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Our spirits are designed to do good and perfect doing good. The necessity to do good in this world of tangible reality is to perfect the play of consciousness upon manifest creation. Only then can we transcend the world...by perfecting it. Sometimes i think that the created order must necessarily be in the dualist mode. Or else the ten thousand things will not exist in its diversity. The differentiation and the dualism of the ONE thus includes the mixing of the good and evil, the subject and the... Read More

Although the inevitability of death is undeniable, i don't think that this was the original design. I believe the intent was simple--to reflect perfection in all things especially in gross matter. The narrowing of our perceptual abilities to the point of disconnection is a result of our focusing on the fragmentary nature of things and limiting our sensitivity to the five senses alone. The gift of the freedom of choice is not tantamount to disconnection. In fact, disconnection is artificia... Read More

If our experience with Reality is indirect and second hand and only a recollection of what has been arranged by our senses, what does it make of the world then? Is it merely an illusion that must not be taken seriously? What about history, injustice, human life? Do we just consider them as fragments of one’s imagination? This life, this body, this earth, is important in the sense that this is the fullest manifestation of matter, consciousness, and spirit. Our task and the intent of the... Read More

Our experience with reality as such always passes through the medium of our perceptual faculties. What we perceive is already a distilled version of the great reality out there. Then our minds organize this reality into meaningful and palatable chunks. The major mistake of our time is to consider these chunks as The Reality when they are only chunks of reality created by our limited capacity to perceive reality. Then we become attached to these chunks, become mesmerized by them, and wallow in ou... Read More

All perception must be processed by mediums of perception. Mediums of perception are necessarily limited in what they can perceive. That is why all our experience with reality is indirect. Mediums of perceiving reality such as the eyes, ears, nose, feel,taste, are but mechanisms through which we can arrange reality and life into digestible units--more safe, more controlled, more tangible. In this sense, mediums of perceiving reality becomes an advantage to us. It becomes our defense against the... Read More