August 9, 2004
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The Tao
“The fate of a wave as it rises and falls does not depend on its free choices, but on its predetermined relationship with the currents of the whole sea.
The Taoist sages see all individual beings like waves on the ocean of Tao. They therefore understand that we also are not autonomous individuals, but vehicles through which Tao expresses its Nature…. This may seem to…picture us a nothing more than puppets of predestined fortune. But this is to miss the deeper teachings. There are no separate individuals to be controlled by anything. There is only the flow of Tao.” -Timothy Freke
This Tao may also be described as the Consciousness Energy Field, or simply the universal consciousness.
It is a field…that contains all the fields we presently have identified.. Gravity, Electromagnetism, The strong and weak nuclear fields. But even the Grand Unified Field of all of these is a but a gateway to glimpses of the underlying Conscious Energy Field.
This field is the organization matrix that creates all we know as life..
and all we know as form
It is the heart of all things
the life force
The choice of energy to performs it’s dance into matter…
this is the conscious act beginning at the quantum level …
That is the realization that the field’s consciousness is within all things.
The Tao
“Split a piece of wood and you will find me”—-Jesus.
We are free in each moment to decide
Comments (25)
interesting!
if we are merely puppets of our own predetermined paths, then why are we given choice and opportunity? I think our paths are predetermined to an extent, because in every moment in life there is a choice which can keep us on the path or allow us to veer off course…
Reminds me of a quote I came upon last night … how odd …
“A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
Choice is always there. Even when you let go and see where it takes you.
Why would He be hiding in there?
You really threw me, you knew. I realise you didn’t mean to, but it was an odd approach and PMSing well….. I understand now. So laters….
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. – Albert Einstein
That is a gem Savon.. I will try to keep it in mind.
I have already skipped out on the convocation…
..:sunny:….but I did make it to school on time!
my comment area is the only place I can leave a message from school….so far..
They have put up some serious blocks on what we can access from school….:eek:
Sometimes….
a short sharp shock will restart the heart:heartbeat:
If we’re awake each moment we’re free to decide. There is no choice in sleep.
So. I got an e-mail invite to the biologist’s conference from him. He said there’s a link to the schedule from the Convention Center site. So I go there, and you know what I see in August besides his conference ….
An evening with Wayne Dyer on August 30th … now tell me … how freaky is that. Seems it’s part of his “Power Of Intention” tour. I’m thinking of going, it seems interesting I have to admit.
It looks like that fling served some purpose … or am I imagining it? …
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Did you know that there’s one thing in this world that truly fascinates me?
Guess what that one thing is?
Taoism (and Eastern culture… but mainly Taoism)
You’re my hero, haha.
-Sarah
“Dissolving the mind is instead a matter of not-doing: Simply avoid becoming attached to what you see and think.”—LaoTzu
given that thought is not extinguished by enlightenment-silently illuminate-distinguish the purified from the discursive…it was an illiterate wood-cutter (true) that first taught wunien (thoughtlessness).
The essential way flows everywhere-intention is the very moment…
love love love life life life trees trees trees
Namaste…
RIP J. Garcia…and all others whom are no longer physically with us…
:heartbeat:
Yeah, I miss your class more than any other. It was always so freakin interesting. That, and whenever I was really bored, I’ll admit, Samantha was really nice to look at from time to time. I’ll stop by again sometime. Every time I see you’ve posted something new, I keep feeling that last year wasn’t the last time I’ll get to see you. Later Mango.
hehe… I came by to thank you for the comment you left at my site… *smiles with interest*… ‘old-fashioned’ is my kinda guy…. but… having read your entry above *squirms with uneasiness -and- fasination* … your little pearls of wisdom seem to make all my blithering rather…. ummm… *searches for word* … obsolete?… inappropriate?
Taoism has always intrigued me… but I’ve never been motivated enough to move my butt to seeking or understanding more. I know I should… :shysmile: … but its all too easy to be apathetic when cocooned in warm, fuzzy contentment. I keep telling myself life is not meant to be this cosy and peaceful… am I missing something??… or do dark nasties await me just around the corner? What’s Tao’s slant on this?
Ohh… and forgot to mention… *giggling like a school girl* wink
“I am the way the truth and the life” – Jesus (king james version)
I don’t agree with a lot of what you say, especially when you quote Jesus from some unknown source, so it bothers me when you try to mix him into this picture of melting-pot religious thought.
Jesus was not a gnostic. these ideas are, by anyones definition, gnostic. therefore Jesus does not support these ideas. Ideas like Universal Consciousness and everything being a natural flow of the tao is not something Jesus taught.
stop here if you don’t like what i am about to say:
Taoism only answers mans need to elevate himself to a level self-justification. It holds no answer for why people like Hitler are able to exist in this “ocean of waves.” I guess he was a tsunami that overpowered the smaller waves, right? where is the justice in the bigger scheme of things? there is none in taoism. The tao is a dead end. A dead end, that is, if you are thinking outside of your self, but the tao is only about YOU. it is the SELF-centered and SELF-justifying way.
So i can understand how the tao would work if no one looked around and was honest about what they saw. How can we have peace WITHOUT accountability? WE CANNOT. to substitute accountability for the sake of peace is to create a deceitful hybrid called selfish tolerance. “I look my way, you look yours” then we collide.
“I am not a divider”-Jesus :love:
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” – matthew 10:34 (kjv)
he came to set clear divisions of what right and wrong is. he understood what a human perspective of peace is, and it is not REAL peace because it shirks accountability for the sake of having tolerance.
hey robbieb, what are you thinkin you crazy jesus freak.you really think that jesus was a divider and came to set the lines of right and wrong. what kind of crack you been smokin.jesus came to let everyone know that they had consciousness within themselves and that they need to find it from within and not to live an egoic life. jesus is not gnostic, and he doesnt support these ideas, again your on crack. the agnostics killed the gnostics and rewrote the bible to their own liking becuse they didnt like what the gnostics wrote. jesus didnt kill the gnostics, he didnt say they where wrong , he supported them ,embraced them,loved them.
love the post dos
the agnostics…
ag·nos·tic
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<LI type=a>One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
<LI type=a>One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
<LI>One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
KILLED the gnostics… so these agnostic christians(?) went against their…beliefs(?) and….killed the gnostics… that never happened. it doesnt even make sense.
the gnostic movement in the christian church began in the second century. Jesus was NOT on the same team as gnostics, as they had to infiltrate the church subtley to persuade people to their melting-pot philosophies and perspectives on fringe-issues which had nothing to do with salvation by the grace of God.
the gnostic “christians” were not accepted by the early believers, and only started to infiltrate individual congregations in the second century. right after the zeal died down, the counterfeit crept in. you can read about it in pauls letter to the galatians in the bible.
“turn over a stone & there I AM “ :coolman: saw u peeped out at LA’s site i almost gave you up for lost in space love beck
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