spirituality corner

Or something like that. I'm sorry, I guess you just had to hear the earnest tone in which this was pronounced by some stinky dreadlocked hipster chick. I could not keep from laughing out loud.

As I cannot keep from laughing at Nelly.

WHat is spirituality to me? The highest hgoals that humans can achieve that are removed from base pleasures - self denial. A cosmic purpose to life.
1. health - fitness and diet
2. non-violence and controlling of anger
3. kindness and goodwill - helping others
4. doing good work - acheiving things

But why couldn't spirituality be about humans NOT being the ones who do perfect things? HUmans are flawed and imperfect. Maybe an android could so thiese things. Do we look to God's will to help us be more godlike? But how do we measure? If its God will are we at all at fault?

1. laziness and eating junk food
2. violence and expressing anger
3. meanness and badwill - harming others - self preservation
4. not accomplishing anything

pretty sure the last one us on us if nothing else

Getting away from base pleasures is not self denial unless you think you are wholly defined by your base pleasures.

I think spirituality is basically about trying to see the world objectively, walking a day in your neighbor's shoes rather than your own, realizing that you are NOT the center of the universe. This can extend from simple charity to experimenting with consciousness.

my neighbour's got better shoes, it annoys me

are we animals or angels

Have you heard of the secret Book of Dzyan?

Generations of Truth-seekers have been searching for this mysterious manuscript of untold antiquity that conceals the entire wisdom of the world, yet only a chosen few have ever gained access to it. Thus, in 2015, Zinovia Dushkova, Ph.D., published a new excerpt from the Book of Dzyan in The Book of Secret Wisdom that revealed the future and destiny of humanity. At that time, however, she was not allowed to disclose anything more about the Book of Dzyan than Helena Blavatsky had already done in her time.

But now, for the first time ever, Dr. Dushkova has been permitted to cast more light on the Book of Dzyan and answer the following questions:
Who are the authors of the Book of Dzyan?
Where was it stored in the past, and where is it now?
What are its structure and contents?
When was the Book of Dzyan written?
Why is it now of such great significance, even in your own life?
In addition, you will also learn about the attempt that the Masters of Wisdom made to enlighten the world in the 20th century and what challenges face humanity in the 21st century.

oh sick

Learning the Four Noble Truths don't require an entire Book of Secret Wisdom. You can fit them all on a business card.

quickly - take yoru idea to Amazon!

remember yiou live in a universe

why is there something
Instead of nothing?

to alleviate your boredom

you still haven't answered my question about mice, i think

do you treat mice more kindly now than you did before

what about people

thinking is fine, and feeling is cool, but what are you *doing* differently?

“It is literally true: “In all your afflictions he is afflicted.” “In all your triumphs he triumphs in and with you.” His prepersonal divine spirit is a real part of you. The Isle of Paradise responds to all the physical metamorphoses of the universe of universes; the Eternal Son includes all the spirit impulses of all creation; the Conjoint Actor encompasses all the mind expression of the expanding cosmos. The Universal Father realizes in the fullness of the divine consciousness all the individual experience of the progressive struggles of the expanding minds and the ascending spirits of every entity, being, and personality of the whole evolutionary creation of time and space. And all this is literally true, for “in Him we all live and move and have our being.””

if you believe this, *why* do you believe it? because of how it feels? because of something you experienced?

calstars, do you still hurt mice

I believe it because it rings true

I have not encountered mice in a minute but I would not hesitate to smash them with the nearest bookshelf at hand as before

Would you mind putting that in your own words, calstars? I tried reading your quote, but the needless grandiosity was very distracting and I had a hard time extracting any kind of meaning from it.

Try again

So, you're saying you do mind?

Aimless

Yes?

the passage boils down to monism, i think, which can certainly feel cool but then when you hurl the bookshelf at the mouse you are god crushing god with more god and the point of this action is obscure to me and also -- it's just a little mouse, man, why would you do a scary mean thing like that. why would you do that to yourself and those around you. that's scary.

maybe it's monism w/ a more old testament flavor of god, but i always got the impression that o.g. yhwh was pretty clear on the separation between pitiful humans and the big mighty deity who gets to boss them around/torment them for kicks

display name unrelated btw

stolen from a youtube video comments section:

I once came across a man holding prayer beads and, realizing he was a Buddhist, I asked him what kind. He said "Mahayana," and I said "me too." I then asked him if it was Japanese Mahayana or Chinese Mahayana. He said "Japanese," and I said "me too." I then asked him if it was Zen, Hosso, Kegon, Pure Land, or Nichiren. He said "Pure Land," and I said "me too." Then I asked if he followed Ji-shu, Yuzunembutsu, Jodo-shu, or Jodo-shinshu. He said "Jodo-shinshu," and I said me too. I then asked which branch of Jodo-shinshu. He said "Nishi Hongonji" and I said "DIE, HERETIC!!!"

xp If it's monism, then “In all your triumphs he triumphs in and with you” makes little sense to me. It sounds to me like "you" is separate enough from "him" that the two of us can be "with" each other, like two partners in a buddy cop movie. This just feels like a bunch of grandiose verbiage to me.