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JOY..to..the world*[the Joy of the Gospel?)
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Posted by one under god, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 1:08:44 PM
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Our biggest problem is our reactive mind. See... here's the truth of the matter; life is perfect. It is perfect for those who have perfected eyes. Perfected eyes are not an easy acquisition, nor is halting, arresting, the reactive mind.
If you are looking for the devil (let's hope not but... metaphorically speaking), you need look no further than your own mind. That is the seat of divisiveness and the agency of war upon yourself and others. Your mind is your biggest enemy and potentially, your best friend, once you are able to turn it right side up. Although many of us are born screwed up from the gitgo, one can easily say the majority of us are truly screwed up in the process of puberty, when the world divides on us into oppositional states which, is one of the reasons the Tribe inspired intentional gender confusions are pushed and proliferated from the initiation of public education. Their watch-phrase is; 'destroy the family unit'. After that it's Brave New World or The Penal Colony, depending on your choice of authors. Following that you got shitewits for lunch and 1984 on the menu. 'neti, neti' is probably a Zen thing; not this, no, not that either, more or less. So... you have to stand guard at the gateway of the mind, Posted by one under god, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 6:18:37 PM
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at that avenue where thoughts enter..and you have to reject everything that comes in..and also throw out whatever is there already. What you will find is that..once you've expelled the surface chatter..there is a whole other layer below..that and possibly yet more before you hit 'the beautiful silence'.
The logic behind this is that whatever is real is not going anywhere. Following a period of persistent practice,..the mind will be cleared of garbage.and you can spot the garbage bombs as they seek to enter in and turn your mind back into a landfill. The natural,.or supernatural state of the human mind is one of brimming optimism and enthusiasm..Tzu has a number of passages that relate to this...The image given, if we colloquialise or manifest it at street level is that of a fellow with an continuous tumescence (a man in full,..so to speak and women have their own version that manifests as wisdom, oracles..and a kinship with Lady Nature) and a song being sung through the whole of the day with no strain on the voice. I met such a person and such encounters are not easily forgotten. One could simply dismiss such a character and label them mad,..were it not for the forehead..and features that so exactly mirror those of the ancient Japanese and Chinese figurines that you may or may not have seen by now. It is easy to become disheartened at the amount of willful ignorance, apathy and appetite pursuit that surrounds you on all sides, as you attempt to make your way somewhere,..wherever somewhere is, ♫somewhere a place for us. Take my hand and yadda yadda♫. It's all set up to bring you down..It was one thing in the not recent past because then you could just migrate to another location, or step outside of it altogether..but now you have to deal with passports and permissions; countless government and social restrictions, on action and movement,.not to mention a relentless pay as you go system of enriching virtual vampires at every turn. In other words,..the squeeze is on. Posted by one under god, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 6:22:16 PM
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You have to set out upon your every day..in a consciously loving state of mind..and I am no less an offender in this regard than anyone else.
At least I can remind myself and it seems I have reminded myself ten thousand times ten thousand and I still veer to one side or the other if I don't have my attention fixed on my way forward...There's a great Hindu poster that shows a charioteer being drawn off the road by his team of powerful horses... These are symbolic of the senses. The chariot is the mind and the charioteer is the self...We can see this and we can know this but it seems like, in almost no time, that we forget it...It takes constant enforced remembering to stay on course. Few people have the stamina or the will for it and they pay a heavy price for not paying attention. ..As I have pointed out many times, or maybe this is the first time in this fashion,. the Major Arcana of Tarot symbolize archetypes;..actually, the first 7 symbolize forces or powers...The second 7 symbolize mediums and..the last 7 symbolize states or conditions brought about or corrected by the proper channeling of the forces or powers through the mediums. The Magician stands for 'focused attention' or 'concentration' and the dual meaning that attends the image is 'life and death'. This can be the result of paying attention and not paying attention so, pay attention. One can learn a lot from the sun. All the sun does is shine. It shines on everything. We should too and at some point it will shine through us...We should make the sun our shining example.*We are frozen sunlight...We are sunlight in extension. The whole point is to turn into conscious sunlight and reside in our solar bodies. This is the objective of The Operation of the Sun, as perfectly exemplified in the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. Wake up! I am always talking to myself..when I am engaged in my business here. It would be less..than effective were I not doing..so. Posted by one under god, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 6:26:57 PM
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The chariot of the body
The five horses represent the five senses (tongue, eyes, ears, nose and skin). The reins, the driving instrument, symbolize the mind. The driver is the intelligence. The passenger is the spirit soul. Bhagavad-gita 6.34 The chariot of the body. The five horses represent the five senses (tongue, eyes, ears, nose and skin). The reins, the driving instrument, symbolize the mind, the driver is the intelligence, and the passenger is the spirit soul. For the mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate and very strong, O Krsna, and to subdue it is, it seems to me, more difficult than controlling the wind. PURPORT The mind is so strong and obstinate that it sometimes overcomes the intelligence, although mind is supposed to be subservient to the intelligence. For a man in the practical world who has to fight so many opposing elements, it is certainly very difficult to control the mind. Artificially, one may establish a mental equilibrium toward both friend and enemy, but ultimately no worldly man can do so, for this is more difficult than controlling the raging wind. In the Vedic literatures it is said: atmanam rathinam viddhi sariram ratham eva ca buddhim tu sarathim viddhi manah pragraham eva ca indriyani hayan ahur visayams tesu gocaran atmendriya-mano-yuktam bhoktety ahur manisinah "The individual is the passenger in the car of the material body, and intelligence is the driver. Mind is the driving instrument, and the senses are the horses. The self is thus the enjoyer or sufferer in the association of the mind and senses. So it is understood by great thinkers." Intelligence is supposed to direct the mind, but the mind is so strong and obstinate that it often overcomes even one's own intelligence. http://www.asitis.com/gallery/plate23.html He would have referred to it not as Hindu but as God consciousness, specifically Krsna Consciousness for he detested the Impersonalists who refer to God only in the impersonal form, being voidists, nihilists, Isvara wannabes and ultimately crypto-demons as they are. Posted by one under god, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 6:31:16 PM
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people are herd animals, and that when behavior is viewed in relationship to the herd mind, a lot of things can be explained and understood.
Have you ever had a discussion with them and come to the conclusion that no matter what you said, no matter how good your reasoning and logic, that there was no way that you were every going to have a meeting of the minds with this person. You can be right and the subject of your discussion so obvious that a dog with a note in his mouth could win the argument, yet this person can't comprehend it. And it's not that the cult member is to stupid to understand obvious reality. They may have a college degree, a good high tech job, and be a member of Mensa. You might even be able to discuss the mathematics of why time slows down as you approach the speed of light, yet they remain unconvinced that world is round. How is that possible? It's obvious, yet they can't see it. Why? Why? Why? We have already established that they are smart enough. They have the brain power to comprehend what you are saying. There's not a shred of doubt that you are right and they are wrong, so wrong that you can't believe that they actually believe what they believe. What's even more confusing is that this cult member is as adamant about his beliefs as you are about yours. If we assume that people are behaving far below their capacity to reason, then we have to conclude that reason is not the dominate aspect of the mind. We have to conclude that there are other factors in the brain that are dominate over our reason and these other factors cause us to behave and believe what we do. We have to give up the assumption..that because we are human and intelligent,..that intelligence rules. Clearly..it doesn't. But if/it doesn't,..what does? herd-mind..ergo..ego/re-call...of primitive/survivalist fears http://www.churchofreality.org/opinion/herd.htm Posted by one under god, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 10:28:30 PM
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and there is a secret..to living
i get angry..
yet..EVEN..alex/jones..has..seen/the light
http://rss.infowars.com/20131203_Tue_Alex.mp3
in-fact..his anger..helps..me..to/control/mine
http://xml.nfowars.net/Alex.rss
[the pod-casts..have 4 minute commercial/breaks
AVOID..listening to them..they are designed to depress
anyhow..now...im..calm.
i hope any..with..hurt or anger..to
allow alex to lift it from...you..too.
my guides urge more
but first stay calm..the pope has met nutty yahoo
who gave the pope a copy of the fathers book..and they are talking/about a visit..in..may..but..we know atheists[zionists/settlers..dont want that
it should be xmass/to george
but..who cares
right
what i like about podcasts..is you can
fast foward by the bits that get ya down