Fruit of the Contemplative Life
Fruit of the contemplative life: => Contemplative Blogs => : Jhanananda June 08, 2023, 03:23:13 PM
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I started this thread for Alexander to post his insights.
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Intuition
1 Don’t discount intuition. It is the greatest source of truth.
2 When refined, intuition is the most powerful source of truth.
3 Listen to your intuition. It knows more than you do.
4 Your intuition will guide you to a task that will be productive to you.
5 What is intuition? It is you, telling yourself what to do.
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/intuition
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Intuition
1 Don’t discount intuition. It is the greatest source of truth.
2 When refined, intuition is the most powerful source of truth.
3 Listen to your intuition. It knows more than you do.
4 Your intuition will guide you to a task that will be productive to you.
5 What is intuition? It is you, telling yourself what to do.
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/intuition
Please keep in mind "intuition" can be a mask for the mind, so one must be skilled at stilling the mind to have reliable intuition (insight). So, intuition should be tempered by a well established still mind as well as critical thinking.
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Idiot’s Guide to Nonreturning
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/dialogues/idiots-guide-to-nonreturning
Interesting read
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While I find this much better, so we can understand your "insights" better; nonetheless, I see some flaws in your thinking. I am certain when you become established in the 2nd jhana, which is the bliss of a still mind, we will find more cogency in your philosophy.
I'm glad you brought Islam into your exposition, because I have been certain for decades that Mohamed was certainly onto something when he formed the concept of the "8 gates of Islam," especially when those "gates" were called "Janna" using an ancient Arabic term, which appears in early Mesopotamian literature, which predates Buddhism by thousands of years, and since jhana and Janna are phonologically and theologically similar enough to suggest that these are shared concepts, and 50 years before Mohamed an arahat emerged in Sri Lanka claiming access to jhana and supported its significance, but was martyred by the Buddhist priesthood there, and trade between the Indian ocean and the Mediteranean, was very active at that time, suggests that Mohamed might have been aware of the uproar over the arahat in Sri Lanka.
I'm aware of Dante's poetry but I never got the impression that he was a mystic. But, I would like to be convinced otherwise. So, how about starting a thread under mystics arguing support for Dante?
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While I find this much better, so we can understand your "insights" better; nonetheless, I see some flaws in your thinking. I am certain when you become established in the 2nd jhana, which is the bliss of a still mind, we will find more cogency in your philosophy.
I can't believe I've reached arahantship and you think I haven't reached the 2nd jhana ;D
I'm glad you brought Islam into your exposition, because I have been certain for decades that Mohamed was certainly onto something when he formed the concept of the "8 gates of Islam," especially when those "gates" were called "Janna" using an ancient Arabic term, which appears in early Mesopotamian literature, which predates Buddhism by thousands of years, and since jhana and Janna are phonologically and theologically similar enough to suggest that these are shared concepts, and 50 years before Mohamed an arahat emerged in Sri Lanka claiming access to jhana and supported its significance, but was martyred by the Buddhist priesthood there, and trade between the Indian ocean and the Mediteranean, was very active at that time, suggests that Mohamed might have been aware of the uproar over the arahat in Sri Lanka.
It's an independently existing reality. So Mohammed got close - he got the number slightly off - but by intuition he understood the "hierarchy" of heaven. The "levels" correlate with the different levels of absorption (in Buddhism, the rupa and arupa jhanas).
I'm aware of Dante's poetry but I never got the impression that he was a mystic. But, I would like to be convinced otherwise. So, how about starting a thread under mystics arguing support for Dante?
Dante was a high level nonreturner. He did not have out-of-body experiences like you or Siddhartha. So all of the Divine Comedy was the product of intuitive revelatory insight. He did an excellent job, he figured out almost everything, but he didn't achieve arahantship.
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1 The parents are the simulacrum of God, split in two. The wise father and the loving mother.
2 The mother gives life; the father lets the child achieve the higher ideal.
3 In youth, observe your parents carefully. Learn from them and don’t repeat the same mistakes.
4 The parents are the first teachers.
5 Does the child learn its nature from the parents? Or is the child born to those with a similar nature?
6 Honor thy father and mother.
7 The father gives discipline.
8 It is true. The fewer partners, the less dissolute.
9 Damnation awaits the negligent fathers.
10 Your parents were chosen by you.
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/family
What is God?
I am what I am
How do you communicate the meaning of it to people?
You can’t
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/what-is-god
What is the mystery of Resurrection?
The attainment of being-consciousness
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/resurrection
The main argument for creation
Is the Argument from Justice
In order for the game to be fair, you need to be able to leave the game at any time
You can’t have a self-conscious being who’s unable to reach enlightenment (it’s unjust)
There is no evidence for arahant homo habilis or homo erectus
Therefore man was created as he is
In the image of God
That said
Outside of the flood being a ubiquitous myth
Across many cultures and times
There is no physical evidence of a flood happening at the origin of civilization
It’s delusional
And any scientist who believes in creation based on evidence is delusional + a fool
Therefore
“It’s both answers at the same time”
It’s a mindfuck
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/evolution-and-creation
Four races (esoteric only) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XePEhL0eKkjPtxvO5WnbqzBOXEfOa8sjjSfNgq9srvM/edit
(Creates too many problems to make it public knowledge)
Censored version https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/four-races-censored-version
2 Explain the “spiritually dead”
As Gurdjieff said
Sometimes essence dies in a person
While body and personality are still alive
3 Why is this allowed to happen?
4 I thought re: Chris Chan I wrote “the soul is never dead”?
5 How can essence be re-created?
Through suffering
Definitions
Essence: the inner self, who you are
Personality: the outer, false self inculcated by education
(You need both for proper personal development)
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/the-spiritually-dead
Communist animals don’t make them look good in retrospect
So we’ve got
Karl Marx wolverine
Rosa Luxemberg rat
Joseph Stalin evil bear
Leon Trotsky leopard
Vladimir Lenin fox
Khrushchev pig
The only good animals are Lenin and Khrushchev
Let’s see and for the fascists
Hitler evil wolf
Goering boar
Goebbels rat
Himmler crocodile
Heydrich evil wolf
Guderian mountain lion
Mussolini bulldog
The only good animals are Guderian and Mussolini
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/communists-and-fascists
More stuff
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/whos-in-charge-of-america
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/the-four-jhanas-redefined
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/dialogues/why-is-vishnu-black-and-shiva-white
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/animals-of-the-avatars
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/unconsciousnesses-of-the-noble-animals
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/the-goods-of-the-noble-animals
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/flood-guys
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/races-of-the-flood-guys
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/spiritual-attainment-by-diluvian
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/how-to-determine-your-ethnicity
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/powers-of-the-diluvians
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/diluvians-of-the-arahants
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/bears
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/glimmerings
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/step-stones
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/yetis
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/powers-of-the-avatars
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/diluvian-preferences
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/individuality
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/japheth-and-shem
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/tolkien-was-onto-something
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/the-big-6
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/the-noble-philosophers
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/empires
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/diluvians-of-the-big-presidents
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/always-listen-to-your-wife-and-mother
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/appearance
https://alexanderlorincz.com/index.php/articles/the-big-3
Just go on the website and read it there