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The cosmic roots of human nature and our culturally conditioned self‑image

8 Jan

Conclusions: regaining our healthy, complete and harmonious self
Part of human nature is given by Nature; another part comes from society. The
ground of our personality is given by Nature, the construction built upon it is given
by culture. The basic directivity of human nature is towards uplifting life in the
comprehensive and profound context of the Living Universe. Our genuine human
abilities can develop and flourish only in a society establishing their favourable conditions. Our full human potential can be nurtured only in a culture which is in harmony to the cosmic roots of our ontological Self.
In order to live fully with the cosmic roots of our Selves and live the life we are
born into, we need to mobilize all our energies and abilities at all times. Recognising
the cosmic roots of our Self, and appreciating the comprehensive, ontologically
complete and healthy worldview it is possible to win over alienation and regain our
healthy, complete and harmonious Self. We can regain our genuine human nature
implanted into us by the Living Universe.

Attila Grandpierre

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Spiritual Awakening

5 Jan

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This universal force is LOVE.

3 Jan

Dear Lieserl, Your father Albert Einstein

In the late 1980s, Lieserl, the daughter of the famous genius, donated 1,400 letters, written by Einstein, to the Hebrew University. This is one of them, for Lieserl Einstein.

I ask you to guard the letters as long as necessary, years, decades, until society is advanced enough to accept what I will explain below.There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us.

This universal force is LOVE.

When scientists looked for a unified theory of the universe they forgot the most powerful unseen force. Love is Light, that enlightens those who give and receive it. Love is gravity, because it makes some people feel attracted to others. Love is power, because it multiplies the best we have, and allows humanity not to be extinguished in their blind selfishness. Love unfolds and reveals. For love we live and die. Love is Divine and Divine is Love.This force explains everything and gives meaning to life. This is the variable that we have ignored for too long, maybe because we are afraid of love because it is the only energy in the universe that man has not learned to drive at will. To give visibility to love, I made a simple substitution in my most famous equation.If instead of E = mc2, we accept that the energy to heal the world can be obtained through love multiplied by the speed of light squared, we arrive at the conclusion that love is the most powerful force there is, because it has no limits.

After the failure of humanity in the use and control of the other forces of the universe that have turned against us, it is urgent that we nourish ourselves with another kind of energy…If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer. Perhaps we are not yet ready to make a bomb of love, a device powerful enough to entirely destroy the hate, selfishness and greed that devastate the planet. However, each individual carries within them a small but powerful generator of love whose energy is waiting to be released.When we learn to give and receive this universal energy, dear Lieserl, we will have affirmed that love conquers all, is able to transcend everything and anything, because love is the quintessence of life.

I deeply regret not having been able to express what is in my heart, which has quietly beaten for you all my life. Maybe it’s too late to apologize, but as time is relative, I need to tell you that I love you and thanks to you I have reached the ultimate answer! “.

Your father Albert Einstein’

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Live Your Life as an Exercise in Creativity

1 Jan

“So my biggest message is to live your life as an exercise in creativity, as if every discovery, every artistic exploration, matters in the cosmic tapestry of life—because it does. Follow your heart as you exuberantly combine the riot of colors the universe lays before you to make your life into your own masterpiece. You may be surprised by your creation. As when we listen to or play beautiful music, our goal is not to get to the end of the piece. The point is to enjoy the melodious, joyous journey the music takes us on, including the very first note and every single one that comes after it.”
― Anita Moorjani, What If This Is Heaven?: How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us from Experiencing Heaven on Earth

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Albert Schweitzer himself:

15 Dec

Albert Schweitzer himself:

“Ethics are complete, profound, and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then we are in spiritual connection with the world … Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings. To the poorest and smallest, as well as all others. We reject the idea that man is ‘master of other creatures,’ ‘lord’ above all others. We bow to reality. We recognize that all existence is a mystery, like our own existence. The poor fly which we would like to kill with our hand has come into existence like ourselves. It knows anxiety, it knows hope for happiness, it knows fear of not existing any more. Has any man so far been able to create a fly? That is why our neighbor is not only man: my neighbor is a creature like myself, subject to the same joys, the same fears, and the idea of reverence for life gives us something more profound and mightier than the idea of humanism. It includes all living beings” (Quoted in The Schweitzer Album, edited by Erica Anderson, 1965, p. 174).

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One Natural Law To Live By

13 Nov

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Artificial and Negative Stimuli

25 Oct

The majority of individuals remain unaware that an alternative mode of living exists. They fail to recognize that contemporary society has compelled us to make a detrimental choice: by embracing an artificial environment, we ultimately diminish our capacity to connect with the vital energy of life. Many do not perceive this as a loss, as they are unfamiliar with this innate ability or the boundless potential and exceptional well-being it can provide. Regrettably, artificial stimuli now surpass natural positive signals. For example, a restful night’s sleep offers us positive natural stimuli that nurture our life energy. Similarly, for example, contact with the Earth, exposure to sunlight, consumption of natural foods, and the internal sensations of the body all convey positive signals that help sustain the connection with life energy. Unfortunately, these positive signals are increasingly overwhelmed by artificial and negative stimuli, resulting in a diminished natural sensation and disconnection from energy.

Master Waysun Liao

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“Every time you return to your body with awareness, the energy of life responds.” — Master Mingtong Gu

22 Oct

But recently — watching my children, watching your children, watching all of us — I realized we’re falling into a different kind of abyss: the collective digital septic pit.

Right now, as you read this, feel the weight of your body wherever you are and whisper this:
Without this body, I do not exist as a human being.
Without this body, I cannot experience life.
Without this body, my pure connection with the divine cannot evolve in this lifetime.
Feel that truth — until it lives as presence.

Today we live in three worlds:
– The mental world (in your head)
– The digital world (hijacking your attention)
– The real world — your body (where you spend maybe 10 percent of your day)And with any more reduction of time living in our bodies?  We are committing slow, peaceful suicide.
When we live cut off from the body, the cost is everywhere — in our health, our emotions, and our children.  The numbers are staggering: the CDC reports that 60 percent of teenage girls experience depression, 40 percent consider suicide, and nearly one in three have attempted it. More than statistics, these are signals from a world that has drifted too far from embodiment — from the simple, sustaining connection with life that begins in the body.
 This isn’t only about our kids. It’s about all of us.

With T’ai Chi we can again experience what it feels like when the mind quiets, the body reawakens, and energy begins to flow freely again.

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Pure Mind-Original Mind

18 Oct

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You Are An Expression Of The Divine

7 Oct

You Are An Expression Of The Divine

The acceptance of a creative force or source can only bring us to a conclusion of an inherent acceptance of ourselves as being a part of the Divine itself. If the Divine energy creates the great oneness of all things; physical beings, sentient beings, universes, dimensions, even the space that exists between planets, universes and dominions, then we as human beings are an expression of the Divine and this beautiful love-energy. We are not separate from it. We are here to play our part in the work in the great oneness. This beautiful divine thought of creation. Shaolin Buddhist Temple, Slane, Co. Meath, Ireland

Therefore, the body is deeply sacred indeed. The body is a beautiful expression of the spirit come to life. This view about body and spirit has been described by Jorge N. Ferrer, professor of religious psychology as “embodied spirituality.” He wrote that:“Embodied spirituality regards the body as subject, as the home of the complete human being, as a source of spiritual insight, as a microcosm of the universe and the Mystery, and as pivotal for enduring spiritual transformation. The body is not an “It” to be objectified and used for the goals or even spiritual ecstasies of the conscious mind, but a “Thou,” an intimate partner with whom the other human dimensions can collaborate in the pursuit of ever-increasing forms of liberating wisdom.”

For Ferrer the body is the home of the complete human being. It is the physical reality in which we live. It is through the body that we both literally and metaphorically walk our own unique path. The mistake that so many religious understandings have made is that they have seen the body as the prison of the soul. Something that the spirit or soul needs to be liberated from. He claims that the mystery of incarnation never suggested that spirit entered into the body but that the spirit became flesh. To quote John’s Gospel “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God…And the Word became flesh.” Through our bodies, our lives, the way we live our lives the spirit comes to life. We are here for a reason, life truly means something and it is our task to bring that something to life, through our lives, through our bodily existence.

Embodied spirituality is about fully inhabiting our lives, our thoughts, our feelings our relationships with ourselves, our lives, each other and the mystery that connects all life. It’s about being fully present in our bodies and lives and therefore fully experiencing our potential, being fully alive. The body is not just a suit that clothes our being. It is through the body that we experience what it is to be fully alive. They say “listen to your body”, sage wisdom indeed. For me the body is not a separate entity to spirit, I cannot agree with this dualistic view, it seems to me that it is through the body that spirit comes alive and further through the body that the spirit is fed.

Embodied spirituality views every aspect of our humanity, whether that be body, spirit, heart, mind and consciousness as equal partners in bringing the self, community and world into a fuller alignment with the mystery that brings into being all life, while at the same time connects all life. I suspect it’s a kind of panentheism, that sees all life as being in God and that God is in all life and that little or perhaps infinite more. It sees the full engagement of the body as being vital to spiritual growth and transformation. Rev. Danny Crosby

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