ONLINE Wed, Aug 12: "The Vanity of Thought"
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The Vanity of Thought:
- We use only about 25,000 English words… much of our communication is not understood accurately & our own thoughts are language-based!
- Imagine trying to explain nuclear physics to an amoeba… that's like aliens a billion years more advanced than us trying to explain nuclear physics to us.
- Imagine trying to understand a tree if all you had was a leaf.
- Imagine trying to understand a forest if all you had was the shadow of a leaf.
- Imagine trying to understand the microscopic animals that live on a leaf if all you had was a blurry picture of a shadow of a part of a leaf.
- We humans can't even explain how our mind functions… and we actually think we can understand SOMETHING?
- EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT EVERYTHING CHANGES WITH TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE. Can we Truly Understand ANYTHING?
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- ALL we know, understand, grok & believe goes through a conscious & unconscious sequence: (it is a complete shit show)
Impressions (data), conscious, unconscious & intuitive, are received through extremely limited sense organs & distorted “teachings”.
Recognition (our mind searches for something already known/familiar) virtually all objectivity is lost.
Interpretation (our egos get involved with what was recognized) recognition is further distorted.
Reaction (our egos get more involved with what they imagine) our egos react with insanity!
Memories (very limited and further distorted) memories of imagination.
So, some questions for this evening's meeting:
Who or what is in charge of your spiritual search?
Do you let just any egoic voices take the reins whenever they want?
Who or what decides moment to moment where your attention is pointed?
Who or what interprets so called spiritual data that you load your brain with?
All Thought is BS - Any Thought or Knowing Is Maybe - Knowing is only a temporary belief
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Paul Brunton “The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time.
The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.”
1 Corinthians 13:12 NLT “Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely”
Mark 8:25 ESV “Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly” (see this quote: Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth)
1 Peter 5:8 ESV “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” (beliefs & judgments)
Colossians 3:2 ESV “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth” (shift away from mind/consciousness)
Isaiah 6:9-10 ESV “And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he - when there is no thought the ego perishes - but he who stays normal is happy” (happiness is the devil's work)
Thanks to Lenny S. for the above notes from his article of the same name: The Vanity of Thought