Thread: Faith

Originally Posted by NeoSioType

I have stuck to being christian because I like to take comfort in knowing righteousness shall pervail in the end.

You mean your version of righteousness. I've seen a disturbing pattern among people of faith, and that is that none of them believe they themselves are going to the hell to which they condemn so many others. It's almost as if the very concept of hell was invented by mankind to reconcile the fact that people do bad things to us and often don't get punished.

Originally Posted by drewmandan

You mean your version of righteousness. I've seen a disturbing pattern among people of faith, and that is that none of them believe they themselves are going to the hell to which they condemn so many others. It's almost as if the very concept of hell was invented by mankind to reconcile the fact that people do bad things to us and often don't get punished.

Please categorize faith correctly.

Christianity. Is the faith you speak of.

Not really others.

I have very strong faith in God/Self etc. I do not follow any religion in particular, but sometimes bring their teachings together with understanding. I see that spiritual truth underlies the worlds major religions; there is no reason for conflict. I guess you could call me a spiritual student.

I was an atheist for a short while, and I have had trouble remembering what I was like before that (I think mostly a christian, but sometimes agnostic), as today, I realize I have been transformed with an indescribable enormity. There is no way I could see this coming. It is quite staggering looking back at my old ways, how I was at the time. But of course, it will always be amazing to live in the moment as I am close to today.

Concerning the major and radical transformation, once I had studied enough information in many relevant areas concerning religion and spirituality (and many other areas), I suddenly became interested in Enlightenment. I saw why I was doubting God, I saw my own limitations, the limitations of expression/language/symbolism, the limitations of the inherent human ego, its perceptions; assumptions, on goes the list... My life became illuminated, the light of awareness revealed things with a clarity and comforting contextualization. I intuited a strong belief in what is greater than my self, which is the Real Self - the Real Self knows everything by virtue of Being Everything.

Today is beautiful. I am so happy, sometimes I feel amazing Joy. I see the bigger picture, where there is understanding, there is love. I realized how the ego/mind-paradigms exclude things from Reality. Your world/life-view paradigm is like a pattern of all kinds of mentalizations and belief systems. As the patterns become more benign and universal, does peace become profoundly apparent. Reality shines forth by itself. All you have to do for the mind is quiet it down, surrender those inflated opinions, bubbles and judgements - after all, they do not really answer your questions, do they? Tell me an ego that understands what life is really about.

When you have finally died* and comprehended Reality, you are immersed in the Love of God, therein lies a peace beyond all time and description. No suffering thereafter is possible. This is my inspiration, and all the best if it is yours too.

Edit: Ah, I may aswell pop this up too: This video's called "Ego is a closed Loop"



* = ego-death, the only real death.

When you have finally died and comprehended Reality

Religion: ultimate bliss. And all you have to do is make the ultimate sacrifice and die!

I see the bigger picture, where there is understanding, there is love.

Er ... no. For instance I understand Newtonian mechanics ... where's the love there?