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Originally posted by Echo3Foxtrot
Here's the ultimate question of questions:
Magnets, how do they work?
Originally posted by filosophia
reply to post by MischeviousElf
you say in over 30 years of reading and practice, you've never heard the phrase "teach enlightenment" but what was it that you were reading? People trying to teach enlightenment.
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by filosophia
True happiness is not a state of being, it is something we find now and then for a very short time. Continuous true happiness is not something anyone should seek, because it would only leading tho them losing true happiness for a very very long time.
Well, if you quickly blew your lottery money, you could have a really good time, maybe do some fabulous stuff. It is only the need to hang onto money that turns it into your prisoner, because money has power.
The way it goes, very short version, is that power has gravity, which pulls things to it. The more power you have, the more is pulled to you, and this can make you a prisoner. The more power you have, the less freedom you have, and visa versa. Its all a give and take arrangement.
We all have that divine spark within us, it is just a matter of what we do with it, to avoid becoming stagnate.
Originally posted by nagabonar
reply to post by filosophia
do you think that meditating is beneficial in helping me facing my challenges?
like i just started at a new working place, which is an incredibly hard job with lots of pressure and expectations from my superiors, this job drains me mentally, every day overtime till 10 - 12 hours a day...but i need to get through it since my families well being is dependent on it
Originally posted by D1ss1dent
filosophia,
What is your favorite Upanishad?
Have you read Panchadasi and/or Pavitra's notebook?
Have you ever heard about Mirra Alfassa and Sri Aurobindo?
Originally posted by mbartelsm
Is this all there is?
Originally posted by el1jah
What do you think of my painting?
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Originally posted by filosophia
Meditation could help.
if you can learn to meditate
I used meditation a lot at work, it also can be done while working but that is a more advanced technique.
Originally posted by filosophia
Originally posted by mbartelsm
Is this all there is?
No, there is a Self, eternal and unchanging deep within, which can be gained by withdrawing from sense perceptions and turning your perceptions inward, so your mind is aware of itself, conscious of its own consciousness. This vision allows the Self to be revealed and perceived.