A Psalm of David

[Thomas]

Hi BigJoeNobody —

There are points where an alternative meaning is meant, but the literal meaning must also make sense, otherwise you have to assume God is trying to trick people into thinking something incorrectly.

Same for Judaism and Christianity.

Not something I would think many would attribute to God.

I think only those who like to ridicule the Tradition actually think that. It never occurs to them to contemplate the stupidity of their own assumptions.

The problem lies with the fact that those who understand the various 'Senses of Scripture' as spoken of by Jews, Christians and Moslems perceive a literal and a spiritual meaning, whereas those who are locked into a dualist and non-Abrahamic dichotomy simply refuse the reality of the latter as anything other than an intellectual exercise.

It is made worse by the contemporary failure of people to see metaphor as anything other than 'a figure of speech'; as just a simile, but without using the words 'like' or 'as'.

In the hands of a philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to the likes of Rahner and Ricoeur however, metaphor is seen as a means of transcending the cognitive limitations of language and enable the mind to ascend to higher cognitive and extra-linguistic (to paraphrase Ricoeur) reality.

In short, the metaphors in our sacra doctrina are akin to a koan.

Thus for me, as a Christian, the NT texts are like fractals, the deeper one gets into the text, the more it unveils yet greater depths.

For the Moslem, I'm told, the lyricism of the Qran is utterly sublime.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

Shiva is consciousness itself...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac2580Gp8qA

Ahim Bramasmi

Neti neti

Only that.

There is nothing else.

Science calls it energy.

Fine.

Still the goal is "Unified Theory of Everything"

Same movement.

Towards union.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

Eventually, they will have an exact expression of the universal.

You are already that.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

That is the true catholic.

One who knows union.

Who has experienced the universal.

Only that can be called truth.

Communion is meeting of two unities.

Hence, an expression of union.

With the universe.

The whole.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

No part can be the whole.

Ego is the partitioned consciousness.

Maya says this is false.

Only unity is correct.

The rest is only apparent.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

The one that understands this is a yogi.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

Separation is sin.

Laws create a community.

Repent means return...

To union.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

Forgiveness is to unify with...

Guilt, anxiety and the like are because you have made yourself separate.

You are rejecting part of reality.

Union is to be maintained.

Only not really.

It is never not so.

Just temporary ignorance, you forgot.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

Simply see through the partial mind.

Hence, universal mind.

Universal Consciousness.

Unified Energy Field.

Union.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

Yoga.

In the Yogi, it is actualized.

Realized.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

Shiva is called the first Yogi.

He is a God.

Shaivism regards him as THE God.

Shakti is his love.

The energy which creates this experience.

Shiva is consciousness.

Together is the ultimate union.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

Male and female together... expressed sexually.

Sexuality is the creative energy.

Love is a sense of unity, desire to maintain union.

Always towards union.

The Yogi lives in unison with this flow.

He is united to it.

Hence his bliss.

Union.

Yoga.

 

[A Cup Of Tea]

For goodness sake Lunitik, focus on what you want to say and say it. Then press send.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

For goodness sake Lunitik, focus on what you want to say and say it. Then press send.

aka "shut up already"

Coincidentally I'm done, so that wasn't useful to say.

Which is an example of something I said earlier.

By the time mind decides, the events have changed.

 

[donnann]

aka "shut up already"

Coincidentally I'm done, so that wasn't useful to say.

Which is an example of something I said earlier.

By the time mind decides, the events have changed.

I think you are on the path to enlightenment. I think you should say things the way you want to.
To try to change that would be interference with your progression , kinda like taking away free speech.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

I think you are on the path to enlightenment. I think you should say things the way you want to.
To try to change that would be interference with your progression , kinda like taking away free speech.

The yogi has called his discovery enlightenment.

Among other things.

 

[A Cup Of Tea]

aka "shut up already"

Coincidentally I'm done, so that wasn't useful to say.

Which is an example of something I said earlier.

By the time mind decides, the events have changed.

No, your ego got in the way again, I said "you take up very much space to say very little".

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

No, your ego got in the way again, I said "you take up very much space to say very little".

You have meant "I understand little of what you say".

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

Your ego is expressed in this desire for things to be as they're not.

In this example, I am not conforming to your preference for a particular writing style.

Please do not project your ego onto me.

 

[SatyamAbhidi]

That this has happened shows you haven't understood me.