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daimyo
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What is Heaven?
#5408267 - 03/16/06 01:02 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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To you, what would Heaven be?
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: daimyo]
#5408287 - 03/16/06 01:05 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The end of samsara.
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daimyo
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: Silversoul]
#5408307 - 03/16/06 01:08 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think being the first 5 star General to also be an Iron Chef would work for me.
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: daimyo]
#5408321 - 03/16/06 01:10 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I was raised in a traditional Anglican family; so had the whole idea of heaven being somewhere akin to Eden, being with those people I loved and cared about... never had the whole "fluffy white clouds" thing that I think some people raised in that situation do.
Now - I've grown older, I live away from home and now my idea of heaven is more of a 'heaven on earth' variety. Not that this world is perfect, but I try to make for myself that circle of bliss that makes me happy; with people I love, places I love, a music track, a good night out - all these things can make my heaven...
and as for life after death - I hope in my next life I can learn to make bliss as I do now
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: daimyo]
#5408369 - 03/16/06 01:16 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Heaven would be release from all forms of addiction/attachment.
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Peyote_Princess
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But doesn't 'addiction' release you from attachment to the material?
It's the hunt, and then the release... then the feeling that you experience - entirely unattached from the physical world, and into the meta-physical
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Peyote_Princess said: But doesn't 'addiction' release you from attachment to the material?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that.
To me, addiction is attachment. Attachment to "the material" is just another way of saying addiction to materialism.
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Peyote_Princess said: It's the hunt, and then the release... then the feeling that you experience - entirely unattached from the physical world, and into the meta-physical
As far as I am concerned, you are describing life collectively. The latter part--"entirely unattached from the physical world"--would be heaven, or freedom from attachment and addiction.
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addiction is attachment - but the drug opens up doors away from that; the words "attachment" or "addiction" don't even exist when you're having a good time. They say "time flies when you're having fun" and that's true - for that you don't need drugs either, I find my freedom sometimes just on the dancefloor dancing hard and having a laugh and a flirt around with my friends... that's freedom for me, that's heaven. But I think it's a personal thing - not everyone's heaven is the same... nor should it be; for the essence of humanity is it's variety and opportunity. You don't have to be the same as who you're parents were, but neither do you have to attempt to be deliberately different - heaven can only be found when you accept yourself, and are happy as who you are... then you can discover what it is that makes you happy.
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Right, that's all fine and good, but addiction doesn't release you from attachment to the material. Using certain drugs may create a scenario in which you are more likely to find your way to freedom from attachment to materialism, but it certainly does not CAUSE that release...
and it's a jump to describe the potential unfolding of the mind caused by drug use as "addiction" in the first place, as addiction is more like a potential or possible side-effect of that drug use.
Even in a scenario in which an addictive habit helps one to see past attachment to materialism, it is, in essence, just trading one attachment for another.
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: daimyo]
#5414957 - 03/18/06 01:02 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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For me it is 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' and the according reality represented
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#5415638 - 03/18/06 11:37 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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but what of the statement "ignorance is bliss" - the closer we get to any form of empirical truth, it seems to me that humans are unhappier... and we come to a point in scientific understanding, that just because we can do something, then we should do that thing, and I'm not sure that is always the right thing.
Maybe I can see where you're coming from BlueCoyote - if "wisdom" is defined as an acceptance of the word as-is, an a full acceptance of the self - for only when one is at home in their own mind can they be fully themselves, fully happy, and fully interactive with others...
but then there's the 2 copntradictory ideas of...
hell is other people... Sartre
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man is a political animal... Aristotle
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Heaven is a state of mind...and yes what peyote princess quoted from Sartre could be seen correct...other people choose not to live in a state of heaven by their words and actions.
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: daimyo]
#5416348 - 03/18/06 03:52 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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daimyo said: To you, what would Heaven be?
Heaven could be what you let it be!
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: Gomp]
#5419062 - 03/19/06 03:01 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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oops, to Peyote_Princess
I mean wisdom and knowledge of everything  And ignorance just may start behind the horizont
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#5419518 - 03/19/06 05:29 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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BlueCoyote said: oops, to Peyote_Princess
I mean wisdom and knowledge of everything  And ignorance just may start behind the horizont
heehee, send some invisible jelly babies to me and I may just forgive you....
That makes more sense now its clarified hun; though I'm not sure that wisdom/knowledge of everything would be heaven for me... too much responsability, and I also find that bliss is the quest, it is the searching and looking for answers and the journey that it takes you on that is so important to me...
omg - I sound like I take so many psychadelics!!! Ahh, I suppose thats what happens when you give a theology major student trippy substances! But its all good!
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: daimyo]
#5420061 - 03/19/06 07:49 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Heaven... unconditional sunlight without any darkness. Heaven= the one... the one existence, the one mindset... god is heaven. We are here, unfortunately. And no matter what drugs you've been on you haven't been 'there' for long.' Heaven calls... heaven on earth, truly a concept? One way to find out! Heaven is for love and for heathens
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Peyote_Princess said:
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BlueCoyote said: oops, to Peyote_Princess
I mean wisdom and knowledge of everything  And ignorance just may start behind the horizont
heehee, send some invisible jelly babies to me and I may just forgive you....
hehe, sent 
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That makes more sense now its clarified hun; though I'm not sure that wisdom/knowledge of everything would be heaven for me... too much responsability, and I also find that bliss is the quest, it is the searching and looking for answers and the journey that it takes you on that is so important to me...
You will understand, that it is all good, the way it is. But your help is and will be allways appreciated from what direction you will offer your help to For some, heaven is ignorance, but it is very dark there and you will be surrounded by it And even in light-heaven, there are chill-rooms, so you never will be forced to be responsible But you MAY. In dark heaven all the rules change, but perhaps it will be good for some there, obviously [but please just let it begin behind the horizont ]
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omg - I sound like I take so many psychadelics!!! Ahh, I suppose thats what happens when you give a theology major student trippy substances! But its all good!
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#5423139 - 03/20/06 08:09 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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What is it that we have to learn you think? Isn't heaven more about detachment and letting go?
All knowledge is in the moment. No one can own that. No one ones wisdom. It is beginners mind, is it not?
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Re: What is Heaven? [Re: dorkus]
#5424322 - 03/21/06 01:35 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nono, only the human brain is too simple to get a full catch on complete truth (of reality and irreality). It only can grasp facettes of it. The wise men keep in mind, that there is always more to know about everything. And personal knowledge always is partially. These bonds of physical organisms will fall apart in heaven (wherever or whatever it is [even perhaps on earth with enlightened people]), just naturally and if you are on the light side, you will immediately be connected to every part of knowledge wich is possible and impossible [if not, you will be cut off of this universal knowledge aka true wisdom] It is only the limitation of our organic human mind. The spirit is not bond to organic or physical stuff. The more you know, the more you can let go or choose to change something (interact) and time becomes relative, like a tool 
And yes, it is like beginners mind because more and more -> all = nothing. The naivity of the now, the big Omnil, the eyes of a child
Edited by BlueCoyote (03/21/06 01:40 AM)
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