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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: syncro]
#27747371 - 04/22/22 08:48 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Ah, what I had forgotten in the advantage in understanding the law of polarity is that of transmutation which is doable among 'like' opposites. Interesting read. https://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/kyb/kyb12.htm
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: syncro]
#27747667 - 04/23/22 05:50 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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consider the old computer developer's adage: "garbage in garbage out". the mind accepts whatever you fill it with. then it becomes part of mindset.
the question in your practice should be "what shall I fill it with now?"
there is so much to choose from, but I do not recommend concepts of defensiveness fear or protection, yes to healing, and yes to nature and discovery of new things...
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syncro
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: redgreenvines]
#27747729 - 04/23/22 07:10 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Again the nonbinary logic for me. All is mind, but "I think it's both." - Forest Gump
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: syncro]
#27747829 - 04/23/22 08:53 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
syncro said: Ah, what I had forgotten in the advantage in understanding the law of polarity is that of transmutation which is doable among 'like' opposites. Interesting read. https://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/kyb/kyb12.htm
That was a good read. Recently I have been mulling over polarity in a different way tho. I'm interested in your thoughts here.
If one can recognize polarity and see the way polarity is a continuum, and one can see the potential for transmutation or the changing nature of the polarity, then where is true stability? Is it in changing to a specific side of the polarity?
My musings have been this: the clearer one sees this, the more indifferent one becomes. Because difference is the birthing point of polarity. Indifference is the unification.
Difference will make one act. Indifference will let one rest.
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: Kickle]
#27747904 - 04/23/22 09:57 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Yes, so, it seems, everything has polarity, and not everything has polarity, or doesn't need to be seen as having it for the sake of transmutation, if no longer needed, as with contentment.
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: syncro]
#27747910 - 04/23/22 10:03 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Do you think those in a Sangha are indifferent to one another?
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: Kickle]
#27747932 - 04/23/22 10:21 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah, it can tend to agitate that which needs it I suppose. Teacher: add heat
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: syncro]
#27747969 - 04/23/22 10:54 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: Kickle]
#27747991 - 04/23/22 11:16 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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There is no 'I' fighting with my fellow disciple.
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: syncro]
#27747995 - 04/23/22 11:22 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah and fighting can only be judged with bad boy lenses. So be mindful of what it means to judge the fighting
It's a really great video IMO
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: Kickle]
#27772870 - 05/11/22 04:28 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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-------------------- rahz comfort pleasure power love truth awareness peace "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: Rahz]
#27774731 - 05/12/22 09:18 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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vampires drink blood to live a high life.
Did God create that?
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: Mushroomsee]
#27775560 - 05/13/22 12:36 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Edited by laughingdog (05/13/22 12:37 PM)
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: redgreenvines]
#27775591 - 05/13/22 01:01 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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redgreenvines said: there is so much to choose from, but I do not recommend concepts of defensiveness fear or protection, yes to healing, and yes to nature and discovery of new things...
I agree with this, protection seems to be one people commonly focus on that causes more harm than good. Because it is making someone else' safety your own business.
I do wish it would be possible to somehow set protection as a goal - not as an obsession with others but as a principle to teach people so they learn mistakes and never make them.
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: CreonAntigone]
#27775649 - 05/13/22 01:41 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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but that is not in keeping with who or what we are.
mistakes happen due to lack of information, or incomplete sensory exposure, and mostly due to incorrect perceptive reflexes, and those are all we have. we have no way of not making mistakes, we can pause our responding and maybe be better attuned in our reflex to that, but never can there be certainty that our action is appropriate in all cases.
this means we have to continually improve how we recover from error with dignity. and that is a fact. this should be expected and probably also should be a bigger part of social interaction.
we are still so much like Klingons, ready to die in battle, to rejoice in Stovakor and be praised.
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: Mushroomsee]
#27775823 - 05/13/22 04:32 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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G-d is the unconditioned ground of all conditions.
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redgreenvines
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: thealienthatategod]
#27775947 - 05/13/22 06:02 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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it may be easy for you to say that, but I could not repeat that with a straight face.
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: redgreenvines]
#27775966 - 05/13/22 06:14 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Is that because it's called God, and/or is it the unconditioned ground?
Edited by syncro (05/13/22 06:15 PM)
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: syncro]
#27776481 - 05/14/22 04:49 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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try all, it's a sweeping speculation.
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Re: For God, there can't be any good or evil, because everything is God? [Re: redgreenvines]
#27776486 - 05/14/22 05:02 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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I'm just trying to find out if nirvana is alive.
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