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Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by SuperiorEd
Do you know god? Do you walk with god?
Or have you read about God and Jesus?edit on 18-4-2011 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by SuperiorEd
The 'one hand clapping' is a koan.
A koan is a phase that has no answer. It is supposed to confuse the mind into silence. This silence is the answer.
Originally posted by napistum
all reality differs, yours is different from mine and vice versa. life would seem pointless if reality wasn't real, I don't believe I know anything given all information around us is subjective but one thing i'm sure of is that the universe does not conjure up pointlessness. everything serves it's purpose and projects a reason, that reason can be on any level, and as subtle as it may seem, it too will serve it's purpose. certainly reality is not what the media portrays it to be or what it should be, so that's why our souls will continuously debate the matrix. It's the constant reminder of duality, one does not exist with the other.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
Humans have been trained to never admit to not knowing. Even if they don't know they think it is really important that they do. The thought of not knowing can send a person in to blind panic. Defensiveness, pride, all to protect that individual selfness.
A koan is a tool to help break the continual having to know.
When the mind stills..........
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Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by SuperiorEd
You miss the point completely when you say there is a good answer to a koan. Really, there is. But it is not in words. A koan is supposed to confuse the mind, because a koan has no answer in words, but it does answer with the feeling it radiates.. This radiance, this presence is it.
When that feeling, that presence is felt, really felt all is known to be ok. All is well.
That presence that you are when joined with this moment, is consciousness. The holy union. The whole thing.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
Another koan is; what am i? or alternatively, what is this?
Anything that can shock the mind into stopping for even a brief moment so that the light behind it can be seen is good.
Can you stop thought long enough to see what is behind it?edit on 18-4-2011 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by SuperiorEd
The writing come through me but not from me. I know where god lives and i walk with him. Though, when i am with him, i do not exist, i see with his eyes and hear with his ears.
I do not want you to believe what i have written. I do not believe, i know now not to believe anything written. There is only one truth and when it is seen, it is known.
The religions all point to the one truth. The one truth is not in the past or future and it is not somewhere else.
One pointed awareness.
edit on 19-4-2011 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by SuperiorEd
Every 'thing' is seen and heard, all of the many 'things', the mirages, the illusions, the show.
However, there is no 'thing' that troubles me.
All 'things' are aspects of me, reflections, refractions, leading all ways toward the light.edit on 19-4-2011 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)edit on 19-4-2011 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by SuperiorEd
I thought the evidence was in the fruit.
I have lived in hell on this earth. I experienced hell for a very long time. I used to dream of suicide, not that i wanted to die, life was just so painful. There was only blackness in front of me and blackness behind me.
I now live in heaven upon this earth.
The world is so beautiful it takes my breath away.
To me that is the fruit.
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