In order to grow spiritually based on truth, you need to know what conditioning is

[zorkchop]

MikeS80 . . .

If that assessment and those distinctions help you to understand Life around you . . . you are to be commended. Definition / comparison / categorization / analysis are the tools of the mind no matter if they are “extreme” or otherwise. Since we use a very little percentage of our brains . . . I do not believe we have a clue as to how it is “designed to work.”

[MikeS80]

Originally Posted by zorkchop

MikeS80 . . .

If that assessment and those distinctions help you to understand Life around you . . . you are to be commended. Definition / comparison / categorization / analysis are the tools of the mind no matter if they are “extreme” or otherwise. Since we use a very little percentage of our brains . . . I do not believe we have a clue as to how it is “designed to work.”

You are correct to a certain extent. I just found out by doing some research, that my beliefs fits in with monism, which is the doctrine that only one supreme being exists and pantheism, which is a doctrine that identifies God with the universe (but I think God/nature could be nothingness outside of the universe, in a way that the universe is inside God/nature). Anything is possible and knowable when you are open to receive such knowledge as concepts when you use logic, reason, common sense and intuition in a balanced manner. I started to read Baruch Spinoza's book Ethics and his 4th axiom in that book is: The knowledge of an effect depends on and involves the knowledge of a cause. I am currently working on a post that goes into depth and detail as to why the world is the way it is.

[zorkchop]

Would you include the conditioning of the organized religions ( east and west ) . . . philosophies . . . mental dependency of logic and reason to be included in your list of conditions we all must face while here in the psychic worlds? “Common Sense” is all but gone. It’s around . . . but those who wish to employ it do not find many agreeable acknowledgements in their thoughts that would make them “common” anymore.

I do . . . however . . . look forward to your explanation of why the world is the way it is. You keep your posts wonderfully understandable and I would imagine that such an attempt at an explanation would benefit many.

[MikeS80]

A combination of both Mithya (false beliefs and false mental and emotional conditioning) and maya (ignorance of truth) creates all non-truths or falsehoods. Wherever there is Mithya, maya or ignorance of the truth follows. Ignorance of the truth always follows false beliefs and false mental and emotional conditioning.

"satya or satyam. It is not merely truthfulness, but that singular Truth that can never be untrue at any time, place, or circumstance. Non-dual Truth transcends, time, space, and causation. Note, that time and space create divisions. If something transcends time and space it has no limits or boundaries. Therefore, this Truth/Reality must be infinite, eternal, and indivisible, hence, all-pervading. Further, there cannot be two infinites. Thus Brahman is all there is. So what is this world?

The statement above says it is mithya, false. But what does this false mean? It means changing, impermanent, perishable, superimposed, and dependent on something else for its existence. Another great statement from the Upanisads asserts, Sarvam khalvidam Brahman, All this, indeed, is Brahman. All this (idam), meaning that all we see with our mind and senses is Brahman, but we are not recognizing it as Brahman. And this is maya, ignorance, the cause of all suffering.That one, the Eternal among non-eternals, the Intelligence of the intelligent, who though ever one fulfills the desires of the many those who realize that One as existing in their own self, to them belongs eternal peace, and to none else.

Shining like burnished gold in the luminous sheath of intelligence, the deepest core of the human being, there dwells Brahman, stainless, indivisible, and pure. That is the Light of all that shines. That is what the knowers of the Self realize."
http://www.advaita-academy.org/blogs/brahman-satya/

[freddyfresh]

Originally Posted by janielee

Says ego? ......

As to the claim that people use empathy to manipulate, this is probably a psychological phenomenon and belief. Does a truly realized person weigh like this all the time?

I doubt it. They have a higher purpose and vision. No enlightened master thinks that they are enlightened by the way.

Namaste,

JL

In an infinite universe enlightenment is a continuing pursuit

[MikeS80]

Originally Posted by freddyfresh

In an infinite universe enlightenment is a continuing pursuit

Bingo. You never stop learning in an infinite universe.

[MikeS80]

Originally Posted by zorkchop

Would you include the conditioning of the organized religions ( east and west ) . . . philosophies . . . mental dependency of logic and reason to be included in your list of conditions we all must face while here in the psychic worlds? “Common Sense” is all but gone. It’s around . . . but those who wish to employ it do not find many agreeable acknowledgements in their thoughts that would make them “common” anymore.

I do . . . however . . . look forward to your explanation of why the world is the way it is. You keep your posts wonderfully understandable and I would imagine that such an attempt at an explanation would benefit many.

The world is the way it is because of the myths/illusions people spread about the "ego" or self (like the ego is the bad guy/is an illusion), of reality and of the universe. Read my post #24. :)