Posts by JamesThomas

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Big Question

by choosing life in

jw
friends

i know there may not be an answer to this question, but i am truly interested in other's views.

i know many are of various beliefs and some do not believe in god at all.. the question is: why does god not stop the suffering?

i watch so many suffer for no reason and no matter how i try to figure it out, i always come back to the fact that a loving parent would not allow their child to suffer needlessly.

JamesThomas

Chronic pain defeats all purpose.

Or, that which haunts us most, may be a doorway.

I know there are some posters on here who have been through such experiences. How do you continue to make sense of it all? It has shaken all my beliefs to their very foundations. I do believe in God, but would certainly like to know his answer.

If you insist of believing in God, then for god sakes stop believing It is something so diminutive and small as to not be present within your own true being.

I feel the only hope lies in things that are totally out of our experience-outside of time, space and physical limitations.

Correct, the answer lies just outside the story of all that you believe your time and space "self" to be. In other words: it's closer; and always here in the present moment rather than in the minds illusory past and future.

Step out of the grand drama of the mind. Be absolutely and silently nonjudgmentally present with the pain. See and feel the heat of pain, and then note that which silently and gently witness and meets with the pain. Is it in pain? Which is closer, the pain, or the silent and oh so gently loving presence?

Yes, there is pain; but you are not the pain. Pain only passes like a ripple across the unmoving pristine pool of You. Allow the pain to move to the background; and allow the silent purity of conscious awareness to be forefront. Step out of the story, and into Reality. Be very kind, and very patient with all this. Wonderful discovery and realization can happen instantly or it may seem to take time. Everything you need, you have.

Trust, that the end of suffering is present, now, within you. Because, it is.

j

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Big Question

by choosing life in

jw
friends

i know there may not be an answer to this question, but i am truly interested in other's views.

i know many are of various beliefs and some do not believe in god at all.. the question is: why does god not stop the suffering?

i watch so many suffer for no reason and no matter how i try to figure it out, i always come back to the fact that a loving parent would not allow their child to suffer needlessly.

JamesThomas

"If you meet the buddha on the road, kill him."

A beautiful saying.

It does not mean that the answers or wisdom we seek does not exist, rather that it will not be found in anything seemingly separate from what you truly are.

"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him", and "Be still and know", pretty much mean the same thing.

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WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT......???????

by Terry in

what the hell is the point......?.

1.undeserved kindness.

ask yourself why you don't deserve kindness.

JamesThomas

Actually Kid-A, there is a problem with all words as they are interpretorial tools of the mind.

what remains within the human mind, can never be "true" or "real"

Yes, I was attempting to say just that; but is the mind the beginning and end of all things? It's popular to believe that it is so, and the mind would certainly accept a place of ultimate supremacy. But is it true?

I am feebly attempting to point to what comes before the mind. It can not be explained. It has to be seen first hand. Only then does what the word reality point to, come into the forefront of conscious realisation. It is not something experienced as something happening to you, it is not thought, or conceptual. it's not an objective thing or phenomena. It's what you are.

Words are inadequate, and this mind has much trouble with them to begin with.

j

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Big Question

by choosing life in

jw
friends

i know there may not be an answer to this question, but i am truly interested in other's views.

i know many are of various beliefs and some do not believe in god at all.. the question is: why does god not stop the suffering?

i watch so many suffer for no reason and no matter how i try to figure it out, i always come back to the fact that a loving parent would not allow their child to suffer needlessly.

JamesThomas

Dear C.L.,

There is no answer to this question as the premise is illusory.

We seem to exist in a tumbling, fragmented, nonsensical paradox; yet our hearts yearn for some cohesion, wholeness and purity. What to do?

Start by questioning everything; especially the person and self you believe yourself to be. Silently watch the mind as it weaves it's tragic and confusing story. Be aware and learn to recognize the difference between the mind's interpretation and the actuality of silent aliveness and being. Spend less time lost in the ramblings and story of the mind and more time looking closer into what sees and experiences.

Come to really know what you are, and the other questions will dissolve.

j

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WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT......???????

by Terry in

what the hell is the point......?.

1.undeserved kindness.

ask yourself why you don't deserve kindness.

JamesThomas

Terry:

As for myself I think reality is all we have, but; our prejudices distort a clear view and our longings and desires push us to distort our interior view into a kind of wishful-thinking.

Yes, of course, reality/actuality/truth is all there really IS, and so it is our true Identity, what we really are. However there is much untrue which appears to be. So it's a matter of recognizing what is a lie, seeing through it, and what remains is true and real.

In an extremely filtered (via memory, prejudices, longings, desires, beliefs, etc) process the mind interprets sensations and movement and weaves a "life story" around a point. The point being the "self", which is nothing but an extension of the story, a mind generated finite "individual" manufactured to give a sense of cohesion to the "life story". This story could include magical mystical experiences, or be more mundane as to whatever the filters allow through. It's important to acutely and nonjudgmentally watch the mind and see first hand that everything it presents is thickly tinted interpretation tightly supporting the continually running, underlying story of "self", and that "self's" relationship to it's universe. Everything the mind offers which it labels "reality" is only a feeble rendering and not real at all. It's all a lie. The biggest lie of all is the "me". Don't take my word for it. If there is a deep interest and longing for REALITY, watch the mind tenaciously weave it's story to continue the seeming "reality" of it's precious main character which the mind comes to unquestionably identify with. To witness this is like dying under extreme awareness.

Via sober and acute nonjudgmental investigation and observation, all which is false can be identified. What remains is not a story or experience. It is the conscious pristine purity of Reality and Truth. It is closer than experiences. It is what you really and truly are. No beliefs here. No mysticism. No story. No questions or confusion. Conscious-reality, closer and unimaginably more real than any and all experiences.

The door is always open. The time is always now and the place is always here. No one or no thing, is excluded. Discover the Reality of Self, and so too is discovered the Reality of all.

j

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Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President by Dr. J. Frank

by frankiespeakin in

while spending time at the whitehouse official web site and reading and listening to gw bush's interviews, i started to see signs of mental illness in the president, such as paranoia, denial, megolamania, and detactment from the suffering he is causeing thousands of innocent people.. so i did some google searchs to see if any reputable psychologist have written anything about the pres.

behaivor.

i came up with a good amount of material here is just a small sample:.

JamesThomas

I agree, Frankie, and don't need a shrink to tell me Bush is an unfit leader and a danger to the world. Interestingly though, when the stakes are this high, it takes people of rare courage to publicly proclaim that the king wears no cloths. Most will continue to remain with the mindless masses and support insanity. Which, sadly, means we probably deserve what we have.

j

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Where to start?

by nonamegiven in

i was df'd about 2 months ago and decided to take this time to explore the teachings i have spent my life spewing to others.

well, it took very little time to discover it was a bunch of crap.

i have learned about the lies and inconsistant teachings and what not.

JamesThomas

I feel it's time for me to stop looking for falacies in the JW religion and start really looking for the truth about what's inthe bible. My question to you all is, where do I find it?

Are you looking for actual and real truth, or conceptual and believed "truth"? You obviously can not find the actual truth of a living tree in a book, even the Bible, yet you expect to find something greater still: the ultimate truth and understanding of the Source of all existence within the pages of a book? Seems a bit foolish when you think about it, doesn't it.

If you would like to save years and years of agony, I suggest you first learn how to tell the difference between what is simply a mental construct and belief, from what is real and actual. Then look deeper into what is real, actual and true for deeper truth. Makes sense, does it not, to look for truth in what we know is undeniably true already?

Here, let me help you; the Bible is nothing but thoughts put to words and placed on paper. There is some tree there (the paper), but no longer the actuality of the living tree. Forget the Bible. Now go up to a living tree and silently feel it's presence, feel the roughness of it's bark, smell it's fragrance, and listen to it's leaves as they dance in the wind. Now, we are getting somewhere. This is pretty real. However, the mind is only interpreting the movement of energy. No two people will interpret this tree the same. It may be a dream, a fictitious story told by the mind...just like the Bible. Is there something yet more real? Let's look closer.

Where is the experience of tree, unfolding? What is the one thing we all share and which unites us? What is closer than the experience of tree? Closer than everything you believe self and universe to be? What can not be denied? What is unquestionably and unequivocally real and true, right here, right now?

Clearly recognise what these questions are pointing to, and here is the door to peace and wholeness that you seek. Silently go deeper into what is already true. It's not about studying a book or books. It's about clearly seeing what is present and true, already. Everything you need, you already have. Turn, and look into what is looking. Realize your real Identity.

Be still, and know...

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WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT......???????

by Terry in

what the hell is the point......?.

1.undeserved kindness.

ask yourself why you don't deserve kindness.

JamesThomas

What is a "point"? A point is a mentally constructed conclusion, a finite finality that gives a sense of cohesion to a specific grouping of mental constructs in question. It's a snake eating it's own tale.

This works on a practical day to day level. The point of adding baking soda to my banana bread is that I want a high, airy light bread, not a dense flat bread. The point is clear and it works. There are countless instances of points being made and used successfully all day. This is how it is in the phenomenal world of space and time, and seeming finite separate things moving from a point A, to a point B.

All is well and good with this system until we attempt to step out of the finite, particle, phenomenal, thought world -- into the foundational or Wave reality. The Bible is suppose to be about the ultimate Truth, our Source, the Wave that gives birth to all particles of people places and things. The Bible doesn't do this though. It can't. It instead offers up a grand fictitious drama of particles in the form of isolated characters and events. It's not at all what it presents itself to be. It's a lie. One of the biggest lies ever told. It's a particle pretending to be a wave. A charade.

Perhaps, the Bible is a point unto itself. A mentally constructed conclusion, a finite finality that gives a sense of cohesion to those hypnotized into believing it.

Ultimately, in regards our true Source, there is no point, no finality. There is no beginning, and there is no end. It is not a thing. It can not be circumscribed or understood by the limited finite mind because It's too close, too vast, to wondrous. It is not something real, rather it is Reality. It is not an entity which is alive, it is Life. It is what everything and everyone truly IS; and because of this it is always present here and now, and can be realized.

Be still, and know...

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WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT......???????

by Terry in

what the hell is the point......?.

1.undeserved kindness.

ask yourself why you don't deserve kindness.

JamesThomas

What if every single shred of theology is just hair-brained imagination passed off as an "explanation" of why the world is the way it is.

Exactly. If it can be thought or spoken, it's not IT; and the Bible and all other "holy" books and beliefs systems are nothing but words and thoughts: the minds extremely feeble attempts at explaining what it can not explain. The conclusion that it is all a dead end, is a valuable lesson to learn.

Which begs the question: if not in words and thoughts, where?

What comes before all words and thoughts? What does all knowledge of existence rely upon? What is closer than words and thoughts? What way is so narrow that it is traveled alone? How deep does the intimate, silent vastness of being and existing, go? Who/what are you, really?

j

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Humanity is being conned.

by chaiyah in

be wary.

to summarize, the illuminati are manipulating technology, language, ritualistic activity, subliminal awareness, fear, lust, human vulnerabilities, and conflicts.

these manipulations are external deceptions, which help cover up their trauma-based mind control.

JamesThomas

Dear Emily,

I feel you are being ganged up on here, and would like to make it clear that I agree with some of what you have to say. My feelings are that there is indeed people with great power who, all too easily, manipulate the narrow black and white thinking of the masses. To what extent that is going on, I don't know.

My point is that your acute investigative concerns seem to be active only in the area which supports your own deluded programing. You have managed to identify and sustain the grand drama of Lucifer as ruler of the modern day world (via the Illuminati); which reinforces your programmed identification with a tribal-deity and his supposed "holy book". Here, is the trap, isn't it. You think yourself wise for you have uncovered a great lie and conspiracy -- and so to a degree you are wise -- but then you use your "wisdom" to support a far bigger lie, one that you have not allowed yourself to see. That you clearly see others being conned, has been tightly woven into your own con-job.

You're against programing of the mind, yet how do you account for your tightly held believing that a tiny tribal war god is the source of an infinite universe(s) (there may be countless universes). Who told you the true Source and Sustenance of all existence is so foolishly creatural and diminutive; and more importantly, why do you believe it?

This extreme act of belittling the Divine is accomplished by not questioning and so foolishly accepting beliefs and crazy programming from the past; in your words by: "attaining doctrines which do not make sense." That billions of people and their "holy" books shrink and encapsulate the Divine, does not mean you have to. There is a time to rebel. Time to investigate not just worldly political structures which support our preexisting beliefs, but to seriously inquire into all the deepest held beliefs of self, universe and reality.

I have no desire to offend you, Emily. Just building on the theme you presented, as I feel it important.

j