Is there a God ?

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Pangloss

Why do you feel it necessary to grade China's writing on your inability to comprehend his words?

Absolutely pointless criticism other than giving you an opportunity to write some outdated special words in your vocabulary, ending up with the final admission that you need to spend time 'reading' his posts.
 

Curiosity

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China - no thanks needed - you need none of my defense - Personally I had to say something rather than silently glide along.
 

MikeyDB

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Well the jury is in...

There is a god but he created the elderly as a joke on the young.

God himself isn't much beyond ten years old and by the way doesn't need or look forward to senior discounts.

While god isn't petty enough to decend to the mean-spiritedness of modern folk, he did create them to hate.....
 

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Curiosity:
China - no thanks needed - you need none of my defense - Personally I had to say something rather than silently glide along.


Well ,Thanks again Curio.,you are quite a woman ,or should I say .."you are quite a 'person'.Forgot that this is a Canadian forum.
 

MikeyDB

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China

I've thought the world of Curio for some time now.

I sure hope she doesn't get old tho....
 

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Mickey DB
China

I've thought the world of Curio for some time now.

I sure hope she doesn't get old tho....
Mickey , Curio is like a banker; they never grow old-they only mature.
Ha
 

typingrandomstuff

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K people.Believe in what you want. I'm outta here. Omniscience. Places without balance. Explain cycles without balance. Explain why some people are defeated and why science have not completely taken over. Or why religion do not rule the world. No explanation on dimension stuff. Assuming everything is what you want and only one corner of the world. It's a discussion. Bumps head on the wall. Not a fact place. Duh. What did I expect?
Fact: stuff based on three-dimensional earth stuff.
 

MikeyDB

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Do you know why people who bang their heads against the wall all eventually stop?

Because it feels better.

Is you're "better" superior to my "better"? No to each of us our experiences are unique. And yet for the common, the average the six of one half-dozen other of all the people who've ever existed, the condition of "better" is embraced by everyone. As a concept we all seek, strive to achieve and focus on that "better".

I suppose you're right, we share nothing in common.
 

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Ta Jim - for your words

I have made 180s much of my life - as I have spent the last 20 years in a learning mode - primarily learning about myself.

I have found that with me - convictions are absolutely fine as long as they can be regarded as temporary residents - easily moved on, out or reversed.

Nothing wrong with feeling strongly about a subject - it's the giving it up which tests its importance in our lives.

Sometimes convictions deny us growth.

Convictions are 'tough', and we hold them dear, but they belong to the age and time we make them,
and fade as we grow, or, become stronger, if they were a lifelong positive conviction that will fit us
for the rest of our lives.
How is a conviction really any different than an opinion or a belief. Do we have to live by our
convictions, but waver in our opinions and beliefs!
 

china

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Can anyone tell you if there is God or nothing at all? To know, you have to start with yourself You have only one instrument, the mind; and the mind is the brain also. Therefore, to find out the truth of this matter, you must understand the ways of the mind, right? If the mind is crooked you will never see straight; if the mind is very limited you cannot perceive the illimitable. The mind is the instrument of perception and, to perceive truly, the mind must be made straight, it must be cleansed of all conditioning, of all fear. The mind must also be free of knowledge, because knowledge diverts the mind and makes things twisted. The capacity of the mind to invent, to imagine, to speculate, to think - this capacity must be put aside so that the mind is very clear and very simple? Because it is only the innocent mind, the mind that has experienced vastly and yet is free of knowledge and experience; it is only such a mind that can discover that which is more than brain and mind. Otherwise, what you discover will be colored by what you have already experienced, and your experience is the result of your conditioning.
 
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China i would strongly suggest you read other material.
you tell us :

Therefore, to find out the truth of this matter, you must understand the ways of the mind, right? If the mind is crooked you will never see straight; if the mind is very limited you cannot perceive the illimitable. The mind is the instrument of perception and, to perceive truly, the mind must be made straight, it must be cleansed of all conditioning, of all fear. The mind must also be free of knowledge, because knowledge diverts the mind and makes things twisted. The capacity of the mind to invent, to imagine, to speculate, to think - this capacity must be put aside so that the mind is very clear and very simple
This is like really really bad yoga.


Ok lets just say this horrid version of yoga has sunbstance......
what does one do to straighten 0_o the mind....or,cleansed of all conditioning......This is like real bad yoga

please for the sake of truth tell us who you are reading



and where pray tell does one put
The capacity of the mind to invent, to imagine, to speculate, to think - this capacity must be put aside so that the mind is very clear and very simple
 

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Doc:

I'm getting scared - yet again I am in agreement.

I'm not looking out my bedroom window tonight - the moon will most surely be blood red.

China - try shorter, simpler declarative sentences. Then we can make sense of what you are trying to say.

Pangloss
 
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Doc:

I'm getting scared - yet again I am in agreement.

I'm not looking out my bedroom window tonight - the moon will most surely be blood red.

China - try shorter, simpler declarative sentences. Then we can make sense of what you are trying to say.

Pangloss
Lol no worries Pangloss, it won't last forever...soon i'll be tpyo ing away to the point you will want to wash yer screen with disinfectant.....

spell chech!! We don't need no stinikin spel chech


but seriously ...i think china has got have got his hands on the worse watered down piece of do it yourself yoga i have ever witnessed....It's all just cliches without any substance holding it together...It offers no real way out of the nightmare he is ascribing to either. It's like Boris Karloff does Deepok Chokra on saturday night live.....
 

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China i would strongly suggest you read other material.
you tell us :

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Therefore, to find out the truth of this matter, you must understand the ways of the mind, right? If the mind is crooked you will never see straight; if the mind is very limited you cannot perceive the illimitable. The mind is the instrument of perception and, to perceive truly, the mind must be made straight, it must be cleansed of all conditioning, of all fear. The mind must also be free of knowledge, because knowledge diverts the mind and makes things twisted. The capacity of the mind to invent, to imagine, to speculate, to think - this capacity must be put aside so that the mind is very clear and very simple
This is like really really bad yoga.
This is like really really a post which contents aim at the topic of this thread .Obviously that lies beyond your understanding .
But there is hope DocDred ; if you don't understand something ....ask,...that,s what this forum is all about .
 
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This is like really really a post which contents aim at the topic of this thread .Obviously that lies beyond your understanding .
But there is hope DocDred ; if you don't understand something ....ask,...that,s what this forum is all about .
By the by I never see any of your pics..there always lil red x's in white squares .. .no matter.....prolly my OS...just saying...not ment to be sarcastic......

NOW THEN!!!!

I don't understand china.....hmmm lets see ....you are trying to describe Rigpa a state of mind one finds in Mahamudra/Dogzhen practice and is a perequisit to be able to expierence Sunyata.