2011.04.02 - Siddhartha Buddha

[vbaba]

thanks turtle
christ and buddha have been the two primary spiritual influences upon me in this life.
the combination of both paths provides a powerful medium which one has in order to
transverse this planet without becoming attached to the games that are played here


norral

I like Q'uo's suggestion to find the middle between their two paths, or to study whichever path you weren't raised with. I was raised Christian but always felt more affinity to Buddhism, I never looked into it too deeply but I like its philosophical approach because I feel more like I can do it no matter what. "Desire is the cause of suffering", I can try to alleviate my desires by meditating, but actively loving people is hard for me, especially since I isolate myself, I think it would be easier for me to discover that love within me with a calm mind then by trying to force it out.

"Desire is the cause of suffering"? Desire is a motivator! If the Creator did not desire to experience "experience" in the Material Universe, the Social Memory Complexes would not have been formed, the offspring of the Social Memory Complexes, the Spirits would not have been fragmented downward into matter, and the Spirits would not have fragmented into Souls who then fragmented downward into matter the Ego/Personalities (us) so that we could experience experience for our One Infinite Creator. We would not be here if the Creator lacked Desire!

What causes suffering is Value Judging other selves and Resistance to an unwanted reality. Reality is something that IS and cannot be changed at any given moment in time. Resistance to What Is is the root of suffering! And that includes Resisting Desire!