What's the difference between life and "Life"?

Fair enough. I was just pointing out an apparent contradition; that this world is perfect for 'doing karma' precisely because of the pain and suffering, but that trying to change this world is bad because it brings pain and suffering.

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No man is an island...
Each man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in Mankind.
And therefore, never send to know
For whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
—John Donne

You may "think" you said something about the MIND, but you did not do so. The brain is a physical muscle, and the MIND is an Esoteric phenomenon composed of two dimensions of Creation, namely the lower MIND is composed of the Astral region of Creation and the higher MIND is composed of the Causal region of Creation. Of course neither of these is physical nor are they discernible via the brain, thinking or ones physical senses. And now I have explained what the MIND is, and its composition, why not share with us how the MIND operates?

Peace

Insult? What insult? At the confluence of my [MIND] and your position on the wheel of Dharma, my third eye correctly surmised the Barney of your Karma. It needs chakra realignmentOh, believe me, I've long since intuitively comprehended what you're posting.More smiles than 12 undertakers with an 8 day clock!

If someone kills your brain, your mind is gone.

Thus, your mind is a figment of your brain.

I could have been much clearer and should have been. "Bad" is not the term I would use. Resisting the virtue of Acceptance is what happens when one seeks to prevent people from wrestling with the opportunities of Life by trying to remove the opportunities. That is... the person who incarnates to experience poverty and to rise above this and perhaps even achieve some level of prosperity is robbed of this opportunity if poverty is made unavailable.

When the natural forces of Life are tampered with by Man, the inevitable result is to interfere with people and their "right" to experience what they came into this life to experience. If this physical plane was intended to be a paradise, and everyone was meant to be placid, fat and complacent, and there was nothing to achieve.... who would want to live here?

Peace

Greetings and Felicitations,

Please provide proof for the astral plane. Any proof will do? Anything. I thought not.

Once again since you seem to be slow. The mind is the gestalt of the physical processes of the brain.

Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely

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Dungeons and Dragons did an extensive write up about the Astral Plane.

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Is our children learning? -George W. Bush

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

This is worth highlighting.

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Is our children learning? -George W. Bush

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

This is the reasoning of the person who is Left-Hemisphere of the brain oriented. An intellectual as it were.

The only part of Man that is Absolute is ones Soul. But to operate in the Creation the Soul had to take on a MIND. When one dies, ones Soul with MIND attached is withdrawn from this physical plane, and they are taken to the Astral plane where ones Soul evaluates ones past life... in preparation for creating and designing a new Fate Karma for ones next life.

But the vast majority of people, particularly in the West, do not believe in this. But like death itself, the Reality of Life does not depend upon whether or not people "believe" in the Reality of Life. If one insists on waiting until one dies to discover this, so be it.

Peace

Excellent resource: The Path of the Masters, by Julian P. Johnson.

To my uninitiated "MIND," this just sounds like a rationalization for not doing anything about all the things wrong in this world (I guess my fearful Liberal mind doesn't see this physical plane as 'perfect'). After all, living in a slum suffering from tuberculosis is an 'opportunity', and experiencing the death of your children from malnutrition and diarrhea a 'right'. Who am I to interfere?

Not all people who seek change in this world want to do so to make it into a paradise, or to make everyone placid, fat, and complacent. Some are much less ambitious, like providing clean drinking water to poor communities, medicine for treatable diseases, and supplies to areas ravaged by natural disaster.

If you were walking down the road, and came across a car accident where you could help the person, and they could certainly use your help, would you? Or would you let them "experience what they came into this life to experience"?

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No man is an island...
Each man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in Mankind.
And therefore, never send to know
For whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
—John Donne

If you die in the Matrix, you die in real life.

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Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

Greetings and Felicitations,

I wonder which one of the Buddhist hells your going to end up in for using the Karmic wheel to rationalize your willing ignorance of the suffering of others. You most certainly aren't following any of the other aspects of Buddhist or Hindu precepts for building good karma and shedding bad karma.

Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely

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Oddly enough.... I understand the "reason" Bush unintentionally uses improper grammar. It took me a couple decades of writing to overcome my own tendency to confuse various parts of grammar.

Many children have a most difficult time "learning" English. These children are often Right-Hemisphere of the brain oriented individuals. What this means is that they have a natural access to the faculty of "intuition". Using intuition one can tap the accumulated Knowledge one has stored within ones Apapsyche [my term for the Operational Energy of ones Soul], but ones Knowledge is not "linear" like ones thinking.

Knowledge is not linear or sequential. Writing is both linear and sequential. One uses words to create a concept, but in intuition the entire concept is presented to one with all the supporting factoids present as an entire and complete concept. Intuition is "plural" in other words. The singular term "MIND" for instance is in actuality something that is composed of lower and higher dimensions, and these two dimensions are actually entirely separate vibrational realms or regions of Creation.

So when I use the term MIND, I perceive it intuitively as a duality or plural realities, but when I express this term I must express it as a singular term. There are multiple levels of Man. Or various levels or realities which make up the whole of Man.... and all of these are operating simultaneously, and most have no physical plane names by which they are identified. Save that of "Esoteric".

My point is that those people within whom the faculty of intuition is active [even though they may have no sense of this at all] are likely to find it difficult to keep the singular and plural of English straight.

The illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004... is for me easily read as those factors which contribute to the illiteracy level.... are appalling. When one is intuiting the reasons and one is speaking [which like writing is linear] one may use a term that "fits" ones intuition, and this term will not "fit" what would be "proper" linear grammar.

This attempting to carry over into the physical plane what is naturally taking place within an Esoteric realm within oneself will often result in a misuse of some point of grammar... and that this is perceived by those who only are aware of grammar, and not at all aware of intuition is a short coming in American education.

Peace

Now I get it! President Bush is just too groovy to worry about trivial things like basic English usage.

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Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".