REPLAY

[Robban]

Sometimes I wonder if we are not living in a replay,

At some point the curtain goes up.

The lights go on.

Choices? we don,t have many,

All the big ones are already made.

I just wonder,

 

[jacknife]

I remember reading an idea about how every person is born of the same conscience. When we die we simply enter another life, the only thing that changes is our body and our life situations which gives way to the diversity we see.

 

[Lost4words]

I used to think that God reused our souls when we died. In that each time we are set different challenges with the aim to become 100% pure even if it takes several lifetimes.

 

[dlamberth]

I remember reading an idea about how every person is born of the same conscience. When we die we simply enter another life, the only thing that changes is our body and our life situations which gives way to the diversity we see.

That's an interesting thought.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

Sometimes I wonder if we are not living in a replay,

At some point the curtain goes up.

The lights go on.

Choices? we don,t have many,

All the big ones are already made.

I just wonder,

One choice, same as Yahweh, Sovereignly , said once,

CHOOSE TODAY WHO YOU WILL SERVE.


Most people already made that choice.

Most people lose their lives because of it - they perish.

 

[Robban]

I do not believe in coincidence.

One choice, same as Yahweh, Sovereignly , said once,

CHOOSE TODAY WHO YOU WILL SERVE.


Most people already made that choice.

Most people lose their lives because of it - they perish.

That does not mean that we are not living in a replay.

 

[Zoii]

Buddhism has similar views

 

[Robban]

By not believing in coincidence, there is no one or anything to blame.

There is no,
"If only this or that,"

 

[Robban]

Buddhism has similar views

The little I have read here on CF about Buddhism it is about avoiding suffering.

I have another starting point,
"Pain is real, suffering is optional"

 

[Zoii]

The little I have read here on CF about Buddhism it is about avoiding suffering.

I have another starting point,
"Pain is real, suffering is optional"

No actually one of the precepts is that life is suffering (it comes from the four noble truths). It acknowledges that even a good life has suffering. Buddhism is more a focus on simply being a decent person - Right thoughts, Right speech, Right actions. The precepts can be used with any religion - my parents are Buddhist and the monk tells people - 'If you're christian then don't change that... just use the Buddhist teachings to augment your existing faith.'

 

[dlamberth]

The little I have read here on CF about Buddhism it is about avoiding suffering.

Buddhism isn't about avoiding anything.
You hit the Buddhist nail on the head when you followed up with this:

I have another starting point,
"Pain is real, suffering is optional"

Which is totally Buddhist.

 

[Robban]

Well, the impression I got from the little I have read here,
from Buddhists,

is that the focus is on suffering,
and how to avoid it.

From the meeting Rabbi Abba had with the people he met from India, he had this to say;

I said to them,
"My sons, these are words similar to those of the Torah."

nevertheless you should stay well away from these books,
in order that you not be led astray by those forms of worship and all of those negative forces that are mentioned there,

and stray away from worshipping the Holy One Blessed be He.

All these books mislead a person.

 

[dlamberth]

Well, the impression I got from the little I have read here,
from Buddhists,

is that the focus is on suffering,
and how to avoid it.

Ya. I've never understood it in that way.
I understand Buddhism to be about Dharma
of which learning to be "free" from suffering is one Third of the Jewels.
Suffering, as I understand it could be looked upon as greed with Duality built in.
So opening up to being free from greed in a non-Duality way, perhaps?
But this is my experience.

Here's some food for thought...
Buddha Dharma Refers to the Teachings of the Buddha, and Much More

 

[Robban]

Ya. I've never understood it in that way.
I understand Buddhism to be about Dharma
of which learning to be "free" from suffering is one Third of the Jewels.
Suffering, as I understand it could be looked upon as greed with Duality built in.
So opening up to being free from greed in a non-Duality way, perhaps?
But this is my experience.

Here's some food for thought...
Buddha Dharma Refers to the Teachings of the Buddha, and Much More

Watched the vid.

Personly mind you, I would not touch it with a bargepöle.

From the meeting with the people from India;

"I found in this same book, rites and ceremonies relating to
worshipping the stars and constellations and the mantras
needed to be chanted in their worship.

There were also instructions as to how to concentrate a person,s will on them in order to draw these forces down on to himself."

 

[dlamberth]

There were also instructions as to how to concentrate a person,s will on them in order to draw these forces down on to himself."

Being completely ecumenical in finding God everywhere I turn, a person can find me very slowly and with great focused intensity chanting "Yahweh" with interesting forces happening around. The same when chanting "Om Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram" as well as "La Illaha Illallah" and even "Om Mani Padme Hum". But never is it those forces that's wanted, but ALWAYS, ALWAYS God within.

 

[Robban]

Being completely ecumenical in finding God everywhere I turn, a person can find me very slowly and with great focused intensity chanting "Yahweh" with interesting forces happening around. The same when chanting "Om Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram" as well as "La Illaha Illallah" and even "Om Mani Padme Hum". But never is it those forces that's wanted, but ALWAYS, ALWAYS God within.

If those forces are not wanted why strive to bring them down?

I read some of the text in the link too,
it named nature and laws nature,

though I read in a rush, just had to get out for a while.

Anyhow, nature is wonderful to see, but it is not from nature my help will come.

"I lift my eyes to the mountains-from where will my help come?"

From the mountains? No.

"My help will come from the Maker of heaven and earth."


The One who is not limited by the laws of nature,
but transcends the laws of nature,

and spiriuality and religion.

 

[TheOldWays]

i like how Alan Watts talks about how we are already perfect and could dream and have everything we wanted but then we started taking more and more risks instead of constant perfection and that's how we ended up where we are today in this existence.

 

[Robban]

i like how Alan Watts talks about how we are already perfect and could dream and have everything we wanted but then we started taking more and more risks instead of constant perfection and that's how we ended up where we are today in this existence.

Could well be.

Like sort of,

if life is getting the most one can of it,s resources for oneself,
one has a limited time to get as much as one can.

Then the fat lady sings and the curtain falls,

finito amigo. End of.

 

[TheOldWays]

Could well be.

Like sort of,

if life is getting the most one can of it,s resources for oneself,
one has a limited time to get as much as one can.

Then the fat lady sings and the curtain falls,

finito amigo. End of.

the fat lady has already sung and the curtain has already fallen. in that there is beauty.

 

[Robban]

the fat lady has already sung and the curtain has already fallen. in that there is beauty.

Are we just waiting for the script writer to come and take a bow?