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06-11-2022, 12:31 PM
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Seeker
Join Date: Nov 2022
Posts: 40
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New member from the Philippines (originally from Texas)
Hi, I am new here. I have no idea what I am looking for... so this is as good a place as any to look ha ha. ��
I grew up christian, after graduating seminary I did the only intellectually honest thing... and quit the church. I looked at buddhism but at the time they seemed too atheistic to me,
so I ended up hindu. That lasted for 25 or so years.
I was a single dad for 16 years, then the kids grew up, and I retired to the Philippines in 2013.
At that point I was not sure if I was atheist or agnostic - and realized I was apathetic (yeah, very much a Gen-Xer). I have never seen anything to make me believe in a soul or an afterlife, and quite frankly those have nothing to do with my life right here and now. I do not need a promise or a threat to be a good person.
Buddhism now seems too dogmatic, and I am looking at taoism a little. I think I am just making my own path as needed. (I think I could follow Buddha, but not the power structure built in his absence.)
During the covid lockdown I began meditating more. I have a hindu and a buddhist mantra and alternate depending on my mood. I use meditation more to help with my seizures (disabled vet) than for spiritual purposes.
So I am kind of a mess, but a happy mess.
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06-11-2022, 03:00 PM
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Administrator
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Posts: 11,195
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Welcome To Spiritual Forums. the best advice anyone can give you is Be yourself follow your own path and if it feels right that is because it is right.
Namaste
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06-11-2022, 04:02 PM
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Location: Southwest, USA
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Originally Posted by Native spirit
Welcome To Spiritual Forums. the best advice anyone can give you is Be yourself follow
your own path and if it feels right that is because it is right.
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Exactly. And Jesus said wonderful things and Krishna did and Buddha did...take all of them in, I say. 
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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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06-11-2022, 07:37 PM
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Master
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: अनुगृहितोऽस्म
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֍ I WELCOME YOU TO THE SPIRITUAL FORUMS! ֎
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