Re: Your thoughts on Jesus
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you seem like a smart guy, but do you really believe the sh*t you just said?? if so, then why do you believe it? it sounds ridiculous. i am continually amazed at how so many intelligent people can believe such silly and foolish ideas in every arena of life.
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Do you believe there are higher stages of consciousness? When you compare a 2-year-old having a temper-tantrum, with a college graduate at graduation realizing something deeper about the whole education process and life in general, and then with, say a zen master realizing something total about existence in general, then what is the difference between the three? Is is merely greater intellectualisms? Is a Zen master just better-abled to rationalize things than the 2-year-old, or is there some deeper realization, something that transcends the thought process in general that leads to the difference? Philosophy is good but if you think you are only your thoughts then you are neglecting the thing from which your thoughts come from, which is the basic awareness that everybody intrinsically is, that can't be qualified, that can only be rested in, and from which everything manifests . . . thoughts, emotions, everything contained in this basic awareness. So the consciousness of a two-year-old could be seen as ego-centric, the college-grad could be called ethno or world-centric maybe, and the conciousness of a zen master could be called Universe or cosmic-centric. To see that doesn't require faith, it's direct realization of that which you already are. Yeah these ideas may sound silly, but there ya go, there's a rational way to look at something that can't be qualified in conceptual terms.
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