abrakamowse
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This is everything!!!!
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@99th_monkey Everything is whatever it is...
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No questions ... just enjoying life. And when I say enjoy I mean suffering and happiness. Everything is just Ok.
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abrakamowse replied to How to be wise's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Dodoster Maybe you already have it, send me the money! -
abrakamowse replied to How to be wise's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I have some "instant delivery"... you don't even have to wait. -
Because there's no choice?
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abrakamowse replied to How to be wise's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
It depends how much money you pay... if you pay a lot you get instant "enlightenment"... -
I think there's something that is really "truth", the only problem is we can't grasp it. IMO there's people who know the truth, the problem is that when they try to explain it they have to do it with our language, limitations so it will never be the truth. It will be "pointers" to us. Because we will interpret their words in our own idea of reality. It's like if you are in the Matrix, Neo will have to talk to you getting into it and telling you that there's something outside the matrix, but you can't see it because you are in it. Right now I am not sure about anything so take my comments as "pointers" to or throw them to the garbage. LoL
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Thanks! @Nunzia
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abrakamowse replied to Natasha's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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“The fact that man produces a concept “I” besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything.” Einstein
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So, if there's no self... how can there be "free will"? Whe "think" we choose, but there's no chooser. Because the fact that we think we choose doesn't change that when we choose we have no options. There's just a thought that we have options, but once we think we have decided to do something we just do it. Our thought make us appear that is "us" who choose, but there's no "us" to be found. The idea of self is an illusion, there's not a separated entity out there choosing anything.
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I just wanted to quote Metzinger about this: "This experience is a naive realism. If mobile organisms were privy to all of the countless neural and other “internal and external” interactive processes that occurred with the act of walking for instance, they could never function. Immeasurably complex events had to be reduced to representational images in order to make sense to the mobile organism. These representational images would of necessity, include a unified and independent subject perceiving a world separate from and external to itself. The feeling of looking directly into the world from the vantage point of a perceiving and cognizant me or self, is a neural-representational process that is most convincing. We are not aware of this duality as an adaptive function, but view it as reality. Because we are unaware of the immeasurable neuronal activity involved in the production of an image-based reality, Metzinger refers to this opacity as a tunnel." More here: https://emptinessteachings.com/2013/04/14/the-myth-of-the-self-neurology-weighs-in/
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What are your opinions about Kabbalah? I'm about to begin an online course and I was interested to know if someone knows about it. Thanks in advance!
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Thanks @KabbalahAdvisors
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abrakamowse replied to Natasha's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I found the next @Leo Gura project... :-P -
There was a time when I was teenager that I was like having doubts about "God" And I decided to become Atheist I decided there was no God But I wasn't sure about that because I had the idea that there should be something or some "happening" who or which made everything appear So I decided that I couldn't have a way to know that, so I heard that some people were agnostic, that meant that they think that the idea of God is beyond our understanding, so they don't take a position. They don't believe but they don't "not believe" either. They say it's beyond comprehension, so better not think about it. So I decided that I was agnostic, and I was agnostic for a long time. Alan Watts likes a lot to talk about the origin of words So he explained that long time ago there was a Persian priest called Dionysius the Areopagite. And this guy wrote that we can reach God by Agnosis The word Gnosis means Knowledge in greek (I think) So A-Gnosis is the negation of knowledge So me, by being Agnostic in fact , was denying knowledge without "me" being aware of it Lol :-P Words meaning are distorted by our reality. Agnosis or Agnostic doesn't mean what most people thinks it means.
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Love you Ayla!!! Thanks! I will be posting something soon about some synchronicities that happened! :-)
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Lol!!!
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That's awesome @Sky this is how synchronicity works. You are confirming me something. Why? Because you are me, we are all ONE. I began to watch Rupert Spira like two or three days ago, I watched him before and I wasn't interested. But I watched him again and I began to understand things that I didn't understand before! Good to know that self-inquiry is working!!! I am happy for you. Thanks, brother!!! :-)
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Right & Wrong When Bankei held his seclusion-weeks of meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of these gatherings a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case. Later the pupil was caught in a similar act, and again Bankei disregarded the matter. This angered the other pupils, who drew up a petition asking for the dismissal of the thief, stating that otherwise they would leave in a body. When Bankei had read the petition he called everyone before him. "You are wise brothers," he told them. "You know what is right and what is not right. You may somewhere else to study if you wish, but this poor brother does not even know right from wrong. Who will teach him if I do not? I am going to keep him here even if all the rest of you leave." A torrent of tears cleansed the face of the brother who had stolen. All desire to steal had vanished.
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abrakamowse replied to abrakamowse's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Everything Is Best When Banzan was walking through a market he overheard a conversation between a butcher and his customer. "Give me the best piece of meat you have," said the customer. "Everything in my shop is the best," replied the butcher. "You cannot find here any piece of meat that is not the best." At these words Banzan became enlightened. -
I am reading it (actually listening to it, I found it as an audiobook in my local library) and I recommend it a lot, it helps to clarify a lot of things about religious beliefs and spirituality. https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spirituality-Without-Religion/dp/1451636024
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Yeah, he's good... and it helps a lot to have one's feet on the ground and to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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I took a selfie today...