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Post by air on Mar 17, 2016 10:06:20 GMT
This world is the biggest distractor. It distracts us from our objective of nirvana, of mukhta, of being liberated, of being free.
This world, the drama of Lord Rama, of maya, of samasara, the illusion that God has manifested is so amazing that it becomes a big trickster. It tricks us into losing our focus, because the moment the mind is without thought and the focus is on the realization of the truth, we attain liberation, a challenge that is not supposed to come to us so easily. And because we are not supposed to be liberated so easily, we are pulled by the world, we are distracted by the world. The world uses its sense pleasures to attract us so that the mind is distracted and eventually we lose focus; our focus shifts away from God.
With a strong intellect, a very strong will power; with the grace of God, our good actions - karma, it is possible to stop the mind from being a distractor and live in moments of stillness, calmness, silence through meditation, introspection - contemplating on the facts of existence: who am I and why am I here?
Our mind then uses all its energy to love God, seek God, aspire for God, away from the falsehood of being human – this body, this mind, this ego. Therefore, the biggest challenge is to stop the mind, the distractor, from distracting us from achieving the true goal and purpose of life.
AiR
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Post by baangus on Mar 17, 2016 11:25:51 GMT
~This world is the biggest distractor
~our objective of nirvana, of mukhta
~This world, the drama of Lord Rama, of maya, of samasara
~the illusion that God has manifested
~the falsehood of being human Air, in your last post you talked about the dangers of beliefs. Yet every new thread you post is filled with belief-specific doctrine - nihilistic eastern-religious extremism, truth be told - copied directly from a particular philosophy with its specific tenets and beliefs, one which you yourself clearly believe in and are an adherent of. How do you reconcile this very obvious contradiction? On a separate note, this is a discussion forum. Proselytizing in the form of countless proclamation threads certainly isn’t discussion. Neither is copying material directly from whatever books you happen to be reading. If your only intention is to preach your religion and flood the forum with an endless stream of fundamentalist doctrine, it would be proper for you to post this material in one single and ongoing blog thread. |
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Post by gruntal on Mar 17, 2016 15:56:18 GMT
If the world is so bad I wonder why we constantly come back to live in it? Even more to the point is why we don't just stay in "Heaven" and reach G*d there? Apparently the physical existence is good for something beyond just fun and games. Although I admit it easily becomes the ultimate when it is also so painfully self limiting. Bodies are notoriously unreliable with short shelf lives. Any other body can just come along and snuff you out with a weapon. Come to think of it things physical are a bit ridiculous. It is just I am so attached to the physical reality ....
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Post by air on Mar 21, 2016 7:55:36 GMT
~This world is the biggest distractor
~our objective of nirvana, of mukhta
~This world, the drama of Lord Rama, of maya, of samasara
~the illusion that God has manifested
~the falsehood of being human Air, in your last post you talked about the dangers of beliefs. Yet every new thread you post is filled with belief-specific doctrine - nihilistic eastern-religious extremism, truth be told - copied directly from a particular philosophy with its specific tenets and beliefs, one which you yourself clearly believe in and are an adherent of. How do you reconcile this very obvious contradiction? On a separate note, this is a discussion forum. Proselytizing in the form of countless proclamation threads certainly isn’t discussion. Neither is copying material directly from whatever books you happen to be reading. If your only intention is to preach your religion and flood the forum with an endless stream of fundamentalist doctrine, it would be proper for you to post this material in one single and ongoing blog thread.
Thank you for questioning my previous post about the dangers of beliefs and your concern about the content of other posts (which is belief-specific content according to you). I humbly confirm that what I am advocating in my threads is not my personal belief, but more about my personal experiences and realization. This is what I was exactly trying to convey through the last post: that when we blindly believe concepts according to a book we have read or something we have been taught in the past, I call such beliefs dangerous because they are not backed by our own experience. But when I am sharing something with you, they are not taken from a book, but are experiences, thoughts and flashes that I have personally encountered. These are not the concepts or beliefs that were taught to me, which I am in turn forwarding to you blindly. Please be informed of my humble submission that my threads are personal experiences and realizations that I don’t just blindly believe, but have experienced and found to be true. I hope this would be of some help!
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Post by gruntal on Mar 21, 2016 17:25:38 GMT
If my cynical pseudo-intellectual cryptic misogynist Libertarian rants were somehow connected to some religion I would be put out of business! The NO PREACHER signs would come out in force! Like wise it is hard to accuse me of quoting from any such book because said book never exists - even as I have nobody but myself to blame for my mind set. Indeed if anything I beat people to the punch by admitting you can't expect much from a drunken Irishman - or me - except pity. At that level I almost begged to be ignored.
But when I tried to be eloquent in a non-emotional way I came off as endearing as a substitute math teacher. Was the idea to put everyone asleep? Or use what ever silly mundane experience I had to spring to some deep philosophical thread worth of consideration?
I didn't care if nobody liked what I said. It only hurt when nobody understood. In that I just realized some were seekers and some were not. They would find what they were looking for and there was nothing I could do about that. The posts by the author of this thread are surely as valid as anything else posted on this web site. That they might come from a culture or religion foreign to me suggests an interpretation on my part.
"It is all one". That is a practice as much as it is a belief.
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