T/F: trying to understand falsehood is a waste of time
Request: Feels like attempting to comprehend falsehood is exhausting and unproductive. Probably infinitely easier to just ignore it.
Spirituality
deciding to live in truth...
… and leaving everything else behind -- request.
there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus
Summary of Romans 8:1. Comforting words to those who align with the Lord whereby one may forego any and all self-condemnation or condemnation of others.
free will is God's will
The correlation between an individual's free will and God's will.
contexts below 200 exclude God
Priority request: so it might feel like "God is not there."
Adyashanti (Stephen Gray)
While sitting alone on his cushion, Gray describes how he had a classic kensho, or awakening experience, in which he "penetrated to the emptiness of all things and realized that the Buddha I had been chasing was what I was" -- wikipedia.
"If it's God's Will, it will just happen"
Priority request: Just trying to figure out to what degree we are responsible for "doing" God's Will, or doing some kind of work or effort to bring something about instead of trusting the field. It seems like a duality to me.
asking God to raise one’s level of consciousness
How effective, on average?
willingness to take karma from another person upon oneself
Request: At what level is it possible / seems like a good choice and what does the willingness itself calibrate at?
level: all suffering is by choice
Request: There’s been some suffering lately, but also there’s been a high-end awareness that it’s by choice and could be let go of at any moment. What does this high-end position calibrate at, and what is the entry point for this awareness?
statement: unhappiness makes no sense
Priority request: There are social behavior norms, for example one does not laugh at a funeral out of respect for others, but in an internal way it seems to make no logical sense to close off your joy or happiness for any reason ever. It benefits no one.
supplication is egoless
In the high consciousness of this posture, we see the nature of supplication; we see the ego is not doing it.
time of death is set at birth (3 calibrations)
As commonly understood by Hawkins' students.
hell
In Buddhist writings, hell is a state as the result of a bad action.
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone"
Request: Quote by Alan watts. Brings me a huge sense of relief.