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What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU?
#7594036 - 11/04/07 10:19 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Out of the countless volumes of spiritual history we have written down through the ages, I'm asking, which notion helps you, advances you, strengthens you, lately?
For me, its the second noble truth "the origin of suffering is attachment," or "clinging is suffering." Its a reminder to let go. This clinging happens outside of my awareness, so when I become aware of excess anxiety, I think "clinging is suffering, so let go" and it works.
So for you, at this moment in your development, what helps you?
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Noviseer]
#7594083 - 11/04/07 10:36 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I want to able to believe in something greater than myself. To truly do that and let no physical pain or barriers come between. I feel this picture is the greatest example of such.
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-------------------- So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: mikebart101]
#7594107 - 11/04/07 10:43 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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That's cool. Just FYI, you don't need to be on fire to have a good meditation session and transcend the stress of your body and mind
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Noviseer]
#7594131 - 11/04/07 10:52 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I like this question, makes me review what things have had an influence on me lately. For a while it was the thought that we only ever experience our own nervous system. Just remembering this lets me let go of whatever thought is pulling me away from being centered. I think somewhere I read that this was one of Buddha's teachings but I am unsure exactly where I heard it, its useful for me which is the important thing to me tho. =]
Also I have been watching Nithyananda videos on You-tube, and I really enjoy a "technique" he speaks about where you always think "How would a liberated being (or your favorite spiritual influence) would react to this thought", I have found this useful recently.
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Noviseer]
#7594153 - 11/04/07 10:59 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm going to die.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Icelander]
#7594158 - 11/04/07 11:00 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: fireworks_god]
#7594187 - 11/04/07 11:15 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I might be here for a much longer time than I thought so I had better practice awareness if I want to enjoy it
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: EternalCowabunga]
#7594204 - 11/04/07 11:24 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sometimes i'm stuck in darkness only to find myself wishing for things that will never come.
Like i'm dreaming of becoming something that will never happen.
So yes, I need to let go and live in the now and don't worry about things so much.
I must find myself again and again.
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Noviseer]
#7594279 - 11/04/07 11:49 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Be still, and know that I am God" -- Psalm 46:10
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Noviseer]
#7594297 - 11/04/07 11:53 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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my own achievements in obtaining samadhi
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I have considered such matters. SIKE
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Silversoul]
#7594352 - 11/04/07 12:09 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Silversoul said: "Be still, and know that I am God" -- Psalm 46:10
that's beautiful
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Noviseer]
#7594569 - 11/04/07 01:11 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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that we are students at core of everything all of us are
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Noviseer]
#7594619 - 11/04/07 01:30 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid." - Iesus, in Matthew 14:27
-------------------- γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Seauton - Know Thyself
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
#7594740 - 11/04/07 02:08 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
MarkostheGnostic said: "Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid."
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Noviseer]
#7596213 - 11/04/07 08:22 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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The relentlessness, pureness, powerfulness, the seemingly ever-shining constant fixture, the energy providing, the "selflessness" of, the sun....

>^;;^<
-------------------- I'll be your midnight French Fry.... "The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...." >^;;^<
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Noviseer]
#7596259 - 11/04/07 08:29 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Noviseer said: Out of the countless volumes of spiritual history we have written down through the ages, I'm asking, which notion helps you, advances you, strengthens you, lately?
For me, its the second noble truth "the origin of suffering is attachment," or "clinging is suffering." Its a reminder to let go. This clinging happens outside of my awareness, so when I become aware of excess anxiety, I think "clinging is suffering, so let go" and it works.
Like Cherokee said, You can't stay on the bank and watch it all go by when the life of your 2-year old is threatened.
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Icelander]
#7596397 - 11/04/07 08:52 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Grenades do not protect against cancer - a pet fear, having survived it once. An attitude of fearlessness is the best defense against fear, and it's good for the immune system too.
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Booby]
#7597116 - 11/05/07 12:25 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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"For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel--looking, looking, breathlessly." Spoken by Don Juan from something made up by Carlos Castaneda
-------------------- What boundlessness the pit of consciousness travels toward an infinite being. The cave is full of tumultuous obstacles, webs seemingly inescapable. There lies the path of knowledge forming thick and thin quantum fluctuations of living operations. And its inescapable quality of beauty is far beyond the reflection of its depths. Further I fall diving head first downwards into a black hole, plunging with intension to ascension.
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: Noviseer]
#7599328 - 11/05/07 05:13 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Blessed is he who takes their babies and dashes them on rocks" - Psalms 137:9
My own baby kill count is up to 759 so I figure I'm pretty blessed by now.
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Re: What spiritual reminder is most useful to YOU? [Re: druglord]
#7601310 - 11/06/07 02:34 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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as i watch the river flow, my answer may come along shortly
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