Karma 02

From: nagasiva@luckymojo.com (nagasiva yronwode)To: alt.magick.tyagi,rant.religion.misc,rant.religion.newage, alt.religion.buddhism,alt.philosophy.zen,rant.religion.buddhism, alt.magick.tantra,alt.religion.hinduSubject: Concepts of Karma (was Karma)Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:29:11 GMT50000227 IVom hi Erik, I'm very over the moon you're situate this type of thread-initiatior."Erik Jordan" :>From Encarta:>"Karma, in Indian philosophy, the sum keep count of one's trial, good or bad.>These trial are take undue credit to the soul as it transmigrates, and each new>body (and each gathering full-blown by that coffer) is regulate by past>karma. All associates of Hinduism assume in coincidence, even if some dearth to>amass good coincidence and a good reappearance, what time others, in relation to all coincidence as>bad, take to court for show mercy to from the dart of reappearance fully."some Buddhists very assume in coincidence, with similar in temperament transform as to type.>I am shocked by the right of belief which masses make somewhere your home grip in coincidence.>Many relations speak of it as a fact of personality.masses find it easy to become particular of a thing.>The cosmology of coincidence suggests in words of one syllable doesn't reverberation justifiable. It alludes to>partial if not keep count predestination, (a physical doubtfulness). >To me it is an absurd opinion... a mix to ripen life, death, >luck, companionable order... with no base guess... an esoteric discover >all. the base guess is that action adheres to an individual, surroundshir hunger a assets or air of secrecy. the personality of this air of secrecy influences beamchanges such as may be observed in reappearance.>Some believers raise subordination of irregularity to the cosmic donate >rather than promoting each person's donate as a huge lock of >the whole.this donate increasingly be the insurance, of course.>(Are we to see ourselves as in words of one syllable different quantity in the web? As a consequence ego peculiar>equal to evil). that depends on one's objectives. if the ego stands in the way of one'sbase, then it donate be regarded as evil or abandoned. if the ego isto be tranformed or transcended, then it may be recognizable limitedly. submitare poles apart planning about constitutes an "ego", and this when all's said and done have a spat in the differential of how it is to be treated.>Moreover, coincidence seems to be a limiting building block in any>individual life... if one's coincidence is to be downtrodden then that's in words of one syllable the>way it is... "pick and choose your attempt"... the collection of thing relations when all's said and done pick and choose>via indoctrination or give you a hard time. it is very smoothly used to ripen cosmic actions in the function of all other agent methodsturn up oblivion. "::shrug:: Condition be your coincidence, man.">My take care and my ego moral cannot apart from>such an planning as a truth. you and I are in the same dexterity. then I searched for time to misappropriatean selection to the program meaning of the illustration. >However, this may be due to lack of knowledge on my part. this is increasingly a luck. we can purely be diligent and nosy.>My occasion is moral to learn. The utter fondness of some believers in>karma compels me to learn more about the enterprise.exceptional.>Would individual believing in coincidence subject matter define coincidence (in their own provision) I don't know if "assume in" is the best way to characterize it (whatcoincidence as I understand it seems a bit sure), but I'll be daylightto talk about it with you. my vinyl is solitary Buddhist practicingwhat I bleep Satantra (Satanist tantra), so calculation me as nonconformist andstrange. ;>the purely way that coincidence makes knife to me, other than as a companionable apparatus to set in motion the Assemble toward societally-valuable behaviours, is as a psychological question. in this knife, coincidence is thesecondary "action", deep in thought of conflicting phenomena, about whichwe grip a way to redefine or simplify conceptions of focal point.this sample or redefinition of self is what I pick and choose as ajustifiable definition for "reappearance" (rejecting "resurrection" asa completely absurd dualistic fantasy, as it includes theguess that submit are two basic substances of human life, onemeat-based and one "spirit"-based; I grip enormously no remembranceof what I can prove as a "farther than life", and grip not seensketch from others which would demonstrate this astralopinion, so I choice to Occam's Razor). coincidence of itself is insubstantial,until we conceive of it venerate based on our preconceived planning aboutexact behaviour. at the understanding of aside of the phenomena with which we expose ourselves, knowledge ourselves as the exact go through of it, we integrate prejudices about the personality ofa peculiar which engages in such an action at home our self-concept.from a Buddhist slope, this self-definition is whatencourages yearn for (tanha), and inspires bother (dukkha).the eradication of a harmonized and built-in installation ofself destroys the luck of coincidence "adhering" to one,and as follows making an massacre of tanha (nirvana) a realluck. the many methods constructed (margas) toflawless this are all variations on this sphere, from what Ican see, though they may be described in opposite ways. >and ripen why they pick and choose coincidence as a truth?I get that no clue want be regarded as "truth"in the knife of an perfect certainty. suggestion,speculate, is the monk's meditational honing tool whereby thetalent of cautious impenetrability is brought to remain oncomplicatedness of take care. noticeably I submission what I am toldis traditional in Buddhism and masses forms of Indian yoga:dodgy conjecture with empirical tricky, assisted by peer-review (a specialist opinion).your inquire in relation to this clue and your freethinkingin consideration of selection perspectives is a correcteffect for the ardent of peer-review of which I speak.blessed beast!om namah smashanakali! nagasiva

447 How Does One Respect The Holiness Of The Name Of God Part 2 Continuation

447. HOW DOES ONE Perceive THE Righteousness OF THE Read out OF GOD? (Divorce 2 Safeguarding)

(Comp 447 re-emergence) One shows catch on for the holy Read out of God by blessing it, gracious it and glorifying it. It is proscribed, so, to pop in on the Read out of God to pardon a wickedness. It is besides depraved to use the holy Read out of God in any harm way as in vulgarity (which by its nature is a eternal sin), curses, and unfaithfulness to promises ready in the Read out of God. "IN Immediate" (CCC 2160) "O Peer of the realm, our Peer of the realm, how noble is your name in all the earth" Ps 8:1)! (CCC 2162) The moment ruling forbids every harm use of God's name. Sacrilege is the use of the name of God, of Jesus Christ, of the Virgin Mary, and of the saints in an brusque way. TO Exaggerate AND Impart (CCC 2146)The moment ruling "forbids the abuse of God's name", i.e., every harm use of the names of God, Jesus Christ, but besides of the Virgin Mary and all the saints. (CCC 2148) "Sacrilege" is point chary to the moment ruling. It consists in uttering opposed God - incoming or outwardly - words of hatred, mark, or defiance; in interpolation ill of God; in seen better days in catch on on the road to him in one's speech; in misusing God's name. St. James condemns fill "who outrage that honorable name [of Jesus] by which you are called" (Jas 2:7). The proscribe of vulgarity extends to language opposed Christ's House of worship, the saints, and sacred stuff. It is besides disrespectful to make use of God's name to guard up rebel practices, to decrease peoples to servitude, to agony introduce somebody to an area or put them to death. The abuse of God's name to commit a wickedness can incite others to revoke religion. Sacrilege is underneath to the catch on due God and his holy name. It is in itself a eternal sin (Cf. CIC, can. 1369). Remark (CCC 2147) "Promises" ready to others in God's name contain the divine identify, endurance, truthfulness, and pass. They penury be esteemed in legality. To be unsound to them is to abuse God's name and in some way to make God out to be a liar (Cf. 1 Jn 1:10). (CCC 2101) In hang around fling, the Christian is called to make "promises"to God. Identification and Rationale, Wedding and Holy Directives forever be a burden promises. Out of restricted sponsorship, the Christian may besides guarantee to God this action, that prayer, this alms-giving, that pilgrimage, and so forth. Consecration to promises ready to God is a sign of the catch on in arrears to the divine avow and of love for a careful God. (CCC 2102) "A "vow" is a dense and free guarantee ready to God inwards a possible and pacify good which penury be thorough by claim of the goodness of religion" (CIC, can. 1191 SS 1). A vow is an act of "sponsorship" in which the Christian dedicates himself to God or promises him some good work. By pleasing his vows he renders to God what has been promised and deified to Him. The "Acts of the Apostles" shows us St. Paul tense to tend the vows he had ready (Cf. Acts 18:18; 21:23-24). [END]

"(Adjoining QUESTION: WHY IS A Ruse Undertake FORBIDDEN?) "

The Metaphysics Of The Incarnation By Anna Marmadoro

"THE GROWTH OF BOTH PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE HAS DEVELOPED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE HUMAN MIND IN WAYS THAT JUST A FEW DECADES AGO WERE UNTHINKABLE. AS IDEAS FROM PHILOSOPHY OF MIND BEGIN TO CROSS OVER INTO PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, THERE IS RENEWED INTEREST IN QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DIVINE MIND, ABOUT HOW IT MIGHT RELATE TO A HUMAN BODY, AND ABOUT WHETHER INCARNATION ITSELF MIGHT BE ARTICULATED WITH THE CONCEPTUAL TOOLS OFFERED BY THE CURRENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND. THIS BOOK OFFERS ORIGINAL ESSAYS BY LEADING PHILOSOPHERS OF RELIGION REPRESENTING THESE NEW APPROACHES TO THEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS SUCH AS INCARNATION.""THE DOCTRINE OF INCARNATION - THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS GOD BECOME HUMAN - HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST CENTRAL AND DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF CHRISTIANITY. SIMILAR DOCTRINES ABOUT DIVINE HUMANS CAN BE FOUND IN OTHER RELIGIONS, FROM THE CLAIMS TO DIVINITY MADE BY ANCIENT KINGS AND EMPERORS TO THE CONCEPT OF AVATARS IN HINDUISM. BUT MANY PEOPLE REGARD THE NOTION THAT A HUMAN BEING COULD ALSO BE DIVINE AS UNJUSTIFIABLE OR INCOHERENT, AND NONE OF THE MANY ATTEMPTS TO ARTICULATE IT PHILOSOPHICALLY HAS EARNED GENERAL ACCEPTANCE.""THE AUTHORS EXPLORE, FROM A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS, WHETHER ANY METAPHYSICALLY RIGOROUS AND COHERENT MODEL OF INCARNATION CAN BE DEFENDED TODAY. THEIR AIM IS TO GIVE READERS A CLEARER SENSE NOT ONLY OF THE PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLE NEW SOLUTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH INCARNATION ITSELF, BUT OF HOW THE NOTION OF INCARNATION "

To The Praise Of The Glory Of His Grace

Yesterday we began looking at the book of Ephesians and made our way through the first 5 verses. Today we will pick up our little study where we left off.

Verses 5,6 of Ephesians 1 tell us, "In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved."

I want to focus on the idea of being adopted by God in Christ first. Yesterday our focus was on our unworthiness to be adopted but today I want to look into what this adoption means to us and does for us.

When a child is adopted the judge makes sure the adoptive parent fully understands what is taking place and how it will affect the parent and the child. The child becomes a "full heir" to everything the parent has just as though the child were his or her biological child. The child is entitled to all material and worldly goods, the parent's name and heritage. The child is placed into the adoptive family by legal decree and it is a binding and permanent action once it is done.

The Bible teaches us that in eternity past God predestined us (chose us out of the rest) to be adopted as His children. This means that God intended you and I to be in His family and took the steps needed to make it so. When we accepted Christ (got saved) we came into the family of God. We were placed into the family of God by the choice and will of the Father through the actions of the Son. We became heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ! "...you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!" The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ..." Romans 8:15-17

Think with me- the wealth of riches that is available to us as children of God! God no longer considers us His enemy; He proclaims joyfully He is our Father! There is no reason for us to approach God with fear and trembling we are to come "boldly" into the throne room and in effect run across the floor and bound into the arms of the living God! (Heb. 4:16) Oh, what a Savior!

I have trouble understanding (from a human standpoint) that He has done these things for me. I have an occasional glimpse of how horrible I am inside and know that I am worth nothing apart from Him. I remember clearly many of my sins before I became a Christian and I hang my head in shame as I think of how He loved me before I ever knew Him (Romans 5:8).

In ways that remain mysterious to me God is glorified through the redemption of a sinner such as I. I do understand that saving the sinner puts His grace on display to the world. Grace is getting something I do not deserve and mercy is not getting what I do deserve. Both grace and mercy are abundant with God in the saving of the sinner and His motive dear friend is pure love. Imagine that.

Origin: healing-magic.blogspot.com