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-physical life is not an illusion. -Mental life is an illusion. My life-story . The story that I’m a human being living in a country on a planet going through real timeline having to solve problems ..is an illusion created by the thinking process. I somewhat have to figure out how to juggle these two perspectives together and without conflating spirituality with survival .

-write about how you genuinely feel In the moment. Try to stay away from writing about things you have no interest in or experience with. -try to keep your poems optimistic and positive rather than bleak and depressing, because you are writing them in the morning. It’s a good practice . Good luck !

Yes . the nuance being that what you as a human consider as “ evil “ is part of the infinite creation. The infinite creative power of god demands infinite creation. If rape , murder , sickness, depression, death etc were not part of creation , then god’s creation will be missing that puzzle piece that makes his creation ,and him ,truly “All” .

I agree . don't you think though we have to walk the talk ? There is the trap of using spirituality as a form of escapism. if one genuinely relates to life and consciousness as stressful by default, then we should be honest about that. We should be honest about where we actually are on the path ,instead of pretending we are in a place on the path which we are actually not .

Thank you for your honesty. I appreciate it .

@Joseph Maynor @Mellowmarsh thanks . what is your tranquility rooted in? Do you have stressful jobs ? Or in your twilight years of your life ? I ask because I go through stress everyday and I rely on smoking cigarettes to calm my nerves down ,which is obviously unhealthy and works only temporarily , in the long run it actuallly feeds the stress even more .

What is tranquility? Are your soul tranquil ? How does one become tranquil ?

Which “reality “ ? there is still no reality according to you . We are talking from ground zero , from scratch . you claim the possibilities,which are pure abstractions , come into being spontaneously because of “the inevitable flow of reality “ ,while we still have no reality for these possibilities to come in or from . The reality is god .

A possibility before being actualized or materialized is pure abstraction . It would not have the ability to come into existence on its own . Something has to actualize it . What ?

@Breakingthewall good questions. God is not a human-like entity residing in the heavens . God in its essence is beyond comprehension. however , God exists and is conscious, intelligent , wise , good ,omnipotent. imagine evil . Think of this evil potential possibility : a child is going to be born with bone cancer and undergoes chemotherapy and suffers excruciating pain for 5 years and then eventually dies . And his parents are messed for good . this actually happens in this world we live in , and much worse . imagine god thinking of that possibility before creating it :”should I create it or should I not ?” that possibility wants to come into existence. Because god is all good and all loving ,He will create this possibility. Because he loves all possibilities and he will create them . read the Sufi Ibn Arabi .

Yes , exactly. That IS what I’m saying . The recording of a song proves that the song is not nonexistent, or lost in the past forever. It exists right now. And it will never get lost forever . Nothing is ever lost . Where would anything go ? There is no where to go, so it stays eternally existing, whether recrodid or not .

God sees no evil. God is unconditional goodness. God created evil precisely because God is absolutely good. If God did not create evil, He would not be infinitely Good, because the evil things are longing to be created and brought into existence. They suffer from staying in nothingness .Therefore,out of his all-encompassing goodness, He created them. Evil is a potential. God makes all potential things actual precisely because his goodness and unlimited creating ability encompass everything. God created pain , evil , suffering.. because he is infinitely good .

interesting. I think the recording existing actually proves the past is not imaginary but real . The past is never lost forever. There is a cosmic memory card where everything is stored .

The number one reason I smoke cigarettes is stress-management.