the Presence of God as self-esteem
The Presence providing the inner experience of God in the human context of "self-esteem."
Spirituality
discernment of intention
As unmanifest power (or force), intention can only be discerned spiritually, not with the physical senses.
Is Consciousness God?
Request: In two books Doc describe Consciousness and God very similar, with the same attributes like omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresent.
"The seer is also part of the mirage" - Maharaj
"[T]he entire manifestation is of the nature of a dream, or a mirage, but you interpret the rest of the manifestation as being a mirage and won't let go of the seer of the phenomenon. The seer is also part of the mirage." - Prior to Consciousness, pg. 114. Priority request.
pure intention is a prayer without specific format
Informs of how to live your life like a prayer.
the peace of admitting "I don't know"
In the radical honesty of not knowing, feeling neither lack nor a burdened obligation to find out.
when the student is ready, the teacher appears
Request: Thank you Lord.
the manifest world is not causal
The senses perceive effects, not causes. Nothing in the linear world of form is causal.
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.