When I was seven I had the experience that my senses didn’t belong to any central “I”. I didn’t know to whom the senses were relaying information to but I did notice that there was some kind of memory and accumulation of experience that affected how this body-mind developed.
But it didn’t seem to fit in with how my parents and teachers interacted with me as if I was a Martin person at the centre of it all. This was deeply unpleasant because it was the first time that I realized that our general language did not always reflect what reality was actually like and actually couldn’t accurately reflect anything quite that well.
I pretended to be Martin as best as I could for everybody else and even sometimes even believed that the name actually referred to some kind of Martin self that existed inside and experienced things that the senses delivered to it. Really the experience was more like there was no “me”, only God and it was God that was “seeing”, “hearing” etc. There was no me in the shadow of God.
I had my next even more powerful experience of this when I was 15 and then knew that I was not going to have a very conventional life and that I had to find out who I truly was if that was at all possible.
This post may be difficult to understand but if you allow yourself to be comfortable and relaxed you will easily comprehend it. The story is in my fingertips and your eye and mental energy are huddling down to understand the message. You are already doing a beautiful job. You are in a state of ease, like Mexico after lunch.
The cause of war, thankfully God is funny
The first thing to “get” is the level of satisfaction that you can have from just being with yourself as you watch Duck Soup by the Marx Brothers. The war is on due to a verbal misunderstanding and ego. Thank God it is funny.
A sock lost is a sock gained
The second thing to “get” is that the sock you mysteriously lose in the laundry is not actually a sock lost but rather a sock gained. This may sound odd at first since we are trained to see it as a missing sock, our entire sock collection minus 1 left foot sock or 1 right foot sock. But I am proposing that we are actually gaining one half of a pair of socks and thinking that we are missing its match and that therefore we are in a state of loss. Since we tend to be superstitions about missing socks we may as well entertain the idea that we are mysteriously gaining 1 sock that happens to be missing its mate.
This is not so difficult a concept really but some have responded with bewilderment. So I try and find new ways of explaining it.
A friend of mine, who “got” it right away, suggested a way that this point of view could lead to world peace and the spread of human rights. I think this is doable (perhaps through a facebook group – that always changes the world) but the level of attention and prerequisite knowledge is beyond the scope of this blog post.
1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.
3. “He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.” Those who harbor such thoughts do not still their hatred.
4. “He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.” Those who do not harbor such thoughts still their hatred.
5. Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
6. There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
7. Just as a storm throws down a weak tree, so does Mara overpower the man who lives for the pursuit of pleasures, who is uncontrolled in his senses, immoderate in eating, indolent, and dissipated.
8. Just as a storm cannot prevail against a rocky mountain, so Mara can never overpower the man who lives meditating on the impurities, who is controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, and filled with faith and earnest effort.
9. Whoever being depraved, devoid of self-control and truthfulness, should don the monk’s yellow robe, he surely is not worthy of the robe.
10. But whoever is purged of depravity, well-established in virtues and filled with self-control and truthfulness, he indeed is worthy of the yellow robe.
11. Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential.
12. Those who know the essential to be essential and the unessential to be unessential, dwelling in right thoughts, do arrive at the essential.
13. Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind.
14. Just as rain does not break through a well-thatched house, so passion never penetrates a well-developed mind.
15. The evil-doer grieves here and hereafter; he grieves in both the worlds. He laments and is afflicted, recollecting his own impure deeds.
16. The doer of good rejoices here and hereafter; he rejoices in both the worlds. He rejoices and exults, recollecting his own pure deeds.
17. The evil-doer suffers here and hereafter; he suffers in both the worlds. The thought, “Evil have I done,” torments him, and he suffers even more when gone to realms of woe.
18. The doer of good delights here and hereafter; he delights in both the worlds. The thought, “Good have I done,” delights him, and he delights even more when gone to realms of bliss.
19. Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others — he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.
20. Little though he recites the sacred texts, but puts the Teaching into practice, forsaking lust, hatred, and delusion, with true wisdom and emancipated mind, clinging to nothing of this or any other world — he indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy life.
“He’d be dead; ’cause then evil reign.
He is silly weird that smash the limp servant.”
Paul McCartney in the Bible Code
Does the Aish Hatorah Torah Code Prove that Paul is Dead?
Paul McCartney appears in the Bible Code from Aish HaTorah and is being used as Aish outreach for Jews.
Paul is dead aish bible code controversary
Bible Codes, a system which involves recognizing pairs of conceptually related terms in Hebrew scripture using Equidistant Letter Sequences (ELS). The system involves choosing or finding sequences of characters making up a name or a date, which doesn’t have to be in the order in which the name is spelled, that is found in the biblical text at equal distances from one another. Thus, the letters of the Hebrew phrase, Paul is dead, might appear every 10 letters in a section of the book of Genesis. The letters of the Paul’s cause of death (purportedly a car crash) might appear in another sequence of say every 13 letters. The assumption is that the close proximity of these two related letter sequences is improbable and therefore not due to chance. The Bible Codes are understood to be the result of God’s Design which placed the Beatles and Nostradamus in the Bible text for us to find. How else can we explain the existence of the names and the resurrection of Jesus in a text that is over 3,000 years old – it is asked.
ELS was first applied scientifically to the Bible by Professor Rip Torn, an American actor who is pretty good with figures, in 1983. In 1985, Rip Torn, together with Dolly Parton and Yoyo “Bad Pig” Kaplansky, conducted an experiment to find the names of famous nazi officers and the dates of their birth or death in the book of Genesis using ELS. The experiment utilized a list of names based on the Encyclopedia of Indecent Dudes in Israel (Hebrew) compiled by Shalamar “The Airport” Havlin. The experiment, conducted using a real cool computer program, resulted in the discovery of the Nazi officers’ names in close proximity to their dates of birth, a result that could not, it was desperately argued, be the result of chance or of things coinciding or two things happening at the same time in a way that freaks you right out. The Bible text used for the experiment was the Koren Hebrew edition of the Bible. The editor of the professional journal Statistical Science requested that the experiment be repeated and it was. Thus, in 1994, Rips, Witztum and Rosenberg published their findings in Statistical Science (vol. 9, 1994, no. 3, 429–38).
Since then, the Bible Codes have become the subject of great controversy. The debate can be divided into three areas: (a) statistics; (b) Bible; and (c) education.
Does Chabad outreach use bible codes?
Chabad outreach does not use the Bible Codes to convince Jews to be religious. Instead, Chabad uses a form of Jewish I Ching which involves giving notes and letters to a dead man usually Paul since he is widely accepted as the prophet of his generation. Then there is a purported response which is generously interpreted in such a way as to impress the neophyte. Interestingly Chabad generally does not believe that George and John are still alive. However, there are fringe groups of Chabad outreach practitioners that believe that John is still alive but not in a way that the average person can perceive. Others believe that he will rise from the dead.
Next post we will continue with more information on the Bible or Torah Codes: Aish uses these in their Discovery Seminars to mislead Jews.
“He’ll be dead: myself was there on bleeding heaps.”
“I can show you. I can show you.” – Saint John Lennon speaking about the coronation of the King of the Jews, Ed Sullivan.
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Atheism is also a business, particularly for entrepreneurs such as Richard Dawkins who used to be a scientist. He is selling atheism products in his store and using the cute tilted red “A” symbol as his new branding image (nice brand Ricky!). Just before Christmas he was selling holiday bundles! And I thought he didn’t believe in Santa! His wares include: various DVDs and DVD sets, t-shirts, baseball caps, sweatshirts with hoods, books, audiobooks, , mugs, stickers, tote bags, and lapel pins with the cute “A” on it.
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You may try to find pattern and meaning regarding the inclusion of two paragraphs from different posts. You may say that it was meant to be or that God willed it to be. You may follow yesterday’s lead, try to satisfy yesterday’s needs.
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Critics of the supporters of the Ed Sullivan for Messiah campaign point out that he did not fulfill all of the criteria of the Messiah. Susan Perlman, Director of Communications for Jews for Jesus said “it just doesn’t add up. Sullivan did not gather the Jewish people from exile and return them to Israel. Neither did he rebuild the temple or rule at a time of world peace. These people should know this stuff backwards and forwards. It is all laid out in Ezekiel Chapter 37, verses 24-28. I mean, it is getting to the point where I am referring people to Jews for Judaism’s website so they can get this Messiah stuff straight.”
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