This thread got them pissing themselves.
There ya go thinking again.
Christianity is not the only way to god… the spirit is… I should know… i'm baptized and I'm a Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian.
Don't worry Q Heaven is watching.
The only reason this world is here is for men to be able to renounce it and find the truth within themselves… when this incubator for enlightenment no longer is useful for enlightenment then it no longer needs to exist. You cannot stop cause and effect…. You cannot stop enlightenment.
Yeah because his face wasn't shining like the sun during the transfiguration was it… he wasn't lit up was he…. Jesus was not the Christ… the awoken Son of God within him was the Christ…. you have a sleeper as well… wake up dreamer…
I say to you You are angels, and all are children of the Most High God. Wake up dreamers.
Extinguish the Dark Candle of the Heart. Crucify your Self. Let your mirror reflect the Truth.
Can you find the patience to wait until the dust settles and the water ecomes clear?
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Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water becomes clear?
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Who can make the muddy water clear?
Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear.
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Who can clear muddiness and lighten up darkness?
One who in the stillness and the silence clears and illumines itself.
Tao Te Ching verse 15
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In cleansing your enigmatic mirror of the dark,
Can you make it spotless?
Tao Te Ching verse 10
This body is the Bodhi-tree,
The soul is like a mirror bright;
Take heed to keep it always clean,
And let no dust collect on it. Shen-hsiu
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There is a bright pearl within me,
Buried for a long time under dust.
Today, the dust is gone and the light radiates,
Shining through all the mountains and rivers.
Master Yueh of Ch'a-ling
“Remember, the eternal mirror under discussion now has a time of being polished, and [a time] after being polished, but it is wholly the eternal mirror. This being so, when we are polishing, we are polishing the eternal mirror in its entirety… This is neither polishing the self nor the self polishing; it is polishing the eternal mirror.”
~Dogen, Shobogenzo, Kokyo
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Even as a mirror stained by dust
Shines brilliantly when it has been cleansed,
So the embodied one, on seeing the nature of the Soul,
Becomes unitary, his end attained, from sorrow freed.
When with the nature of the self, as with a lamp,
A practicer of yoga beholds here the nature of Brahman,
Unborn, steadfast, from every nature free–
By knowing God, one is released from all fetters!
Svetasvatara Upanishad
Dear friend, your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets." -al-Ghazzal
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"Everyone sees the Unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more–more Unseen forms become manifest to him." -Rumi
Do you not know why your mirror does not reflect?Because the rust has not been removed from its face.
Once the mirror of your heart becomes pure and clear, you will see pictures from beyond the domain of water and clay,Not only pictures, but also the Painter, not only the carpet of good fortune, but also the Carpet-spreader.
That heart has become clean and pure from the mud [which taints it]. It has become excellent and complete.It has cast the mud aside and come towards the Sea. Free from the prison of mud, it has become of the Sea.
The heart encompasses this realm of existence and spreads gold out of beneficence and kindness.Upon the people of the world it bestows that peace [which comes] from God’s peace.
Rumi ~Mathnawi
Odes of Solomon
ODE 13.
A strange little Ode.
1 Behold! the Lord is our mirror: open the eyes and see them in Him: and learn the manner of your face: 2 And tell forth praise to His spirit: and wipe off the filth from your face: and love His holiness, and clothe yourselves therewith: 3 And be without stain at all times before Him. Hallelujah.
I have found that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away.
The Lord is on my head like a crown, and I shall never be without Him.
Plaited for me is the crown of truth, and it caused Your branches to blossom in me.
For it is not like a parched crown that blossoms not;
For You live upon my head, and have blossomed upon me.
Your fruits are full and complete; they are full of Your salvation….
Once Buddha was travelling with a few of his followers.
While they were passing a lake, Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from the lake.”
The disciple walked up to the lake.
At that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy and turbid. The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink?”
So he came back and told Buddha, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”
After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake.
The disciple went back, and found that the water was still muddy. He returned and informed Buddha about the same.
After sometime, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back.
This time, the disciple found the mud had settled down, and the water was clean and clear. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.
Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said, “See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be, and the mud settled down on its own, and you have clear water.”
Your mind is like that too ! When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.”
Waking alone upon the mountain I cried a tear that revealed the fountain of gods love for man.
There is only one unconditioned heart… the psychic heart grasps conditioned darkness…. it cannot grasp unconditioned light…. without conditions is without birth and death… if the deathless sets your heart free you are free indeed.
If the deathless sets your heart free.. you are free indeed.
egoless spontaneous thoughts…. for eternity.
I was baptized while taking a shower two weeks after 9/11 I've been waiting for this.
First you form in your mind what you are asking god for…. then ask yourself if it is selfish… then try to make it not selfish…. if you are being true to yourself and god you will realize you cannot be unselfish, and you cannot make deals with god…. in the end you will cry out to him sobbing that you are a bad person, and you do not want to be like this anymore. It's how I got him to listen to me.
Defeatist? Yes…. Defeat of the darkness of ego.. You must deny your self, and crucify it if you wish to live.
Sacrifice your heart on the altar of god. Defeat your darkness.
For there is light within a man of light, and if it does not shine it is dark… If the light within you is darkness.. the darkness how great!
You are utterly ignorant… Jesus talks about the same thing. You just can't hear him through your ignorance.
The Garden of Eden is a Parable… Moses like Jesus loved Parables to explain the unexplainable.. When Eve at of the Tree of Knowledge she let the darkness into her heart… with that came ego… With ego came knowledge of good and evil.
The light is our Original Nature… The Buddha said he didn't gain anything from enlightenment… he only lost the dark conditioned mind that resides behind all physical phenomena.
The light resurrects our soul from death.
In the beginning God said "Let there be Light." and that Light was the Light of Men.
Our Original Nature is this Light.
Remember the Truth is being archived.