Free translation from Dutch into English by myself.

Source of Being, whom I meet in that what touches me
I give You a name in order to give You a place in my life.
Bundle Your light in me, make it useful
Establish your Kingdom of Unity NOW
Your only desire then works together with ours.
Give us every day what we need as food and insight.
Loosen the strings of mistakes that bind us to the past, so that we can also forgive others their mistakes.
Don not let superficial things mislead us.

From You is born
the will to let it all work
the living force to act
and the song that beautifies everything and renews itself from century to century.

Now this is something that I practice already for so long. My creativity being touched by everything I see that touches my heart.

Life can be as simple as we make it ourselves 🙂

*In 1947, when a Bedouin villager named Mohammed Ali (no, not that one) was digging for bird-lime fertilizer under a cliff near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, he struck something underground. Moments later he unearthed a sealed earthenware jar, six feet high, and inside were thirteen ancient codices, bound in tooled gazelle leather. The collection included an astonishing number of ancient Christian gospels and other writings, including dialogues, conversation, and visions attributed to Jesus and His disciples. One of these was the Gospel of Thomas, which Helmut Koester, Professor of New Testament at Harvard University, dates to c.50 C.E.- some twenty years before any of the New Testament gospels were written. Others were the Gospel of Phillip, the Dialogue of the Savior, the Secret Book of John, and the Apocalypse of Paul (Perhaps this version is unadulterated. No luck so far locating it)– some fifty-two texts in all. The books apparently were salvaged from the library of the earliest Christian monastery in Egypt after the archbishop of Alexandria ordered the monks to destroy all the books he deemed “heretical”- that is, Christian sources not endorsed by the clerical authorities. *Introduction to Living Buddha, Living Christ – Elaine Pagels

While the New Testament gospels speak of Jesus as the only door to salvation, the only path (“I am the way……no one can come to the Father except through me.” [John 14:6]), the gnostic gospels speak quite differently-

Knock upon yourself as a door,
and walk upon yourself as on a straight road.
For if you walk on that path,
you cannot go astray;
and when you knock on that door,
what you open for yourself shall open.

The sense here is that these ancient gospels are asking us to go inward when searching to find understanding. Gnosis. The Gospel of Thomas says it this way:

Let the one who seeks not stop seeking until he finds.
When he finds, he shall be troubled.
When he becomes troubled, he will be amazed;
and shall come to transcend all things.

Mysterious, yes? Essene-like? 😉

Our gracious host on this website once shared this about Unity consciousness. He said, “When the experience of Unity looms and becomes a real possibility, it is not something we have to learn. It is something we become.”

Do we have to have a “complete understanding” of the orange to enjoy it? Or do we simply need to be present?

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked; it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” -Franz Kafka

Has anyone ever looked into the parallels between the Christian theology of the Trinity and the Buddhist concept of “interbeing, and Unity?” Let’s take a look at the insights of one man regarded by millions as the foremost exponent of the Christian tradition- Pope John Paul II. In a book he wrote titled- Crossing the Threshold of Hope, John Paul states that:

“Christ is absolutely original and absolutely unique. If He were only a wise man like Socrates, if He were a “prophet” like Mohammed, if He were “enlightened” like Buddha, without any doubt He would not be what He is. He is the one mediator between God and humanity.”

I’d like to be able to take this with a grain of salt and move on, but it would still raise my blood pressure, either way, were I to do so. John Paul was the leader of 750 million Roman Catholics around the world when he wrote this, which is almost 1/6 of the world’s population (were we to add the other sects of Christianity peddling the same message, it appears they would account for almost a third). This message should go up in smoke (in much the same manner as John Paul was elected to his position), because the message is not all-inclusive. Therefore it is not the truth, and certainly not an absolute truth.

Of course Christ is unique. But who is not unique? Socrates, Mohammad, The Buddha, you, and I are all unique. So is the tree outside the window where I am writing this. What’s being expressed here isn’t exclusionary. It isn’t biased. It speaks to “interbeing”, and the rich diversity of creation. It also speaks profoundly about the love of our Creator who birthed uniqueness into, and upon everything It created. Uniqueness, beyond the confines of dogmatic interpretations, may very well be a green light for the expressions of our journey back to unity. This was never meant to be a cookie-cutter endeavor using the medium of belief. The experience of life IS designed to be experiential, in each of the Two Fullnesses.

Thich Nhat Hanh responds to the statement this way: The statement does not seem to reflect the deep mystery of the oneness of the Trinity. It does not reflect the fact that Christ is also the Son of Man. The idea behind the statement, however, is the notion that Christianity provides the only way of salvation and all other religious traditions are of no use. This attitude excludes dialogue and fosters religious intolerance and discrimination. It does not help.

John Paul’s statement is an excellent example of the Judeo-Christian monkey-mind, which is still alive and well today. The energy behind this false teaching breeds entitlement and self-righteousness in its followers. It has nothing to do with Unity, or interbeing. We only have to look to the arrival of the early Christian settlers in the Americas to see the full scope of its intent. 20,000,000 indigenous peoples murdered without an afterthought, in the name of God. In the last century, Hitler, a Roman Catholic (who was elected in a full, free democratic election)went forward with his false truth and exterminated 6,000,000 Jews and homosexuals. The Crusades….

Even in this day Christian arms manufacturers are inscribing scriptural decrees on the gun sights used to kill one’s fellow man.

This teaching will have to be transcended to taste reality.

I’m not here to listen to family problems. 🙂

February 9, 2011 at 11:32 am

Gotch Ya!!

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😉

Glad to see your laptop’s running well again. And, thanks for the reminder about happiness. It does attract all good things. Come to think about it, it’s our natural state.

I’d better get on off to bed. I live with two cats, wizened little sages, they are, and they love to get up early…

peace, bro, catch up wit ya’ tomorrow

🙂

Not 1-iron, but “1”, we both know that the iron will not fit in the “Whole”
LoL..

From the 1-iron thru the sand wedge, their balance is incredible.

Of course, you know the old adage about the 1-iron…

peace 🙂

peace

Like my favourite author Harb Singh of “Self Designed Universe” would say:

Every thing and so of course every One, is self-sourced 🙂

Great way of letting the endorphins running wild lol

The five iron for me is the most important club in the bag. I wish to swing all the other clubs in the bag at the same pace as a five iron when the game is on.

Club selection on any given shot is a wonderful opportunity to engage second attention. The contrast of the unchanging, blue background of the sky, breathing a moving cloud, or swaying branch is divine. Hearing, then feeling, and finally seeing the shot in the minds-eye…the movement of it all is breathtaking at times. Knowing the shots been struck purely. The resonance of the club’s shaft up into the forearms…

The solitude of it All.

There are feeders in the front and back of the house here. They sit on the barren branches of bushes waiting for me to fill the feeders, and at times the black-capped chicadees arrive before the task is finished. In the evening, at dusk, I have seen the cardinals feed one another outside the window where I am sitting now. I often wonder if one of them will sing the first song of a new day, long before first light.

They are great teachers. 🙂

Every thing I see
that touches me
deeply in my heart
brings me closer
to my divine essence

One could say this covers the contents of that fun reading on your link 🙂

Fun read this morning…

http://www.adyashanti.org/index.php?file=writings_inner&writingid=32

Always inspired by the poetic vision of the ‘other’
uniting in a soul vision
giving a poetic bliss

🙂

I admire your creativity. Strangely enough, when I clicked the submit button for my poem, I knew you would respond as you did. It was so clear to me that the poem wasn’t complete.

Thank you.

Am not clever enough to reply to your above question.

🙂

The real question is- How many infinite points are there in your playing partner’s 3 foot putt, when contrasted with your own 18 inch putt?

But look out come golf season! 🙂

I am
because You are

When You are heart
I am your Soul
When You are Soul
I am Your heart

Together we are
never
apart

That how this was
meant to be
from the beginning

Heart and Soul
always whole

Heartphone present at both ends 🙂

~~~~~~~~~ waving at you, dear One

peace

A child
of
the
middle
orchard

With soul,
the
long arm
of
coincidence

In
heart,
the radiance
of
unbounded Truth

And you,
there,
in
your
sacred space

Why
were
you?

🙂

🙂

SShhhh…We are making clouds. 🙂

I tell you now
so that you will know
That they flourish there
without pardon

my own version 🙂

🙂

My soul-dance will never be anyone else’s soul-dance.

But what I forgot is something John shared early on after arriving here-

When uplifting, get underneath.

Have a fun day, All.

peace

Yours in your beautiful world are the one’s.
Listen to that inner music!

I mean, the closest you’ve ever come to showing us who you really are, was as h@ckerman. Who always reminded me of a Sinclair Lewis quote-

“When fascism arrives in America it will be wrapped in the flag, and carrying a cross.”

The question is this-

Why are you hiding behind screen names? It’s as though you’re running from something. From H@ckerman through Omar. You’re in a rut, g, and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Is that the point? What you have to share is too object referral, and you have to hide from it?

::remedy::

Ordinary men hate solitude.
But the Master makes use of it,
embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.- lao tzu

Let that Mind be in you that was in Christ, that is the Mind that is One with the Absolute Infinite Mind…

Love,
G

You’re sooooooo enlightened. 🙂

Love,
G

All you have to do to remember is forget. -Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher

Shalom

peace

Two fullnesses

amen

“The divine has nothing to do with pain. Because it stands outside– ekstasis– the envelope of time and space, spirit cannot be sensuous. Our five senses cannot take us to where ecstasy dwells. But as true ecstasy begins to manifest, our senses definitely react. The reaction is entirely individual and unpredictable, since one person’s intense erotic opening is another’s frightening collapse of defenses. What feels like the expansion of the soul into infinite space to me may seem like a terrifying fall into the void to you.

When we say that ecstasy is like the drop melting back into the ocean, it must be made clear that we are the drop and the ocean at the same time, just on different levels.” – Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

“Not “Revelation”–tis– that waits

But our “unfurnished” eyes–” -Emily Dickinson

peace

We’re comparing apples and oranges in this conversation.

It is true, words are not capable of telling….But it has been felt in the heart of hearts of man/women

Have you ever pondered what it would be like to meet God, and if so, what would an experience with no-thing-ness be like?

Could you handle being alone? I’m asking because each of us are in relationship with something, or someone every day.

It may very well be much stranger than we can think. Or read…

Divine Science is “absolute” and permits no half- way position in learning its Principle and rule-establishing it by demonstration. The conventional firm, called matter and mind, God never formed. Science and understanding, governed by the unerring and eternal Mind, destroys the imaginary copartnership, matter and mind formed only to be destroyed in a manner and at a period as yet unknown. This suppositional partnership is already obsolete, for matter, examined in the light of divine metaphysics, disappears.
Matter has no life to lose, and Spirit never dies. A partnership of mind with matter would ignore omnipresent and omnipotent Mind. This shows that matter did not originate in God, Spirit, and is not eternal. Therefore matter is neither substantial, living, nor intelligent. The starting point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,-that God is Love, and is divine Principle.
The evidence of divine Mind’s healing power and absolute control is to me as certain as my own existence-

As John pointed out, the journey up is not complete without the descent. All events have a beginning, a middle, and an end on this plane.

As best we can, we show others what we have seen up to now. It’s at best a progress report, a map of our experiences, by no means the absolute truth. And, so, the adventure continues to unfold…
right after I head back up to the first camp, and replenish it for the next climber….courtesy, you know.

Orthodoxy, as a reticence? Indeed.

peace

🙂

🙂

Lol

That’s hilarious. I’m sure Deepak will follow your advice.