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Now, if you would like to see God first you will need a mirror. Next, take a look into that mirror, truly take a look in that mirror, contemplate with your heart and respond with what you perceive.
originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
a reply to: EviLCHiMP
Now, if you would like to see God first you will need a mirror. Next, take a look into that mirror, truly take a look in that mirror, contemplate with your heart and respond with what you perceive.
Interesting about the mirror. A few years ago I was doing some trance-art-video-stuff with narratives. One of the narratives was "Do you want to meet your greatest adversary, look into the mirror and surrender."
Am I enlightened or damned?
originally posted by: JokerThe1st
originally posted by: intrptr
A bit of reflective glass reveals only the surface, not the character within. Like looking at the cover of a book.
Its whats inside thats important. Don't judge a book by its cover.
originally posted by: EviLCHiMP
originally posted by: intrptr
A bit of reflective glass reveals only the surface, not the character within. Like looking at the cover of a book.
Its whats inside thats important. Don't judge a book by its cover.
The eye perceives a surface, the mind perceives a character within, make the eye one with the mind and there will be nothing to distinguish the two.
You are enlightened but you are also damned, yet one cannot be both simultaneously. So what would you say you are?
God/The Creator/The Source/The Ancient of Days/Yahweh/I AM/Allah/Godhead/Jehovah/Tengri/Hu/Ahura Mazda/The Almighty/Brahma/Vishnu/Atman/Buddha/Christ/The Divine One.
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: EviLCHiMP
originally posted by: intrptr
A bit of reflective glass reveals only the surface, not the character within. Like looking at the cover of a book.
Its whats inside thats important. Don't judge a book by its cover.
The eye perceives a surface, the mind perceives a character within, make the eye one with the mind and there will be nothing to distinguish the two.
If I already see within, then I don't need a mirror.
If your eye is single then the whole body is full of light. You can't see that "light" in a mirror.
Somewhere a film director (Scorsese?) said, and I paraphrase, looking at a photograph is like reading one page from a novel. Not much there. Besides people cover their exterior to look "made up" and hide their true intent.
Greed, anger, murder, all are invisible. Thats why serial killers for instance are able to seduce people into their web.
The killer next door seemed like "such a nice guy".
originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
a reply to: EviLCHiMP
You are enlightened but you are also damned, yet one cannot be both simultaneously. So what would you say you are?
The creative spirit "aka source" directed me to a mirror, to meet my greatest adversary, which turned out to be me. This was a message to me that the greatest adversary is within ourselves. In order to go past the adversary there is a choice to fight or surrender. Strangely enough, surrender is the better option to reach the "aka source".
This is true to me because of something in the Bagavad Gita about the need to be fully surrendered before the "aka source" can be seen. The last portion of the dialogue was, while looking at the mirror,
"Do you want to fight forever or do you want to be together?" - the question comes from your greatest adversary in the mirror. It was probably a trick question but it required an answer of "surrender" before one can get past it.
Once past that point, the flow of information will over load the senses and the brain, probably knocking you out the first time if not prepared for it. After the experiments were over it took then several more years to fully integrate what information I brought back.
God/The Creator/The Source/The Ancient of Days/Yahweh/I AM/Allah/Godhead/Jehovah/Tengri/Hu/Ahura Mazda/The Almighty/Brahma/Vishnu/Atman/Buddha/Christ/The Divine One.
To me, these are all programmed characters in a matrix, they are protectors of the "aka source".
To me, these are all programmed characters in a matrix, they are protectors of the "aka source".
Information is nothing more than emptiness
You are still externalizing God, when you understand that you directed yourself to that mirror you will understand the incorrect perceptions you still cling to.
God/The Creator/The Source/The Ancient of Days/Yahweh/I AM/Allah/Godhead/Jehovah/Tengri/Hu/Ahura Mazda/The Almighty/Brahma/Vishnu/Atman/Buddha/Christ/The Divine One.
Emptiness is the correct answer. Now, with that understood you may ponder what that emptiness is.
originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
a reply to: EviLCHiMP
Information is nothing more than emptiness
You are still externalizing God, when you understand that you directed yourself to that mirror you will understand the incorrect perceptions you still cling to.
What you listed here are nothing more than avatars and externalizations.
God/The Creator/The Source/The Ancient of Days/Yahweh/I AM/Allah/Godhead/Jehovah/Tengri/Hu/Ahura Mazda/The Almighty/Brahma/Vishnu/Atman/Buddha/Christ/The Divine One.
I would most respectfully disagree. The external/eternal creative spirit sends messages in telegrams, ie, one-way messages. Information is coherent, non-empty. Non-information is non-coherent, therefore empty.
Emptiness is the correct answer. Now, with that understood you may ponder what that emptiness is.
I would most respectfully disagree. Pondering emptiness is a single distraction when the ultimate goal is, as you say in the thread title, "Would you like to see God? Would you like to know God?".
The road of emptiness leads nowhere.