Spirituality

God's timing is perfect

Request: This is simple advice given in usually a Christian context to those plagued by desire, encouraging us to trust in God's omniscient view instead of our own limited and possibly destructive view. Instead of demanding something right now, waiting for when/if God decides it is right.

“It’s enough to just exist”

request: you don’t have to do anything all the time

Anima Christi (song)

Soul of Christ, sanctify me / Body of Christ, save me / Blood of Christ, intoxicate me / Water of Christ's side, wash me

Cultivating the Heart (video)

The song will immerse your body and soul in the nurturing ancient Chinese healing arts... cultivating one’s heart to achieve spiritual awakening and physical well-being -- youtube

giving up on becoming enlightened in this lifetime

Request: Realizing that people rarely gain more than a few points during their lifetimes, that you are not exactly the brightest and nowhere close to 600... and giving up. While keeping the lingering hope that maybe over many lifetimes you'll get close enough to get a chance.

Lakshimi the "enlightened" cow

Osho told the story of the cow who never missed one of Ramana Maharshi's darshans. See link. Was the cow enlightened?

kenshō

"seeing one's (true) nature", that is, the Buddha-nature or nature of mind. Kenshō is an initial insight or awakening, not full Buddhahood... The term kenshō is often used interchangeably with satori -- wikipedia

Yoga Vasistha (ancient text)

Priority request: It is a historically popular and influential syncretic philosophical text of Hinduism. It is attributed to Maharishi Valmiki, but the real author is unknown. --Wikipedia

letting your furry little ego enjoy a win

Request: Doc said think of your ego as a furry little pet.

abdicating one’s power

request: also, what is a good way to mitigate this? It often occurs to me, that even by fighting to reclaim it you have already bought the premise that your power is vulnerable?

interfering with the highest good (God's will) happening to someone else creates bad karma

Calibrated by request.

Life After Life, by Raymond A. Moody

"Originally published in 1975, it is the groundbreaking study of one hundred people who experienced 'clinical death' and were revived, and who tell, in their own words, what lies beyond death." -- amazon

statement: all knowledge about causality is beliefs

Priority request: If you feel like something is caused by something else rather than just [coming] about as a fulfillment of its own potentiality, you can safely cancel it.

% of humans that are demons in human bodies

Priority request: In correspondence/contrast with the calibration of % of humans that are angels in human bodies.

contemplation: what would God do?

Request: I recall you mentioning this once. Seems to be a good way to reach a higher alignment