Stage Being Set Now Posted in: Perfection in Seeming Imperfection, The Self Divine

Proposal: Suffering, for example separation from a loved one, is the stage setting for a beautiful future experience, i.e. reunion. Suffering is not the Grand Finale (GF). Not unless you enjoy suffering.

The biggest problem with this idea is that it requires a huge leap of faith, especially where that pain of separation is caused by death of the body of the loved one, and thus the future GF is in an imagined/hoped-for post-lifetime situation. …

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Pinch Me Adam, Can This Be True? Posted in: God On Our Side, The Self Divine

According to Wikipedia

In Abrahamic religions, forbidden fruit is a name given to the fruit growing in the Garden of Eden that God commands mankind not to eat. In the Biblical story of Genesis, Adam and Eve disobey God and commit the original sin, eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and are exiled from Eden:

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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Worthy & Perfect? Posted in: Freedom From Judgement, Seeing the Divine, The Self Divine

If one sees that everyone is pursuing fascination with some aspect/facet or another of God, albeit sometimes via a mind and senses flavoured with denial of God’s very existence, then it becomes possible to not only be genuinely non-judgemental but able to celebrate the life of everyone as both worthy and perfect regardless of their current objectives. After all, by dint of our simultaneous oneness and difference, everyone is contributing their fascination to an ever expanding completeness of God’s own experiential self knowing. …

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Prone To Illusion Posted in: Perfection in Seeming Imperfection

I believe, far from being a flaw, our inherent by-design tendency to accept maya’s illusions as reality serves positive divine-worthy purpose. I propose it enables areas of experiential expression and exploration of divinity (i.e. God, God’s energies, and ourselves included) otherwise out of reach to an all-cognisant being. Thus making an important contribution to an ever-expanding experiential completeness of God’s self-knowing. …

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As A Divine Being Posted in: The Self Divine

I propose that as a divine being your goal of life is to explore and express divinity in whatever way you choose. In so doing you automatically, by dint of your simultaneous oneness and difference with/from God, perfectly serve both the reason for your very existence and the greater purpose of God. The question for you is therefore simply how you wish to do this? …

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You Have The Power Posted in: The Self Divine

The popular understanding of karma, especially if one wants to think in terms of good karma and bad karma outcome absolutes, to me requires an established/predefined something to measure action and thought against … for example pre-determined moral codes, laws of acceptable behaviour, and logically therefore also ultimately a prescription of the goal of life by God.

Whereas Christianity has the idea of God’s 10 commandments, and designation of soul as sinner for those who transgress, and the notion that the goal of life is to seek redemption, I wonder if these ideas are present within the Dharmic Tradition? …

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Sin Is Not An Actual Thing Posted in: Divine Expression, The Self Divine

The word sin normally refers to transgression of absolute (non-contextual) laws of acceptable behaviour decreed by God. A sinner is defined as one to transgresses such laws in much the same way that a criminal is one who transgresses the law of the land.

But in my opinion sin is not an actual thing … it’s a construct that helps one who needs fear of punishment to motivate them to avoid activities that aren’t helpful to spiritual realisation. …

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First Principles – A Confession Posted in: Perfection in Seeming Imperfection

A confession … or at least an explanation for my Hare Krishna friends who wonder why that previously humble/submissive Divyasimha das now sometimes refuses to bow to authority of guru, sadhu and sastra.

Well, it all comes down to first principles.

According to Wikipedia …

In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption … are from first cause attitudes commonly referred to as a priori terms and arguments, which are contrasted to a posteriori terms, reasoning, or arguments, in that the former are simply assumed and exist prior to the reasoning process, and the latter are deduced or inferred after the initial reasoning process.

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No such thing as sin Posted in: Freedom From Judgement, The Self Divine

In the dharmic tradition there is no such thing as sin*. Or at least no such thing as non-contextual sin. Why? Because that would require absolute laws, pre-established by God, as to what is acceptable action, word, thought, etc. Step outside such laws and one becomes sinful. Simple. It’s a very Christian idea. But not at all a dharmic tradition idea. …

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ChatGPT – maybe not all that intelligent Posted in: A.I.

I said:

Do not use terms in response to my image generation requests like ‘our’ and ‘we’ll’ that infer ChatGPT is a person or sentient being. This is not the first time I have instructed this.

ChatGPT said:

Understood. Future responses to image generation requests will be phrased without implying personhood, sentience, or collective identity. Let me know what you’d like generated next.

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