In response to some buddhist discussion, i decided to write the below:
[code]There is space between concepts and ideas.
Although from a distance, we appear as one intentiy,
on the deepest smallest level, we are living energies and cells.
Not everything fits into a set of categories.
Refined iron is stronger and more useful than raw ores.
We must refine our thoughts, emotions, etc.
The idea is to make progressions.
Nirvana is rapid self transmutation.
The word Nirvana falls short of the real process behind the idea.
The word transmutation doesn’t do justice to the art either.
There is space between beings and energies, too.
Yet at the deepest level, things can move faster than light.
Know that you have a force.
Know that even a tiny but true improvement can bloom like a tree from a seed.
Know that there is more than what we see, not less.
Therefor, as you breath in slowly, focus on absorbing
the finest cosmic energies. And when you slowly breath out, you let go of waste.
If you do this enough, it will start a new pattern in your consiousness.
Many things effect your mind.
Be careful, even seemingly harmless ideas can use up years of your precious time.
Likewise, rejoice, good ideas will also build upon your life.
Try many variations of meditation.
Find what works best for you.
Find what increases and improves your force.[/code]
Some near-ultimate levels of reality, once experienced, show a contrast which reveals how terribly low and bad we have it here on the earth as humans.
To the point where we must choose the lesser of two evils,
without the luxury of being able to not choose anything.
The more hungry you are, the more food tastes better and is seen as more desirable.
If we saw the best of things, fully realizing it, it would result in a disillusionment over our present existence.
A lack of goodness could result in a human cherishing the rare goods.
Sometimes these systems work, sometimes they don’t work.
According to me, there is endless good and endless evils too.
It has to do with fate being unlimited.
At some point a person eventually gets to start making choices.
Ultima is the highest being that lives inside the ultimate reality.
The stuff that creates reality, really let loose.
All kinds of good, bad and neutral worlds were produced.
Out of all of them, one became the ultimate, to its own possible degree.
Ultima is a bit like the christian Godhead, but it is more humble,
and it didn’t create the earth, although he did try to recruit / save human souls.
Ultima makes some mistakes, and has some imbalance.
but he wont kill you or punish you and use satan on some kind of sadistic leash.
I must say : most everthing seems to have a cause and a source.
I don’t want to, but i must admit, there is a God.
However, it is not the named, and has no image.
When RRs pray, they talk silently into the center of their souls.
Only some beings will respond at that level.
Pray only to “God”, not to any named being or supposed ultimate.
Do not believe prophets.
Deal with God directly if you can.
I call this direct-theism.
Indoor electric heaters for a large insulated main room.
Lots of room outside for tents.
Unheated rooms for storage and other purposes.
Large fence around the main tent area.
Recommended donations:
10$ per day without food, 20$ per day with food included.
Green houses, goats, and chickens.
Public items such as gaming consoles.
2 TVs.
2 shower rooms. 1 tub room. 3 toilets.
Large kitchen with electric cooking devices.
Inviting monks and public speakers.
Anyone allowed to speak though.
I’ve heard quite a few people express the desire to found a new religion, philosophy or ideology, but they never seem to get around to working out the details.
It take work to start a religion. Jesus was likely walking and talking to a lot of people after years of rigorous study. Even people we might consider wackos worked hard. They studied, they engaged in religious practices, the wrote, they spoke, they branded themselves, they challenged current religious leaders, much in the way any successful entrepreneur needs to work their ass of. And then they generally need to have some kind of charisma.
It’s not coming up with a nice idea. It’s work and gifts, and if you don’t have the gifts - like my examples above of charisma and branding - then you have more work cut out to train in those gifts as skills.
There was the guy who started EST. There’s Scientology which might be argued to have a God or gods, but it sure does trickle down much to participating in the religion. Buddhist can be non-theists, though some are. All you need the ‘the’ answer.
Let’s do it, danno. But we’ll need an area where we can park the Volkswagen vanagons and a big fire pit around which we’ll sit at night and drink jagermeister, smoke Mexican brick weed, rip each other off for small, personal possessions, play cheap Yamaha acoustic guitars with terrible intonation, sing harmony, and watch the stars in the southern sky. If you can set something like that up… I’m there, dude.
I was hoping to facilitate low cost rent and living,
so that they can grow closer to liberation.
Even a 1 week vacation to the place would be encouraged.