O God Almighty!
I shall take your doctrine of peace
And love my fellow man, and if struck, turn the other cheek.
Yet if infidels come for me with swords,
then I shall be as a Templar Knight and defend my honor justly.
Thus shall I act in the name of the Lord.
Amen.
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20150127
Karma of The Christ (prayer)
Lord, have mercy on this sinner!
Let it be known to they who have ears:
He that wishes hellfire on unbelievers
The devil tempted, but he alone errs.
He that practices mercy like God,
The Christ he follows faithfully.
Truly then are the merciful of men
The most divine of humanity, not
Unlike the Only Begotten — none
Dare accuse them of wrongdoing.
For it is not up to us to judge
Lest we be judged according to His will.
All that believe in God Almighty,
Be they Christian, Jew or Muslim,
By their acts they be judged by Him,
And those that err shall be shown
Mercy, being offered their last chance.
When that time comes, they who choose
The Millennium shall not know death,
And they who choose to be purged
Will only return to the Godhead
Until their glory is revealed.
If this is heterodox to the doctrines
Of Abrahamic faiths, be they Christian,
Jewish or Muslim, then your doctrine is pure.
If what is written here as prayer is heretical
In the eyes of the devout, be they Muslim,
Jewish or Christian, then your doctrine is corrupt.
Be ye silent, yet pray for my soul,
'Tis because of thy wish that is founded
On false doctrine about "hellfire and brimstone",
And the destruction of evil by its Author.
Indeed, the doctrine that God, the Author
Of good and evil, shall destroy all evil
So that only good remains is an unbalanced one
Created by cult members for the sake of control
Over the followers of such obscene doctrine.
Instead, hellfire cleans away all evil,
Leaving only the immortal soul behind
To be embraced by the Only Begotten,
Made one with God Almighty,
And touched by the Holy Ghost.
What is revealed is the truth
In the name of the Lord!
Amen.
Let it be known to they who have ears:
He that wishes hellfire on unbelievers
The devil tempted, but he alone errs.
He that practices mercy like God,
The Christ he follows faithfully.
Truly then are the merciful of men
The most divine of humanity, not
Unlike the Only Begotten — none
Dare accuse them of wrongdoing.
For it is not up to us to judge
Lest we be judged according to His will.
All that believe in God Almighty,
Be they Christian, Jew or Muslim,
By their acts they be judged by Him,
And those that err shall be shown
Mercy, being offered their last chance.
When that time comes, they who choose
The Millennium shall not know death,
And they who choose to be purged
Will only return to the Godhead
Until their glory is revealed.
If this is heterodox to the doctrines
Of Abrahamic faiths, be they Christian,
Jewish or Muslim, then your doctrine is pure.
If what is written here as prayer is heretical
In the eyes of the devout, be they Muslim,
Jewish or Christian, then your doctrine is corrupt.
Be ye silent, yet pray for my soul,
'Tis because of thy wish that is founded
On false doctrine about "hellfire and brimstone",
And the destruction of evil by its Author.
Indeed, the doctrine that God, the Author
Of good and evil, shall destroy all evil
So that only good remains is an unbalanced one
Created by cult members for the sake of control
Over the followers of such obscene doctrine.
Instead, hellfire cleans away all evil,
Leaving only the immortal soul behind
To be embraced by the Only Begotten,
Made one with God Almighty,
And touched by the Holy Ghost.
What is revealed is the truth
In the name of the Lord!
Amen.
20150107
Kyrie Eleyson - Lord Have Mercy - Early Christian Prayer
Kyrie, rex genitor ingenite, vera essentia, eleyson.
Kyrie, luminis fons rerumque conditor, eleyson.
Kyrie, qui nos tuæ imaginis signasti specie, eleyson.
Christe, Dei forma humana particeps, eleyson.
Christe, lux oriens per quem sunt omnia, eleyson.
Christe, qui perfecta es sapientia, eleyson.
Kyrie, spiritus vivifice, vitæ vis, eleyson.
Kyrie, utriqusque vapor in quo cuncta, eleyson.
Kyrie, expurgator scelerum et largitor gratitæ quæsumus propter nostras offensas noli nos relinquere, O consolator dolentis animæ, eleyson
English translation:
Lord, King and Father unbegotten, True Essence of the Godhead, have mercy on us.
Lord, Fount of light and Creator of all things, have mercy on us.
Lord, Thou who hast signed us with the seal of Thine image, have mercy on us.
Christ, True God and True Man, have mercy on us.
Christ, Rising Sun, through whom are all things, have mercy on us.
Christ, Perfection of Wisdom, have mercy on us.
Lord, vivifying Spirit and power of life, have mercy on us.
Lord, Breath of the Father and the Son, in Whom are all things, have mercy on us.
Lord, Purger of sin and Almoner of grace, we beseech Thee abandon us not because of our Sins, O Consoler of the sorrowing soul, have mercy on us.
Originally posted on October 15, 2007 at 2:37 PM
Kyrie, luminis fons rerumque conditor, eleyson.
Kyrie, qui nos tuæ imaginis signasti specie, eleyson.
Christe, Dei forma humana particeps, eleyson.
Christe, lux oriens per quem sunt omnia, eleyson.
Christe, qui perfecta es sapientia, eleyson.
Kyrie, spiritus vivifice, vitæ vis, eleyson.
Kyrie, utriqusque vapor in quo cuncta, eleyson.
Kyrie, expurgator scelerum et largitor gratitæ quæsumus propter nostras offensas noli nos relinquere, O consolator dolentis animæ, eleyson
English translation:
Lord, King and Father unbegotten, True Essence of the Godhead, have mercy on us.
Lord, Fount of light and Creator of all things, have mercy on us.
Lord, Thou who hast signed us with the seal of Thine image, have mercy on us.
Christ, True God and True Man, have mercy on us.
Christ, Rising Sun, through whom are all things, have mercy on us.
Christ, Perfection of Wisdom, have mercy on us.
Lord, vivifying Spirit and power of life, have mercy on us.
Lord, Breath of the Father and the Son, in Whom are all things, have mercy on us.
Lord, Purger of sin and Almoner of grace, we beseech Thee abandon us not because of our Sins, O Consoler of the sorrowing soul, have mercy on us.
Originally posted on October 15, 2007 at 2:37 PM
- Catholic Encyclopedia - Kyrie Eleison: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08714a.htm
- Playlist of Kyrie eleison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6oM1iLJH6k&list=PL3F249F56C83ECECF
20141030
What's Love (and Sex) Got to Do with Agapé and Eros
In grade school, it was fun to play with the girls until the boys shamed me into playing with them.
As well, I was subtly bullied by a girl in Grade 6 when in Grade 2, due to her frustration in teaching me math that was simple for her but mysterious to me.
Though that never stopped me from excelling at math.
Then after Grade Three I spent the summer holiday with my first crush.
However, he teasing in Grade Four after my classmates found out I had a summer crush led me to realise romance has to be discreet ie not in my hometown.
The fact that my mother put a stop to it due to being late for supper makes me cautious lest I ruin my relationship with my roommates.
However, the best kind of love is between friends. This love has many names, but two of them are familiarly known as Agape and Eros.
Both Agapé and Eros are two sides of the same coin called human love.
Human love is so fickle though.
Unconditional love demands us to stop placing conditions on love. This is why friends love each other dearly: their love is unconditioned.
However, the only rule in friendship is remain loyal to each other, though it is loyalty with discretion.
Yet friendships rely on each of us to respect each other's right to be free, and to grow as individuals.
However, do not expect a friend to do anything for you, since it may lead to conflict. Such an expectation is unreasonable since it expects too much of a friend.
Do expect a close friend to be there when you need them but remember: friends are not slaves to be toyed with.
If you want anyone who is your friend to become reliable, then be reliable to them. Do anything for them as is necessary, and limit yourselves accordingly.
A good friend is a loyal helpmate. You are that friend.
My first crush was my best female friend, not a girlfriend but a friend who happened to be a girl.
I am happy that such a friend exists for me.
It can only be platonic though, for a man ought to be mature enough to call BS on the myth about platonic friendships.
Indeed it is a pernicious lie to assume a platonic relationship has a subtle sexual ambiance to it.
This lie is based on the error about the mythical libido, which is misinterpreted as the sex drive.
Libido actually is related to life and its propagation, and can be successfully sublimed into service, be it work or play.
Returning to my first crush, it was play that brought us together. Yet duty to my family nipped that in the bud.
Thus the libido must often be tamed, lest friendships be threatened by its excess.
So, my mother helped me to tame my libido by putting a curfew on me.
I suppose the cruelty such as beatings and burning moxibustion only showed the dark side of mother love - but because it was child abuse, it only served to make me fiercely independent when I was younger.
Yet here I am today realising that social isolation might be a side effect of the strong impression at a young age that I ought not associate with anyone lest they learn how dysfunctional I am.
However, the friends that I have show me that they tolerate whatever eccentricities I may have, which helps to moderate my behaviour accordingly.
For that is what unconditional love is actually about: accepting each other, warts and all.
Through daily meditation and prayer,
I daily sublimate Eros, and thus transform its motivational energy into Agapé, the vital essence of unconditional love.
Based on your life experiences, which love is the original love?
Remember: the libido is a manmade construct to explain sexuality, which too is manmade. While Eros and Agapé are two sides of love, the libido, Eros itself, is the subconscious call of the wild to propagate the species, which originates in each living being's survival mechanism.
In contrast Agapé is unconditional love which is the subconscious call from God Almighty to be of service to him by being a standing minister to worldly Gentiles and the apostates in the world today, often by being like an angel in disguise.
IMHO I feel that a healthy balance between Agapé and Eros is not often possible.
It is my contention that the gross energy of Eros (the libido) has often been sublimated and thus energizes Agapé. However sex is not love.
Therefore the sublimated libido energizes unconditional love. At the same time, that Love helps each of us through the grace of God to tame the libido.
I remember as a young boy how I was slowly growing out of control due to family strife due to my birth defects being used by my paternal grandmother shaming my mother because of those defects.
When it turned out that one of her sons, my uncle, had died of complications due to epilepsy, that foiled my grandmother. It is sad when a parent mentally abuses a daughter or son like this, and tragic especially when the same is done to an in-law.
Yet unconditional love is something we experience so little of in the world but have the opportunity to practice in the meetinghouse.
Still, it ought to be shared with the world, often without mentioning God Almighty, who made the world in six days not that we love Him only on the Sabbath, but also for the rest of the week from Monday to Saturday.
By sharing unconditional love with the world, it is then possible for standing ministers to share the Gospel with like minded Gentiles, so that they may come to know the truth about the LDS church.
For example, I have recently found Mormon cosmology to be almost like a light version of Buddhist cosmology, without the cycle of reincarnation and lacking the fullness of its Buddhist counterpart.
Of course, I attribute this to my ignorance of the richness inherent in Mormon cosmology due to my apostasy before baptism and LDS membership.
However, Buddhist cosmology contains a multitude of Buddha worlds of which the Pure Land is one.
IMHO the worlds awaiting the LDS members bound for celestial glory are like the Pure Land.
Yet the LDS literature is vague about the many worlds that those celestial latter day saints inherit.
With an understanding of Agapé and Eros, and of their respective commonplace terms, unconditional love and the libido, it is likely to help put human love into perspective.
Firstly, Agape is Love unconditioned and uncorrupted by carnal love, Eros.
Through the grace of God, after consistent prayer and meditation by a Mormon, Eros is sublimated which subtly energizes Agapé.
Thus is carnal love sublimated into unconditional love. However love is not sex.
Overall the Christ's call to love one another is tempered with his command to love your enemies and also to turn the other cheek ie accept the mental cruelty of zealous anti Mormon cultists without complaint.
As well, I was subtly bullied by a girl in Grade 6 when in Grade 2, due to her frustration in teaching me math that was simple for her but mysterious to me.
Though that never stopped me from excelling at math.
Then after Grade Three I spent the summer holiday with my first crush.
However, he teasing in Grade Four after my classmates found out I had a summer crush led me to realise romance has to be discreet ie not in my hometown.
The fact that my mother put a stop to it due to being late for supper makes me cautious lest I ruin my relationship with my roommates.
However, the best kind of love is between friends. This love has many names, but two of them are familiarly known as Agape and Eros.
Both Agapé and Eros are two sides of the same coin called human love.
Human love is so fickle though.
Unconditional love demands us to stop placing conditions on love. This is why friends love each other dearly: their love is unconditioned.
However, the only rule in friendship is remain loyal to each other, though it is loyalty with discretion.
Yet friendships rely on each of us to respect each other's right to be free, and to grow as individuals.
However, do not expect a friend to do anything for you, since it may lead to conflict. Such an expectation is unreasonable since it expects too much of a friend.
Do expect a close friend to be there when you need them but remember: friends are not slaves to be toyed with.
If you want anyone who is your friend to become reliable, then be reliable to them. Do anything for them as is necessary, and limit yourselves accordingly.
A good friend is a loyal helpmate. You are that friend.
My first crush was my best female friend, not a girlfriend but a friend who happened to be a girl.
I am happy that such a friend exists for me.
It can only be platonic though, for a man ought to be mature enough to call BS on the myth about platonic friendships.
Indeed it is a pernicious lie to assume a platonic relationship has a subtle sexual ambiance to it.
This lie is based on the error about the mythical libido, which is misinterpreted as the sex drive.
Libido actually is related to life and its propagation, and can be successfully sublimed into service, be it work or play.
Returning to my first crush, it was play that brought us together. Yet duty to my family nipped that in the bud.
Thus the libido must often be tamed, lest friendships be threatened by its excess.
So, my mother helped me to tame my libido by putting a curfew on me.
I suppose the cruelty such as beatings and burning moxibustion only showed the dark side of mother love - but because it was child abuse, it only served to make me fiercely independent when I was younger.
Yet here I am today realising that social isolation might be a side effect of the strong impression at a young age that I ought not associate with anyone lest they learn how dysfunctional I am.
However, the friends that I have show me that they tolerate whatever eccentricities I may have, which helps to moderate my behaviour accordingly.
For that is what unconditional love is actually about: accepting each other, warts and all.
Through daily meditation and prayer,
I daily sublimate Eros, and thus transform its motivational energy into Agapé, the vital essence of unconditional love.
Based on your life experiences, which love is the original love?
Remember: the libido is a manmade construct to explain sexuality, which too is manmade. While Eros and Agapé are two sides of love, the libido, Eros itself, is the subconscious call of the wild to propagate the species, which originates in each living being's survival mechanism.
In contrast Agapé is unconditional love which is the subconscious call from God Almighty to be of service to him by being a standing minister to worldly Gentiles and the apostates in the world today, often by being like an angel in disguise.
IMHO I feel that a healthy balance between Agapé and Eros is not often possible.
It is my contention that the gross energy of Eros (the libido) has often been sublimated and thus energizes Agapé. However sex is not love.
Therefore the sublimated libido energizes unconditional love. At the same time, that Love helps each of us through the grace of God to tame the libido.
I remember as a young boy how I was slowly growing out of control due to family strife due to my birth defects being used by my paternal grandmother shaming my mother because of those defects.
When it turned out that one of her sons, my uncle, had died of complications due to epilepsy, that foiled my grandmother. It is sad when a parent mentally abuses a daughter or son like this, and tragic especially when the same is done to an in-law.
Yet unconditional love is something we experience so little of in the world but have the opportunity to practice in the meetinghouse.
Still, it ought to be shared with the world, often without mentioning God Almighty, who made the world in six days not that we love Him only on the Sabbath, but also for the rest of the week from Monday to Saturday.
By sharing unconditional love with the world, it is then possible for standing ministers to share the Gospel with like minded Gentiles, so that they may come to know the truth about the LDS church.
For example, I have recently found Mormon cosmology to be almost like a light version of Buddhist cosmology, without the cycle of reincarnation and lacking the fullness of its Buddhist counterpart.
Of course, I attribute this to my ignorance of the richness inherent in Mormon cosmology due to my apostasy before baptism and LDS membership.
However, Buddhist cosmology contains a multitude of Buddha worlds of which the Pure Land is one.
IMHO the worlds awaiting the LDS members bound for celestial glory are like the Pure Land.
Yet the LDS literature is vague about the many worlds that those celestial latter day saints inherit.
With an understanding of Agapé and Eros, and of their respective commonplace terms, unconditional love and the libido, it is likely to help put human love into perspective.
Firstly, Agape is Love unconditioned and uncorrupted by carnal love, Eros.
Through the grace of God, after consistent prayer and meditation by a Mormon, Eros is sublimated which subtly energizes Agapé.
Thus is carnal love sublimated into unconditional love. However love is not sex.
Overall the Christ's call to love one another is tempered with his command to love your enemies and also to turn the other cheek ie accept the mental cruelty of zealous anti Mormon cultists without complaint.
20140802
My Life as a Jack Mormon (satire)
“Baptism is a sign to God, to angels, and to heaven that we do the will of God, and there is no other way beneath the heavens whereby God hath ordained for man to come to Him to be saved, and enter into the kingdom of God, except faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, and baptism for the remission of sins, and any other course is in vain; then you have the promise of the gift of the Holy Ghost.” — Joseph Smith, Jr - History of the Church, 4:553–557
From this quote, baptism shows God, angels and heaven that the baptized does the will of God. Along with faith in the Christ and repentance, it is the only way God has ordained me to come to him to be saved and enter the kingdom of God.
Repentance means that I am committed to not sinning by following Mormon precepts and values. However, there is some leeway here since I am currently an unbaptized prospect.
It is only during times when I am tired or stressed that I might be tempted to sin, but have overcome alcoholic use because I have barely used alcohol for about seven weeks. I stopped smoking completely, and resisted all relapses. Hot drinks require only time for them to cool down; therefore I have kept that Mormon precept. As for dangerous drugs, I currently do not use any of them. Thus I keep the precepts about alcohol, tobacco, hot drinks, and dangerous drugs.
As well, I have even decided to keep chaste, mainly because I am sure that prayer and meditation will help me resist temptation.
Mainly because of prayer and meditation is all of this possible. However, faith in the Christ helps me to maintain repentance, preparing me for baptism in a few years.
Even so, a Buddhist who adheres to Mormon precepts is but a Jack Mormon. For I am not a baptized member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Having attended Sunday meetings at the local meetinghouse, I have become friendly towards Church members and Mormonism, having sympathized with them, and have taken an active interest in their belief system, even though much of how I view Mormonism is seen through Buddha eyes.
Of course, "Buddha eyes" is metaphor for "seeing and understanding life with a caring and compassionate heart".
This comes through regular meditation to develop the calm mind necessary for seeing with the heart until I understand that life is meaningful due to suffering when it inspires us to see the truth about suffering. and reject the vain grasping of desire that is "evil passion", which is merely the act of mental calculation to commit error and thus "sin".
Therefore meditation is heavy duty prayer, and merely giving thanks to God is enough to begin my meditations, which help keep me focused on living like a Mormon. Although it would be impossible for me to completely think like a Mormon, I know that it is not in my nature to be radically conservative.
Indeed, I would rather balance the conservatism of Mormon thought with the liberalness of Buddhist humanism, for the ecumenism of Mormonism does counterbalance its conservative elements.
My path into Mormonism however is not a course in vain. Rather, it is a cautious journey into a religion that not only has conservative elements in it, but also liberal elements. In my heart, I know that Mormonism isn't just a fad for me. It has drawn from my own Buddhist faith to help enlighten my understanding of the Mormon way, which ranges from conservative to liberal.
Returning to baptism, "unbaptized" reminds me of the phrase "the unwashed masses" — I used to be one of them. Even though I remain "unwashed", in my heart all those sins are being washed away by keeping the Mormon precepts.
Perhaps one day when I am baptized the gift of the Holy Ghost that is promised will help prepare me for becoming a full member of the Mormon faith.
Indeed, today I feel like I truly belong, because Mormons have come to know and love me. They even pray for me, and I am thankful for that.
Just as in Mormonism, thanksgiving is a vital part of my Buddhist faith. I know that much of that faith will help "fill in the blanks" where Mormon literature preaches the Christology, though I will tactfully refrain from filling in the blanks for Mormons.
Yes, I admit to adhering to religious pluralism. However, the light that shines before the world is the spiritual light of what Mormons call the Christ. I would call it Buddha Nature, which also may be described in terms of water as the drops of each person's faith that mingle together into an ocean of pure compassion.
For no matter what faith I was born into, the tenets of Buddhism are the core elements that inspire me to yield to what Mormonism wishes of me, provided I continue to purify my mind through meditation so that all that is Mormon fits with all that I know of Buddhism. This means the Pure Land will akin to the Celestial Kingdom as a destination in the afterlife where the faithful Mormons go to receive spiritual guidance from the Christ.
Will I forget about baptism? No, but my continued association with the Mormons will be worth the change of faith. As for now, I am satisfied with my life as a Jack Mormon, balancing Zen and Mormonism.
Reference:
Jack Mormon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Mormon
From this quote, baptism shows God, angels and heaven that the baptized does the will of God. Along with faith in the Christ and repentance, it is the only way God has ordained me to come to him to be saved and enter the kingdom of God.
Repentance means that I am committed to not sinning by following Mormon precepts and values. However, there is some leeway here since I am currently an unbaptized prospect.
It is only during times when I am tired or stressed that I might be tempted to sin, but have overcome alcoholic use because I have barely used alcohol for about seven weeks. I stopped smoking completely, and resisted all relapses. Hot drinks require only time for them to cool down; therefore I have kept that Mormon precept. As for dangerous drugs, I currently do not use any of them. Thus I keep the precepts about alcohol, tobacco, hot drinks, and dangerous drugs.
As well, I have even decided to keep chaste, mainly because I am sure that prayer and meditation will help me resist temptation.
Mainly because of prayer and meditation is all of this possible. However, faith in the Christ helps me to maintain repentance, preparing me for baptism in a few years.
Even so, a Buddhist who adheres to Mormon precepts is but a Jack Mormon. For I am not a baptized member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Having attended Sunday meetings at the local meetinghouse, I have become friendly towards Church members and Mormonism, having sympathized with them, and have taken an active interest in their belief system, even though much of how I view Mormonism is seen through Buddha eyes.
Of course, "Buddha eyes" is metaphor for "seeing and understanding life with a caring and compassionate heart".
This comes through regular meditation to develop the calm mind necessary for seeing with the heart until I understand that life is meaningful due to suffering when it inspires us to see the truth about suffering. and reject the vain grasping of desire that is "evil passion", which is merely the act of mental calculation to commit error and thus "sin".
Therefore meditation is heavy duty prayer, and merely giving thanks to God is enough to begin my meditations, which help keep me focused on living like a Mormon. Although it would be impossible for me to completely think like a Mormon, I know that it is not in my nature to be radically conservative.
Indeed, I would rather balance the conservatism of Mormon thought with the liberalness of Buddhist humanism, for the ecumenism of Mormonism does counterbalance its conservative elements.
My path into Mormonism however is not a course in vain. Rather, it is a cautious journey into a religion that not only has conservative elements in it, but also liberal elements. In my heart, I know that Mormonism isn't just a fad for me. It has drawn from my own Buddhist faith to help enlighten my understanding of the Mormon way, which ranges from conservative to liberal.
Returning to baptism, "unbaptized" reminds me of the phrase "the unwashed masses" — I used to be one of them. Even though I remain "unwashed", in my heart all those sins are being washed away by keeping the Mormon precepts.
Perhaps one day when I am baptized the gift of the Holy Ghost that is promised will help prepare me for becoming a full member of the Mormon faith.
Indeed, today I feel like I truly belong, because Mormons have come to know and love me. They even pray for me, and I am thankful for that.
Just as in Mormonism, thanksgiving is a vital part of my Buddhist faith. I know that much of that faith will help "fill in the blanks" where Mormon literature preaches the Christology, though I will tactfully refrain from filling in the blanks for Mormons.
Yes, I admit to adhering to religious pluralism. However, the light that shines before the world is the spiritual light of what Mormons call the Christ. I would call it Buddha Nature, which also may be described in terms of water as the drops of each person's faith that mingle together into an ocean of pure compassion.
For no matter what faith I was born into, the tenets of Buddhism are the core elements that inspire me to yield to what Mormonism wishes of me, provided I continue to purify my mind through meditation so that all that is Mormon fits with all that I know of Buddhism. This means the Pure Land will akin to the Celestial Kingdom as a destination in the afterlife where the faithful Mormons go to receive spiritual guidance from the Christ.
Will I forget about baptism? No, but my continued association with the Mormons will be worth the change of faith. As for now, I am satisfied with my life as a Jack Mormon, balancing Zen and Mormonism.
Reference:
Jack Mormon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Mormon
20140623
Meditation Has Freed My Mind (satire)
Having meditated regularly over the past 20 years or so, I would consider meditation to be a deeper form of prayer that has cleared my mind and aided in gleaning insight from the careful introspection which has accompanied it.
However, meditation is not like addressing God, then making a request of him, and closing with an 'Amen.' Instead, it has been the way that I focus on my breathing, while letting go of clinging to the thoughts which continue on dancing in my head.
While I do not know when I realized that there is no way in the world to stop thinking, it is possible to ignore most of my thoughts, except for the thoughts which I cling to and build into prose about stuff that is very interesting to me.
By letting go of clinging to my thoughts, I arrive at what might be called "no-thought" as in "no thought do I cling to, lest I forget about meditation." Having not clung to a single thought, it is like I have been freed from thinking itself.
It is as though the freedom that meditation provides is found by rendering sedate the mind so that it can clearly see the way, rather than being distracted by the monkey mind, untrained and striving for freedom.
For freedom exists within the framework of rules. Without rules, there is only licentiousness, the mother of true chaos.
Yet that chaos can be rendered null and void through meditation, which clears the mind and helps to focus it on liberation from the very same rules that helps the devotee reach Nirvana.
Only then can the devotee let go freely without regret, knowing that all those years of sitting on his ass has paid off.
For meditation has freed my mind from thinking, so that I may think more clearly about specific thoughts such as liberation of the mind. It begins with the thought that the mind is essentially free to think, and does so almost all the time while I am awake.
Perhaps when I am asleep, the mind may think but I am not aware of those thoughts, even though they may arise during a dream.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, i have actively meditated for over 20 years. When once it was difficult to meditate, quite possibly because I was doing it wrong, now it is almost too easy to meditate and enter the "zone". The key to meditation is to smile with joy, and work from there.
Too often have I seen stern-faced meditators trying to achieve satori. Believe me when I tell you, a smile might make the difference between thinking and being freed of clinging to thinking.
Indeed, a smile leads to liberation.
However, meditation is not like addressing God, then making a request of him, and closing with an 'Amen.' Instead, it has been the way that I focus on my breathing, while letting go of clinging to the thoughts which continue on dancing in my head.
While I do not know when I realized that there is no way in the world to stop thinking, it is possible to ignore most of my thoughts, except for the thoughts which I cling to and build into prose about stuff that is very interesting to me.
By letting go of clinging to my thoughts, I arrive at what might be called "no-thought" as in "no thought do I cling to, lest I forget about meditation." Having not clung to a single thought, it is like I have been freed from thinking itself.
It is as though the freedom that meditation provides is found by rendering sedate the mind so that it can clearly see the way, rather than being distracted by the monkey mind, untrained and striving for freedom.
For freedom exists within the framework of rules. Without rules, there is only licentiousness, the mother of true chaos.
Yet that chaos can be rendered null and void through meditation, which clears the mind and helps to focus it on liberation from the very same rules that helps the devotee reach Nirvana.
Only then can the devotee let go freely without regret, knowing that all those years of sitting on his ass has paid off.
For meditation has freed my mind from thinking, so that I may think more clearly about specific thoughts such as liberation of the mind. It begins with the thought that the mind is essentially free to think, and does so almost all the time while I am awake.
Perhaps when I am asleep, the mind may think but I am not aware of those thoughts, even though they may arise during a dream.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, i have actively meditated for over 20 years. When once it was difficult to meditate, quite possibly because I was doing it wrong, now it is almost too easy to meditate and enter the "zone". The key to meditation is to smile with joy, and work from there.
Too often have I seen stern-faced meditators trying to achieve satori. Believe me when I tell you, a smile might make the difference between thinking and being freed of clinging to thinking.
Indeed, a smile leads to liberation.
20140406
المحارب صحيح
سواء في الحرب أو في السلم المحارب الحقيقي هو مسئول تماما عن كل غير المقاتلين.
هو الله سبحانه وتعالى رحيم والصالحين، وصلاتك هي قسم مهم من الحماية.
لذلك تذكر هذا: لا غنائم الحرب هم.
ما إذا كان مؤمنا أو غير مؤمن، كل واحد منهم متساوون أمام الله، سواء كانت رجلا أو امرأة، فتى أو فتاة، صغارا أو كبارا - حتى حمايتهم.
إذا كان واحد منهم هو أذى من قبل أي واحد منكم، ثم، في توفير الحماية لهم، لكم جميعا الوقوف أمام النار.
منذ فترة طويلة في زمن الجاهلي، رجل حكيم قال ذات مرة "محارب قد ينتصر الأعداء ألف، ولكن محارب حقيقي ينتصر على نفسه."
إن شاء الله، هو الذي يعرف الجهاد يعني الحرب المقدسة هو الذي يعرف أكبر معركة تبدأ في قلبه وروحه.
هو الله سبحانه وتعالى رحيم والصالحين، وصلاتك هي قسم مهم من الحماية.
لذلك تذكر هذا: لا غنائم الحرب هم.
ما إذا كان مؤمنا أو غير مؤمن، كل واحد منهم متساوون أمام الله، سواء كانت رجلا أو امرأة، فتى أو فتاة، صغارا أو كبارا - حتى حمايتهم.
إذا كان واحد منهم هو أذى من قبل أي واحد منكم، ثم، في توفير الحماية لهم، لكم جميعا الوقوف أمام النار.
منذ فترة طويلة في زمن الجاهلي، رجل حكيم قال ذات مرة "محارب قد ينتصر الأعداء ألف، ولكن محارب حقيقي ينتصر على نفسه."
إن شاء الله، هو الذي يعرف الجهاد يعني الحرب المقدسة هو الذي يعرف أكبر معركة تبدأ في قلبه وروحه.
20121017
The Karma is a Bitch Prayer
may i be the person whose picture you turned into a taunt.
may i be the rug you walk all over with your dirty shoes
may my actions be the cause of your happiness
may you live in interesting times
until the ghost of your harmful actions
lead you to realize that karma is a bitch forever!
:edited to protect the innocent:
may i be the rug you walk all over with your dirty shoes
may my actions be the cause of your happiness
may you live in interesting times
until the ghost of your harmful actions
lead you to realize that karma is a bitch forever!
:edited to protect the innocent:
20110831
A Wake Up Call
Around 5 AM I got woke up by an angry female voice outside who told of the story of her pregnant roommate trying to kill her.
The man who was with her mumbled his reply back — he was smart to remain soft-spoken.
After a couple minutes they moved on.
This is why I dislike being within earshot of an argument or someone raising their voices so the whole neighbourhood could hear.
It makes me wish I took my sleep aid when I went to sleep at 2 AM.
On reflection, I feel a little sheepish because I raised my voice in the past, mainly due to not letting other people off the hook first so that I could get off the hook more easily.
It is disheartening to realize that a few people make so many inappropriate choices that they are prone to anger like that.
All I can do is meditate on what I heard and pray that my journey out of unforgiveness guided by the light of loving-kindness into recovery continues.
I realize that I cannot change what I hear.
What I am able to change is to transcend the habitual tendency to react to what I hear and act on the message hidden underneath all that hurt and anger.
What that lady is actually saying is "I am hurting, and upset my roommate tried to kill me because we didn't let each other off the hook."
It makes me thankful that I've let off my family, friends and loved ones off the hook.
By doing so, it is possible to quiet anger and heal my wounded soul.
All it takes is prayer and meditation on the messages hidden in an unseen stranger's anger.
So I am grateful for this woman who raised her voice in anger, and woke me up.
After a moment's meditation, all that comes to me is: "There but by the grace of God go I."
The man who was with her mumbled his reply back — he was smart to remain soft-spoken.
After a couple minutes they moved on.
This is why I dislike being within earshot of an argument or someone raising their voices so the whole neighbourhood could hear.
It makes me wish I took my sleep aid when I went to sleep at 2 AM.
On reflection, I feel a little sheepish because I raised my voice in the past, mainly due to not letting other people off the hook first so that I could get off the hook more easily.
It is disheartening to realize that a few people make so many inappropriate choices that they are prone to anger like that.
All I can do is meditate on what I heard and pray that my journey out of unforgiveness guided by the light of loving-kindness into recovery continues.
I realize that I cannot change what I hear.
What I am able to change is to transcend the habitual tendency to react to what I hear and act on the message hidden underneath all that hurt and anger.
What that lady is actually saying is "I am hurting, and upset my roommate tried to kill me because we didn't let each other off the hook."
It makes me thankful that I've let off my family, friends and loved ones off the hook.
By doing so, it is possible to quiet anger and heal my wounded soul.
All it takes is prayer and meditation on the messages hidden in an unseen stranger's anger.
So I am grateful for this woman who raised her voice in anger, and woke me up.
After a moment's meditation, all that comes to me is: "There but by the grace of God go I."
20110203
Preach to the Sinner, Post-modern Prophets!
When basing your prophecies on your interpretation of the Bible, it is recommended that you read commentaries from different sources, so as to get a well-rounded view of what God means.
If you choose to interpret the Bible on your own, then you suffer the fate of modern-day prophets today.
Being a prophet in post-modern times implies that you will not be heard by non-believers.
Rather, your audience will be those who have the ears and mind to scrutinize what they have heard, using their well-exercised doubt to glean illumination from what post-modern prophets say in these latter days.
In short, the prudent of today's prophets say to the world:
Dear Lord Jesus, God
have mercy on me, a sinner.
Amen.
If you choose to interpret the Bible on your own, then you suffer the fate of modern-day prophets today.
Being a prophet in post-modern times implies that you will not be heard by non-believers.
Rather, your audience will be those who have the ears and mind to scrutinize what they have heard, using their well-exercised doubt to glean illumination from what post-modern prophets say in these latter days.
In short, the prudent of today's prophets say to the world:
Dear Lord Jesus, God
have mercy on me, a sinner.
Amen.
20101227
Revelations Just a Metaphor of the Afterlife
"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death" —(Revelation 21:8, KJV)
Revelations is a metaphor - any modern-day prophecy about 1000 or 2000 years misses the point of the message there. As well, Revelations does not directly state that sinners who don't repent are going to burn in hell forever after they're dead.
Personally, I'm heterodox on this point in the Bible, and take the quote to mean that sinners who repent will be purified like gold in Purgatory. YMMV
In fact, after mentioning the second death briefly, John's vision turns to a new heaven and a new earth, which too is metaphorical about the Afterlife for repenting sinners.
As a new Christian who had not been exposed to church-going as a child but as a teenager, I am uncomfortable with the church setting because it has a cookie-cutter commercial aspect to it. As well, I'm not one to use the Lord's Prayer because it ignores the healthy approach of forgiving oneself for those trespasses and overlooks acceptance of others, too.
Rather, like the repentant sinner in the parable, my favorite prayer is the Sinner's Prayer because it is to the point:
"Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner!"
Revelations is a metaphor - any modern-day prophecy about 1000 or 2000 years misses the point of the message there. As well, Revelations does not directly state that sinners who don't repent are going to burn in hell forever after they're dead.
Personally, I'm heterodox on this point in the Bible, and take the quote to mean that sinners who repent will be purified like gold in Purgatory. YMMV
In fact, after mentioning the second death briefly, John's vision turns to a new heaven and a new earth, which too is metaphorical about the Afterlife for repenting sinners.
As a new Christian who had not been exposed to church-going as a child but as a teenager, I am uncomfortable with the church setting because it has a cookie-cutter commercial aspect to it. As well, I'm not one to use the Lord's Prayer because it ignores the healthy approach of forgiving oneself for those trespasses and overlooks acceptance of others, too.
Rather, like the repentant sinner in the parable, my favorite prayer is the Sinner's Prayer because it is to the point:
"Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner!"
20101223
Musings on the Genesis of Family Violence
Perhaps the reason why people who use violence on their loved ones is because they fear losing their love and want it all to themselves.
They lash out because they feel unloved, even when their children, their partner, and/or their parents have shown them love and devotion.
If a person acts unkind when faced with the power of love, then any violence they may do is in denial of their own capacity to love.
It makes the few of us who are full of loving-kindness pity them yet steer clear of sympathy, lest empathy cloud the objectivity of the situation, the reality that violence is a cry out for love which they can no longer find deep in their hearts when others of good cheer are meek yet kind to them.
Yes, love is the answer, for its warmth works slowly to thaw the cold heart. For the challenge of change demands of us acceptance, forgiveness, hope and patience.
May I explore the depths of acceptance, the widening of forgiveness and the mellowness of patience.
They lash out because they feel unloved, even when their children, their partner, and/or their parents have shown them love and devotion.
If a person acts unkind when faced with the power of love, then any violence they may do is in denial of their own capacity to love.
It makes the few of us who are full of loving-kindness pity them yet steer clear of sympathy, lest empathy cloud the objectivity of the situation, the reality that violence is a cry out for love which they can no longer find deep in their hearts when others of good cheer are meek yet kind to them.
Yes, love is the answer, for its warmth works slowly to thaw the cold heart. For the challenge of change demands of us acceptance, forgiveness, hope and patience.
May I explore the depths of acceptance, the widening of forgiveness and the mellowness of patience.
20101112
My Spiritual Hierarchy of Jesus, God and the Buddha
Introduction
In this article I begin with the declaration that the ego is a social fabrication, introduce the patriarchal sexist myth of the male ego, and contrast the ego to its Christian counterpart, self-will.
Then the Buddhist view of the ego will be discussed, followed by a short discussion of the healthy ego with respect to individual needs and continuing on with the view of personal spirituality as self-actualization.
Next, I will illustrate how my spiritual hierarchy of God, Jesus and the Buddha cuts through the fallacy of false dilemma.
Following that thought is the discussion of how beliefs outside the spiritual life affect myself and others.
Finally in the conclusion, I will try to show how the spiritual life has a common ground in all faiths.
Ego as a Social Fabrication
Ego is a social fabrication; the proof of this is in the media. The term "ego" is used to describe the whole psychic apparatus defined in Freud's structural model of the psyche, which he divided into three parts as id, ego and super-ego.
Examples of the ego in action in popular culture occur regularly in the media regarding not just politicians, religious icons, scientists, and sports idols, but also local celebrities and famous pop icons.
Although it isn't commonly talked about, the Western social consensus is that the ego exists.
Because ego is a social fabrication, it requires daily exercise through self-expression. The ideal of a wholesome life implies that the healthy ego needs expression in the community in socially acceptable ways.
In contrast, the unwholesome life leads to social isolation and its impact on the ego. Without self-expression in socially acceptable ways, the individual is susceptible to depression and anxiety. As a result, the ego may become the focus of one's life. Thus he becomes ego-centered, and much of his misery in life is due to his egocentricity.
The Patriarchal Sexist Myth of the Male Ego
In the minds of many people, a patriarchal sexist myth about the ego may be commonplace. In this myth, the male ego is the only thing that exists.
This does not mean that the female ego is non-existent; it just is not talked about.
This is not the true picture of the ego at all but a false view of it, which is defined by how the male ego is vilified whilst pretending women do not have one.
Yet this myth about the ego arises in the male-dominated patriarchal society for many reasons which are political and social.
While the male ego is sometimes associated with God, the female ego kept hidden, to be discussed behind closed doors between women.
However, this sexist myth about the ego is counterproductive to inner change.
Ego and Its Christian Counterpart, Self-Will
In reality, the ego exists from birth to death for everyone, young and old, male and female.
It is also known in Western religious circles as self-will, which consists of resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires and the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior.
Self-will has the negative qualities of stubbornness, bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, and pigheadedness, and the positive qualities of self-control, self-possession, possession, willpower, will power, and self-command.
Buddhist View of Ego
According to Buddhism, all people have an ego which arises from the moment of birth. The Buddhist concept of dependent arising explains in detail how the ego arises from birth until death. Indeed, the ego arises after ignorance as one of the many fabrications of the mind.
In the Four Noble Truths,
- human suffering is first identified in fine detail as misery, pain and unhappiness.
- The origin of suffering is revealed to be unwholesome desire or craving.
- Relief from suffering consists of ending suffering by allowing craving to fade away and stop, by giving up and letting go of the unwholesome desire, being free of sensual pleasures, and not relying on such existence. In this way is the ego appeased.
- Finally, the means to appease the ego by promoting equanimity is given as the Noble Eightfold Path:
- right view,
- right intention,
- right speech,
- right action,
- right livelihood,
- right effort,
- right mindfulness, and
- right concentration
- right view,
- wisdom (right view, right intention),
- ethical conduct (right speech, right action, right livelihood), and
- mental discipline, concentration and meditation (right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration).
Ego with Respect to the Individual Needs
For the average person, the healthy ego requires the basic needs consisting of Maslow's hierarchy of needs:
- the physiological needs (breathing, food, sex, water, sleep, metabolic equilibrium, and excretion),
- safety needs (personal security, financial security, health and well-being, and a safety net against accidents and illness, and their adverse impacts),
- love and belonging(social needs which involve feelings of belongingness, and especially emotionally based relationships such as friendship, intimacy and family),
- esteem need (which consist of two parts:
- 1) respect for others, the need for status, recognition, fame, prestige, and attention, and
- 2) self-respect, the need for strength, competence, mastery, self-confidence, independence and freedom),
- 1) respect for others, the need for status, recognition, fame, prestige, and attention, and
- self-actualization (self-mastery).
Personal Spirituality as Self-Actualization
Once these needs are satisfied, self-actualization also consists of meeting my spiritual needs, which is satisfied by maintaining a spiritual life. Within the context of spirituality, the ego refers to a "sense of doership" or sense of individual existence. The ego-centered life is the life where the illusion of such existence prevails. As a result of that illusion, I may believe myself to be a human being and that I must fight for my rights to make it in this world. Yet, throughout it all, I remain unaware and unconscious of my true nature until a series of spiritual experiences show me that the God-centered life is essential to my spiritual well-being Within context of a God-centered life, it is a fallacy to believe that the social conventions of pronouns (I, me, my, mine) reflect the ego-centered life. Rather, by focusing on God from the start of every day to its very end, the use of pronouns just make the God-centered life more personal.
My Spiritual Hierarchy Cuts Through Fallacy of False Dilemma
To a person who sees the world through the fallacy of either as God-centered or Buddha-centered, the following statements would seem complicated and unwieldy. Such a false dilemma overlooks the fact that both God and Buddha are manifestations of the Higher Power, which is God as each of us knows Him to be. 
Does the God-centered life conflict with my belief in Buddhism? No, since both God and the Buddha are different aspect of the Higher Power, and since God, being Creator, made the historical Buddha to realize His mysterious works, I do not see any conflict between my faith in God and my belief in the Buddha. For God is at the core of my hierarchy of the spiritual life, with my belief that Jesus died on the cross for us as coming second, and then the Buddhist principles defined by the Eightfold Path. Outside of these three core beliefs are the multitude of beliefs we hold about life and ourselves.
Beliefs and Its Relationship to Self and Other
These other beliefs which lie outside the spiritual life are still a vital part of it, because they subtly influence how I view my hierarchy of core beliefs about God, Jesus and the Buddha. Yet how I view God, Jesus and the Buddha reflect my spiritual views, which influence how I see life and its effect in my daily existence, and how other people see me. With my heart focused on God as the center of my spiritual life, my faith in Him is validated by my belief that Jesus died for our sins, and is tempered by the underlying Buddhist principles of dependent arising, the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. By making God the core of my spiritual beliefs, the ego becomes healthy because my growing reliance on God depends on fellowship with like-minded people. By relying on God, I develop a need for Him which deflates my ego, leading me to practice humility. With prayer and meditation, it is possible for me to moderate my life, encouraged by the fact that salvation is the free gift of God, the belief that Jesus died for our sins, and a growing faith in God inculcated by reading the Bible.
Conclusion: The Spiritual Life as Common Ground Between All Faiths
Thus I see the common ground between Buddhism and Christianity since each faith help to enrich a person's spiritual life. Indeed, both faiths continue to enrich my life through my willingness to practice a form of spiritual plurality. Rather than water down Buddhism and Christianity, spiritual plurality helps me to maintain a balanced view of both faiths. Using what I know of Buddhist meditation to moderate my behavior (thought, speech and action), I am able to apply its use to seek God through careful prayer and meditation. As well, the spiritual insights gained by reading the Bible can also help me see Buddhism in a refreshing new light. As an example of such insight, both Christianity and Buddhism emphasize loving-kindness but use it differently. In Christianity, a loving God sacrificed His Son, Jesus Christ, so that all Christians are saved by faith in Him, with salvation freely given by God's grace. Salvation in Buddhism starts with a mytho-poetic Buddha named Amida of a Buddhist "heaven" (the Pure Land of Bliss) who is reborn from an angelic Bodhisattva (Dharmakāra) who was once the king of a mythical land. Inspired by a Buddha of a previous age, this former king made a series of vows of which the most important vow allows all Buddhists who revere that Buddha to be reborn in that Pure Land as "angels" so that they may listen to the Buddha preach before being reborn in the earthly realm to help other people come to know the Buddha. In this way Buddhism enriches my spiritual life as much as Christianity does, and my faith in God is complemented by my belief that Jesus died for my sins and my belief in what the Buddha taught! For the spiritual life is the common ground that all faiths share.
Reference:
Id, ego and super-ego: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego
Ego as doer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_%28spirituality%29
Higher Power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Power
Maslow's hierarchy of needs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
Buddhism and Christianity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_Christianity
20100904
The Magic of Being
The Physics of Magic
Ordinary magic is the magic of being, free of calculation and liberated from various occult practices.
Only two complementary rules apply to the magic of being:
1) When you let it be, the magic of being works.
2) When you grasp for it, the magic of being will elude you.
One practises letting it be, abandons grasping for it, and thus allows the magic to work.
All meditations, prayers and spells merely serve as great inspiration calling forth the magic of being to fruitful action.
Indeed, such inspiration enhances creative visualization derived by the magic of being from intention to completion of the task.
When properly inspired a group of people will be able to effect the success of any endeavour.
*Freedom and liberation are activated by non-violent action. When performed with the awareness the cause (the ritual) becomes the effect (freedom).
The two main actions of being are meditation and prayer. Meditation leads to the liberation of ego from attachment. Prayer is the working of a higher power.
Both actions - meditation and prayer - require the full active participation of the person using them.
This is what discipline is: to follow through on an action.
When a person on the spiritual path carefully watches himself, he is a disciple, a follower of the spiritual path he has mindfully chosen.
Thus the magic of being is found in mindful participation by being true to oneself, conquering ego, and living a full life with the higher goal of freeing oneself from the ties that bind us to spiritual ignorance i.e. ‘everyday life’.
In the end, self-knowledge is useful to the way of magic. When I know my limits both of body and of mind I work within those limits, and am free to apply knowledge when needed.
Thus am I free to be the spiritual being, and mindfully actualize the magic of being.
Originally posted: June 25, 2005 at 1:34 AM
Edited and revised: Sept 4, 2010 at 1:40 PM
Ordinary magic is the magic of being, free of calculation and liberated from various occult practices.
Only two complementary rules apply to the magic of being:
1) When you let it be, the magic of being works.
2) When you grasp for it, the magic of being will elude you.
One practises letting it be, abandons grasping for it, and thus allows the magic to work.
All meditations, prayers and spells merely serve as great inspiration calling forth the magic of being to fruitful action.
Indeed, such inspiration enhances creative visualization derived by the magic of being from intention to completion of the task.
When properly inspired a group of people will be able to effect the success of any endeavour.
*Freedom and liberation are activated by non-violent action. When performed with the awareness the cause (the ritual) becomes the effect (freedom).
The two main actions of being are meditation and prayer. Meditation leads to the liberation of ego from attachment. Prayer is the working of a higher power.
Both actions - meditation and prayer - require the full active participation of the person using them.
This is what discipline is: to follow through on an action.
When a person on the spiritual path carefully watches himself, he is a disciple, a follower of the spiritual path he has mindfully chosen.
Thus the magic of being is found in mindful participation by being true to oneself, conquering ego, and living a full life with the higher goal of freeing oneself from the ties that bind us to spiritual ignorance i.e. ‘everyday life’.
In the end, self-knowledge is useful to the way of magic. When I know my limits both of body and of mind I work within those limits, and am free to apply knowledge when needed.
Thus am I free to be the spiritual being, and mindfully actualize the magic of being.
Originally posted: June 25, 2005 at 1:34 AM
Edited and revised: Sept 4, 2010 at 1:40 PM
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