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We do not, my friend. I just see the Christ as an admirable and likeable fellow with beautifull teachings, and tbh, I dont really bother to much with the rest of the package of Church and state and scripture. To me, Christian = follower of Christ.

Came across this wonderful Substack. I’ll quote the intro, and link the article below, in case it caught your interest

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@Nungali That latest comment came out a little odd, Ill attempt to rewrite it. So... the information is information was a response this: In my eyes tho, it is a story and observation just like any other. If it comes from some mysterious ancient scroll, a mentally ill person, my grandmother or an animated show, does not make it more or less valueble. What matters is if it is good or not, if it ressonates and you get something from it. IMO, anyway. Then I attempted to say that what I got from the short, at this point in time, was that I have to let go of the habits, vices, and even some people, that no longer is congruent to the person I am becomming. If we take my enthusiasm of amphetamines for instance, I would have to starve that "spider" so that I can become a butterfly : )

Spiritual Paradigm of Chess Part 1 Some religious Comparisons Spiritual Paradigm of Chess Part 1 : The Chessboard is familiar to most and is illustrated below: In making a study of this analogy we can demonstrate that games can have multiple co-existing levels of interpretation. In this article we attempt introduce the concept of how chess might relate to the spiritual journey. The use of Tarot where appropriate has also been integrated to provide further graphical analogy to chess symbolism.In the diagram below we can see the analogy between the game of chess and its two armies and the battlefield of the Hindu text ‘The Bhagavad Gita’ and in this scenario confusion reigned in Arjuna’s mind. Should Arjuna participate in the terrible carnage of battle & was it proper to destroy one’s relatives for the sake of a kingdom and some pleasures? Would it not be much better for him to surrender everything in favour of his enemies and retire in peace? As these thoughts rushed into his mind, a feeling of despondency overtook Arjuna. He had no enthusiasm to engage in this battle. Letting his bow slip from his hands, Arjuna could do nothing but turn to Lord Krishna for guidance and enlightenment. The conversation between Krishna and Arjuna then forms the basis of the book. This is very symbolic of the true spiritual journey where we often have to choose between our friends and sometimes our family if we want to devote the time we need to our spirituality. Those closest to us quite often resist any change within us. It also dispels the notion that the spiritual path is always a peaceful one although the prize is a peace and stillness beyond measure in the infinite stillness of God. This analogy of conflict on the spiritual path is not confined to Hinduism.It is also illustrated in the Bible in many areas for example in the Book of Revelation with the four horses of the apocalypse: Again there has been widespread misinterpretation of this being an outer conflict with religious Christian fundamentalists, and also of many churches unable or unwilling to unravel its true meaning; the red horse = emotions, black = intellect (the mind is blind to the light of God), pale = physical and the white horse = spiritual. So we can see that introducing this topic the battlefield of chess has some direct comparisons to religious texts. In the next section we will take a look at the chess board itself in greater detail and a closer look at how the principles of the game may relate to our spiritual path. https://www.esotericmeanings.com/spiritual-paradigm-of-chess-part-1/

Greetings goodfolk, I’ve been listening to this Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath fellow recently, and I do like him quite a lot. I’ll post an intervju of him below. Samadhi and Kriya yoga are things he brings up quite frequently, but not in depth. I wonder if you people here knows about it, how to practice it etc etc. take care!

O Lord Krsna, please protect me and maintain me. O Lord Rama, descendant of King Raghu, please protect me. O Krsna, O Kesava, killer of the Kesi demon, please maintain me. Here I will, at the very least, study one verse each day, quote the text as well as purport by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, and possibly some reflections on it. I have already read the intro and first chapter. I’ll skip the intro here, but will start again from chapter one. I very much hope someone would like to participate in it. best wishes! edit: apologies, the purport and Sanskrit is not available at vedabase, but as I have it in print as well, I might scan and include it by request!

https://youtu.be/Z_6KKDcRmrM?si=CrAqsDlTyHrEVh6g TEXT 74: Sañjaya said: Thus have I heard the conversation of two great souls, Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna. And so wonderful is that message that my hair is standing on end. TEXT 75: By the mercy of Vyāsa, I have heard these most confidential talks directly from the master of all mysticism, Kṛṣṇa, who was speaking personally to Arjuna. TEXT 76: O King, as I repeatedly recall this wondrous and holy dialogue between Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, I take pleasure, being thrilled at every moment. TEXT 77: O King, as I remember the wonderful form of Lord Kṛṣṇa, I am struck with wonder more and more, and I rejoice again and again. TEXT 78: Wherever there is Kṛṣṇa, the master of all mystics, and wherever there is Arjuna, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality. That is my opinion.

Well… information is information, and I found it to be a wonderful story. And stories works on many levels : ) First and foremost that parable (forgive me, Japanese YouTube short) illustrated the need to kill the vices in order to become more holy. I feel that at this moment, it is time to get serious, and let go of/«kill» what is harmful.

Came over this short, and due to the last thirty seconds of the (extremely good) video you posted, it felt right to share the short as well:

I think there are two kinds of forgiveness. One is where you able to see that the offender might be incapable of real remorse, or you can understand his wrongdoing based on him having a tough life or something. In this case, I «forgive them» mentally. That is to say, I try to let go of the hurt and anger and such, but might not be willing to keep in touch with them any longer. Not because I hate them, I do not, but because I’m not willing to spend time and energy on people who don’t value me. It doesn’t do any good for anyone. The second kind, where we might have done something truly hurtfull to people we love, I believe a genuine and heartfelt apology is necessary. In the Harry Potter series, there is something called horcruxes. These are objects that can be used to store segments of one’s soul in order to achieve immortality. But since it is in the nature of the soul to be whole, one has to murder another in order to create a fragmented piece to be stored as a horocrux. There is one way to make it whole again tho: genuine remorse.

Although I am certainly a member of the generation that has outsourced all thinking to a portable and matrix formed device, I am just old enough to vaguely remember a time where this was not the case. Born in 96. So in my pre teen years we relied on making appointments and meeting up the natural way. Now, as a member of the civilized west and with god given freedom to drink Diet Coke and fry my brain on dopamine trough 60 second long clips, I came across a video of some high school students lasts day of school. It was from around year 2000, give or take two years. Amazingly, the camera was pointed outwards, and not at the filming person own face. It seemed to be a genuine attempt to immortalize and celebrate a period of their lives comming to an end, and not to show off. There was also a very different.. state of being back then, it seems to me. They had some sort of presence about them that is rare today. No wonder, considering that they didn’t have an unlimited supply of cocaine… instant gratification progress in their pocket designed with the help of the worlds greatest scientist with the intent to make it as addictive as humanly possible. Once I watched this documentary about a children/toddler show by the name of cocomelon. It broke down how the creators have used every trick in the book to make it as addictive as possible, giving the young ones withdrawal symptoms not to unlike the what I’ve seen in adults the bridge. I’ll link the analysis below. BUT to end it on a somewhat positive note; although I believe that torturing infants is not ideal.. perhaps we acctually are going trough a beneficial, societal evolotution in the long term, but have yet to figure out how to deal with the growing pains?

So fascinating, this. Would you like to speculate some? : )

@Nungali Good ol Aussie mate, tip of the morning to you! I apologize for commenting before having watched the vid, but I wondered if you could either confirm or «debunk» the following two statements before I do so: 1. would the basal Asian and lake bakai admixture be the same as what is often reffered to as «ancestral north Eurasian (ANE),» in modern genetics, which has contributed to the Northern European, Siberian as well as some Native American populations genetically, but interestingly not to Asian populations? 2. on the always so reliable YouTube some years ago, I think I recall a video claiming that Ainu has around 30% euro dna. Is this so? Interresting thread, I’ll get back to the vid and hope you’re doing good?

... ask him for help. So, ive recently befriended this 40 yo. fellow. He lost his long term wife and love of his life to cancer a few years ago, and is currently unemployed. No children. Naturally, there are still pictures and other reminders of his late wife in his home. First time I visited, I didnt ask any questions, as I felt it would be wrong. But yeah, it does sort of become the elephant in the room, in a way. Next time however, he opened up. It was very refreshing, and the honesty of it as well was... IS pretty much always healing for all parties, I feel. There are few if any human qualities I value higher. Today he told me that the reason for him to open up, was that he knew that the darkness he once felt, and that others may feel now, is temporary, and he wanted to provide support for people who are currently lost in darkness. It was healing for him. He then told me about this radio program he was listening to. In the program, it talked about how many of the traitss that once made men so valueable; strength, sense of honour, sacrifise, bravery etc. are no longer needed in the same way. There are no more mamouts to hunt. There are no bears that threaten the tribe and needs to be taken care of any longer. As a result, loads may feel useless, and get in a deep hole. The radio show said that if you want to help one of these seemingly lost men, ask them to help you. Idk... but ressonated as true in my eyes and thought it was worth sharing. I certainly have somewhat of a need to.. protect, in lack of a better word. And from experience I can confirm that serving something larger than myself as well as my fellow man, has done a lot of good. Hope you are doing well, people.

@Klein Moretti is kriya a practice that must be past down and/or supervised by a master, or can one just find the instructions and go a head? Well, of course I can do it my self, but what would your advice be?

Could you elaborate on your experience, and kriya yoga, please?

So, my friends, a monk at the Krishna temple I attend mentioned that Buddhists believe in reincarnation, but not the soul. I got quiet, trying to figure out how that works. If there is not an individual soul that is unique to me and survives death, how can one be reincarnated? Further more, what are your takes on the soul: do we have an individual one that transcends death, or is it more like a drop of water that gets reabsorbed into the one ocean of conciousness or whatever it is?

The term, it seems to me, seems to suggest both the existence of other gods than the only monotheistic god that their mainstream theology argue for, and why does it belong to Abraham more than Xi Jing, William and brother Innocent?

certainly not haha

Do you believe this is the case? Could you either elaborate or perhaps link some articles? : )

I might be mistaken, but I think I recall you mentioning that Jewish monotheism is actually a very recent phenomenon? By recent I mean way later than one would think. Is that so?

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