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I like you're description, which in some respect is similar to mine. Though your ref to Qi (that is if I assume correctly that you're using the trad Chinese symbol regarding 'an active principle forming part of any living…"
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Started Jul 2, 2009
What is your most basic belief?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Roman Kozlowski Aug 19, 2010.
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Karma and compassion – do they meet?
A common but short sighted interpretation of karma (also common psychology btw) is as follows: They’re hurting because it’s their karma (aka their fault). I’m hurting because it’s their fault. I’m happy because of my good karma (aka I did well). They’re happy because things went well for them. This is easy because it only [...]When your spiritual master dies
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Jung grants that self is more than mere ego, but by this he refers to the collective or many selves. The purpose of individuation is not to leave the world behind as is the goal of the Eastern mystic, but rather to gather the world to one’s self. Here lies the parting of the waves [...]Atma, Self and Individuation – Jungian Psychology and the Advaita Vedanta Philosophy (part 1)
“Consciousness going out towards objects is mind. That which turns towards the Self is pure Satva.” —Sri Atmananda{1} In 1938, C. G. Jung on his only trip to India was scheduled to travel south and meet the great householder sage, Sri Atmananda (Sri Krishna Menon). The trip was arranged by Dr. Roger Godel, a noted [...]Karma for beginners: right motivation
In the law of karma motivation is front line and center. Do you do for yourself, your own wealth, success and fortune? Do you do it out of compassion, because you know that person can use the help? It’s the most basic psychological process: our motivation, why we do what we do. The hard part [...]Gifts Received
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Kernel John replied to Katinka Hesselink's discussion What is your most basic belief?"Khem, we all believe we know.
One man's knowledge is another's belief.
Like yourself, do not most believers not also think of themselves as Knowers.
How do you know you don't simply believe you're a Knower?
Do you have evidence…"
Khem the Is Real-ite replied to Katinka Hesselink's discussion What is your most basic belief?"Don't have any beliefs. I'm a Knower."
ignoramus wretch replied to Katinka Hesselink's discussion What is your most basic belief?"that all life is but the expression of biological algorithms, with the earth as a rock infested with barely intelligent fungal descendants."
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Gratitude learning - the alphatudes
I recently found a book, Alphatudes - the alphabet of gratitude, which does a great job of both explaining the value of gratitude as a spiritual practice AND inspiring people wanting to practice it. Do you all practice gratitude?
Posted on February 2, 2010 at 4:20am — 1 Comment
alien contact: psychics?
I'm wondering what you all think of contact with aliens. Is it a form of clairvoyance? If so, does that mean that aliens are not on the physical plane at all? Can they be seen by everybody?
Posted on October 21, 2009 at 10:16am — 4 Comments
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What's the origin of Evil? - of sorrow? of suffering? of inequality?
The eternal existential question has been asked, in the West, usually as: 'What is the origin (or cause) of evil?'.
In Buddhism the question is asked differently - and that leads to different types of answers: What's the cause of suffering? Susanna asked in her version of this question: what about justice? aren't ethics important?.
I'd like to go… Read More
In Buddhism the question is asked differently - and that leads to different types of answers: What's the cause of suffering? Susanna asked in her version of this question: what about justice? aren't ethics important?.
I'd like to go… Read More
Posted on June 18, 2009 at 11:14am — 6 Comments
Esoteric Christianity - integrating occultism into mainstream religion...
Esoteric Christianity is becoming more popular. It is a combination of belief in Jesus as a VERY special messenger and New Age beliefs like karma and reincarnation. People usually also believe in healing, aura reading and things like that. Examples of teachers of Esoteric Christianity are Rudolf Steiner and Edgar… Read More
Posted on May 20, 2009 at 7:26am — 17 Comments
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- At 3:35am on May 16, 2009,
Roy Farver said…
- Hello good to see you here.
here is one I heard lately.
some people just understand word and not the spirit.
Keep up your website I'll stop by later.
- At 10:42pm on January 13, 2009,
RevLGKing said… - Katinka, you ask: "Is God Omniscient ? If so, do we have free will?"
It is questions like yours which prompted me, years ago, to stop thinking of GOD as a being, even a super being. GOD is not a noun, or anything to which one can point.
G--all possible and potential Goodness
O--the Oneness and Order of all that IS
D--all that is Desirable.
Eckhart Tolle, in his book, The Power of NOW, makes the same point when he says that God is Being. He make little use of the word 'God' because of this problem.
When thinking in terms of philosophy, science and art, I like using the symbol, 'GØD' .
The use of the null--that is, the Ø, the set [ . ] without numbers, 1/0--indicates that all that is imaginable is possible. The infinitely micro and macro. I think of the cosmos as in 'GØD'. As Jesus said, "With God all things are possible."
Yes, when I quote I use 'God'
BTW, Orthodox Jews, for reasons similar to mine, write the divine name 'G-d'.
Do I pray to GOD and ask "him/her" for favours?
No, I tune in to and connect with Infinite Being. Then things seem to happen.
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