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- August 31st, 2007, 9:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My question
- Replies: 22
- Views: 44769
- August 24th, 2007, 2:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Forgive you, forgive me
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7004
Interesting question. I would suggest that ultimately, the very asking “oneself” is the problem. So long as I maintain “myself” as opposed to “another”, there will be miscreants and nasty little men in my life. Nasty little men give “meaning to my life”, however unpleasant some of those moments in m...
- August 23rd, 2007, 5:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: God Has No Name
- Replies: 0
- Views: 34338
God Has No Name
I'd like to suggest that an important distinction needs to be made when we discuss who and what God is, and who and what we as creatures of God, are. It is all too easy to slip the ego into the definition of God, thereby projecting our ego-centricity onto God, and sometimes, onto God’s numerous grea...
- August 20th, 2007, 1:39 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 126827
Firstly, please understand that I did not mean to suggest that anyone be embarrassed by her search. The red face I included was to reflect my own “embarrassed” position as I realize my ignorance along the path. Throughout my own personal journey, I have always been somewhat chagrined at my past igno...
- August 19th, 2007, 8:43 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 126827
Jenjulian: Important point: there is really no conflict between God is all, and the ego is illusion, and therefore not real. God is ALSO the illusion! If God is all, then everything, including illusion, is God. To affirm anything other than that, is to affirm that there are corners of the universe w...
- August 18th, 2007, 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 126827
I know of the fear to which jenjulian refers, for I have lived it, and it can be almost paralyzing. It certainly colors our lives if not understood, and not accepted as the inevitability of misunderstanding of who and what we are. Perhaps approaching it from another angle will help to illuminate whe...
- August 8th, 2007, 2:09 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Dead Gurus, Live Gurus, They all Serve Us
- Replies: 13
- Views: 39372
You are not the only one to question what is meant by surrender. This seems to be a hard nut to get one’s teeth into. By surrender, I mean to give into the obvious fact that “I don’t know” -- how to fix this, what I need, what I am, what I believe, what I know. It is, in fact, a recognition that the...
- August 8th, 2007, 1:46 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 126827
Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
Someone asked me what we personally had done in our own life to affect a change in our consciousness, besides reading and meditating and all the many spiritual exercises and "sports" that the seeker encounters on her path. I realized suddenly, in response to that inquiry, that we actually ...
- August 4th, 2007, 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Dead Gurus, Live Gurus, They all Serve Us
- Replies: 13
- Views: 39372
I left out of my original suggestion at the inception of this topic, that, even when surrendering oneself to a teacher, or teacher, it is important to retain one's discrimination. We are indiscriminate in much that we do, we fail to observe and dissect what we observe, but instead fling ourselves in...
- August 4th, 2007, 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Dead Gurus, Live Gurus, They all Serve Us
- Replies: 13
- Views: 39372
Ah, well said, jenjulian. Your analysis of Lewis is to my mind, exact and right on. And your leap to the conclusion from that, to knowing God is not an intellectual exercise (although intellectual exercise may bring you to that realization), is again, right on. Looks to me as though you already know...
- August 3rd, 2007, 3:51 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Dead Gurus, Live Gurus, They all Serve Us
- Replies: 13
- Views: 39372
However, with that said, let me add this. It seems to me that no group or any teacher or teaching will in and of itself, “save” us from ourselves, by doing it FOR us. That is the work each seeker must do herself, by herself, in her own way and time, albeit with guidance and pointers to the correct d...
- August 3rd, 2007, 3:19 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Dead Gurus, Live Gurus, They all Serve Us
- Replies: 13
- Views: 39372
- August 1st, 2007, 1:00 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: What One Small Grain Learned
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24935
- July 30th, 2007, 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Who speaks, who listens?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8083
Seems to me that the answer is yes to both questions. :) I recall about 30 years ago reading J. Krishnamurtis' book, and really slogging through it, not grasping much of it. About 15 years later, reading it again, and being surprised that I found it such hard reading before. Indeed, there have been ...
- July 30th, 2007, 2:37 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Dead Gurus, Live Gurus, They all Serve Us
- Replies: 13
- Views: 39372
Dead Gurus, Live Gurus, They all Serve Us
Having thrown myself at the feet of both living, and dead “Gurus”, from the little known to the accepted religious icons, I have come to the conclusion that their necessity to the spiritual process is more one of stripping away rather than adding to, the aspirant's process. By Guru, I mean the word ...