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Re: Being fed up with all things spiritual
Spiritual and mundane are not separate.
Your spiritual journey is necessarily interconnected with your day to day real world of just living. Your spiritual practice can be seperated from your mundane, worldly affairs but each will none-the-less affect the other. In melding the mundane, the material, with the spiritual, you grow and advance. In separating mundane from the spiritual, you will reach stalemate.
Lionduck
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Today is Bob Marley's birthday and Waitangi day (The signing of the treaty of Waitangi between Maori and the crown)...The new corrupt coalition government (the three um egos) received a cold welcome onto the Marae at Waitangi by Maori elders...
Many Maori tribes are attending the ceremony and voicing their distrust for the government who want to take away their rights...
It's a public holiday hence why the Auckland Amada has arrived in many of the bays around the island
Shoshin1
Re: Experiences
Experiences
From my personal 'experience'....
"One is simply one's experience.
One's ego is the abstraction from these experiences
One's ego should be viewed as a convenient analytic device."
Shoshin1
Re: The Other Elephant In The Room
Gabor Maté, Naomi Klein, and Simone Zimmerman....Interesting discussion relating to the documentary "Israelism" ...
Shoshin1
Re: Bringing light into the world
I like that.
My fundamental purpose these days is to "be a light unto others".
To do that, I must "be a light unto myself" first.
A work in progress.
“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." Gandalf (Hobbit movie).
marcitko
Re: Bringing light into the world
Bringing light into the world
The light I try to shine onto the world stage....
Don't take life too seriously, for things are never quite what they seem
life's just a mind-made simulation - a make believe adlib dream
This is not to say that one should take the suffering of others as not real
for in this somewhat lucid dream, actual pain we really feel
Take things as they come, but never for granted should one take
the suffering of other sentient beings, for their suffering is not fake
I guess what I'm trying to say is I may know my life's a dream
but I take the suffering of others seriously, for theirs like mine can be extreme
Sadness is just the joy of what might have been...
Shoshin1
Bringing light into the world
I know I wasn’t going to spend too much time on spiritual topics, but I found myself watching a number of wonderful near-death experience reports, and I thought to myself, these are almost spiritual in nature. They talk about the hereafter, the nature of what we are, our purpose here on Earth, it’s almost like a complete life philosophy. And you can see the people who have had these experiences have been genuinely transformed by it, their reactions give it away, it’s like they know something and have had their lives changed by it.
This man says, our purpose in life is to know joy. So to help ourselves and others we should teach them about joy. This is not always easy, life’s ups and downs teach us first about pleasure and pain, and only later do we find out about joy. When you’re young, life is about chasing happiness, and when you’re older, life is about appreciating joy.
For me, joy is to be found in the real world, not a virtual one. It is about nature, it is about family, it is about meditation. It is about caring for people, about good food, about sharing. In a way, all the things that isolate us make it more difficult for us to find our joy, and modern life with its houses and its cars is great at isolating.
So if we all pay a little more attention to giving others joy, we can succeed in bringing a little more light into the world.
Jeroen