Jesus, Siddhartha, and The Higher Self

Originally Posted by Chrysaetos

So mind = consciousness?Everything? Do you have to be a murderer, torturer, rapist as well, and do you have to be all the persons and creatures that exist and have existed? All in the name of ''spirit evolution'', but yet this ''spirit'' has no need for that according to spiritual evolutionists...We cannot be separate from the universe, existing means we are a part of it. Can you have one outside the ''3th dimensional reality''?

''Having one'' also sounds like separation.
''Who'' is it that has a soul?

you already know, and yes we all have been murderers in a past life this is how the Buddha can say that having compassion for everyone is easier when he sees himself in all beings saying yes i too have been there.

Chrysaetos wrote: "Where are the denser places?"
I wrote an answer but then deleted it. The more I answer the more you question. Meditate, and you will find your own answers.

Originally Posted by Chrysaetos

Unless you are omniscient you cannot know such things. We become this, we become that.. but have you become?

This is for me to know and for you to find out, for yourself.

[Chrysaetos]

Originally Posted by mahakali

you already know, and yes we all have been murderers in a past life this is how the Buddha can say that having compassion for everyone is easier when he sees himself in all beings saying yes i too have been there.

If that is true, then where's the proof for you, me or someone else being a murderer in a past life? It is guess work and speculation based on religious books.

[Chrysaetos]

Originally Posted by Sira

Chrysaetos wrote: "Where are the denser places?"
I wrote an answer but then deleted it. The more I answer the more you question. Meditate, and you will find your own answers.

''Your own answers''

Precisely! People experience what they want and desire, based on their upbringing, culture, religion, desires, ideologies and so forth.
Personal experience is not always trustworthy!

Originally Posted by Chrysaetos

Unless you are omniscient you cannot know such things. We become this, we become that.. but have you become?

sometimes one can tapp into divine knowledge or "have revelations" i think sometimes it is a guide or spirit or god that turns us on to these miracles. hope you dont mind Sira for me to add my 2 cents

Originally Posted by mahakali

sometimes one can tapp into divine knowledge or "have revelations" i think sometimes it is a guide or spirit or god that turns us on to these miracles. hope you dont mind Sira for me to add my 2 cents

No, I appreciate it!

Originally Posted by Chrysaetos

''Your own answers''

Precisely! People experience what they want and desire, based on their upbringing, culture, religion, desires, ideologies and so forth.
Personal experience is not always trustworthy!

i was brought up atheist and in the bible belt of good ol southern GA. my mom is disgusted by my interest in Buddhist and Vedic philosophy.

[Chrysaetos]

Originally Posted by mahakali

sometimes one can tapp into divine knowledge or "have revelations" i think sometimes it is a guide or spirit or god that turns us on to these miracles. hope you dont mind Sira for me to add my 2 cents

Guides, spirits, gods.. all dependable on the culture we live in, the beliefs we have, the desires we have. The mind has amazing powers. A Christian will ''experience'' a Jesus and a Hindu will ''experience'' a Krishna. It is obvious.

Originally Posted by mahakali

i was brought up atheist and in the bible belt of good ol southern GA. my mom is disgusted by my interest in Buddhist and Vedic philosophy.

In our age of globalisation and technology, we easily gain new information from other cultures. We might not fully accept the culture we were born in, but through modern media (and also books) can we become influenced by other cultures.

Originally Posted by Chrysaetos

If that is true, then where's the proof for you, me or someone else being a murderer in a past life? It is guess work and speculation based on religious books.

maybe i was not a murderer or maybe i was in this life, many have murdered for there freedom or to protect. maybe i was a concurer in a past life and was responsible for the death of thousands. in the past there were so many wars, so many killings in the name of whatever. chances are, i was a part of it.

if so would you forgive me? would you love me as a Buddha? your spirit certainly would. compassion has no end, no opinion, no conditions. the love is so universal and every feeling good or bad steams from it.