We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are (Talmud)

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. — The Talmud

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Of course man is observing the world from his own perspective. And is thinking then this is how the world is. And that's alright. Since everyone is entitled to such a free perspective.

Religions provide insight into how the spiritual world is beholding the earthly reality. And that helps people to get more perspective, more understanding, more grip on the difficult facts of life. And that's all right.

And science is providing herein more objectivity, trying to show the world as it is. And that's all right, because this creates knowledge, this is the way insights in reality are arising and in this way mankind is helped to reduce superstition and wrong fantasies.

The Talmud as religious book is giving here a scientific understanding.

And that is very good. Because then the worlds of religion and science are coming together for a moment. And then insight becomes bigger, more powerful, more valuable.

When mankind would take this insight from the Talmud, there would be fewer quarrels and wars in the world and anyone who has mastered this understanding would be more cautious and more modest. The scope of his own human knowledge would then automatically be extended with the knowledge of others.

And then out of own free will respect and love will become reality.
And this is a prerequisite for the realization of the Kingdom of God on earth in human live. There is no other way.

My blessings to you all

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God’s power can be used by everyone

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire (Ferdinand Foch)

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The human soul on fire is indeed the greatest weapon on earth.

Why?
Because a man set ablaze for an ideal, is allowed to make full use of the power of God. This force is given unconditionally because human free will is in the realms of God a holy thing.
God's power goes to a man on fire.
Whether it is for a positive or a negative purpose.
Hitler has therefore achieved so much.
Gandhi has therefore achieved so much.

God's power is available for a human soul on fire.

Then the power of will, ideals, energy and vigour are coming together in one stream of inspiration and deeds.
Did Hitler, however, reach as much as Gandhi?
No.

Hitler's fire was in the service of the ape of God, served an unholy purpose, and was the cause of much suffering but great insight for mankind.

Gandhi's fire was in the service of God, served a holy purpose, and was the cause of much happiness and great insight for mankind.

In both cases the power of God led to great insight for mankind. That is a law.

But Hitler did it with suffering and Gandhi with happiness.

So man is always God's hands on earth for the sake of insight for mankind.

Is God’s power used for the good, happiness will be in stake.
Is God’s power used for the bad, sorrow will be in stake.

But it will always lead to insight.

Therefore the ape of God is just the ape of God.
The evil doesn’t exist in favour of the evil, but in favour of the Good.
So for a soul in fire, everything is possible, for the benefit of mankind, and for the benefit of himself.

My blessings to you all

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Man is God's power on earth

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There is no such thing as powerful gods. You are gods power. Do Gods work.

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Yes, I will.

God is not powerful on earth.
God’s laws are powerful.
God’s ideas are powerful.
God’s wishes are powerful.
In heaven is God Itself powerful.

But on earth God is completely dependent on your deeds, your free will, your willingness to consider others, to consider nature, to consider God’s wishes.

Nobody in heaven understood the gift for man by God of the free will.

Almost all angels accepted it, because they love and trust God completely.
But they didn’t onderstand the vision of God.
Therefore Lucifer protested.
Therefore there was war in heaven.
Therefore was the ape of God born.

Oh, powerful free will.

Once given to man.
And now it is up to him.
So: what are you going to do about it?
Are you saying: “Thou will will be done”.
Or are you going to wallow in your free will and are you going to prolong your bonds with earth?
Are you going to offer your free will to God, or to the ape of God?

“There is no such thing as powerful gods. You are gods power. Do Gods work”

In all your choices God is respecting the path of man, because at the end there is only one Big Choice to make, here on earth or later on in the realms of God: to give your free will back to God.

My blessings to you all

 

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Zen: I have beautiful flowers

   I have beautiful flowers

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This tweet can be more than it seems to.

It is a common tweet.
But it is a key to a hidden spiritual Zen truth.
For  sit quietly for the bunch of flowers you received or purchased.
You look at the flowers and look more extensively to the bunch.
And then the following can happen if you open up for it.

The flowers show their beauty to you and their beautiful colours, their abundance.

And then you see the exceptional form, and the splendour of the making, of the creation.
And then wondering will overcome you, wondering about life, about the special, about the beauty of life, the beauty of the form.
And then you are going to experience one big special force is the basis of these flowers, namely the power of God, Life, that this power is from God, Life, ís God, Life.
And then you will experience that you can not háve these flowers. They are independent from you. That they are from themselves, autonomous, powerful flowering.

That they are in their own beauty.

And then you experience they are connected with you, you are actually together, you are in a unity connected, that they are noticing you as well.

And then you feel that they actually are having you, they have more right to have you than you are having them. Because they are more present than you, less complicated and in more surrender.
And then you learn that you are together, that you are in unity.
And then you feel that you are linked in unity with God, with Life.
And then you experience the unity of God, Life.
And then finally you experience that you and the flowers are not from yourselves, but from God, Life. That God, Life  has you all.

And only then you feel what it means to say spiritually : I have beautiful flowers.

My blessings to you all

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Suffering is a key to God (Christian Wiman)

My God, I have read a book review *. In this book the author says following his serious illness (terminal cancer) some essential things I sometimes understand sometimes not at all.

"God, the bright abyss"

My own experience is my ego is opposing day and night surrender to You. And if I am very close to you, then I am experiencing a milky-white existence of Nothing, in which I actually do not longer exist, not being able to address myself to anything,  only experience an absolute Presence. So far, I can still follow Wiman.

"The other world is here, in the bright abyss of existence"

And this I find very special, it’s my experience Life being in the here and now, experiencing  You are there, experiencing the Kingdom of God can be realized on earth, in the heart, in the surrender to You. So If I am understanding it correctly.

"Suffering does not make sense, but is a key to the bright abyss"

But when he says that suffering is making no sense, but may well be a key to Your abyss, than I'm not sure how I should take this. I know that even beautiful things and experiences can contribute to change and insight and acceptance of life, but difficulties and suffering as well. This is surely regularly mentioned in the blogs. But I romp over it if suffering makes no sense but is being a key.

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My son, of course.

"God, the bright abyss"

Of course, God is no abyss. God is the total base, God is great, God is everything, God is infinite.

And when the ego is confronted with God, it is feeling very small. And then the ego is getting a sense of abyss and falling and disappearing into nothingness.
But consciousness, and now this of Wiman as well, is growing closer to the realization of grandeur, is learning to let go, is learning to surrender, may come into contact with infinity and may lose everything, hence the feeling of an abyss.
But the individual consciousness remains, even though it can not be ascribed to qualities in its state of surrender. Then one ís, nothing else. Then one is in the milky-white bosom of God. For the ego an abyss, for the liberated personality an oasis of peace and being.

"The other world is here, in the bright abyss of existence"

When a serious illness is threatening the body or a great suffering is threatening the mind, then there is the sense of  abyss, mentioned above. Quite actually, an abyss. Though it seems to be. Not for the body and the ego, then the abyss is real. But for the human consciousness is it an illusion. One seems to disappear, but in fact one is blooming open, the human spirit is spreading its wings and the caterpillar becomes a butterfly. For the caterpillar an abyss, for the butterfly life. And this can all be done on earth, many spirits, saints, gurus and mystics have gone before.

The human caterpillar falling into the abyss.
The human butterfly entering the milky-white bosom of God, just on earth. Then the Kingdom of God in this human butterfly became flesh.

"Suffering does not make sense, but is a key to the bright abyss"

Wiman has come to a great understanding on Earth.

Suffering does not make sense.
But suffering is a key.
How can that be?
Especially religions and field-grown psychology tend to rationalize everything back to causality, until something makes sense or not, but that's a pretty primitive approach.

The example of a knife can help.

You can use a knife to cut bread.
You can also use a knife to stab someone down.
Does that say something about the purpose of the knife?
Is the knife suddenly different, when someone has stabbed down with it?
Though that particular knife is indeed a very serious factor in the life of the victim and the murderer.

The purpose of the knife is not cutting bread or killing a human being. The purpose has been put into it by the user. This determines the purpose, not the knife. The knife is only a key, namely an instrument, a device, such as a key can open the door or close it.

The user of the key determines the purpose: is he opening the door or closing it. The key itself is an innocent instrument.

And so it is with suffering too.

Suffering itself is an innocent instrument.
And suffering should not be inflated or enlarged or raped by religion or field-grown psychology.
Suffering is a tool, an instrument.
And the person who experiences the suffering, can open a door with it or he can just close it.

Wiman says suffering to him is a key,  to open the door of life.

He makes lemon brush of lemon.
Another closes the door of life by suffering, is nailing up his life and is shrinking by suffering.
Wiman has expressed therefore a great spiritual insight that suffering in itself does not make sense, but is indeed a key.
And then it is up to man who has got this key in hand with the spiritual question: "is one opening up the door of life or closing it?"

Christian Wiman is blessed.

My blessings to you all

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* Christian Wiman, My bright Abyss