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originally posted by: awareness10
Nice to see people waking up from the trance. Nothing in this place is real. No Illusion can exist beyond death any more than humanity can believe beyond their entranced hypnotic state upon awakening from it.
S&F
So are you suggesting a non-spiritual stance turning backs on the divine is wisdom then?
The strange thing in that, take Islam for example, most people don’t know is that a belief in a God is NOT the first pillar of it.
It is to believe in the UNSEEN or what you haven’t perceived as of yet.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: Willtell
The strange thing in that, take Islam for example, most people don’t know is that a belief in a God is NOT the first pillar of it.
It is to believe in the UNSEEN or what you haven’t perceived as of yet.
It is never about 'belief' - it is about 'realization'.
The UNSEEN has to be realized and that itself is God realization.
God is all SEEING.
Can the seer of what is being seen be seen?
Right here and now there is an appearance (the pc monitor etc...) - what is seeing it? Have a look and see what is seeing.
St. Francis of Assisi — 'What we are looking for is what is looking.'
The mind is always seeking for 'something' out there - in time and space but that seeking will end when one realizes the seer which is ever present.
St. Francis of Assisi — 'What we are looking for is what is looking
The unseen is that which is perceiving - it is what is knowing that there is seeing happening right here and now the only time and place that can ever be known.
originally posted by: Willtell
The unseen is what you don’t perceive as a believer (seeker of the truth)
Enlightenment or liberation can happen even when not sought for, in fact the best way to avoid it would be to seek it. When there is no seeking that is liberation.
You only believe in the enlightened state so you carry on with the exercises and work with the faith that you CAN gain enlightenment.
Or the seeker and the sought are one
There is an objective state within metaphysics that has to do with distorted or corrupted faculties of perception.
That’s what the spiritual path is for, and then beyond that, one is really alive because they have regained their lost faculties.
originally posted by: Shiloh7
a reply to: dominicus
Something akin to this is a book by Christian O'brien where Christ talks about the different realms in the spirit world and how one must traverse them being aware of the demons/devils who would do one harm on the journey.
This is something that is not taught with christianity - yet the eastern religions cover it.
I actually find this information jarring because although I don't align myself with any of the desert religions as all seem flawed and manipulated to me, this concept that there is danger in the upper realms is quite frightening. In fact it seems to me the idea of telling people about a heaven which is a paradise, full of virgins for a man's lust etc etc (with a spirit body Ha Ha) and whatever seems to be darn right dangerous and deliverately misleading. It could well mean that souls are not prepared for what they will find, especially as we don't in truth have any idea of life after death, except that many reincarnate - are they the lucky ones, and if so, how lucky?
originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: dominicus
The word God originates from the word Good and is a Germanic form for the absolute deity, the Gospell or Good New's.
Jesus has his Father who is in heaven and our father too but once when someone called him Good he rebuked them saying Only God is Good or only the Father is good, another interpretation in line with your thought's though I do not share them would be Only Goodness is God or only Goodness is worthy of Worship.
You talk of how Buddha was tempted by Mara but you do not draw the analogy with Christ who had fasted in the wilderness which is something the Buddha himself would have recognized and the Spririt who came claiming to own and create all the world and tempting Jesus saying that if he worshiped him as his only true god than all this he would give him.
The truth shall set you free, Wisdom begin's with understanding we have none.
There are similarity's which may suggest Buddha and Christ are aspect's of the same universal teaching Originating in the Good or the Truth.
A great light Shining unto the people living in Darkness.
The Enlightened one (nothing to do with the illuminated to those that spot that but a title of Buddha).
Rejection of the world and temptation.
Being of a higher form not of the world of death.
Reborn into the spirit to break the cycle (jew's of several sect's and the samaritans as well as today's samaritan descended drue did have reincarnation belief with jesus giving knowledge and faith as well as taking the Kharma of his follower's upon himself, sharing Kharma as a group in the church.
Of course My knowledge of Buddhism is basic but I see nothing that contradict's christ.
However opening these path's to those who are ill prepared can only lead them upon a more complicated ascent with far more chance of falling and the Buddha did not take your Sin or Karma upon himself as Christ did so who is more worthy of your devotion, self ascent through teaching and meditation or help all through christian charity and love.
The god of the old testament is not a different person,