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19-01-2019, 09:25 PM
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Seeker
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Life is a Labirynth in a House of Mirrors
At least that’s the way I see it. Well...what do You guys think? ;P
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20-01-2019, 01:52 AM
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Master
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Are you lost in it? ... or, you found your way?
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Everything expressed here is what I believe. Keep that in mind when you read my post, as I kept it in mind when I wrote it. I don't parrot others. Most of my spiritual beliefs come from direct channeling guidance. I have no interest in arguing whose belief is right, and whose is wrong. I'm here just to express my opinions, and read about others'.
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20-01-2019, 04:16 AM
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Originally Posted by inavalan
Are you lost in it? ... or, you found your way?
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Honestly? The more I think about it, the more of a koan it becomes for me. I don’t know know how to respond to my own metaphor 😂✌️ |
20-01-2019, 06:10 PM
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Location: Golden Bay, New Zealand
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Life is certainly a House of Mirrors - all that we see are reflections of ourselves.
And life is certainly a labyrinth. Which explains why we all regularly find ourselves at dead ends and we have to retrace our steps to get back to the right path. But every dead end is also a learning process.
And in the end we find our way to the exit and we are free. Or perhaps we find that we are in a greater labyrinth we never knew existed.
Peace.
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20-01-2019, 06:27 PM
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Newbie ;)
Join Date: Jul 2018
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It is experientially, whatever you believe it to be. To me a labyrinth doesn't ring true.
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20-01-2019, 07:43 PM
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I don't see it that way 
Last edited by janielee : 20-01-2019 at 09:35 PM.
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20-01-2019, 07:51 PM
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 I see it as more smoke and mirrors...with curve balls, I suppose.
Not so much a labyrinth...maybe me in the center of a wheel
or mandala and many many paths to chose from jutting out...
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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20-01-2019, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Soul_Surfer
Honestly? The more I think about it, the more of a koan it becomes for me. I don’t know know how to respond to my own metaphor 😂✌️
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https://www.britannica.com/topic/koan
Koan, Japanese Kōan, in Zen Buddhism of Japan, a succinct paradoxical statement or question used as a meditation discipline for novices, particularly in the Rinzai sect. The effort to “solve” a koan is intended to exhaust the analytic intellect and the egoistic will, readying the mind to entertain an appropriate response on the intuitive level. Each such exercise constitutes both a communication of some aspect of Zen experience and a test of the novice’s competence. |
21-01-2019, 03:24 AM
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Originally Posted by janielee
https://www.britannica.com/topic/koan
Koan, Japanese Kōan, in Zen Buddhism of Japan, a succinct paradoxical statement or question used as a meditation discipline for novices, particularly in the Rinzai sect. The effort to “solve” a koan is intended to exhaust the analytic intellect and the egoistic will, readying the mind to entertain an appropriate response on the intuitive level. Each such exercise constitutes both a communication of some aspect of Zen experience and a test of the novice’s competence.
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Exactly: “the effort to ‘solve’ a koan is intended to exhaust the analytic intellect and egoistic will”. So now since intellectually I think I know what life is, to me I mean, now I have no idea how to solve this puzzle. |
21-01-2019, 04:37 AM
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A koan isn't solved through the intellectual mind
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