Trouble is, if everything comes from God … Posted in: Perfection in Seeming Imperfection, Suffering and an all-powerful benevolent God, What are we doing here?

To tell someone who strongly feels they are suffering, and/or this world is very much a place of misery, that they are not in fact suffering at all, and not a fallen soul being punished for their sins, but a divine part of God eternally engaged in the beautiful divine lila (pastimes) of God is unlikely to resonate positively. Reality of suffering is so proven and real that such a idea is more likely lead to negative judgement about God. …

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God With Blinkers On Posted in: One And Different, The Self Divine

PET THEORY: Notwithstanding our difference, by dint of our simultaneous oneness we are God/Krishna (albeit with a small g/k) exploring/experiencing/expressing self with blinkers on. In so doing we all contribute our focused fascinations to the ever expanding completeness of God’s self-knowing. Consciously or unconsciously, believer or atheist, no matter. Being conscious, however, opens the door for love. In the Bhagavad-gita (9:27) Krishna encourages ‘everything you do, do as an offering to me’ as the means to awaken ones deeper self-awareness. …

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Siddhartha (novel) Posted in: Books

Siddhartha: An Indian novel is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.

Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha follows the spiritual journey of Siddhartha, a young man seeking enlightenment. Rejecting wealth, status, and rigid teachings, he explores various paths, ultimately finding wisdom in life’s experiences and the unity of all things.

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Suffering Through The Lens Of Oneness With God Posted in: One And Different, Perfection in Seeming Imperfection

From the point of view of us not being God the world may appear to be mainly a place of suffering and ignorance. After all, it is a place of birth, death, old age, and disease. And we don’t really know with certainty who we are, or the limits of our power, or the connection between desire and realisation of dreams etc. …

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In Defence of Nitya-baddha Souls Posted in: Freedom From Judgement, Seeing the Divine, The Self Divine

For a westerner embracing the dharmic tradition, the concept of nitya-baddha (sanskrit) – often translated as ever-conditioned or eternally conditioned soul – is routinely confused with the idea of fallen soul prominent in Abrahamic religions. A fallen soul, in simple terms, being one who has rebelled against God, and has thus been cast out of / banished from the kingdom of God. …

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Misconception Of The Role Of Guru Posted in: The Spiritual Journey

In a nutshell, the guru is not a Jesus-like saviour, rather a bearer of the torch-light of knowledge. The guru reveals the path. The guru walks the path, but not on behalf, or in place of the disciple. The disciple is supposed to become spiritually realised in their own right. The guru inspires, guides and encourages the disciple in that journey. …

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Perfect Comes From Perfect Posted in: Perfection in Seeming Imperfection

If one believes God exists, and God is perfect/all-powerful, one might reason that everything that comes from God must also be perfect. Us and this world included. If that is the case, how then are our lives and this world, along with all of its apparent horrors*, perfect?

To my mind, if everything comes from God, in a sense there is nothing but God. …

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Perfect And Complete Posted in: Perfection in Seeming Imperfection

Premise:

God exists. God is perfect and complete. Everything that emanates from God is likewise perfect and complete. Us and this world included. Seeming imperfect/flaw points to misunderstanding of purpose.

How are we and this world perfect?

Possible Purpose:

We are all looking at God
We are all experiencing God
We are all attracted to some aspect or another of God
We are all appreciating some facet or another of God
All from our individual points of view
- Sometimes through the lens of atheism
- Sometimes through the lens of belief in the existence of a God-person
- Sometimes through the lens of belief in the existence of God-impersonal
- Through senses and minds appropriate to our current species of life birth
- Flavoured by association with the modes of material nature
God can rightly claim our experiences as his experience by dint of us being his part and parcels
Our material situation blinkers and focuses our experiences adding further to their uniqueness
Fundamentally our lack omniscience opens the doors to a huge new range of appreciations of God that would otherwise remain out of reach to God (being consciously omniscient).

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The Parades (movie) Posted in: Films

The Parades

Minako waking up on a rubble-strewn beach. As she searches for her son, Ryo, she stumbles upon an assorted group, including a young man named Akira, former yakuza Shori, and ex-film producer Michael. She soon realizes the shocking truth that she has died. Her new companions are also stuck between worlds, unable to move on due to unfinished business with the living.

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Fear vs Love Posted in: The Spiritual Journey

If I’m pursuing a spiritual path, a reasonable question is why? What is my motive? What are my motives? For example, am I motivated primarily by fear or love, or by something else? Perhaps I’m in a state of transition between fear and love, and if so, is that a comfortable experience?

Although I believe choosing to embark upon a journey of spiritual awakening is always a divine prerogative – I suspect in the early stages it may be that faith in beliefs centred around fear serve one ‘better’ than those centred around love. …

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