Just for us believers (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, January 29, 2012, 19:24 (4683 days ago) @ Julia

Namaste Xeno6696,
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> Pleased to know that you follow the path of Buddha. But why the struggle with the immaterial part? If you can specify your exact struggles with the concepts that's bothering you, maybe I can shed some insights. 
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> You have yourself revealed the answer to your question in your verse: the mind rests in the self.
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> We cannot create our own self. Somebody has created us.
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> If you try to explore God with your mind, you will spend decades, and still neither you nor nobody else can comprehend God with his mind. Our human intelligence is extremely limited.
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> But, God can be comprehended only by LOVE, for GOD is nothing but LOVE: that is His true essence.
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> Love transcends over all understanding. If you have learned to love, you have learned everything.
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> Try seeking God with love in your heart. You may be surprised at what you discover in your heart.
> -Julia, I apologize in advance for the length, but your words deserve true contemplation.-As a child of THIS world... it is precisely this latter part that I have the most trouble with: In order to approach *anything* with love, I have to be able to "grasp" it. I need to be able to focus my attention on it: In short, before I can love God--in any form, I need to agree that God truly exists. I was raised Christian, and the issue I have has always been the same: before you can pray and commune with God, you need to believe with all your heart that he exists to begin with. That the world exists, isn't enough. That I have a "self" isn't enough. That people before me have written words, isn't enough. -Of all of these, the only exploration I can embark on, is the middle--on the self. I have felt my mind settle--but is it "self" or as you might say, "Brahma?" I have not felt a distinction between "self" and what would be called "God/Brahma." I know (in words) that it is precisely this idea that underpins the Hindu concept of God: God literally is everything. How could I determine a difference? But there is a "me" in here too, whether or not it is purely psychological, I exist as a distinct entity. Hence my issue.-Thus I work in life to cultivate love, because I know that this world always lacks it. For its own sake. --> Peace and blessings,
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> Julia

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"