Comments on: What Does It Mean To Be Spiritual

By: heartphone

heartphone — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:44:07 +0000

The golden mean of any perspective is the silence in the nothingness, from which everything arises.

So the paradox will always be: no thing in every thing and every thing in no thing.
Scientifically: the black hole from which Universes come forth and diminish in again…….

By: heartphone

heartphone — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:29:15 +0000

The structure of reality can NOT be proven and any perspective on it from inner knowledge is a valid one……..

By: Teacher4U

Teacher4U — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:35:38 +0000

Teaching yourself is understanding the structure of reality, as in evolving our perspective

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/origin-of-perspectives/16816101?productTrackingContext=search_results%2Fsearch_shelf%2Fcenter%2F1

By: heartphone

heartphone — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:09:59 +0000

The Sufi loved to show people the paradox of just living their own life as the opposite of what was preached…..

By: heartphone

heartphone — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:02:22 +0000

What is Vedanta other than “Inner knowing”.
When one is a teacher one only teaches oneself and is ones own student

By: La Toya

La Toya — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:24:37 +0000

Suffering is rooted in ignorance. Not knowing our true nature. The Vedanta is such a gift of knowledge and tools for experiencing our true self that anyone familiar with its wealth and power would ask: why waste our time in figuring out the intrigues of national and international greed called politics?

I have always viewed Dr. Chopra as a teacher of Vedanta. Why he does not come with Vedanta lessons for politicians instead of lowering himself to their level?

By: La Toya

La Toya — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:13:29 +0000

Maybe there are other approaches to the dream. Besides the two offered by Dr. Chopra: renounce it or master it.

For example: Rumi embraces the whole human experience and always weaves it in a way that it is centered around the ecstatic experience of Divine Love. He does not try to renounce it and does not try to master it either.

By: La Toya

La Toya — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:00:50 +0000

Sometimes slip of the tongue reveals what the subsconsious mind holds as a truth. I am sure this is not the case with Dr. Chopra.

By: La Toya

La Toya — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:51:08 +0000

“”as if “spiritual” must mean without desire, fulfillment, or participation in the real world””

I am sure Dr. Chopra by real world meant material world. He is the one who teaches that there is nothing real about the material world and that the only real world is that of the spirit and of Atman. A basic idea in the Vedanta!

And yes, one can be in the material world but not of it. That is a worthwhile topic.

On the other hand Jesus says: … because you are not of the world, the world does not love you. Another interesting topic. How important it is to be popular and how important it is to be committed wholeheartedly to Spirit…

By: heartphone

heartphone — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:15:45 +0000

Then only listen to yourself dear Shilpi and you will know……..

By: Shilpi

Shilpi — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:32:29 +0000

I wonder what is God? Isn’t this very realm of existence God? And in that very moment depending on our thoughts we worship him or we don’t worship him! And why are we such a scientific machine? How could we have been so meticulously created that is wonderfully alarming to me! How can our DNA be like a software created to move flawlessly. Things that I would love to hear from you! Thanks

By: heartphone

heartphone — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:39:19 +0000

We had a true “seeer” here in my country in the beginning of the twentieth century, Jozef Rulof. His vision about the origin of the cosmos is still such a unique one and also has a lot in common with Indian vision.
Yet he too has been so much critisized and still is.
Still he has given me something to look forward to forever.

By: heartphone

heartphone — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:33:51 +0000

It seems not so easy as you think Deepak. You come from that spiritual country and you have the roots.
Many Christians think they have the roots too.

My personal experience is a once in a lifetime inner revelation that came out of nowhere, spontaneously.

Since it my life has been presented to me, first on a silver platter and now on a golden one without me doing anything.
Yet I wouldn’t know how to tell even my own children how they can achieve this.

Is it a matter of luck or might it be a matter of growing, life after life (reincarnation) and one has to go the whole way?

I received the message to enjoy it here on earth. I do not need much money for that.
But do not tell this to anyone living under stress or whatever or you get an angry face telling you that this is simply not true.

We will never be able to tell someone else what it really is to be spiritual.
Am beginning to live at peace with that.
The best of luck with your articles.
Am still reading them so there is no doubt truth in them but it all depends where one is born and how one’s life develops….