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Prayer 2.2

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Spinoza

Wikipedia:
在倫理學上，斯賓諾莎認為，一個人只要受制於外在的影響，他就是處於奴役狀態，而只要和上帝達成一致，人們就不再受制於這種影響，而能獲得相對的自由，也因此擺脫恐懼。

斯賓諾莎還主張無知是一切罪惡的根源。

Wikipedia:
斯賓諾莎還認為上帝是每件事的「內在因」，上帝通過自然法則來主宰世界，所以物質世界中發生的每一件事都有其必然性；世界上只有上帝是擁有完全自由的，而人雖可以試圖去除外在的束縛，卻永遠無法獲得自由意志。如果我們能夠將事情看作是必然的，那麼我們就愈容易與上帝合為一體。因此，斯賓諾莎提出我們應該「在永恆的相下」（sub specie aeternitatis）看事情。

Russell’s History of Western Philosophy, on Spinoza:
Only ignorance makes us think that we can alter the future;
what will be will be,
and the future is as unalterably fixed as the past.

2007.07.05 CHK2

2013.05.27 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Prayer 2

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In what prayers do men allow themselves! That which they call a holy office is not so much as brave and manly. Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — any thing less than all good, — is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

2008.03.12 Wednesday CHK2

Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

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Cosmic religion 2

Whatever the nature of life and universe is, doing good is good.

— Me@2010.12.12

But be careful. By “doing good”, I refer to long-term good. Sometimes, short-term goods would create long-term evils. You should avoid doing such kind of goods.

Also, even for long-term goods, you should consider the opportunity costs. As your time is limited, you cannot do them all. You have to prioritize.

— Me@2013-01-28 11:33:24 AM

2013.01.28 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Cosmic religion

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Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

— Not Albert Einstein

It may or may not be the present state. But it should be the goal.

— Me@2013-01-22 09:04:25 AM

2013.01.22 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Layer, 3.2

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水平 7.2 | Onion self 5.2 | Inner and outer, 5.2

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One’s deepest self is the universe.

That’s why everyone’s deepest self is the same.

— Me@2012-01-26 4:30:09 PM

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The diagram is not the truth. Instead, it is an analogy. It is a model only. 
— Me@2012.02.11

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Everyone is not a part of the universe, but the whole of the universe.

Everyone is a layer of the universe.

— Me@2012-02-06 11:31:17 PM

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A, B, C are three people.

They are just like three waves of the same underlying ocean (universe).

— Me@2012-02-08 12:55:31 PM

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2012.02.13 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Inner and outer, 5

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Layer, 3 | 水平 7 | Onion self 5

The deeper the consciousness, the more powerful it is.

— Me@2010.08.06

The diagram is not the truth. Instead, it is an analogy. It is a model only.
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Me@2012-02-08 12:55:31 PM

The deepest self is the universe.

— Me@2012-01-16 2:20:19 AM

The diagram is not the truth. Instead, it is an analogy. It is a model only.

— Me@2012.02.11

2012.02.11 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Buddha 2

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Lessons from the Light, 2

The revelations coming from the light seemed to go on and on, then I asked the light, “Does this mean that humankind will be saved?”

Then, like a trumpet blast with a shower of spiraling lights, the Great Light spoke, saying, “Remember this and never forget; you save, redeem and heal yourself. You always have. You always will. You were created with the power to do so from before the beginning of the world.”

In that instant I realized even more. I realized that WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN SAVED, and we saved ourselves because we were designed to self-correct like the rest of God’s universe. This is what the second coming is about. 

— Mellen-Thomas Benedict

The way to be saved is to realize that

you are already saved.

— Me

2012.01.31 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Phantom

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Mara: “You who go where others dare not; Will you be my God? The architect of my house?”

Siddharta: “Finally I meet the illusion of self; Your evil house will not be built again.”

Mara: “But you live in me; I am your house.”

Siddharta: “O, trickster; phantom of my own ego, you are pure illusion. You, self, do not exist. The earth is my witness to this Supreme Enlightenment.”

— Wikipedia on Little Buddha

2007.06.20 2011.10.29 Saturday ACHK