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Originally Posted by ChildofGod 
To add another point: I believe that everyone is of two minds.
There is the ego driven mind, and there is the divine driven mind. The ego mind is all about glorification of self in the universe. This mind tends to get lost in the details of life quite easily. Everything is viewed as perception, as though the world is reflecting upon you. It is linear thinking at it's finest. It's like standing under the universe and looking up.
Then there is the divine mind, where self doesn't matter in this universe. This mind tends to soar above the details of life quite easily. Everything is viewed as perspective, as though you are reflecting upon the universe. It is eternal thinking at it's finest. It's like standing above the universe looking down.
The shift of mind set to the divine is so radical to do, most never achieve it. However, when the shift of perspective does take place, we say that person has become enlightened.
I choose the divine mind for myself. It's really easier when you get used to it. I can't imagine going back to my old thought patterns. Heck I got these registers developing as filing systems within my mind, they are images that store images. The more I work on it the more it develops. Wildest thing I've ever seen.
Thanks for participating in the thread,
Mark
We are blind because we refuse to believe we are more than a cosmic accident. |
This equates that 'ego mind' and 'divine mind' are two halves of the same 'mind', that they are equal, but that we must choose one over the other. Evidence is here...
"It's like standing under the universe and looking up." ...or...
"It's like standing above the universe looking down."
...the connotations are that it is somehow better to be 'above' than 'below' - still dualistic thinking. With dualistic thinking, it appears natural to swing between 'perceived opposites', but One Thing, such as Existence is, can have no opposites in Reality.
'Divine mind' is nothing other than Truth (Reality of
how things exist), and if Truth is a 'cosmic accident' we must accept it as so, and learn to deal with the consequences. It doesn't have to be seen as an 'accident' (derogatory) as it can also be viewed as a random harmony, that sometimes must fall apart to perpetuate the very Natural laws of motion (constant change).
We cannot be 'more' than the Truth of what exists in Reality.
pif.