Ask one who has been to Nirvana

[Patine]

Just tell me how, big mouth, and I reduce you to the spec of dust you are. Promised.
Because I know what I am saying. And any measure of arbitrariness you perceive only unravels the depths of your shields from reality ... and ultimately always yourself. Which is the gimmick, really. That it is all already there. Which is why it can't loose.

Faith is the basis of all religious belief (yours and mine included) in this world, because the Divine has chosen not to act in verified memory in a way NONE can dispute, and ALL can all only but agree due the Glory of what is acted upon the Earth. And I do not share your form of Faith in the Divine, and how the Great Mysteries are accessed, and you cannot browbeat me into doing so through pompous text (because I can do pompous text too, and others here can attest to that). In fact, very few senior Buddhists, from all I've read and heard of their doctrines (which is more extensive then you might think) would put much credence in your claims without further evidence that I am certain they have methods of discerning.

 

[AdamCrock]

I ask You this : Why am I so evil ?!?!?! How can I be a better man ?

 

[Birdjaguar]

I ask You this : Why am I so evil ?!?!?! How can I be a better man ?

You aren't evil and one day at a time, one change at a time.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

because I can do pompous text too, and others here can attest to that

Honeytrap!

I ask You this : Why am I so evil ?!?!?!

You're selfish. You're suffering from the condition of being human.

How can I be a better man ?

Try to be less selfish. You won't succeed, because when you try, you will feel good about that if you're emphatic, and then you're selfish again, but this time you're no long evil, and ... wait, I confused myself, because you're evil.

Terx, help me out here.

Any measure of arbitrariness you perceive only unravels the depths of your shields from reality ... and ultimately always yourself.

Yeah, that'll do.

 

[AdamCrock]

You're selfish. You're suffering from the condition of being human.

True ....

 

[AdamCrock]

" When You look into the abyss , the abyss also looks at You "

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

" When You look into the abyss , the abyss also looks at You "

Only fair innit?

 

[AdamCrock]

Only fair innit?

Yeah I suppose ....

 

[Narz]

I ask You this : Why am I so evil ?!?!?! How can I be a better man ?

How are you evil?

Wouldn't someone evil by definition want to stay evil? If you want to be good then you're not evil.

 

[Patine]

How are you evil?

Wouldn't someone evil by definition want to stay evil? If you want to be good then you're not evil.

If you were a believer in, and had faith in, Zoroastrianism or Manicheanism, definitely. But most other religious or moral viewpoints tend to be much more nuanced and transitional on the issue.

 

[AdamCrock]

Bulhakov "Master and Margaret"
"
- Who are You ?!
- I am a part of that force , who eternally wishes evil ... doing good things...."

 

[aelf]

Somewhere, Zarathustra is sad that Manicheanism is used as a bad word.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

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[Terxpahseyton]

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[Patine]

Wrong
A


That is a good point.
But by now outdated.

So again wrong, I am afraid.

I have no need of faith. I know. And see. That is all I need. That is the pure perfect form of faith, if you will. However, that is only so because GOD assigned that role to me. So, really, do not take it personal (yet you will :sigh to infinity
You know a true man of faith does not depend on the assurance of others to feel safe. For he got freaking GOD! He may put a foot down and say what is what! FOR NEVER CONFUSE TRUE FAITH WITH WEAKNESS. But he does not need it, for his or her strength.


You.
Do.
End of story

Why? Because God's wants you to.
Why?
Because you are still searching. Well aren't you a lucky bastard to have found me. Truly. Rarely people get as lucky. Congrats man!

Yeah the FREAKING JOHN_HOPSKINS_UNIVERSTY tested lsd on Buddhist monks. A lot. Guess what they found.
STOP FIGHTING THE INEVITBILE YOU CRAZY LOST BUT BEAUTIFUL SOUL

and just surrender and give me your hand, man
It is all there. So easy. So by itself
just
let
flow
it will be alright
i promise
All I do not promise that "alright" is a straight line. It never was and never will be.
It is a modus. So something - alive. Something that changes. But there is a good and a bad way. There is a way to hell and heaven. And again - those are not metaphors. Not infantile thought bubbles. The infantile thought bubble in people's head is what is the actual problem. Not they themselves.

Possible budding wacko future cult leader detected. The next cult leader from old news stories is quite possibly the poster I'm responding to.Look at this unhinged egotistical pseudo-spiritualist rhetoric, everyone. The same sort of material as define other wonky cult leaders. We all get to see a potential one (he may not blossom after all) in incipent form.

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[Terxpahseyton]

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[Terxpahseyton]

I ask You this : Why am I so evil ?!?!?! How can I be a better man ?

Sorry for being late.
Because you are running away from your evil side, giving it power over you, making it chase you. Learn to stop running. Learn to carry its burden. And it will become your righteous fist. But first, you must allow it to break you, by trying to master it and break it. In the end, both of you will be broken. Ready to unite. To become one. To become whole. In the best of cases - to become even holy.

" When You look into the abyss , the abyss also looks at You "

It does, but will you flinch?
It took Nietzsche's sanity. Fair enough. But he was meant to loose himself in it. Otherwise he couldn't have produced what he produced. He couldn't have become the prophet he always felt he ought to be, and was.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

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[Terxpahseyton]

Sorry for being late.
Because you are running away from your evil side, giving it power over you, making it chase you. Learn to stop running. Learn to carry its burden. And it will become your righteous fist. But first, you must allow it to break you, by trying to master it and break it. In the end, both of you will be broken. Ready to unite. To become one. To become whole. In the best of cases - to become even holy.

It does, but will you flinch?
It took Nietzsche's sanity. Fair enough. But he was meant to loose himself in it. Otherwise he couldn't have produced what he produced. He couldn't have become the prophet he always felt he ought to be, and was.

It is necessary to expand on that. Because this is essential.
You are chasing up the wrong mountain. The mountain called "good". But "good" is, in the end, a pathetic lie.
It is not about being good, but being whole. Being complete. Being one.
So stop trying to be good. And instead become one. Embrace all the gifts GOD gave to you. Wade through everything there is in you, and you will become more than you ever could have imagined.
Travel far, @AdamCrock , and find your place. Since it is clear that there are still some miles ahead of you. But the more miles you need to walk, the greater the price in the end. So don't waver. Go. Now.

 

[Ferocitus]

But if you were really good at it, you could finish early, and then go onto do something else and become One at that.
Now, as two Ones, you could try to become One in a Third way, like a Sufi, or a Druid, or Tony Blair.