scientific (astronomical) theory is "The Big Bang" in which latent light suddenly (and inexplicably) burst forth from nothingness and began coalescing into matter some 16 billion years ago in a process that continues to this day.
The Judeo-Christian version is actually just a pre-scientific intuition of the same scenario: in a formless void (emptiness), latency "speaks" the universe into being, "Let there be Light". When considered together in this light, the religious version is as true in its essence as the scientific one. The only essencial difference is the (somewhat) more magical statement in the religious theory.
My personal belief, based on my actual experience in this reality, is that consciousness is primary to matter. Consciousness is the non-physical and non-local matrix which we all share, and in which the physical universe arises and flows. Thoughts give rise to and energize/propel things (matter/energy) in time, which we experience in Mind. As you may discern, my belief/experience is also congruent with both scientific theories and religious dicta. The best evidence of this is that which is provided by our own conscious experience.
What we actually experience is generated within our own consciousness, which is the one universal consciousness which we all share. We interpret this mental experience as exterior, but it is not. We ARE the universe. We are at its very center. All celestial objects are spreading away from us in this wave of creation at the speed of light. We are constantly creating afresh the world that we perceive in Mind.
Summary
The "physical" universe arose within Consciousness (Mind) some 16 billion years ago and flashed into existance in a burst of light, the movement of which we call time. This consciousness is the Mind that we all continue to share. The creative nature of Mind propels and directs the unfolding of the reality in which we live and have our being. Thoughts are things, and the creator of things.
Thus Mind is primary to matter, which flows in a wave of creation under the direction of Consciousness. What we say, goes. As a man thinks, so is he.
Heraldo aka "gabacho"
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