[Rich Note: response to the following Facebook question on "salvation."]
Re: When it comes to salvation, genuine salvation, how can there be differences?
Guess "any difference" would have to be in how one sees and so defines "Salvation," Warren. Seen from here that would be summed up in the following hay-ku haiku (of course it would ;-):
Jesus died to save
Us All from our delusion
Of self-existence.
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Re: "See even the non-dualist thinks he's saved thanks to postmodernism and relative truth..."
Rich: "I AM!" -- the rest is carnal conjecture!
[Rich Note: Amazing how one falsely self-identified with (and, as such,
yet to be saved from) a relative state mind and consciousness would claim that a non-dual perspective is a product of "relative truth." Talk about your classic "denial, repression and self-projection" syndrome. Perhaps I needed to explain that the delusional "sense of self-existence" referenced is a direct function of a "self-reflective state of consciousness" that "thinks" (imagines is better) it can be substantial separate from and Absolute God.]
[Rich Note: Pre-Modernist, Non-Dual Scripture of the Christian Variety (for those who never heard It preached):
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1-2 KJV)
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:..." (Deuteronomy 6:4 KJV)
"...for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: …(Hosea 11: 9 KJV)
"Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." (Psalm 46:10 KJV)
"And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." (Exodus 3:14-15 KJV)
"Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts." (Jeremiah 15:16-17 KJV)
"That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." (John 1:9 KJV)
"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."(Matthew 5:14-15 KJV)
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:..(Philippians 2:5-6 KJV)
"And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people"…2 Corinthians 6:16 KJV
"Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" …(Colossians 1:26-27 KJV)
"Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light," …(Ephesians 5:15 KJV)
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2:20)
"For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;..."(Ephesians 2:14-15 KJV)
"And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God." (Luke 18:18-19 KJV)
"One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." …(Ephesians 4: 5-6 KJV)
"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:" (John 17:21-22 KJV)
"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee." …(Psalm 51:9-13 KJV)]
Re: this quote sounds so egocentric.
Our real choice is to
Attend to Experience
Or thoughts about it.
P.S. Amazing how we are conditioned/programmed to see not blaming others for the choices we make as egocentric.
Re: "What does a Christian know about Karma?"
The Christian version of Karma is expressed rather poetically as "you reap what you sow," Shaun; in physics it is called "for ever action there is an equal and opposite reaction" (to restore a steady state of natural equilibrium).
In any event, Shaun, by whether name we choose to call this Law of Relative Being, all it really means is that, "What I do to others I do to myself, because there really is only One of Us Here (as the Awareness of Being I Am, You Are and All Is).
We self-enfold our
Spiritual wings when we cling
To worldly matters.
Spiritual wings self-
Enfolded around mental
Rocks forever fall.
21 and 22 July Twit Archive:
(1) Here's a PDF of a 2006 book (OOMM) that offers 35 years of context for what is being shared here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/epqompzya3zcujb/OOMMPDF.pdf
(2) Focus on Jesus
As the Messenger and miss
His Divine Message.
rfhay333.blogspot.com/?m=1
(3) Jesus has to go
For the Comforter to come
Is still True Today.
rfhay333.blogspot.com/?m=1
(4) "Taking a moment
To Rest in Presence And Let
It Be As It Is."
(Scott Kiloby, Hay-Ku paraphrase)
(5) "Resting in Presence
As the Peace of God I Am
One with the Father."
(Scott Kiloby, Hay-Ku Paraphrase)
(6) Re: Be Real...
"Stop pretending to
Be what you are not and
Be what you are."
Sri Nisargadatta
(7) Re: Peace...
This Dimensionless
Still Point I Am is the "Sweet
Simple Peace" of God.
(8) I AM the "Prince of
Peace" as a "Dimensionless
Still Point" of Being.
"...The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6 KJV)
(9) I Am "Happiness
Itself" when I See the "No
Self-Nature" I AM.
(10) Re: "...the defended life..."
No Opposition
Because the Awareness I Am
Has No Opposite.
(11) Without assumed self-
Nature no opposition
From others exists.
(12) Without self-nature
The opposition of
Opposites ceases.
(13) Re: "...look within for the part of you that is always already..."
Relative motion
Requires Absolute Stillness
To Be Apparent.
(12) Absolute Stillness
Requires Relative Motion
To Be Self-Aware.
(13) Stillness and Motion
Are the "Zero and One" of
All Conscious Being.
"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence." -- Thomas Merton
"Live according to your conscience. If you attach your morality to the law, then when the law becomes unjust, you become immoral. Good citizens are law-abiding only when the law is fair." George Monbiot
"Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself." Neville Goddard
"Life is a great search for the truth, and what's the point of us all searching in the same place? Let's spread out and cut our own paths..."
Steve Grand
The same and yet the
Different place we all need
To search is "within."
"...The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
Luke 17:20-21 KJV
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