‘Reincarnation’- Joe Conners Jr.
When I was 7 or 8, Joe Conners Jr. (my friend’s dad), threw the word reincarnation at us on the ride home from the video arcade. It struck me as being both a big and commonsense word. He explained it as the idea that our lives are nothing but continuations of some previous existences, that when this body dies, the soul will, sooner or later, find its way into a new body, to continue its eternal journey.
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If years were dollars.
I only have like 35 more years to live in this body, if I’m lucky. The luckiest among us have probably not much more than 100. If years were dollars, when was the last time you ever heard of anyone calling even 100 dollars a ‘fortune’? When have you ever had even 100 dollars and considered yourself to be ‘loaded’?
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Why accepting that the whole world is sorrow counteracts the sorrow in your own soul.
Buddha said the whole world is sorrow. The solution for our own sorrowful condition is to realize that the whole world is. The way this works, I surmise, is if I realize that the whole world is so, so sad, then I realize too that I must counteract this immense sorrow with just a little happiness and joy.
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Meditation is not about zoning OUT, but zoning IN. ‘Om’ is supposed to be an affirmative word, an affirmation of life and existence. In meditation, one is trying to Feel the feeling of life wash over one on the level of the heart- not to deny or to push it away.
When I was 7 or 8, Joe Conners Jr. (my friend’s dad), threw the word reincarnation at us on the ride home from the video arcade. It struck me as being both a big and commonsense word. He explained it as the idea that our lives are nothing but continuations of some previous existences, that when this body dies, the soul will, sooner or later, find its way into a new body, to continue its eternal journey.
—
If years were dollars.
I only have like 35 more years to live in this body, if I’m lucky. The luckiest among us have probably not much more than 100. If years were dollars, when was the last time you ever heard of anyone calling even 100 dollars a ‘fortune’? When have you ever had even 100 dollars and considered yourself to be ‘loaded’?
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Why accepting that the whole world is sorrow counteracts the sorrow in your own soul.
Buddha said the whole world is sorrow. The solution for our own sorrowful condition is to realize that the whole world is. The way this works, I surmise, is if I realize that the whole world is so, so sad, then I realize too that I must counteract this immense sorrow with just a little happiness and joy.
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Meditation is not about zoning OUT, but zoning IN. ‘Om’ is supposed to be an affirmative word, an affirmation of life and existence. In meditation, one is trying to Feel the feeling of life wash over one on the level of the heart- not to deny or to push it away.
It’s introspection, introversion. Looking inside. It’s Socrates’ dictum, ‘the unexamined life is not worth living,’ applied to the life of the mind.
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No one can hear My conscience. Only *I* can hear My conscience. A life well-lived is about Self-Possession. No one Else can tell You how to live Your life.
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Life & Death are like oil and water; the two are incompatible. One is pure existence, the other is simply its opposite.
Life involves everything we know. Death is pure and simple oblivion.
The latter cannot be known, grasped, or held; it is a non-entity: a pure and simple zero on the charts; it cannot be grasped or understood, as there is simply nothing to grasp onto or understand; it is the epitome of thin air. The mind cannot wrap itself around nothing.
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I AM MY OWN FATHER.
(Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny.)
This is the idea that the growth of an organism from its conception to its complete development recapitulates the same organism’s historic evolution from back when it was a simple organism into its present complex form.
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No one can hear My conscience. Only *I* can hear My conscience. A life well-lived is about Self-Possession. No one Else can tell You how to live Your life.
—
Life & Death are like oil and water; the two are incompatible. One is pure existence, the other is simply its opposite.
Life involves everything we know. Death is pure and simple oblivion.
The latter cannot be known, grasped, or held; it is a non-entity: a pure and simple zero on the charts; it cannot be grasped or understood, as there is simply nothing to grasp onto or understand; it is the epitome of thin air. The mind cannot wrap itself around nothing.
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I AM MY OWN FATHER.
(Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny.)
I would like to expand on this idea and hypothesize that one’s biological form is a reflection of the form of one’s soul; both alter and change from one body to the next. So my current decisions will essentially decide who my next earthly parents will be. So historical evolution recapitulates the evolution of the soul from one lifetime to the next.
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Understanding=Love.
Patience can always bring Understanding. Given infinite TIME to come to terms with one another, we could all attain unto Understanding, and hence Love.
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Enact your beliefs so that they may become reinforced. If you do NOT enact them, they will surely decay.
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An Insight is by definition an Instantaneous Belief. In other words, the Second you have a new insight, it is Also a Belief. You believe it ‘cause you See it by the light of your inner eyes.
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To attempt crossing to the other shore, you must risk your own life.
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Time is a perpetually moving cycle. Time stops for no one.
Why do we say ‘life is finite’ when we can see circles, which have infinity built into their very circumference, every day, with our eyes, and understand them with our brains? Basically, if infinity shows up everywhere everyday in nature as we Can see it, why not also in the very design of Life & Death itself?
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Understanding=Love.
Patience can always bring Understanding. Given infinite TIME to come to terms with one another, we could all attain unto Understanding, and hence Love.
—
Enact your beliefs so that they may become reinforced. If you do NOT enact them, they will surely decay.
—
An Insight is by definition an Instantaneous Belief. In other words, the Second you have a new insight, it is Also a Belief. You believe it ‘cause you See it by the light of your inner eyes.
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To attempt crossing to the other shore, you must risk your own life.
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Time is a perpetually moving cycle. Time stops for no one.
Why do we say ‘life is finite’ when we can see circles, which have infinity built into their very circumference, every day, with our eyes, and understand them with our brains? Basically, if infinity shows up everywhere everyday in nature as we Can see it, why not also in the very design of Life & Death itself?
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Teal Swan teaches that the higher one's vibration, the better.
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