Seeing our own prejudices is a first step to seeing how the conceptualizing process itself is the snare. By simply observing our thoughts we become more aware and conceptualizing loosens its hold on the mind. To observe directly, without concept, we must first see how are mind has and continues to enslave us.
Siddhashunyata
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GREAT BOOK - GREAT QUOTE!
by Dansk ini'm re-reading walpola sri rahula's wonderful book what the buddha taught and, on page 5, a couple of paragraphs immediately stood out for me considering the amount of islamophobia and nationphobias recently exhibited here.
they read:.
"truth needs no label: it is neither buddhist, christian, hindu or moslem.
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Then there was the "Pledge" that a member would sign ( early 1900's) that he would not be in a room alone with a woman unless the door was wide open !
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If this doesn't scream mind control, nothing will
by restrangled inthis poem was written by a 15 year old jw to encourage one of my younger relatives to get back to the kh.
to get to the meeting ahead of time.
to make our way to the counter to get in line .
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Rap song.
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If you could make and distribute a bumper stick to open minds.......
by whyizit inif you could make and distribute bumper stickers to use as a tool to open the minds of jws or cult members, what would you put on them?.
keep in mind that you would like to open thier minds, yet not offend them.
something that any person could stick on their bumper and the jws would not be able to find reason to label them as opposers or apostates.
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Jehovah Likes Dumb People More !
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How can we make good decisions, when we can't see into the future?
by DavidChristopher ini mean really...i keep making bad decisions..that seem "right " in the short term...yet go bad in the long term.. how is it possible for anyone to make good decisions..or be perfect..when we don't know what the end result of the decision is going to be?.
how can you make a mistake when you know what the end result of every decision is going to be?
guess you would almost have to do it on purpose.
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Siddhashunyata
The Biblical idea : the ability to see future consequences of present moment decisions = wisdom and disernment . Thus an eagle symbolizes wisdom because it can see far. Older men ( grey headedness) having learned by experience can see consequences way off in the distance thus they symbolize wisdom. There is something to this but it takes careful observation of the outcomes of both mistakes and successes. A way to speed up the process is to observe everything all day long and see what it all means in terms of how life works. Solomon did this with insects and plants and people. That is what is meant by the proverb that " True wisdm itself keeps crying aloud in the very street." Proverbs 1:20 , you observe everything everywhere. The books of Proverbs and Ecclesiates are collections of these observations. This also is the wisdom of Taoism and of Zen Buddhism because there is only one wisdom. It is sometimes expressed by poets and artists also. The writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson are loaded with this type of observing . Over time one gain an understanding of how life really works and to most of us it is much different than we thought, especially with regard to human behavior.
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Experiences the WTS does not want you to hear at the Assembly!!!
by thepackage inyou know how on the last day of a district assembly the chairman always give these great experiences about how the dubs that attended the assembly had great spiritual experiences while at dinner or at the hotel.
well, hears one you will not hear.
for about five straight years, a friend of mine (whose father was a jerk elder who thought anybody who drank should be df) would leave the assembly at lunchtime each day, go to a bar near the convention, and get drunk out of his mind!!!
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Siddhashunyata
Thanks for the post Blondie.
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Experiences the WTS does not want you to hear at the Assembly!!!
by thepackage inyou know how on the last day of a district assembly the chairman always give these great experiences about how the dubs that attended the assembly had great spiritual experiences while at dinner or at the hotel.
well, hears one you will not hear.
for about five straight years, a friend of mine (whose father was a jerk elder who thought anybody who drank should be df) would leave the assembly at lunchtime each day, go to a bar near the convention, and get drunk out of his mind!!!
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Going back a few years there was an article featured in the AWAKE about a contempletive Nun from the Brooklyn diocese who was converted to JW . She was featured at a district assembly. She became very popular and I met her at a "get together" on Staten Island. Very zealous!! Five years later I saw her again and she was as negative as anyone on this board. She was angry, I mean ANGRY. She was seeing it all and felt duped. The Awake didn't update her story nor was her experience updated at the District Conventions. And the band plays on.
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One more down the drain-marriage-divorce
by sspo ini mentioned in the past that my wife turned me in for apostasy and because of it she filed for separation ( she is too holy and spiritual to file for divorce) .she came home this afternoon and started packing a few things to move to an apartment.. i am still going to meetings but it is not enough for her, i reminded her of 1 cor 7 where it talks about a wife not leaving an unbeleiver as long as he is willing to stay with her but she says that does not apply to apostasy.
go figure!.
she is free to worship her god, i'm not stopping her but she has been blessed by the powerful gb who the witnesses exalts above god himself that tells them they have the right to leave a mate if it is spiritual endangerment.
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Your experience ,as you relate it, is a mirror image of my own. My marriage was 28 years. Same experience, hard to watch it happen especially if you love your wife. One point that may help you. There is a weakness in your wife's character otherwise she would not be blind to all you have been and are. My best to you.
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IS EVOLUTION THE ANSWER?
by Dansk ini'm currently reading richard dawkin's book the ancestor's tale and it suddenly struck me that evolutionists believe all men are equal seeing that we all came from a common ancestor.
that being the case, would it not serve man to believe in evolution?.
turn on the t.v.
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Norm. This is difficult stuff . We are not used to thinking about the source of the relative world . Nor how the source is intertwined with each manifestation. Nor how it is possible to perceive both at the same time. Quite difficult. I can see why you answered " clear as mud". It really makes no sense unless it is experienced. The experience is the 'eye opener". We are talking about a change in the "quality"of perception. You know , the world can be seen in a grain of sand. That kind of stuff. I throw this out there to point to the fact in case someone is tired of beating their head against the same old wall of relative knowledge. Some are.
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IS EVOLUTION THE ANSWER?
by Dansk ini'm currently reading richard dawkin's book the ancestor's tale and it suddenly struck me that evolutionists believe all men are equal seeing that we all came from a common ancestor.
that being the case, would it not serve man to believe in evolution?.
turn on the t.v.
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There are two catagories of truths, relative and absolute ( they are intertwined giving rise to what may be called "one truth"). Evolution is a relative truth . Causes and conditions lead to changes in causes and conditions which lead to changes in causes and conditions etc, etc etc and on and on. But all of these changes are like the relative waves on the surface of the sea. They appear, they disappear, some are big and frothy some are small with little white tips etc. The absolute truth is water. All of them are water. The waves are many and varied but they remain water always. If the waves don't know they are water , they may think they have a separate existence and become threatened. This fear gives rise to the kind of world we have. So the perception of relative truth is not the answer. The answer is the perception of the relative and the absolute together. When this is achieved , life's objects have a different "quality" . This quality is sensed and expressed as..."all things are One". Walking in that One truth will transform human behavior and the world.