Discussions

Within my discussions I may appear to take certain “sides” of a discussion, I will appear to have certain beliefs and be appearing to defend them. I make no claim to any immutable beliefs.

My goal is not changing anyone’s beliefs, but to simply help us to look at the origin of them. Show life from a new perspective.

I welcome any and all feedback, disagreements, opinions, viewpoints, and thoughts.

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Dr. Stephen Abdiel Dr. Stephen Abdiel

Be Kind

Be kind. It costs nothing to be kind and its value is beyond that of all the gold and silver. Kindness is forgiveness, kindness is charity, and kindness is a gift for everyone. Kindness is contagious and kindness spreads. Kindness is joyous for both the giver and the receiver. Kindness is blind and kindness doesn't care who gives or who receives it. Kindness can come at any time to anyone and from anyone. We all have kindness within as kindness is our natural state.

What good does it do to be mean to another? Meanness is an attempt at creating chaos and appearing to drain the energy of all involved. Meanness divides, meanness separates, and meanness creates loneliness. Meanness is never necessary and always uncalled for.

Be kind to yourself and "others". Be kind to life and to death. Be kind to fear, sorrow, anger, joy, grief, desires, dreams, and thoughts. Be kind to love and to hate. Be kind to friends and to enemies. Be kind to the mistakes in the world we made. Be kind to nature and our planet that we call home. Be kind to the universe. Just be kind.

Hurt people, hurt people. Meanness is a result of pain. Being kind to the meanness heals the pain hidden underneath. Being kind to the pain eliminates the pain all together. Pain is simply a call for Love from a dream of separation. Kindness awakens us from our dreams of pain and separation to the reality of what is. We can never be alone therefor there can never be pain. Pain is only pain when we think we are alone and separate. 

A hug from a close friend or family member will take that pain away. Crying on someone's shoulder will take that pain will. In an effort to prove pain real, we attempt to isolate ourselves in order to keep our pain. We convince ourselves that we are alone and in pain. Reality is we are always surrounded by Love and kindness we just don't want to look at it because we know it will shatter all the illusions we have made within our minds about our reality. Love and Peace!
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Ten Rules Of Love

The first rule of love is to love God. The second rule of love is to love your family despite how unsafe they may be to your wellbeing. The third rule of love is you cannot feel romantic love for more than one person at a time. The fourth rule of love is you are not allowed to love someone who doesn't reciprocate that love. The fifth rule of love is you absolutely cannot tell someone that you love them on a first date or upon first meeting someone. The sixth rule of love is that only certain people are deserving of it as long as they have the same set of beliefs. The seventh rule of love is it's "immoral" to feel romantic or sexual Love towards someone of the same gender or sometimes different ethnicity. The eighth rule of love is that love can be given and taken on a whim and be used as reward and punishment. The ninth rule of love is that love can and will be used as a weapon. The tenth rule of love is that love is transactional.

These are simply ten rules out of thousands upon thousands of rules concerning love. This is the type of love that we made, this is not real Love but only a concept of love that we made in an attempt at replacing Love with a love of our making. This love we made came about due to believing that we are separate from everything. As if we are somehow outside of the universe looking into it. Since we believe that we are separated and alone and don't want to be alone, we made the love of this world which is only a very faint dimmer of true Love's majesty.

The love we made that does not exist also has hate permentaly attached to it, they go with each other and cannot be separated. Within the love that we made we can chase love but are always running from hate or we can chase hate and are always running from love. If we go far enough into the love that we made it will lead us to hate. If we go far enough into hate, it will lead us back to love. If we go beyond the love that we made and the hate that comes permentally attached, we are able to see Love in it's true form. Unaltered by our ideas of it, unchanged by our thoughts about it, unfazed by our belief or disbelief in it, and Holy Eternal. How can we hate when we know not love?

True Love's beauty can only be seen by looking past the love that we made. We let go of love and hate and walk into the perceived abyss, only to realize we gave up nothing. True Love has no opposite, true Love has no enemy, and true Love is endless and ceaseless. True Love doesn't judge or condemn, true Love doesn't forgive since true Love sees nothing which needs to be forgiven, and true Love accepts all. True Love has no opposite since true Love never ceases. We simply use the form of one individual as our "proof" that the love that we made can and will end and therefore hate will inevitably have to make an appearance. When we go beyond the perceived forms in which we see ourselves as separate beings and we Love everything equally without question, without doubt, and without unwavering conviction. We see Love in it's truest purest form. True Love is indescribable and unimaginable to anyone who believes in the "love" that we made.

Love doesn't care if you love it back. Love doesn't care if you ever think about it or if you believe in it. Love doesn't care if you have hate in your heart, Love sees hate for what it is, which is nothing. Love doesn't care if you ignore it, or try to suppress it, or seem to be fearful of it. Love just Loves endlessly, quietly, peacefully, gracefully, and without ever needing anything in return. Everyone is worthy of Love, everyone is deserving of Love, everyone has Love, and everyone is Love. Love is all there is, and we don't even need to look for it. All we need do is stop trying to prove to ourselves otherwise. When we choose to "find" Love, we simply make the choice to let go of the love and hate that we made in an attempt to replace what we thought we had lost.

We are Loved, we are Love itself, everything is Love, Love is all there is. When we allow ourselves to see true Love we cannot deny it's majesty and truth. The love and hate that we made need to be defended in order to keep them "real" in our minds. When we feel the need to defend love or hate, we know that we are believing in a figment of our imagination which will always result in fear. When we exist within the center of Love we feel nothing but joyous peace. Love and Peace!
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Desire 2

Desire is a wish fulfilled. When we desire something in the present it shows us what is in our linear future. Our wish is fulfilled (future) and unfulfilled (present) simultaneously, which leaves us feeling like we are missing something that we have never had within our linear past but that we will have at a future linear time and that is the feeling within that we call desire.
Desire is craving your linear future self. Desire is a connection to our own linear future. When we desire something whatever it may be, we will have it as promised by God/Universe/Love. If we have no desire for something, it was simply not meant for our path, and we will not have it.
Fearing our desires is simply fearing our future in which we get what we want. Suppressing our desires is suppressing our very own linear future. Attempting to avoid our own fate. We have desires with the lack of faith that we are worthy of actually receiving our desires/future. Therefore our desires that we don’t think we deserve but that we know we already have in the linear future terrify us.
Sometimes we have false desires where we believe we desire something but it's actually part of a bigger desire that we haven't allowed ourselves to believe we deserve. These false desires, even though not real, can and will lead to the deeper desire hidden within. If we desire joy but don't believe that we deserve it, we may desire something appearing smaller which will only bring us only a little bit of joy but not too much like a big screen tv. We may then later desire something bigger like a boat and so on until we finally believe that we deserve to be in our natural state in which we were created which is pure eternal joy. 

Each of us only allow ourselves to be as happy as we believe we deserve. If we have an illusionary view of our reality, we suppress our very own joy. In an effort of hiding this truth from ourselves, we project the suppression of joy onto "others", and we place the blame onto "them" allowing ourselves to not have to look at the truth that all suffering is self-inflicted. In other words, all suffering comes from within, suffering from without is impossible. It is our perception mixed with our belief that suffering is real that creates our reality and when we believe that our reality has suffering, we in turn cause our very own suffering as an attempt at proving this belief.

When we believe suffering is real and we aren't willing to let go of that belief we will always find suffering everywhere we look. We do this with any and all beliefs that we aren't willing to let go of. When we let go of the belief that suffering is real and start to really look at this world for what it is, the reality of the world starts to appear in place of the illusion we have placed upon the world.

All desires are part of the one true desire that we carry within. The desire to be free from suffering. When we let go of the belief in suffering and ignore all the "evidence" that we think we have in support of our belief, we allow ourselves to see the evidence which points to the contrary which is there is no suffering, there never was, and there never will be. All suffering is self-inflicted. All suffering is an illusion.

May we be free from suffering. May we see suffering for what it is, which is nothing at all. May we have the veil lifted from our eyes to the joy and beauty of heaven. May our eyes be opened to all false beliefs that come with the belief in suffering. May we see beyond suffering and find the root of the suffering. May we see ourselves for who we truly are, which is the eternal children of God/Universe/Love.

The belief in suffering comes from the belief in separation or duality. All is one, all is God, all is the universe, and all is Love. Everything is God. We look upon both sides of duality only to find ourselves in the center never having left. Having stared duality in the face we open our eyes to the true reality hidden from ourselves, the reality on non-duality. All is perfect, all is Holy, all is well. Peace and Love! 
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The Ultimate Dream

When we dream at night, we have the ability to be anyone in our dreams. We are surrounded by characters that we may or may not personally know. These characters are not real but are in fact created within our imagination. The characters and situation within our dreams at night are based on our waking life, which makes them real to us. We can dream in our sleep and wake up only to realize we are we are still dreaming, realizing we are in a dream within a dream. When we are awake during the day we also have the ability to dream, which we call daydreaming. 
We dream this world through our ideas of it, our labels we put on it. We see what we want to see, and we ignore what we don't want to see. We try to control our experiences within this world. We want to be happy or Loved or famous or whatever else, so we look for those things and we ignore sadness, loneliness, misery, and suffering. By ignoring parts of this world that we don't like we miss out on the big picture, we miss out on the truth that is staring us right in the face. 
We create characters within our dreams while we sleep. We create our own character during the day when we are awake. That character is what we consider to be our identity, who we think we are. That character is not who we really are and many of us are unaware of this truth. When we realize that we are not the character that we have created of ourselves. We refer to that as a spiritual awakening. Waking up to the truth.
Then comes the realization that if everyone can be a character in my dream and I in theirs, then just maybe we are all characters in God's mind and maybe God is dreaming all this and eventually God will wake up and this will all vanish. 

God was all there was, God was alone, God created the universe so he wouldn't be alone. He created the world and all the plants and animals; he created Adam which was the first man. God created everything because he was alone, and he wanted to share himself and his Love but he had no one to share it with. God created imaginary friends and then created more imaginary friends for those friends. God created Eve so Adam wouldn't be alone. God then gave his imaginary friends the ability to make their own choices, he gave them free will. 

In order for his imaginary friends (creations) to have free will they had to be given a choice. God gave them two trees and said don't eat from this one, and if you do you shall surely die meaning they will forget that they are in fact God and will believe they are separate and not in fact God's imaginary friends. God created two trees as a means to make sure we wake up in the end and realize who we truly are. One tree got us banished and the other brings us back home. God has always known that he could allow his creations to do as they please which includes believing that they separate and not actual creations within God's mind.
God Loved the world so much (his creation) that he gave his only begotten son and whosoever shall believe in him shall have eternal life. God is eternal and we are God's imaginary friends who think they are separate from God, and God sent himself into his creation and created himself in the flesh in order to show himself to us. Jesus is God in a form that we can understand. God is formless and we live within form, Jesus is the form of God. Jesus is simply one way God gave his creation in order to ensure there return back to Love. God gave his creation Seven major religions. All of which have been split and separated by us, God's creations.
We only exist within God's mind, therefor we are all God and we "reincarnate" into all the other forms. God has eternity to watch every character that God created and every character that God's characters have created, since God gave us the ability to reproduce. God is the "I" within us, he is the feeling of "I Am". God is the ultimate "I Am" and since we are all God's creations within God's mind, we can all feel the "I Am-ness". God allows his creation to make their own choices and have free will and God does so without interfering. Since we are all creations within God's mind, God is all-knowing. God knows why we do what we do, and God also knows that eventually we will all wake up since he gave us clues to the truth everywhere we look. 
God was alone and he created the universe. God gave his creation free will and gave his creation clues to find their way back to God. We are all God's creation, but we believe we are real and somehow separate from God, so we shun God, we worship false Gods, and we attack. In the end we all wake up to the fact that we are God and God is all there ever was and all there ever will be. We are all part of the greatest Love story of all time. God Loved God so much that God created imaginary friends for God and allowed those friends to ignore him and pretend he didn't exist. God's creation killed their creator and when God sent Jesus in a form that we could understand we killed God all over again by nailing God to a cross.
We get infinite lifetimes to wake up from our dream and realize the truth that we only exist within God's mind. When we die to our flesh, our form ceases to be and we go back to formlessness, we awaken to our true self which is God. When we wake in the morning, we don't give anymore thought to most of the characters within our dreams during the night. The just disappear into the nothingness that they were. When our character in this dream of the world ceases to exist it will also disappear into the nothingness that we are. We were never real to begin with; our misery comes from believing otherwise. Deep down we all know the truth, we all know we are God dreaming. We like to think that we can dream better than the one who is really dreaming it. 
Everything within the universe whether it be known, or unknown to us, is within the mind of God. God is the one and only reality, God is everything and everything is God. God appears in seemingly separate and unrelated forms or symbols within God's mind. We are those forms and symbols within God's mind, everything that ever was and ever will be is within God's mind. Everything is within God's mind and therefor there can be no attack, there can be no wrongdoing, and there can be no mistakes. God is wholly perfect and innocent. The universe is a thought within the mind of God.
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Christ

What is the title Christ and who is Jesus? In order to understand who Jesus is and where the title of Christ comes from and what it means we need to go to the beginning of the story. God created everything in seven days according to the Holy Bible. God created everything perfect, and it was all good and God was pleased. God was so pleased with his work that he gave himself rest on the seventh day. Adam (man) and eve (life) were tempted by Satan (doubt) to believe that there was more. They were living in paradise but doubted God and thought God was hiding something from them. They were then banished from the Garden.

God is Love. God made Adam in his image (Love). Adam believed he was banished from God's Love which was in the garden. Adam had sinned against God, he doubted God and he believed he lost God's Love. God did not abandon Adam or his offspring, they were God's chosen people. The Bible tells the story of God's people constantly doubting God while God continues to provide for them. God Loves his creation which includes man, it is only man who thinks he is separated from God. God tries multiple tactics throughout the Bible to show his people that God is still there. Yet, his people continue to believe that they are not one with God.

Along comes Jesus who was the physical incarnation of his father God (Love). Jesus was a shining example of pure white, shining, sinless, Love. Jesus of Nazareth was the first human to have the title Christ. Christ means the anointed one. Jesus was anointed with God's Love giving him the title Christ. Jesus was the first human who never gave into fear and only practiced pure Love. Jesus (the physical incarnation of God which is Love) Loved the world so much he gave his life for it. Jesus's mission was to show us the good news that there is no death and there is nothing to fear. Jesus became an example to the world as how to live a pure life filled with Love and how to overcome death.

Christianity as a religion has expanded on this with the New Testament which is about allowing Christ (anointing and Love) into your heart to experience eternal heaven. Allowing Christ into your heart or getting saved as it is referred to within Christianity means to let Love in. The entire Bible containing the old and the new testaments is a story about good vs evil a.k.a. God vs Satan a.k.a. Love vs Fear. When humans live in fear they are living with Satan (doubt), and when they accept Christ into their hearts and become born again Christians it symbolizes allowing Love to overcome fear. When we allow Christ into our hearts it opens the gate and gets rid of the veils covering our eyes and leads us to being able to see the Christ within.

The Christ within oneself is our true nature, it is our heart center, our Love. God is Love and we are made in Gods image which means that we are Love. Every person with the exception of Jesus was born into this world with the idea of separation in their mind. Jeus knew he was one with his father, he told us that he and his father are one. Jesus is Love and his father God is Love, they are separate forms of the same Love. When we open ourselves to Love and fan the flames of Love, we set free the Christ within. The Christ within is pure Love and free from fear. Jesus is not the only Christ; he was just the first. Eventually all will see the Christ within themselves, and it ultimately depends on how stubborn you are about admitting it. Love and Peace! 
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