the manifest world is not causal
The senses perceive effects, not causes. Nothing in the linear world of form is causal.
Spirituality
karmic merit (concept)
"a type of karmic currency that is earned through good actions and intentions... actions and intentions have karmic consequences, and that merit and demerit accumulate over time to determine the quality of one's life" -- wikipedia.
karma as cause
Priority request: Seems to me that most of the events of ones life can be said to be "caused" by ones karma. It certainly seems like a better explanation than luck or randomness.
meditation background music
By request.
concept: pain-body
Request: How useful is Eckhart's teaching about the pain-body?
being at peace with resistance
Priority request. Neither attraction nor aversion to resistance.
suffering is resisting your destiny
The apparent free will of ego decisions is a painful diversion from the inevitable course of spiritual evolution.
God will provide what you need when you need it
Priority request: has been helpful to me often.
silence of the mind (period without thoughts)
By request.
never talking about or mentally dwelling in the past
Priority request: I found this in a Barry Long book as a way to dissolve what he calls the false personality. The false self feeds off and milks past experiences, positive or negative, to sustain itself and parasitically saps our energy in the process.
sat-chit-ananda (spiritual state)
Priority request. "In the stillness, all occurs of its own accord, autonomously and spontaneously. Sound has no effect on the silence that persists even within the sound. The state is traditionally and historically referred to as sat-chit-ananda (silent bliss)" -- TLC, Hawkins.
statement: the intellect can never know Love
The intellect is fundamentally incapable of discerning the true nature of Love over 500.
"We're all just walking each other home"
Quote by Ram Dass.
aversion to love
When love would change your world but you don't want change.
family enmeshment
Request: I noticed close family often brings up heavy emotions to let go of. Sometimes it’s hard to differentiate who’s emotions belong to who.