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    #26508824 - 02/28/20 08:00 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Various religions depict the Creator as something outside of us. But Kabbalah explains that it is forbidden to imagine the Creator as an image of any kind, that the Creator is a quality that exists within each of us.

The Creator is the quality of love and bestowal. The meaning of the word “Creator” (Borre in Hebrew) is “Come and See” (Bo u Re’e), meaning come and discover this quality within you. There is no external, foreign element for whom we work! We work on correcting ourselves, on attaining the qualities of love and giving, the Creator.

Around two thousand years ago, we lost the feeling of the Creator—we were exiled and lost the true picture of the world. We began to think that the Creator was someone who existed separately from us, rather than a quality that appeared within us. Instead of depicting the Creator as the primary and foremost quality of Creation, which clothes within us, we began to think of Him as a separate and foreign entity.


- Rav Michael Laitman


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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

~ Rumi



The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir


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Re: Come and See [Re: PocketLady] * 1
    #26508857 - 02/28/20 08:31 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Yes. This is the way I interpret the various Kabbalistic teachings. The Jewish faith fell into worthlessness (as did all Abrahamic religions) when it lost it's mystical component IMO. Un fortunately, from what I have seen, all religions lose their mystical component over time thus castrating themselves from 'God'. This is not to say that religions are 'only negative', for many of them do good work -but without a mystical component there is little there for the true seeker.

Giving 'God' an image means that you are not 'there' yet (as far as enlightenment, or nirvana, or a glimpse of paradise or heaven etc.). There is Kether, and above that is Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur if I remember correctly. I don't remember off the top of my head the translation. The LIght , The limitless Light , The...? Anyway, pure consciousness which is 'God', has no image -there is nothing as in no thing. No thing but pure consciousness.  This is my two pennies , Peace.


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Re: Come and See [Re: scarabaeus]
    #26508902 - 02/28/20 09:03 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Yeah I couldn't agree more :thumbup: We've been moving further and further away from spiritual understanding for a long time now, the Kali Yuga as the yogis would call it. I think watered down spiritual traditions serve their purpose in this age, but at least for me, the mystical traditions seem to hold (or used to hold) the closest thing to truth that it's possible to communicate. It took me a while to get into Kabbalah, but once I started to understand the terminology (with some help from my teacher), I am amazed at the way it explains the relationship we have with the Light/Creator and how we can make the ascent :sun:

Keter/Kether - Crown
Ein - Nothingness
Ein Sof -  The Limitless/Infinite
Ohr Ein Sof - The Limitless/Infinite Light

Plus whatever spelling variations, lol.


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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

~ Rumi



The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir


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Re: Come and See [Re: PocketLady]
    #26508926 - 02/28/20 09:29 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Thanks for clarifying the Hebrew terminology friend. Years ago I studied and practiced what I guess could best be called methods of 'The Western Mystical Tradition' which of course is heavily based upon the Cabbala (Kabbalah etc.).  I have since moved on from most of that, but the Kabbalah has remained a useful tool in my personal development. It is a good roadmap or maybe a better term would be a kind of GPS for your spiritual well being (?). I try to keep my 'self' in the Middle Pillar and always try to keep aligned with Kether. I assume that makes sense to you, one of the few people I have recently spoken with that could possibly 'get it' lol.

Since I have your attention, who is this teacher you mentioned -I'm always curious as to how people find their way to personal development and the how/why it works for them.


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Re: Come and See [Re: scarabaeus]
    #26508952 - 02/28/20 09:56 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Yeah that makes total sense :smile: I definitely don't claim to be an expert in Kabbalah however, it is a fairly recent thing for me quite honestly. I dabbled in various things, including aspects of the Western Mystical Tradition myself years ago before I found my teacher. I've been with him 6 or 7 years now, and he's taken us through all kinds of things from Hermeticism, to Zen, Daoism, Tantra, Kabbalah etc all from a very practical perspective. A true master imho. He opened a public website just a year or so ago.




https://drukama.com/


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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

~ Rumi



The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir


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Re: Come and See [Re: PocketLady]
    #26509001 - 02/28/20 10:50 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Thank you so much for being so candid. Where I live here on the East Coast one rarely sees such open honesty. I reviewed your link. The first thing that came to mind was  1 -'how much money did it take to make this high quality production video, and 2- where did the money come from? Red flags my friend, red flags. God doesn't care about material things. People claiming to be aligned with God don't drive a better car than I do or have a better cable package than I can afford.  Something to think about. Maybe aligning yourself with drukama  at this time in your life is exactly what you need at THIS time in your life, but please remember that ANY man who speaks    spiritual truths is still just a man. If God is everywhere, that means a part of 'him', is inside of YOU. Listen to that. Put your faith in that. At the end of the day, there is only 'that'.

You are obviously an intelligent person (woman I presume?). If you weren't I never would have responded to your initial post. So I hope that you don't find these comments offending for this is not my intention. I ONLY care about your well-being and personal growth.

You have been honest with me, so let me tell you about MY 'guru'. MAHARSHI.  You can google his name and learn if you wish.

I wish you peace, love, and all the rest friend. What ever it is that works for you is of course the very thing that works for you. But be careful! Somebody want your $ ? Somebody want your body? This has all been done before many times over, and it never turns out well.

Hope I'm not hurting your feelings -please do respond if you feel so inclined. :headbang:


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Re: Come and See [Re: scarabaeus]
    #26509049 - 02/28/20 11:42 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Haha, you know you are not the first person to say that. Actually the whole website and all of the videos were created by volunteers, members of the group. I personally know the guy who does the videos. Not a single penny has been spent on design, marketing, videos, or anything of the sort. We just happen to have a very skilled group of practitioners :grin: I was with Daishi for 5 years before there even was a public website, and was never asked for a single penny. I actually moved out to SoCal from the UK to study with Daishi directly, and trust me when I say he is about the most giving person I have ever met in my entire life. He has even paid my rent to a private landlord for the past year since I can't work out here (out of his own pocket, not Drukama), literally given me the clothes off his back etc.

Drukama is a registered 501c. Trust me when I say this is not about the money, at all, but in this day and age, spiritual organisations have to play the game, although it's hard to win when you need to market yourself online to get out there, but then everyone turns around and says it's too well done :lol:  We are trying to set up a foundation from which these teachings can be shared, where we can provide for practitioners looking to take a break from the world to practice, charitable giving, and not to mention putting food on the table for Daishi and his family, as he is dedicating his whole live to this, and give something back to the volunteers eventually too. Daishi actually used to run an extremely successful financial business, and if he wanted to make money, he could have just stuck with that.

I might heed your warnings just a tiny bit if his teachings hadn't completely changed my life. I have had many experiences spiritual practitioners seek their whole lives and never find, not to mention the overwhelming impact it's had on my well-being. And yes, I am female. No feelings have been hurt by the way :smile: I do understand your misgivings. What we are doing hasn't really been done before and people don't really understand what it is about yet, and that's understable because it's so new.

I know who Ramana Maharashi is. A very great teacher. We can talk about men just being men, but if you follow the teachings of someone like Maharashi, I think you might know it's true that some men have found a way to be much closer to God than the rest of us, and luckily they sometimes offer that knowledge up to the rest of us, otherwise we would be lost.


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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

~ Rumi



The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir


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Re: Come and See [Re: PocketLady]
    #26509091 - 02/29/20 12:50 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

I hope what you believe is that which is true! If what you describe is what is actually happening, well that can only benefit us all. And that is a good thing.

$ ?  Let me tell you about MY life. Some of that $ volunteers gave for these multi-thousand dollar videos to promote the cause could have fed hundreds of children in my community. I came from nothing, worked my butt off and sometimes had to sleep on strangers couches because I couldn't afford college and an apartment. I don't know what you did this morning, but I assisted in a below the knee amputation. An hour later assisted in phalangel amputation of a diabetic. Then  they put me on a differernt detail where I had to inform (by phone) that  one of our residents (their father) had passed. Then I came home with 3 days off, got bored and decided to post. I exercised, meditated, ate dinner and went Shroomery. What did you do today?  Perhaps you can understand a bit better why I am skeptical about any organization that collects money while concomitantly claiming to help people find a better way? I have seen this 3-5 times before in my life always collecting $ but never telling anyone where it goes

Proof is in the pudding. Never forget Malkuth, Earth, Pentacles. Taking care of yourself and then having enough left over to help your fellow man is in and of itself a spiritual endeavor. Anyone who tells you different is either a simpleton,  or a liar. One can help people on their journey without pledging allegiance to some 'better' cause that can only come about by  the exclamtions/purpose/ideals of some self proclaimed dispeller of darkness (Guru).

I cannot endorse your guru. Prove me wrong!!!

BEWARE of becoming a sheep. God (for lack of a better word) speaks to each of us -one does not need someone to tell us what we already in our heart already know.

I only want the best for you. Follow your heart. Onward and upward my fellow traveler. Perhaps one day we will meet in the same place even though we took different paths. :heartpump:

It is 2:45 am here on the east coast. Please do respond if you wish, but I may not get back to you for several days. Time for me to sleep. Peace...


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    #26509122 - 02/29/20 01:41 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Thanks for sharing a bit about your life. It’s great that you are able to contribute something so positive to the world. Sounds like you are performing a great service. Good for you. I was a high school teacher myself for over 10 years before I came out here. I decided to give up my life because sorting myself out spiritually seemed more important, in order that eventually I will be able to help others do the same, and to help people put an end to the illusory suffering we put ourselves through every single day. That is what I believe our entire lives are about, learning how to gain mastery over ourselves so we don’t have to suffer anymore, and then to help others to do the same, the way of the Bodhisattva. What matters to me is that people don’t needlessly suffer because of their own minds anymore. For me personally, there is no more noble cause, but I know we are not all on the same page about that necessarily.

I think there is confusion about the videos though. Those videos only cost the time it took a member of the volunteer team to produce, shoot and edit them. Zero money was spent, although at some point it would be nice to put food on the table for the people who dedicate so much of their time to this project for absolutely nothing. Honestly, public Drukama is so new at the moment, I don’t think there is really any money going anywhere right now.

I just wanted to say, I do understand your concerns, and I appreciate you trying to look out for me. It’s sad that so many spiritual teachers are not the real deal, and end up misleading their followers, or worse. It makes people wary of even genuine teachings. I get it. Because of that, it’s very easy to make assumptions about what someone is or is claiming to be, without any real facts to back that up. The question should always be about whether the teachings themselves resonate, and whether they are effective and bear fruit. Before I met Daishi, I was basically a mental and emotional wreck, to be quite honest. These days, the vast majority of the time I am just joyful, without reason, and feel absolutely filled with love and a desire to do whatever I can to help others. I’m not quite at the stage where I can do that yet at least spiritually, but the will to bestow grows a little stronger each day, which is the main thing.

Anyway, I’m not sure I can ever prove anything to you, nor is it my job. This things have to be experienced oneself to be fully understood. Real teachers ask for no beliefs, they merely give one the tools to find out the truth for themselves. You asked me about my teacher, and I have shared all that I can. I really wish you all the best on your journey too. May we all find what we are ultimately looking for :peace::heart:


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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

~ Rumi



The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir


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Re: Come and See [Re: PocketLady]
    #26509139 - 02/29/20 02:10 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Thanks for your timely response. Bad news is that I don't see how your teacher could help me. Good news is that it doesn't matter. I hope we both learned a bit in our little discourse this evening (I think we did; I know I did.  Maybe we are all just spokes in the great wheel _the closer we get to the axis is the closer we come to GOD.

Different spokes -different folks.


p.s. good night for real this time lol. Peace Sister.


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Re: Come and See [Re: scarabaeus]
    #26509195 - 02/29/20 04:34 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

The creator is the soul...or has a soul so to speak..

The soul is your direct source of your personality and personhood..

In that you learn to extend yourself out into reality from outside the egg...you can learn from each other./.and have fun and have exciting adventures..


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    #26515607 - 03/03/20 10:52 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Thanks for chiming in friend. I agree. Peace to you. And now I gotta get back to work! Much  :heart:  and keep :rockon:


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Re: Come and See [Re: PocketLady]
    #26517896 - 03/05/20 03:05 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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PocketLady said:
Various religions depict the Creator as something outside of us. But Kabbalah explains that it is forbidden to imagine the Creator as an image of any kind, that the Creator is a quality that exists within each of us.

The Creator is the quality of love and bestowal. The meaning of the word “Creator” (Borre in Hebrew) is “Come and See” (Bo u Re’e), meaning come and discover this quality within you. There is no external, foreign element for whom we work! We work on correcting ourselves, on attaining the qualities of love and giving, the Creator.

Around two thousand years ago, we lost the feeling of the Creator—we were exiled and lost the true picture of the world. We began to think that the Creator was someone who existed separately from us, rather than a quality that appeared within us. Instead of depicting the Creator as the primary and foremost quality of Creation, which clothes within us, we began to think of Him as a separate and foreign entity.


- Rav Michael Laitman




yea already know this stuff... cmon..


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Re: Come and See [Re: PocketLady] * 1
    #26518871 - 03/05/20 03:12 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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Around two thousand years ago, we lost the feeling of the Creator—we were exiled and lost the true picture of the world. We began to think that the Creator was someone who existed separately from us, rather than a quality that appeared within us. Instead of depicting the Creator as the primary and foremost quality of Creation, which clothes within us, we began to think of Him as a separate and foreign entity.





Two thousand years ago, humanity was invited back into the mystery of God and his kingdom.

Perhaps today the truth is more offensive than ever...

How could God have been a simple man among us?  How could God be hanging bloody, dying on a wooden cross?  How unfashionable....
We can hear an echo in our own minds of the crowd's taunting... "If you're truly the Son of God then why can't you come down off that cross?"

Humanity has been worshiping its own earthly power since the beginning of history...  History is Cain slaying Abel.  History is the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, Egypt, etc. etc.  Murder and slavery.  Man trying to be god.  At what point in history were people "one with the creator" ?  We behave as animals, hopping from one lustful desire to the next.

God showed us how completely upside down we were.

God showed us real power and victory, through ultimate suffering, loss and weakness.

How foolish that the blood of mocked and humiliated man, dying the death reserved for Roman slaves, should become the ultimate symbol of freedom and heavenly conquest.  And yet it happened.

It was the "Sign of Jonah" that Jesus referred to. 
The ancient Israelite Jonah fell into the dark depths for 3 days before ascending back up onto land.  Afterwards, Jonah went and preached to the Assyrian city of Nineveh... the most striking account of mass-conversion/repentance of a non-Jewish people bowing before the God of Israel.

Just as Jesus was in the grave for 3 days before being raised up and leading a ministry that would spread across the non-Jewish world, fulfilling thousands of years of prophecy in scripture... so much so that we recognize Him when we date the year.  (Talk about fulfilling the Sign of Jonah!)

You couldn't make it up if you tried, which is why there is nothing even remotely like the enigma of Jesus Christ in all of history.  No other religious claims get anywhere close to the phenomena of the Old and New Testaments of Jesus Christ.

God is right here beckoning us to "Come and see", to anyone who wants the truth.  Those looking to doubt will be given more doubt.  They will stay on the surface, with surface talking-points. 

But those with ears to hear and who want the truth, will be increasingly beckoned into the mystery and have a world of evidence opened up to them.  You may wrestle with the evidence, but the more you consider it, the more you will come to the conclusion that the gospels of Jesus Christ exist because they are true.

Jesus himself did not march down the streets proclaiming himself to be God.  He always posed the question:  "Who do you say that I am?"  When he revealed who he was, it was always through riddles and parables.

Because such an amazing mystery could not simply be revealed in a common statement... it could only be accessed by the heart of a believer, someone thirsting for the truth.

That's what the Cross of Jesus Christ does for us today.  It penetrates through our lies and pretensions that we're just rational people basing our worldviews on evidence, and instead goes straight to our hearts (where we can't hide behind contrived philosphies and ideologies designed to resist the truth.)

We look at the gospels of Jesus Christ and realize that THIS is what God did for us.  He loved us so much that He died for us.  His funeral was a royal wedding.  Jesus' blood poured out for us sealed the covenant that would rescue us from exile and bring us back into His kingdom as a glorious bride.  It is the greatest love story ever told.

Let those with ears to hear, hear:

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.


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"Who do you say that I am?"
- Jesus quoted in the Gospel of Matthew


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Re: Come and See [Re: PocketLady] * 2
    #26519280 - 03/05/20 06:26 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

The world is a parable, two stories at once, one layered beneath the other. On the outside, it is the story of a brute called Reality, a bloodless monster hosting an army of fiends, beasts, lunacy and, worst of all, futility. On the inside, it is a story of its own Author with you alone, in eternal love, and every challenge of this adventure just another expression of that love, drawing the two of you yet closer.

The world is a parable, a story on two channels at once. On which channel do you choose to spend your precious time?


- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman


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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

~ Rumi



The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir


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    #26520255 - 03/06/20 09:11 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Religion is dicey, am i right you can’t say an ancient jewish religion, that existed for eons was nessecarily wrong, and that they didn’t have some truths right, before Jesus Christ, but the creator you call it or God exists i’ve seen it in a dream, he calls himself god or he can be called the divine creator too, the divine creator, thing really does admit to more pure awareness, and love, and true divinity of all creation’s of existence, and God has the most dicey most unconcievable word in existence, now is this God love, somewhat, but the God itself has intelligence, thoughts, an image, i could explain to you what god looks like or the balls of light look like that call themselves god’s too, but that would just flash you into a mega brain wave of enlightenment, and ultimatenessess, that would blow your mind to smithereans, and Christian’s would hate me forever. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuutttttt lol, i think it’s time in humanities evolution now, and you should know what he looked like in my dream.

        He was a white man, in a white robe, key in the white robe part, and this will explain to you everything on why people wear white robes, who are religious... why??????????? Because they’ve seen God, should i go on okay I will, stop reading NOW if you do not want to know what this divine creator aka God looks like if you want to know keep reading. He was like 3,000 or more feet tall, and he said Stoooooooooooooppppppppp! We were standing in the universe i was in the stars we were above earth, a white tall man approached me in the cosmos, he was wearing a GIANT HOLY WHITE robe and he has sparkles, he said have no confusion i am your god, this shit blew my mind to smithereens, i was gone. He had white hair a pony tail with a rubber band on it, he was old but had a straight back with no wrinkles, his skin was phenominal, I asked the man why was their war he said for no reason at all. I asked him what was the purpose to life he said to travel the galaxies, whooaaaa man whooaaaaa ever since then i haven’t been able to get the idea of an Ultimate Creator or God out of my head, it was like whoaaa!

                  I would not lie about anything like this and i believe in the bible there was a dream of an angel visiting warning them that Jesus was going to be sought out after and it was true from the beginning. I think the Kabbalah had it right, you can’t go around saying “My religion is right, your’s is wrong, because, that defeats the whole, point.


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Re: Come and See [Re: Connection] * 2
    #26520654 - 03/06/20 01:37 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

It seems like the very heart of all religions say basically the same thing. I think the problem is that that true essence has been mostly lost over time. I'm pretty sure the Kabbalists, the Sufis, the Tantrikas, and various other esoteric branches of spiritual traditions have always recognised that it's all saying the same thing. And in fact, it's not even that it's saying the same thing, it's that these esoteric branches provide tools by which we might experience God for ourselves, through union, without any requirement for belief or dogma.

What seems to have happened with mainstream religion, is that instead of the emphasis being on using these tools for spiritual experience, division led by dogmatic belief has arisen over time. Instead of being given tools to find God, people are simply told, 'You should believe in God, and these are the rules.' And like the tips of tree branches, they all believe themselves to be separate and different from one another, because they have lost sight of the trunk and roots of the tree which actually connects them all.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

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The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir


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Re: Come and See [Re: PocketLady]
    #26521601 - 03/07/20 03:15 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

The idea of coming to see is a fallacy.. we are at rest and we see through an infinite kalidascope.. but it is known and true that a thing is defined as it's bearings.. The kaleidascope is an infinite prism.. with every color possible..


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Re: Come and See [Re: BrendanFlock] * 2
    #26522013 - 03/07/20 10:24 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

That may be true, but I think it's more about using language people understand and can relate to, rather than trying to describe an absolute truth.  It's easy to say we are all God, but in reality effort and the desire to 'move closer' to God is what makes us realise that fact. I can sit here and say time isn't real and that I'm [part of] God, but I'm never going to permanently realise that and understand what that really means until some action is taken to enter into union with God. There's a saying in Daoism: 'Action leads to actionless action'.


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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

~ Rumi



The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir


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Re: Come and See [Re: Connection] * 1
    #26524788 - 03/08/20 11:18 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Re: connection -damn friend! Relax, we're all just talking here lol.


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