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Originally posted by PnezakYahakotima
At some point during meditational practice, you become not only aware of your breath, but your breath itself becomes an active and aware principle...
Breath is one of the most important tools we have. When we breathe in air, we also breath in awareness. When we breathe out air, we also breathe out awareness.
If you become aware of your breath and its awareness, you then become consciously connected to the awareness of everyone else...
(which can sometimes be REALLY difficult to process...)
But I believe that even the most blind, dark, and petty creatures can be reached gradually, over long periods of time.
I guess that is why Buddhists consider it a very great honor to be born here, rather than in any other realms.... because we exist at this median between heaven and hell.... and therefore we are the mediators, the ones who experience and process pain and suffering for the rest of the Cosmos...
Puts a whole new perspective on things.... if only we can keep that in mind, myself most definitely included.
So, the war for each of us.... is really only with our ability to process suffering... pain, sadness, and fear included...
We're all a lot more prepared to deal with it than we might think....
Perhaps that's why we are here... to liberate a blind god from his mental prison by liberating ourselves from our own mental prisons...
edit on 21-1-2013 by PnezakYahakotima because: (no reason given)edit on 21-1-2013 by PnezakYahakotima because: to add edit reason... wanted to tie this into the OP a bit more
Originally posted by 3NL1GHT3N3D1
reply to post by Northwarden
I'm not misportraying anyone, only asking questions that others usually look past.
If god gave us free will as a gift then why does he tell us we shouldn't use it? Why give a gift if you plan on taking it back if they use it? That's not a gift, it's a bribe.
God should love all people equally. If someone makes a few bad mistakes in their short lifespan here on Earth, how does that equal to eternity in hell? I thought god was a fair god? If someone does bad things, don't you think they deserve a chance at redemption instead of throwing them in a cell and throwing away the key?
Originally posted by PnezakYahakotima
Free will is such an abused concept.
Can you even really define freedom?
When you look forward, you see an array of choices, but when you look backward, all you see is what has happened.
What about when you look right here?
You see uncertainty, most likely.... you are uncertain, so you "choose" between things which seem to be consistent with past "choices".
So "free will" is really only ill-defined slavery. You are a slave to a certain number of choices.
So if one believes it to be true that Lucifer gave man free will, within the context of what I have just previously said, all Lucifer gave man was a varied set of ignorant attitudes towards his enslavement.
That seems to indicate falsehood, and a false "god" to me.
Our false god, then, is a personified misconception called "free will".
Isn't it funny that, in order to be "free", you must be a slave to capital?
If you denounce capital, you are still a slave to your conditions.
This is a world of indentured servitude, not of freedom.
I guess to truly be free, one first must realize the extent to which he his enslaved.
It's a very convincing illusion, though. That's the hardest part to overcome....
It drives some people completely insane... well they drive themselves insane, really.
A false god is enslaved by his "free will" as well. Denying his interconnectedness to Supreme Being.
The question one eventually has to ask, even this false god, is this:
What other way could there have possibly been then the One Way?edit on 21-1-2013 by PnezakYahakotima because: corrected punctuation
Originally posted by NarrowGate
reply to post by Northwarden
If I could not "judge" and tell someone when they are in error in their actions or faith, I would be breaking the Golden Rule.
It applies to telling people you know where their eternal soul is going, and can be extended to other things as well.
You can not judge yourself as better than someone.
I guess gnostics are included..."Archons" haha. Demons you mean? (this is directed at the one who referred to Archons, not you)
There is no higher God than the Lord of the Universe, the Father - the Son - and the Holy Spirit. No matter what gnostic texts say.
I find their texts humorous, yet dangerous. The Matrix was good though, so who am I to judge?
Originally posted by Northwarden
Originally posted by NarrowGate
reply to post by Northwarden
If I could not "judge" and tell someone when they are in error in their actions or faith, I would be breaking the Golden Rule.
A wise man overlooks an offence, don't pay much attention to workers who grumble over you, and judge not lest you be judged also come to mind. The overlooked part of the golden rule, in treating others as you would be treated is that it was intended that people first attain a righteous attitude, and live a worthy life. It is then intended that judgements are made according to those high standards. It seems to me that people who try the least tend to use that statement the most, then politely pass off any topic of ethics in the same switched mode of mind. But if you involve your web in my life, guaranteed my web will involve itself in your web. Angels predate against demons, are infinately more powerful than demons in their points of order, with Gods backing, with wise watchdogs and stores of wisdom backing them up against the foolishness-in-wise-formats of countless hell-scum issues. The least of angels is potentially greater than the greatest of man, as man was made less than angels, and I'm convinced there are billions. This is no small moving force in our lives, in fact, it trumps everything. Feel safe
We love them, and therefore respect their society, protect their identities, and realize that evil hatreds against decent people hurt their hearts. The same hatred also strengthens demons and promotes their activity. Don't call Christians the foolish members of society, examine yourselves & I'm presently sold out of mirrors.
It applies to telling people you know where their eternal soul is going, and can be extended to other things as well.
You can not judge yourself as better than someone.
I can also judge myself as worthier, far worthier, than many an individual, based on easy comparasions - which I dislike making - between myself and others. That's confidence on the line, not under-confidence, not pride talking. I can see how little some give effort, fall short even when they do, and guage how much farther I'll go than they to meet my intended mark. Further, a wise archer over-shoots his/her mark to meet their target; I don't mind feminism as it counters centuries of chauvinism and Shariah law, as an example. We're all at different stages in our evolution, and everyone fluctuates in their ambitions and direction. It would be a shame to be all the same (an essential equality for rights, but a healthy deep sense/deep nonsense division among factions results in the preservation of actual classy human nature imo). If you want to compare me to a grade eights intelligence level, or a historical great like Emerson, I'll call your judgement into question. I'm not the worst, I'm not the best. So how did this become an issue about me? lol It didn't, just answering your pov.
To an earlier poster, I've never heard of the gospels considered gnostic texts before reading what you said here.edit on 21-1-2013 by Northwarden because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by CaticusMaximus
I would also like to mention to anyone who might bring up that Jesus is related to Yahweh, that he isnt. If he was, he would have mentioned at SOME point, Yahweh by name or identifiable alias.
But he doesnt. "My Father in Heaven", "The Father", etc is the only way he addresses his parent. And seeing that he came to do away with the old laws, I doubt he would have Yahwehs support if Yahweh was actually his father.
Another conspiracy
His actual progenitor/source could not be Yahweh, as Yahweh is evil, and Jesus/Lucifer was clearly not. An apple tree does not create olive fruits, nor do wicked entities give birth to holy ones.edit on 1/20/2013 by CaticusMaximus because: (no reason given)