statement: all negative occurrences are due to negative karma
Do negative occurrences happen without negative karma? No, not really...
Spirituality
mastery of the psyche
"Psyche" expands on the definition of "ego" by recontextualizing the inner space of mind as a non-local, universal experience. The ego, thought to be individual and personal, in a greater context is actually impersonal, collective psyche. (Statement at 590).
"If you have not accepted the past, you have not accepted the present"
Sri Prem Baba quote from his book From Suffering to Joy.
letting others be as they are
Request: ...instead of trying to change, judge, or idealize a better version of them.
T/F: time of death of animals is already determined at the time of their birth
Priority request: Doc says this of humans - wondering if it also applies to our pets & other animals
The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence
Priority request. “I am doing now what I will do for all eternity. I am blessing God, praising Him, adoring Him, and loving Him with all my heart.”
Number of beings throughout all history that reached 1000
Priority request: You provided the number that reached 600+ but I’m wondering how many have made it to the level of Jesus throughout all history.
statement: love is sacrifice
Priority request: A catholic friend thought the two were inseparable and I thought it was mostly spiritual ego. Doc made it clear service is not sacrifice, however, it lead to an interesting conversation and he raised some convincing points so I wanted to see how it calibrates.
T/F: the root of all suffering is one's attachment to spiritual darkness
Request: ...and one's loc is the extent one has surrendered the (grim) pleasure / essence of spiritual darkness.
regretting consenting to human incarnation
Request: Doc said that all humans gave consent to be born as humans. Is thinking that it wasn't a great idea inherently negative? Considering that it subjects one to some degree of suffering and lots of hard work, among other things?
gururating.org
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statement: loving others is no substitute for loving yourself
Loving others is heart-based, while loving yourself is thymus-based. As the heart dimension is nested within the thymus dimension, loving others serves the highest good only in the context of loving yourself. (The highest good includes you!)
statement: the intellect can never know Love
The intellect is fundamentally incapable of discerning the true nature of Love over 500.
statement: negative karma inevitably runs out, unless refortified
The amount of negative, individual karma is fixed and finite, and life will process it out unless you add to it.
"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.