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Monday 30 September 2024
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Ahetuki bhakti[4] – the main thing is to acquire zealous love and devotion for God
“If you have loving devotion – zealous love and devotion – God cannot remain unmoved.
“How great is God’s fondness for devotion! It can be likened to a cow’s fondness for fodder mixed with oil cake. She just gobbles it down.
“Fervent love[5] and selfless devotion to God, pure love for its own sake – that’s what Prahlada had.
“You may visit a rich man just because you like to see him. When you’re asked if you’d like a favour, you reply, ‘Sir, I want nothing at all. I come just to see you.’ This is called ahetuki bhakti. You ask God for nothing – only to love Him.
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Metanoia is a Greek word meaning "a transformative change of heart" or a profound spiritual conversion. It has been used in different contexts, including philosophy, psychology, and religion.
Etymology and Meaning:
- In Greek, "meta-" means "beyond" or "after," and "noia" comes from "nous," meaning "mind" or "perception."
- Thus, metanoia refers to a shift in one’s way of thinking or perceiving the world, going beyond old perspectives to embrace new insights or values.
Religious Context:
- In Christianity, particularly in the New Testament, metanoia is often translated as "repentance." It refers not just to feeling remorse for wrongdoing but to a complete turning away from sin and turning toward God.
- In a broader spiritual sense, metanoia involves a deep change in consciousness, a shift toward spiritual awareness, and an alignment with higher values.
Philosophical and Psychological Context:
- In existential philosophy and depth psychology, metanoia is associated with personal growth and transformation. It’s seen as a pivotal moment of change when a person radically redefines themselves, often triggered by a crisis or a period of intense reflection.
Atman
Atman is a Sanskrit term meaning the inner self or soul in Hindu philosophy. It is a core concept in the spiritual traditions of India, particularly within Hinduism, Vedanta, and other related systems of thought.
Atman in Hinduism:
- Atman refers to the true essence of an individual beyond the physical body and ego. It is the eternal, indestructible core that exists within every living being.
- In Advaita Vedanta (a non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy), atman is considered identical to Brahman, the ultimate, universal reality. The realization that one’s atman is the same as Brahman is the key to achieving moksha (liberation from the cycle of rebirth).
Atman and Reincarnation:
- According to Hindu beliefs, the atman transmigrates through various lives, taking on different bodies in each incarnation based on the law of karma (the moral law of cause and effect).
- Liberation (moksha) is achieved when the atman realizes its unity with Brahman, transcending the cycle of birth and rebirth (samsara).
Atman in Other Indian Philosophies:
- In Jainism, atman is seen as an individual soul that is inherently pure, though it can become tainted by karma. Liberation is attained by purifying the soul from karma.
- In Buddhism, however, the concept of atman is rejected in favor of anatta (non-self), where the belief in a permanent self is seen as a source of suffering.
In essence, metanoia involves a transformation of the mind or spirit, while atman refers to the eternal soul in Indian philosophy, with both ideas pointing to deeper self-realization and spiritual awakening.
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Saturday 28 September 2024
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“Abandon your notions of the past, without attributing a temporal sequence! Cut off your mental associations regarding the future, without anticipation! Rest in a spacious modality, without clinging to [the thoughts of] the present. Do not meditate at all, since there is nothing upon which to meditate. Instead, revelation will come through undistracted mindfulness — Since there is nothing by which you can be distracted.”
― Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead. First Complete Translation
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When one worldview dominates your thinking, you'll try to explain every problem you face through that worldview. Read widely and realize there are many answers."
~ James Clear
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Unfinished Poem
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
Thursday 26 September 2024
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Everything is within our mind.
Usually we think there are many things out there.
In Buddhism, mind and being are one, not different.
As there is no limit to cosmic being, there is no limit to our mind;
our mind reaches everywhere.
It already includes the stars,
so our mind is not just our mind.
It is something greater than small mind and that we think is our mind.”
- Shunryu Suzuki, Branching Streams Flow In the Darkness
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We live in the Dream of Separateness.
In actuality, there are no‘separate entities.’
There is only Being, The Whole.
This is Emptiness dreaming that it is Fullness. Nothing dreaming that it is Everything. Yet, what can appear to arise in Being, Non-duality, The Singularity, is a dream of Two, or many (duality.) This is a paradox that cannot be grasped by ‘mind, nor can we find or assign any reason or purpose for it.
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― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
― Mark Rowlands, The Philosopher and the Wolf
Wednesday 25 September 2024
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Notice how in the title of this email, I said "pride/ego."
This is because pride is ego. Ego is pride. It is the belief "I am the doer of life," "I am the creator."
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How can we live life without getting entangled in pride? (Which by the way, only creates suffering for yourself and the world).
Here's what I have found to be helpful in my experience. Hopefully, it will help you too :)
Wisdom comes to you, pleasure comes to you, blessings come to you.
They are given, not gotten.
They are bestowed, not achieved.
They are a gift from God, not something "you made happen."
You only appear to do. But the impulse to do, the energy to perform the action, and the reward following that action, are all the doing of God.
The personal self doesn't actually exist. It is just an appearance of which we are only the witness.
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Let the concept of pride die within you. Remain forever humble. Be happy being a nobody, a nothing.
Live on God alone. God is your sole protector and provider. God is your greatest treasure!
Living in this way, your mind cannot become corrupted by pride.
2 Things:
- If you don't like the word God, replace it with Source, Self, or Life.
- If you want to experientially understand non-doership and become established in the inner peace which results from living in spiritual surrender