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- August 16th, 2007, 9:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Project Ijtihad
- Replies: 1
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Project Ijtihad
I have just read an essay at the Washington Post website about Project Ijtihad , which is described as “a charitable initiative to promote the spirit of Ijtihad, Islam’s own tradition of critical thinking, debate and dissent”. It's an interesting essay , particularly given the condition of today's w...
- August 16th, 2007, 8:44 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 122308
Jenjulian, I truly hope you are not really so afraid as “This is the scariest time of my life” sounds! I cannot imagine that you need to be that afraid. Your spiritual undertaking has put you into no danger, and no harm will come to you from it. As for “yanking out these roots and yanking myself int...
- August 15th, 2007, 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 122308
- August 13th, 2007, 10:09 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 122308
- August 13th, 2007, 9:49 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 122308
An afterthought re the discrete or personal God: In Hinduism, one of the names of the Divine Mother is Durga. About Her, it is said that She nourishes the poor, She dispels the demon of ignorance, and She bestows the blessings of wisdom and love on those seeking God-Realization. Very nice. But notic...
- August 13th, 2007, 2:16 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 122308
- August 5th, 2007, 8:54 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: What One Small Grain Learned
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24080
As I wrote here earlier, I really like this story about the little grain. In fact, I like it so much that, with Art's agreement, I have posted it to TZF's Open Space, where I hope it will remain as long as TZF survives. For those interested, the direct link is http://www.zoofence.com/open0081.html.
- July 20th, 2007, 1:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21371
Art, Welcome back! We are delighted to see your name here again. We have missed you, too. And we look forward to your input wherever you are moved to write. I fully understand your struggle with the I-Thou thing. As I have written elsewhere , I (and Nancy) have traveled both a jnana and a bhakti pat...
- June 14th, 2007, 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21371
This morning, thinking a bit more about this thread, there came to mind a few lines from Witter Bynner’s translation of the Tao Te Ching that crossed my path many years ago. First published in 1944, this book is in my opinion still very much worth reading. Its title is The Way of Life According to L...
- June 10th, 2007, 2:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21371
You're right Gulliver, these are tough questions. Here’s my take on them. As I see it, the problem with the argument of free will vs. predestination is that it is impossible to prove one way or the other. One of the Brother Theophyle cartoons addresses this issue by having Theophyle intentionally pe...
- June 1st, 2007, 4:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Animate/Inanimate
- Replies: 0
- Views: 32343
Animate/Inanimate
Consider this. Yesterday, I am returning home from an appointment in town, and I notice that the car ahead of me is boldly marked “Park Ranger”. That piques my interest because the nearest National Park (Acadia) is some fifty miles from where I am at the time, and so, ever curious, I wonder why he h...
- May 16th, 2007, 5:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Recognizing the familiar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7560
Recognizing the familiar
Yesterday, reading in the text volume of A Course in Miracles, I came across the paragraphs quoted in green below. Virtually all of the Teachers agree with what I understand to be the thrust of these two paragraphs: That what each of us perceives as “my life” is an illusion, just as what each of us ...
- May 13th, 2007, 12:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is that so?
- Replies: 0
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Is that so?
The other day, I came across an extraordinary poem by Robert Frost. It is apparently based on an actual event that was recorded at the time in a local newspaper. The imagery in this poem is really something. The poem’s title is “Out, Out - ”. One site on the internet suggests convincingly that Frost...
- May 13th, 2007, 11:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: In the beginning
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11673
- May 1st, 2007, 1:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Light upon Light
- Replies: 0
- Views: 31280
Light upon Light
Here’s a very nice passage from The Niche of Lights by Al-Ghazali – The gnostics (see my note below), after having ascended to the heaven of reality, agree that they see nothing in existence save the One, the Real. Some of them possess this state as a cognitive gnosis. Others, however, attain this t...