democracy02
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We live in virtual reality, a sort of a matrix, that has become a prison. We have become slaves to the mind, because we identify with the mind, we wrongly believe that our mind is us.
"I think, therefore I am", does not follow because thinking is not the same as being.
The mind and the senses are just tools, quite useful tools for 'operating' in this illusion, but dangerous if we let them become our masters. Our problem is that the instrument has taken over and imprisoned us.
The mind can not get to the truth, because the mind is part of the problem.
The mind and the senses are not designed to arrive at the truth, in fact they are designed to keep us away from it.
When we think, our minds try to dissect the infinite, partition it, label it and put it in a pigeon hole.
A belief is just a thought and is as valid or invalid as any other thought, and it makes no difference because it's just a thought, and soon there will be a different one to occupy our attention if we let it.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
All things ARE impermanent, yet there is something, which is not a thing, that IS permanent. It is the One Life that existed before heaven and earth, without sound, without substance. Lao Tzu called it the Tao and said that water was very much like it.
It is the awareness that is perceiving these words, which then become thoughts. Without it there would be no perception, no thoughts, no objects and no world.
The Tao by another name?
God? What God? Whose God?
The jealous, vindictive, external God of the Jews, Christians and Moslems?
Whatever God we use, even the word 'God', has been corrupted by vested interests into a religion, and will take us away from the Tao. The moment you give a name, term or title to what you are or believe, you are trapping yourself in a prison made of mind-stuff.
"I think, therefore I am", does not follow because thinking is not the same as being.
The mind and the senses are just tools, quite useful tools for 'operating' in this illusion, but dangerous if we let them become our masters. Our problem is that the instrument has taken over and imprisoned us.
The mind can not get to the truth, because the mind is part of the problem.
The mind and the senses are not designed to arrive at the truth, in fact they are designed to keep us away from it.
When we think, our minds try to dissect the infinite, partition it, label it and put it in a pigeon hole.
A belief is just a thought and is as valid or invalid as any other thought, and it makes no difference because it's just a thought, and soon there will be a different one to occupy our attention if we let it.
In all the world of man, and in all the world of Gods,
this alone is the truth: All things are impermanent.
this alone is the truth: All things are impermanent.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
All things ARE impermanent, yet there is something, which is not a thing, that IS permanent. It is the One Life that existed before heaven and earth, without sound, without substance. Lao Tzu called it the Tao and said that water was very much like it.
It is the awareness that is perceiving these words, which then become thoughts. Without it there would be no perception, no thoughts, no objects and no world.
The Tao by another name?
God? What God? Whose God?
The jealous, vindictive, external God of the Jews, Christians and Moslems?
Whatever God we use, even the word 'God', has been corrupted by vested interests into a religion, and will take us away from the Tao. The moment you give a name, term or title to what you are or believe, you are trapping yourself in a prison made of mind-stuff.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.



