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Originally Posted by ketzer
What I find interesting is that the trap the story was putting Jesus into is the same trap we all face during life. On the one hand the very structure of the life experience is a food web where organisms must struggle to survive.
... This is reminiscent of the advice Krishna gives to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita when he feels he cannot go to war against his own kin ... Life will keep placing these sorts of good vs evil dilemmas in front of us, whatever we end up doing, our state of mind when and why we do them is what is important.
... the fruit of our actions, is not in our control, but our intentions for those actions are.
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I cut my favourite parts of the quote, hope you don't mind. And i think this is more important that what i'm looking for at the moment ... I particularly like "the very structure of the life experience is a food web where organisms must struggle to survive." and just think again, how lucky humans are these days, not to have to worry about getting eaten alive ... but that was a such good motive for being aware in the present moment ...
anyway, with a little more research on "the things God has revealed to us" i think this is what I'm looking for.
1 Corinthians 2, 9 However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived” —
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
So it follows that what our eyes see and hear and what our minds can conceive, are the things which belong to us, the things we can do, and are responsible for.
Jesus was a poet. And i love him, and i love the simplicity of for example, the greatest commandment. But his books are often confusing and illogical ...
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