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Dao Yin, I believe there is a very large swath of consensus about good. Taking care of your children. Being kind . Forgiving. Working at staying healthy or getting well. A few of the many things almost everyone agrees is “good.”

I definitely agree with your positive self-fulfilling notion

Wil, You and I pick up on this theme (positive self-fulfilling prophecy— “That’s our positive story, and we’re sticking to it!!!!”) in your newest post, “I Believe in Good.” I also saw and articulated a connection to an older post of my own: “God and Good” (Or was it Good and God?).

Wil, Your discussion here brought me back to a post I made this past Spring about “God and Good”. Here’s an excerpt: Today, my spiritual processing led me back to an earlier insight I had: "There's more God in Good than there is good in "God." The "God function" that I mentioned might just be...

It’s as though our whole physical dimension is fraught with separation/gaps/resistance, but is gradually being transformed from the higher integration/harmony of another dimension. The emergence of the prefrontal lobe of the brain seems to be one of the “landmarks” of an evolutionary process...

Really liked this. A willing-ness to grow seems so important if we are striving to be more whole/spiritual.

Unfortunately, much, (actually, MOST) of the time, I fall into the illusion of a being who owns one’s particular self, instead of renting it as a vehicle of Ultimate expression and experience. When that misperception fails to make me feel reasonably worthwhile or intact, then I wander into the...

My Name is Quanta There’s more to me Than meets the I. I meet the earth and sky That greet a stranger Passing by. Look all around. Feel the ground. You’re beginning to see That the being before you Never was just me.

I meditate in a chair inside my banana tree cluster (mountain variety that survives Ohio climate). The other day I noticed the beyondness of my tall oak tree leaves while peering out the openings in the banana tree. I took solice in the Christlike intimacy of the soft enveloping banana tree leaves.

Perhaps no “thing” ever really was “on its own,” but instead was quantum entangled with all other things via a different dimension that cut(s) across all “ten thousand things” (Taosm’s phrase) ????!!!!!!

Held your thought in my mind for the past few days, I encountered synchronicity. First, the sermon the following day was all about Apostle Paul’s treatise on the soft power of “weakness.” I had been feeling recently quite a bit of the falling apart version of weakness that Paul was talking...

Who was the spiritual author that appeared on the Opra show back in the day when it was on regular TV? Gary someone. He talked about the “earth school” also.

I can imagine one use of belief in Brahma. If you can relate to it, you would be free or freer from egoistic attachment, including fearful defensiveness. Help you go with the flow

I’m not talking about merely having thoughts. That is part-mind. The whole mind behind and within each thought is the Mind worth using fully, as though worshipping “God.” In Thought as a System, David Bohm, made a distinction between regular thinking, which is usually just recycling old...

The least physical thing in human experience is mind. That’s why I think it’s okay to attribute that to Ultimate Reality. Anything beyond mind is beyond recognition, can’t be tagged, oriented to, connected with. Even if mind/Mind is only akin to an icon on the computer screen of reality, it is a...

Which brings us all the way back to what is the purpose of this forum? Is the “faith” part of “interfaith” belief only, or the kind of faith that actually helps us get through the day, or even thrive throughout it?

I buy that, in terms of an Ultimate Reality within/behind the physical reality we know. But all expressions of overall reality are rooted (nested?) in that, and are not completely isolated from the Real. Each expression of Ultimate Reality is not not real, but, in comparison to the most real, as...

I was way off on that “memory!” I see that it is Jesus’ name! Isaiah prophesied a change involving one of his sons who would be at the helm as the new world order or kingdom would come. Most likely, Isaiah assumed the savior to be a king? Christ later fulfilled the role as a kind of cultural...

That reminds me of the name of Issaih’s (spelling?) son. I really like that book in the Bible because of its inclusiveness that seemed to be transcending tribalism. I don’t have a Bible nearby to check. Time to do some research.

You’ve inspired me to get the history straight. I’m lousy with timelines. My information has been limited to John Bowker’s book Religions That Shaped the World (title by recall, might be off a bit), According to that source, the concepts of martyrdom and afterlife either emerged or grew...