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16knots
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No matter who we are, the greatest quality we have is that our minds can be transformed.
What is meant by this statement?
No matter our human condition of happiness or suffering or the circumstances we find ourselves in, we have the minds quality of being able to be transformed.
WE are who we think we are.
Yes?
This has great implications because we can if we so wish transform ourselves. But what directions....
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| Jun 5 @ 12:05 PM |
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sail_dancer
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Knots,
This has been known for 3,000 years. The problem is that at that time, few had the capability to recognize the fact. The few became superior to the many and for the betterment of mankind, created dogma to keep majority of the people (savages at the time) in line.
The problem was that some realized that this knowledge could, when properly applied, be used to control people. Thus the birth of religions that instilled in people the lie that they were basically bad and needed help to keep from being damned.
We all have the power and ability to become the person we want to become. The first step is to recognize that we must first stop relying on others (real or fantasy) to do it for us.
Peace
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| Jun 7 @ 6:08 PM |
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16knots
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Thats what it is aall about Sail. Mind control. The tactics and dogma of Christianity is a great teacher of control.
Obey and be good and I love you.... but you cant see me. You be bad and sin then you WILL go to hell and eternal damnation.
Love and fear. Positive and negative reinforcement on a gullible mind.
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| Jun 9 @ 7:44 PM |
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carpediem48
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We 'perceive' what we are 'inclined' to perceive
Not all religious interpretations are negatively based on fear
The question becomes
Not which religion is the least negative or incorrect,,,but
which path,,,'within a 'religious organization'...or not
allows us to recognize and experience truth on an inner instinctual level
Where 'attention' flows,,,,energy goes
Feeding the negative 'untruths'
Helps them grow(IMO)
I want to water the seeds 
Not
the weeds
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| Jun 11 @ 1:01 PM |
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16knots
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Nice post Carp.
"However..." 
Either way.... the negatives and the positives result in what?
The reason I ask this question because it isnt what you perceive that really matters because of various reason, one being what one person perceives is different to another whether it is negative or positive.
So what can be done to find truth.....
Being "aware."
Being aware of the positive or the negative doesnt bind us to its perceptions. In awareness we recognize both for what they are and this leads to wisdom arising.
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| Jun 11 @ 1:12 PM |
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sail_dancer
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So what can be done to find truth.....
Being "aware."
Being aware of the positive or the negative doesnt bind us to its perceptions. In awareness we recognize both for what they are and this leads to wisdom arising.
It is so easy. Why do people fail to see this?
Peace
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| Jun 11 @ 1:17 PM |
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16knots
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Sail.....
The Masters say... "it is so easy thats why they dont get it."
Even the Buddha himself would not teach for his first six weeks of being Awakened because it was so simple yet profound.
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| Jun 15 @ 5:32 PM |
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BandTMom
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I think it is difficult for many to realize that we can simply transform our minds and our present lives with what we think.
It is true......we are what we think. Our world is controlled by what we think.
Imagine the ramifications!
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| Jun 16 @ 12:38 AM |
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Angel54214
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The tactics and dogma of Christianity is a great teacher of control.
The goal does not get reached if the one listening rejects to be control. All humans have that capability, nothing new.
We grow day by day and year by year, we experience, we live, then we die. "Human Development"; it's been around since man existed. Nothing new.
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| Jun 16 @ 8:16 AM |
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16knots
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Angel:
The goal does not get reached if the one listening rejects to be control. All humans have that capability, nothing new.
Christianity is based on control in the most hideous way. One does not teach children to fear their parents but Christianity does. "Obey God else go to eternal damnation!" Sinner!
We grow day by day and year by year, we experience, we live, then we die. "Human Development"; it's been around since man existed. Nothing new.
Your ignorance of it IS! 
From the moment you are born you are dying. There is no get out clause. You are born of self and you will die of self. Why is that?
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