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Title: Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer
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URL Source: http://phenomenews.com/braden.htm
Published: Dec 1, 2005
Author: gregg braden
Post Date: 2005-12-01 09:16:16 by gengis gandhi
Keywords: Secrets, Prayer, Lost
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http://phenomenews.com/braden.htm The force that created the unimaginable splendors and the unimaginable horrors has taken refuge in us, and it will follow our commands. St. Catherine of Siena There is something “out there.” Just beyond our perceptions of the everyday world there’s a presence or force, that’s at once both mysterious and comforting. We talk about it. We feel it. We believe in it and pray to it, perhaps without even understanding precisely what it is. Calling it by names that vary from the Web of Creation to the Spirit of God, ancient traditions knew that this presence exists. They also knew how to apply it in their lives. In the words of their time, they left detailed instructions to the people of their future describing how we may use this invisible force to heal our bodies and relationships and bring peace to our world. Today we know that the language connects all three as a “lost” mode of prayer. Unlike the traditional prayers that we may have used in the past, however, this technique of prayer has no words. It is based in the silent language of human emotion. It invites us to feel gratitude and appreciation, as if our prayers have already been answered. Through this quality of feeling, the ancients believed that we’re given direct access to the power of creation: the Spirit of God. In the 20th century, modern science may have rediscovered the Spirit of God as a field of energy that’s different from any other form of energy. It appears to be everywhere, always and to have existed since the beginning of time. The man widely regarded as the father of quantum physics, Max Planck, stated that the existence of the Field suggests that a great intelligence is responsible for our physical world. “We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind.” He concluded, simply saying, “This mind is the matrix of all matter.” Referring to it by other terms such as the Unity Field, contemporary studies have shown that Planck’s matrix does, in fact, have intelligence. Just as the ancients suggested, the Field responds to human emotion. Regardless of what we call it or how science and religion define it, it’s clear that there’s something out there – a force, a field, a presence – that is the “great magnet” constantly pulling us toward one another and connecting us to a higher power. Knowing that this force exists, it makes tremendous sense that we’d be able to communicate with it in a way that is meaningful and useful in our lives. Ultimately, we may discover that the same power that heals our deepest hurts and creates peace between nations holds the key to our survival as a species. The worldwide census that was conducted in 2000 is believed to be the most accurate accounting of our world in recorded history. Among the compelling statistics that the survey revealed about our global family and perhaps the most telling, is our nearly universal sense that we’re here on purpose and we’re not alone. Over 95 percent of the world’s population believes in the existence of a higher power. Of that number, over half call that power “God.” The question now is less about whether or not something is “out there,” and more about what that “something” means in our lives. How can we speak to the higher power that so many of us believe in? The same traditions that described nature’s secrets thousands of years ago answered this question as well. As you’d expect, the language that connects us with God is found in a very common experience that we all share. It is the experience of our feelings and emotions. When we focus on a certain quality of feeling in our hearts, we’re actually using the mode of prayer that was largely forgotten after the now well-publicized biblical edits of the fourth century. The key to using feeling as our prayer-language is simply to understand how prayer works. In the most remote and isolated sanctuaries remaining on Earth today, those least disturbed by modern civilization, we find some of the best-preserved examples of how we may speak to the presence that 95 percent of us believes exists. Feeling Is the Prayer I was reeling from what I’d just heard. The cold from the stone floor beneath my knees had found its way through the dampness of two layers of clothing that I’d worn that morning. Each day on the Tibetan plateau is both summer and winter: summer in the direct high-altitude sun; and winter as the sun disappears behind the jagged peaks of the Himalayas... or behind the high temple walls like those that surrounded me. It felt as if there was nothing between my skin and the ancient stones on the floor beneath me, yet I couldn’t leave. This was the reason why I’d invited 20 others to join me in a journey that led us halfway around the world. On this day, we found ourselves in some of the most remote, isolated, magnificent and sacred places of knowledge remaining on Earth today: the monasteries of the Tibetan plateau. For 14 days we’d acclimated our bodies to altitudes of more than 16,000 feet above sea level. We’d crossed an icy river in hand-hewn wooden barges and driven for hours peering at one another over our surgical masks, which doubled as filters for the dust that floated through the floorboards of our vintage Chinese bus. Although the bus seemed as old as the temples themselves, our translator assured me that it wasn’t. Holding on to the seats around us and even on to one another, we had braced ourselves over washed-away bridges and roadless desert, as we were jarred from the inside out, just to be in this very place in this precise moment. I thought, Today is not about being warm. Today is a day of answers. I focused my attention directly into the eyes of the beautiful and timeless-looking man seated lotus-style in front of me: the abbot of the monastery. Through our translator, I’d just asked him the same question that I’d asked each monk and nun that we’d met throughout our pilgrimage: “When we see your prayers,” I began, “What are you doing? When we see you tone and chant for 14 and 16 hours a day, when we see the bells, the bowls, the gongs, the chimes, the mudras and the mantras on the outside, what is happening to you on the inside?” As the translator shared the abbot’s reply, a powerful sensation rippled through my body and I knew that this was the reason we’d come to this place. “You have never seen our prayers,” he answered, “because a prayer cannot be seen.” Adjusting the heavy wool robes beneath his feet, the abbot continued. “What you have seen is what we do to create the feeling in our bodies. Feeling is the prayer.” The clarity of the abbot’s answer sent me reeling. His words echoed the ideas that had been recorded in ancient Gnostic and Christian traditions more than 2,000 years ago. In early translations of the biblical book of John (chapter. 16, verse 24, for example), we’re invited to empower our prayers by being surrounded (feeling) by our desires fulfilled, just as the abbot suggested: “Ask without hidden motive and be surrounded by your answer.” For our prayers to be answered, we must transcend the doubt that often accompanies the positive nature of our desire. Following a brief teaching on the power of overcoming such polarities, the words of Jesus recorded in the Nag Hammadi Library remind us that when we do this and say to the mountain, “‘Mountain move away,’ it will move away.” If the wisdom was that consistent over such vast periods of time, then it must be useful to us, even today. Using nearly identical language, both the abbot and the scrolls were describing a form of prayer that has been largely forgotten in the West. Sacred Lessons from the Past Prayer is perhaps one of the most ancient and mysterious of human experiences. It’s also one of the most personal. Even before the word prayer appeared in spiritual practices, the oldest records of the Christian and Gnostic traditions used words such as communion to describe our ability to speak with the unseen forces of the universe. Prayer is unique to everyone who experiences it. Some estimate that there are as many different ways to pray as there are people who do the praying. Today, modern prayer researchers have identified four broad categories that are believed to encompass all the many ways that we pray. In no particular order, they are: (1) colloquial or informal, prayers; (2) petitionary prayers; (3) ritualistic prayers; and (4) meditative prayers. When we pray, they suggest that we use one of these four modes or a combination. As good as these descriptions are and as well as each of these prayers appears to work, there’s always been another mode of prayer that this list doesn’t account for. This fifth mode of prayer, the “lost mode,” is a prayer that’s based solely in feeling. Rather than the sense of helplessness that often leads us to ask for assistance from a higher power, feeling-based prayer acknowledges our ability to communicate with the intelligent force that 95 percent of us believe in and participate in the outcome. Without any words, without our hands held in a certain position or any outward physical expression, this mode of prayer simply invites us to feel a clear and powerful feeling as if our prayers have already been answered. Through this intangible “language,” we participate in the healing of our bodies, the abundance that comes to our friends and families and the peace between nations. Sometimes we see references to this mode of prayer, perhaps without recognizing what we’re being shown. In the American Southwest, for instance, ancient stone structures were created in the desert by their builders as “chapels:” sacred places where wisdom could be shared and prayers offered. These perfectly circular stone buildings, some submerged and covered deep within the earth, were known as kivas (pronounced KEE-vuhs). Etched, carved and painted into the walls of some kivas are clues as to how the lost mode of prayer was used in native traditions. Inside restored kivas in the Four-Corners area, there are the remnants of the mud plaster that covered the stone structures long ago. Lightly etched into the earthen stucco, we can still see the faint images of rain clouds and lightning hovering over abundant fields of corn. In other places, the walls show outlines that hint at wildlife such as elk and deer, which were abundant in the valleys. In this way, the ancient artists recorded the secret of the lost mode of prayer. In the places where the prayers were offered, those praying surrounded themselves with the images of the very things that they chose to experience in their lives. Not unlike the scenes of miracles and resurrection that we see in a church or temple today, the images inspired those who were praying with the feeling that their prayers had been answered. For them, prayer was a full-body experience, involving all of their senses. If you have not already done so, I now invite you to try this mode of prayer for yourself. Think of something that you’d like to experience in your life – anything. It may be the healing of a physical condition for you or someone else, abundance for your family or finding the perfect person to share your life with. Whatever you’re thinking of, rather than asking for it to become present in your life, feel as though it has already happened. Breathe deeply and feel the fullness of your prayer fulfilled in every detail, in every way. Now, feel the gratitude for what your life is like with this prayer already answered. Note the ease and release that comes from the giving of thanks, rather than the longing and yearning that comes from asking for help. The subtle difference between the ease and the longing is the power that sets asking apart from receiving. The following excerpt has been taken from the new book Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer by Gregg Braden. It is published by Hay House (January 2006) and available at all bookstores or online at: http://www.hayhouse.com
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#1. To: lodwick, zipporah, red jones, diana, christine, randge, timetobuildaboat (#0)
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Whenever people ask me, 'hey, you know what you should do? I always say 'What? Buy a monkey?'
2. THE DISCOURSE ON PRAYER "John indeed taught you a simple form of prayer: 'O Father, cleanse us from sin, show us your glory, reveal your love, and let your spirit sanctify our hearts forevermore, Amen!' He taught this prayer that you might have something to teach the multitude. He did not intend that you should use such a set and formal petition as the expression of your own souls in prayer. "Prayer is entirely a personal and spontaneous expression of the attitude of the soul toward the spirit; prayer should be the communion of sonship and the expression of fellowship. Prayer, when indited by the spirit, leads to co-operative spiritual progress. The ideal prayer is a form of spiritual communion which leads to intelligent worship. True praying is the sincere attitude of reaching heavenward for the attainment of your ideals. Page 1619 "Prayer is the breath of the soul and should lead you to be persistent in your attempt to ascertain the Father's will. If any one of you has a neighbor, and you go to him at midnight and say: `Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine on a journey has come to see me, and I have nothing to set before him'; and if your neighbor answers, `Trouble me not, for the door is now shut and the children and I are in bed; therefore I cannot rise and give you bread,' you will persist, explaining that your friend hungers, and that you have no food to offer him. I say to you, though your neighbor will not rise and give you bread because he is your friend, yet because of your importunity he will get up and give you as many loaves as you need. If, then, persistence will win favors even from mortal man, how much more will your persistence in the spirit win the bread of life for you from the willing hands of the Father in heaven. Again I say to you: Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For every one who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door of salvation will be opened. "Which of you who is a father, if his son asks unwisely, would hesitate to give in accordance with parental wisdom rather than in the terms of the son's faulty petition? If the child needs a loaf, will you give him a stone just because he unwisely asks for it? If your son needs a fish, will you give him a watersnake just because it may chance to come up in the net with the fish and the child foolishly asks for the serpent? If you, then, being mortal and finite, know how to answer prayer and give good and appropriate gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the spirit and many additional blessings to those who ask him? Men ought always to pray and not become discouraged. "Let me tell you the story of a certain judge who lived in a wicked city. This judge feared not God nor had respect for man. Now there was a needy widow in that city who came repeatedly to this unjust judge, saying, `Protect me from my adversary.' For some time he would not give ear to her, but presently he said to himself: `Though I fear not God nor have regard for man, yet because this widow ceases not to trouble me, I will vindicate her lest she wear me out by her continual coming.' These stories I tell you to encourage you to persist in praying and not to intimate that your petitions will change the just and righteous Father above. Your persistence, however, is not to win favor with God but to change your earth attitude and to enlarge your soul's capacity for spirit receptivity. "But when you pray, you exercise so little faith. Genuine faith will remove mountains of material difficulty which may chance to lie in the path of soul expansion and spiritual progress." 3. THE BELIEVER'S PRAYER But the apostles were not yet satisfied; they desired Jesus to give them a model prayer which they could teach the new disciples. After listening to this discourse on prayer, James Zebedee said: "Very good, Master, but we do not desire a form of prayer for ourselves so much as for the newer believers who so frequently beseech us, `Teach us how acceptably to pray to the Father in heaven.'" When James had finished speaking, Jesus said: "If, then, you still desire such a prayer, I would present the one which I taught my brothers and sisters in Nazareth": Page 1620 Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come; your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our bread for tomorrow; Refresh our souls with the water of life. And forgive us every one our debts As we also have forgiven our debtors. Save us in temptation, deliver us from evil, And increasingly make us perfect like yourself. It is not strange that the apostles desired Jesus to teach them a model prayer for believers. John the Baptist had taught his followers several prayers; all great teachers had formulated prayers for their pupils. The religious teachers of the Jews had some twenty-five or thirty set prayers which they recited in the synagogues and even on the street corners. Jesus was particularly averse to praying in public. Up to this time the twelve had heard him pray only a few times. They observed him spending entire nights at prayer or worship, and they were very curious to know the manner or form of his petitions. They were really hard pressed to know what to answer the multitudes when they asked to be taught how to pray as John had taught his disciples. Jesus taught the twelve always to pray in secret; to go off by themselves amidst the quiet surroundings of nature or to go in their rooms and shut the doors when they engaged in prayer. After Jesus' death and ascension to the Father it became the practice of many believers to finish this so- called Lord's prayer by the addition of--"In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." Still later on, two lines were lost in copying, and there was added to this prayer an extra clause, reading: "For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forevermore." Jesus gave the apostles the prayer in collective form as they had prayed it in the Nazareth home. He never taught a formal personal prayer, only group, family, or social petitions. And he never volunteered to do that. Jesus taught that effective prayer must be: 1. Unselfish--not alone for oneself. 2. Believing--according to faith. 3. Sincere--honest of heart. 4. Intelligent--according to light. 5. Trustful--in submission to the Father's all-wise will. When Jesus spent whole nights on the mountain in prayer, it was mainly for his disciples, particularly for the twelve. The Master prayed very little for himself, although he engaged in much worship of the nature of understanding communion with his Paradise Father. 4. MORE ABOUT PRAYER For days after the discourse on prayer the apostles continued to ask the Master questions regarding this all-important and worshipful practice. Jesus' instruction to the apostles during these days, regarding prayer and worship, may be summarized and restated in modern phraseology as follows: Page 1621 The earnest and longing repetition of any petition, when such a prayer is the sincere expression of a child of God and is uttered in faith, no matter how ill-advised or impossible of direct answer, never fails to expand the soul's capacity for spiritual receptivity. In all praying, remember that sonship is a gift. No child has aught to do with earning the status of son or daughter. The earth child comes into being by the will of its parents. Even so, the child of God comes into grace and the new life of the spirit by the will of the Father in heaven. Therefore must the kingdom of heaven--divine sonship--be received as by a little child. You earn righteousness--progressive character development--but you receive sonship by grace and through faith. Prayer led Jesus up to the supercommunion of his soul with the Supreme Rulers of the universe of universes. Prayer will lead the mortals of earth up to the communion of true worship. The soul's spiritual capacity for receptivity determines the quantity of heavenly blessings which can be personally appropriated and consciously realized as an answer to prayer. Prayer and its associated worship is a technique of detachment from the daily routine of life, from the monotonous grind of material existence. It is an avenue of approach to spiritualized self-realization and individuality of intellectual and religious attainment. Prayer is an antidote for harmful introspection. At least, prayer as the Master taught it is such a beneficent ministry to the soul. Jesus consistently employed the beneficial influence of praying for one's fellows. The Master usually prayed in the plural, not in the singular. Only in the great crises of his earth life did Jesus ever pray for himself. Prayer is the breath of the spirit life in the midst of the material civilization of the races of mankind. Worship is salvation for the pleasure-seeking generations of mortals. As prayer may be likened to recharging the spiritual batteries of the soul, so worship may be compared to the act of tuning in the soul to catch the universe broadcasts of the infinite spirit of the Universal Father. Prayer is the sincere and longing look of the child to its spirit Father; it is a psychologic process of exchanging the human will for the divine will. Prayer is a part of the divine plan for making over that which is into that which ought to be. One of the reasons why Peter, James, and John, who so often accompanied Jesus on his long night vigils, never heard Jesus pray, was because their Master so rarely uttered his prayers as spoken words. Practically all of Jesus' praying was done in the spirit and in the heart--silently. Of all the apostles, Peter and James came the nearest to comprehending the Master's teaching about prayer and worship. 5. OTHER FORMS OF PRAYER From time to time, during the remainder of Jesus' sojourn on earth, he brought to the notice of the apostles several additional forms of prayer... from the Urantia Book Adolf Hitler... "What luck for rulers that men do not think." John F. Kennedy... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Now, feel the gratitude for what your life is like with this prayer already answered. Note the ease and release that comes from the giving of thanks, rather than the longing and yearning that comes from asking for help. The subtle difference between the ease and the longing is the power that sets asking apart from receiving. This is also my veiw of God This is the difference that Dan Millman talks about in his book "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" You should enjoy the moment, when one looks at life as a destination....I will be happy when _____ fill in the blank....then one fails to enjoy their life as much as intended. As Socrates (character in Dan's book) would ask....Where are you? and What time is it? The real answers are....Here and now. That is all that matters, do not waste too much of your precious life worrying about the past or the future. You only have this moment once, live in it......
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein
If all someone does all day is sit on his ass on a mountain somewhere and ring bells, it's easy to have beautiful thoughts. I think their view of life might be rather different if these monks and gurus had to go to real jobs, pay rent and raise children. We tend to forget that the reason some people can live such exalted lives is because of the classes of people below them who labor so hard to make it possible, and who get so little reward and recognition for it.
How interesting..I was just saying this very thing to JT. I need to stamp it on my forehead. I tend to be a worrier of the worst kind.
A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps. Proverbs 16:9 and from the Urantia Book: "One of the reasons why Peter, James, and John, who so often accompanied Jesus on his long night vigils, never heard Jesus pray, was because their Master so rarely uttered his prayers as spoken words. Practically all of Jesus' praying was done in the spirit and in the heart--silently." Ahh, the truth from separate sources. Comforting, isn't it. I pray the Lord will help me see the big picture more clearly and help me come to understand that prayer changes me and not God. Your will Lord, not necessarily mine. Amen.
Adolf Hitler... "What luck for rulers that men do not think." John F. Kennedy... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Live it as close as you can to what you perceive God would have you do. His will not ours.
Adolf Hitler... "What luck for rulers that men do not think." John F. Kennedy... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." May the "FORCE" be with you.!!!!
The former head of the National Security Agency, Retired Lt. General William Odom, said, "The invasion of Iraq, I believe, will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history."
During the psychologically unsettled times of the twentieth century, amid the economic upheavals, the moral crosscurrents, and the sociologic rip tides of the cyclonic transitions of a scientific era, thousands upon thousands of men and women have become humanly dislocated; they are anxious, restless, fearful, uncertain, and unsettled; as never before in the world's history they need the consolation and stabilization of sound religion. In the face of unprecedented scientific achievement and mechanical development there is spiritual stagnation and philosophic chaos. "There is no danger in religion's becoming more and more of a private matter--a personal experience--provided it does not lose its motivation for unselfish and loving social service. Religion has suffered from many secondary influences: sudden mixing of cultures, intermingling of creeds, diminution of ecclesiastical authority, changing of family life, together with urbanization and mechanization. Man's greatest spiritual jeopardy consists in partial progress, the predicament of unfinished growth: forsaking the evolutionary religions of fear without immediately grasping the revelatory religion of love. Adolf Hitler... "What luck for rulers that men do not think." John F. Kennedy... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Wonderful, and timely, article - thanks.
Someone, please, start a thread with quotes, from big names, about the truth about Iraq and also, 911. There are lots of "important" people telling the truth. Remember the "In Their Own Words" thread from FreeRepublic, before...
Adolf Hitler... "What luck for rulers that men do not think." John F. Kennedy... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Christine, this worries me. Stop it. It's contagious.
Adolf Hitler... "What luck for rulers that men do not think." John F. Kennedy... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." You're welcome.
Adolf Hitler... "What luck for rulers that men do not think." John F. Kennedy... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." During June and July of 1993, in Washington DC, about 4,000 experts in TM demonstrated the power of this technology to eliminate stress and create more coherence and harmony throughout a society. Scientists now report preliminary statistics from the Washington police showing a 13% drop in total violent crime during the demonstration compared to the same period in 1992. News reports show that president Clinton and Congress enjoyed much greater success and appreciation during the demonstration than either before or after it. It's tough enough maintaining one's own sense of balance in good times. Yet with all the sheep living in the matrix influencing the Universal Conscience in the negative way they do, we are challenged yet with another obstacle of overcoming the negative effects of the majority's influence on us.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein
You CANNOT petition the Lord with prayer! the DOORS...
The former head of the National Security Agency, Retired Lt. General William Odom, said, "The invasion of Iraq, I believe, will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history."
The tyranny of the majority has a ripple effect. Lies cause bad vibes, man. That's why we must resonate with truth. What we do, here and now, echos is eternity. Wow dude, that was heavy.
Adolf Hitler... "What luck for rulers that men do not think." John F. Kennedy... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." alot of the cause of my anxiety is my obsessive perfectionism and at
the same time my desire to try to make everyone happy. in my head i know that
neither is possible, but my heart is slower to comprehend it.
What you are trying to accomplish is much more noteworthy than what you actually accomplish. In that regard, you should be pleased, content and without worry.
Adolf Hitler... "What luck for rulers that men do not think." John F. Kennedy... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." meditation is the way...you betcha. qigong, the water path, microcosmic orbit, bone breathing, bone marrow washing, brain washing technique. dan tien qigong. see 'the master of java' at amazon....a real life taoist immortal, with amazing power, filmed on a PBS special called 'ring of fire' it is possible to condense chi within the dan tien, then manifest it powerfully...we all can, but some of us have little streams, the masters have rushing rivers for their pathways. sending bolts of chi out the palms, you can stop hearts, and if you're a high level, apparently, you turn the others bone marrow to mush... of course, it is not believed this is possible....by those who have accpeted identified, lying controllers limitations and beliefs of boundaries. magus of java will blow you away. if you want to learn more, try http://www.healingtaousa.com i wish i could find a nei kung master to teach me. ....as i have built my chi, i have had more electronic shit malfunction than i can remember....it never was that way before. if i am in a shitty mood, its even worse. so, at the end, it is a battle of spirit vs. technology...this is the Game....the polarities. the spirit can do things tech will never do.
Whenever people ask me, 'hey, you know what you should do? I always say 'What? Buy a monkey?'
Sounds like a new item on the menu of Starbucks.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein
bump for later read
sorry....it's 'the magus of java'...
Whenever people ask me, 'hey, you know what you should do? I always say 'What? Buy a monkey?'
http://www.innertraditions.com/Product.jmdx;jsessionid=EF8B8BB64CF967C63 0C070F7A 12F421B?action=displayDetail&id=238
Whenever people ask me, 'hey, you know what you should do? I always say 'What? Buy a monkey?'
A Few Random Thoughts On Prayer and Spirituality 1) Everyone prays and prays all the time. The world you see is a projection of your belief systems. 2)I define God as Spirit. To me Spirit is a level of mind where there is no ego and no illuion of a subject object split. 3) God or Spirit is Omnipresnt. Therefore, there is no point in begging God to send you more of something. All is already here. 4) Spirituality is overcoming ego and other illusions. In Isaiah 55 it says, "My thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways are not my ways." If you want to succeed at spirituality, you would try thinking like God thinks rather than asking God to conform to your thoughts. Example: You believe you have to walk across the room to touch the person opposite you. God is Spirit and is Omnipresent. He is in both locations already. There is no time in His view because it does not take time to go from one location to another even if they are 10,000 miles apart. Time, space, motion, force and the laws of physics, medicine and economics do not make a lot of sense to a transcendent Being Who is by definition not bound by material laws of time and space. If He knows you are not bound, then it must be only your thoughts that are holding you back.
you've been told many times before i'm free, i'm free, And I'm optimistic. See, I think you can be realistic and optimistic at the same time. I'm optimistic we'll achieve -- I know we won't achieve if we send mixed signals. I know we're not going to achieve our objective if we send mixed signals - gwbush
now spelled backwards is WON.
Whenever people ask me, 'hey, you know what you should do? I always say 'What? Buy a monkey?'
very cool. didn't ever read Isaiah...but i definitely can relate to that quote. quit trying to jam the infinite into your religious fishbowl.
Whenever people ask me, 'hey, you know what you should do? I always say 'What? Buy a monkey?'
#2. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
#3. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
In the 20th century, modern science may have rediscovered the Spirit of God as a field of energy that’s different from any other form of energy. It appears to be everywhere, always and to have existed since the beginning of time. The man widely regarded as the father of quantum physics, Max Planck, stated that the existence of the Field suggests that a great intelligence is responsible for our physical world. “We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind.” He concluded, simply saying, “This mind is the matrix of all matter.” Referring to it by other terms such as the Unity Field, contemporary studies have shown that Planck’s matrix does, in fact, have intelligence. Just as the ancients suggested, the Field responds to human emotion.
#4. To: gengis gandhi (#1)
#5. To: timetobuildaboat, gengis gandhi, Jethro Tull (#3)
Here and now. That is all that matters, do not waste too much of your precious life worrying about the past or the future. You only have this moment once, live in it......
#6. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
"As the translator shared the abbot’s reply, a powerful sensation rippled through my body and I knew that this was the reason we’d come to this place. “You have never seen our prayers,” he answered, “because a prayer cannot be seen.” Adjusting the heavy wool robes beneath his feet, the abbot continued. “What you have seen is what we do to create the feeling in our bodies. Feeling is the prayer.”
#7. To: timetobuildaboat (#3)
"You only have this moment once, live in it......"
#8. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
There is something “out there.” Just beyond our perceptions of the everyday world there’s a presence or force, that’s at once both mysterious and comforting. We talk about it. We feel it. We believe in it and pray to it, perhaps without even understanding precisely what it is.
#9. To: christine (#5)
"I tend to be a worrier of the worst kind."
#10. To: wakeup (#2)
#11. To: Steppenwolf (#8)
"The former head of the National Security Agency, Retired Lt. General William Odom, said, "The invasion of Iraq, I believe, will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history."
#12. To: christine (#5)
"I tend to be a worrier of the worst kind."
#13. To: lodwick (#10)
#14. To: wakeup (#9)
During the psychologically unsettled times of the twentieth century, amid the economic upheavals, the moral crosscurrents, and the sociologic rip tides of the cyclonic transitions of a scientific era, thousands upon thousands of men and women have become humanly dislocated; they are anxious, restless, fearful, uncertain, and unsettled; as never before in the world's history they need the consolation and stabilization of sound religion. In the face of unprecedented scientific achievement and mechanical development there is spiritual stagnation and philosophic chaos.
#15. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
Unlike the traditional prayers that we may have used in the past, however, this technique of prayer has no words. It is based in the silent language of human emotion. It invites us to feel gratitude and appreciation, as if our prayers have already been answered. Through this quality of feeling, the ancients believed that we’re given direct access to the power of creation: the Spirit of God.
#16. To: timetobuildaboat (#14)
",,,we are challenged yet with another obstacle of overcoming the negative effects of the majority's influence..."
#17. To: wakeup (#9)
#18. To: christine (#17)
#19. To: timetobuildaboat (#14)
#20. To: gengis gandhi (#19)
'the master of java'
#21. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
Hey, Meester,wanna meet my seester?
#22. To: timetobuildaboat (#20)
#23. To: All, flintlock, christine, lodwick, timetobuildaboat (#22)
#24. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
#25. To: gengis gandhi (#23)
messiah pointed to the door
but no one had the guts to leave the temple
and freedom tastes of reality
#26. To: Dakmar (#25)
#27. To: Horse (#24)
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