Comments on A Spiritual Diablog: Allness

Ron: "Accept the fullness of what you cannot under...

2005-09-23T09:17:00.000-04:00

Ron: "Accept the fullness of what you cannot understand" is pretty clear, especially in the overall context.

Enormously negative events can happen in people's lives. The world, overall, strikes me as a 50/50 place. There is great joy but also terrible suffering.

If suffering comes your way that can't be avoided, railing against it helplessly is an act of self destruction.

I may have written about this metaphorically, but it's also an extremely rational position.

I have already found meaning in a real existence. You might glance at the hmoappeals link for an idea.

"Accept the fullness of what you cannot understand...

2005-09-22T15:56:00.000-04:00

"Accept the fullness of what you cannot understand."
This is as insensible as
"Allness is Your claiming, as a Totalistic Consciousness, Your Light of Consciousness and Self which have been lost in this Dimension of Nonexistence. This is a boundary of attaining one’s Own Essence Self, of claiming one’s Own Being, and the Gate of the Second Totality of All-Truthful opens after this very Dimension."
How, exactly, is one to claim a self, essence, or being, in a Dimension of Nonexistence? If a thing is nonexistent, it can have no self, no essence, no being.
There is a gate open, but it isn't one that leads to truth, in any dimension.
Oh! my heart cries out for people who eat up the silliness and lies.

If you are looking for meaning in a real existence, please visit
http://www.trinitylectures.org/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=46

Hi Michael, thanks for checking in. I'll be gettin...

2005-09-22T09:07:00.000-04:00

Hi Michael, thanks for checking in. I'll be getting back to posting ASAP.

hi Paul. didn't have much time to read all the com...

2005-09-21T23:48:00.000-04:00

hi Paul. didn't have much time to read all the comments. noticed it's been awhile since your last post so I decided to say hi.

Hi G-Fish, and you're right: the post actually com...

2005-09-19T09:51:00.000-04:00

Hi G-Fish, and you're right: the post actually comes from the same notes the manuscript came from, just one of those things that didn't quite fit in anywhere.

Thanks Uaridi, and no harder than I have to...

Thank you for the post. It is thought provoking. ...

2005-09-19T08:49:00.000-04:00

Thank you for the post. It is thought provoking. I too had to get over a lot of anger and resentment. I think the first sentence in "Allness" is very helpful. Leaning towards the light and towards the unseen sun brings growth

Don't work too hard

Greetings, young Top! It's sounds as though you're...

2005-09-19T06:59:00.000-04:00

Greetings, young Top! It's sounds as though you're describing the outline of the beast, in terms of the bright colors surrounding its shadow. A remarkable narration, if I may say so, especially given the nature and the magnitude of the silhouette (which is scary in its own right). Your manuscript may have
provided a powerful touchstone, during your explorations.

Really appreciate that, T.

2005-09-17T09:00:00.000-04:00

Really appreciate that, T.

Paul,You are a strong man, if not physically, emot...

2005-09-16T15:42:00.000-04:00

Paul,

You are a strong man, if not physically, emotionally, or at least you seem to be. I cannot imagine that you will let anything destroy you.

I know there are times when people are in need of something delicate and easy... but trust me I know where you are at. I too am dealing medical issues but I look to the readers here for strength and it is obvious that you have people here that are sending you a lot of care and comforting thoughts. I wish I could help you other than expressing my appreciation for your writings, but maybe I just need to do that so you know, I like many others are thinking of you.

Soft love,
T

Hi T - Unfortunately "bricks," in my case, have to...

2005-09-16T11:16:00.000-04:00

Hi T - Unfortunately "bricks," in my case, have to do with an undiagnosable illness - they're physical bricks, not psychological. (Not replacable. And believe me, we've tried. Everything. For twelve years.)

Lorena - Thanks for stopping by. I'll do one last post on forgiveness and then go to the topic of gratitude - hopefully next week, the following at the latest.

thanks for leaving us with such inspiring words. i...

2005-09-15T21:35:00.000-04:00

thanks for leaving us with such inspiring words. i will have time now to catch up on your forgiveness posts. thanks :) take care!!

Bricks are easily placed back when they are wanted...

2005-09-15T18:02:00.000-04:00

Bricks are easily placed back when they are wanted... but eventually they fall away when they are forgotten. So shall that be.

T

Kathy and Anonymous - True. I'm also sure that the...

2005-09-15T09:40:00.000-04:00

Kathy and Anonymous - True. I'm also sure that there is much more darkness in the world than is helpful, good, or necessary: it's traditionally termed, "human evil" as opposed to "natural evil." Often it's even doled out in dosages that break people. While some of us withstand severe adversity, others don't; and of course people all too often liteally die at the hands or through the neglect of other people.

Guess I'd say that to me, natural evil would be plenty to provide any needed contrast to joy. We're all mortal, we all grow old given enough time - as just a couple examples... If human beings ever find a way to organize the world so that our talents and energies are largely funneled into ameliorating natural pain, difficulties and disasters, instead of into armaments and profiteering in every conceivable way at the expense of others, it would be a whole new world. I think a wonderful place to live and even die in.

T - thanks for the thought, but to tell you the truth, at this point the things I'm actually looking for and needing and wanting to find in this break of a week or two from the blog, are related mostly to plumbing and my bathroom!

Maybe I am sort of like a brick wall, but a lot of the bricks have fallen out.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the d...

2005-09-14T18:04:00.000-04:00

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
~Danny Devito

Light emerges from dark and so does darkness emerg...

2005-09-14T14:56:00.000-04:00

Light emerges from dark and so does darkness emerge from light...it is a sequence that we witness everyday...in every little things that we seem to touch the circle continues to be the same

Paul, I see that you are not here and I have just ...

2005-09-13T22:48:00.000-04:00

Paul,

I see that you are not here and I have just arrived back. It has been nearly a month and I must admit that I miss your writings. I hope that you are finding what you need or want. But while you are looking, dealing, finding, whichever you choose let me lend you this.

Simple are his feelings and masked are his dreams
he stands tall, a vast man in a land ever searching
he looks through me and sometimes never sees
that i stare back and listen to his beliefs
~
strong willed I am sure
but boy like in his masculine ways
he reminds me of a brick wall
so many pieces carefully glued together
not so easy for a man like he
~
I see cries of emotion
in his typed out words and his dressed up smiles
but when I think about him and all that i do see
~
I wonder when he’s quiet
if he’s gone away in his manly mind
or just sitting there, watching
just like me

Soft love,
T

I enjoyed this post and the comments. I'm looking ...

2005-09-13T22:33:00.000-04:00

I enjoyed this post and the comments. I'm looking forward to seeing you back and posting again. :)

Thanks, all, for the further appreciative comments...

2005-09-13T10:49:00.000-04:00

Thanks, all, for the further appreciative comments. Very limited blogging time this week, so just one clarification:

Keshi: You write, "but I do u'stand what ur saying...some of the darkness can take u on a downward spiral of gloom..."

I think you're responding less to my post than my recent comment to your blog. I wasn't referring to a downward spiral of gloom, but to the fact that when conditions are adverse enough in terms of physical pain level and functional limitations, you can lose practically everything that people normally live for - even the simplest pleasures and joys life has to offer, which, it turns out, are the very best.

You can lose all that, and still not be depressed - not be in a downward spiral with your inner life. I actually may be insane because I'm not depressed! I've wondered about that...

this is a very deep and soothing thoughts! thanx f...

2005-09-13T09:47:00.000-04:00

this is a very deep and soothing thoughts! thanx for sharing paul.i really need that....

This is very spiritual actually m I think to read ...

2005-09-13T05:21:00.000-04:00

This is very spiritual actually m I think to read more in your blog to be able to understand your message which is behind the words , and your metaphors as well.

like the most :
"There is deep darkness – terrible, painful, haunting shadow. It can even overshadow our greatest dreams, and yet faith tells us that the World’s dream is so much greater: "

yes we should run to our dreams even if it seems too dark , and faith indeed makes a lot of difference in our lives in not giving it up.

Paul Joy is no real joy unless u taste a bit of th...

2005-09-12T22:11:00.000-04:00

Paul Joy is no real joy unless u taste a bit of the pain too...but I do u'stand what ur saying...some of the darkness can take u on a downward spiral of gloom...

Keshi.

This is a post I'm going to reread more than once,...

2005-09-12T21:49:00.000-04:00

This is a post I'm going to reread more than once, I think. Thank you.

Sirbarrett - Really glad that worked for you. Also...

2005-09-11T16:21:00.000-04:00

Sirbarrett - Really glad that worked for you. Also, thanks for your thought in the "Changes" link about forgiveness. I'm having the same problem but had not articulated it so well to myself.

Very practical, insightful and helpful poem. Thank...

2005-09-11T15:10:00.000-04:00

Very practical, insightful and helpful poem. Thanks.

G. Ambati - is this language from Hindu ideas?Crys...

2005-09-11T13:42:00.000-04:00

G. Ambati - is this language from Hindu ideas?

Crystal - You're welcome, hope it had some relevance.

Irina - Yes, that's the main idea. The leaning just seemed to be something that happened for me at some point.

Mau - Thanks, that's one of the lines I like best too.

Keshi, yes and no. Some things are so destructive they take away more than they give, especially when you were going in a positive direction already, prior to getting hit with such adversity. It's true I've learned things, but I was learning the same basic things through joy. I seem to have found that terrible suffering and great joy can both lead in the same direction. But I infinitely preferred the joy!

Benjamin, thank you, and another one of those lines I like best myself...

A - Yes. Because none of us "sees" the biggest picture, that's for sure.

Justin - Thanks for the insightfully confusing remark! But yeah, it's more like understanding what I've found, or what's already found me out (along with everyone else, even when we haven't noticed).

Tish - Well said. For myself, I did find, several years ago, that I was in a place where I felt abandoned by God. With enough darkness, it can feel that way for a while.

This "Allness" piece was something I wrote shortly after coming out of that. All too often people abandon other people, but God doesn't.

Kevin - Surrender would be a pretty good word. Or somehow embracing what seems unembracable.

Gulnaz, thanks.

Barbara - Yes, I think it's relatively rare that forgiving someone is more or as important to the other person as it is to us.

Bonita - That's the sense of it for me - that my own life is little. Yet our own lives connect to what is not little.