Science of Faith

[Alanantic]

The cat just discovered he has ears

 

[Zakat]

The cat just discovered he has ears

Amazing! Thank you!!!

Which reminds me, God Is Al-Khabeer, The All-Aware, The Provider of awareness and self-awareness, to say the least, though the best of them all is most certainly God-Consciousness.

 

[Zakat]

A house is a Masjid, somewhere where Sijda is made for God.

Sijda means prostration.

The body is God's Temple which needs to be kept clean at all times.

 

[Stucky]

But, suddenly I experienced Life as a Dream, a Lucid Dream, and I was the Dreamer.

Are you a David Lynch fan?

 

[Alanantic]

Are you a David Lynch fan?

Had to look him up. So, no. Are you a Yogananda fan?

"Just as when you are half awake and can see a dream, and know you are dreaming, and yet are apart from it, that is how God feels this universe. On one side he is awake, and on another side he is dreaming this universe. And that is how you should look upon this world. Then you will know why he created it, and will not ascribe these dream conditions to your soul. If you pass through a nightmare, you know that is no more than a bad dream. If you can live in the world in that consciousness, you will not suffer. Do not pay attention to the passing scenes of life. You are the immortal Self (Consciousness) living only temporarily in a dream that is sometimes (imagined) to be a nightmare. That is the higher philosophy (and truth) of the mystics." -- Yogananda

 

[Zakat]

Had to look him up. So, no. Are you a Yogananda fan?

"Just as when you are half awake and can see a dream, and know you are dreaming, and yet are apart from it, that is how God feels this universe. On one side he is awake, and on another side he is dreaming this universe. And that is how you should look upon this world. Then you will know why he created it, and will not ascribe these dream conditions to your soul. If you pass through a nightmare, you know that is no more than a bad dream. If you can live in the world in that consciousness, you will not suffer. Do not pay attention to the passing scenes of life. You are the immortal Self (Consciousness) living only temporarily in a dream that is sometimes (imagined) to be a nightmare. That is the higher philosophy (and truth) of the mystics." -- Yogananda

 

[Stucky]

Had to look him up. So, no. Are you a Yogananda fan?

"Just as when you are half awake and can see a dream, and know you are dreaming, and yet are apart from it, that is how God feels this universe. On one side he is awake, and on another side he is dreaming this universe. And that is how you should look upon this world. Then you will know why he created it, and will not ascribe these dream conditions to your soul. If you pass through a nightmare, you know that is no more than a bad dream. If you can live in the world in that consciousness, you will not suffer. Do not pay attention to the passing scenes of life. You are the immortal Self (Consciousness) living only temporarily in a dream that is sometimes (imagined) to be a nightmare. That is the higher philosophy (and truth) of the mystics." -- Yogananda

No. I was a big Lynch fan for period of time and some of his ideas are kinda in the same spectrum as yours.

 

[Alanantic]

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"God is endless above and below the universe. There is no place, or even the smallest particle that it does not permeate.
God permeates all of the water, land, wood, and stone. Not a single being is without it.
Just as water is in and around water animals, in the same way, this pure God is in and around all living beings.
However, this simile with water is not entirely appropriate, because there are dry places which exist apart from water, while it is not possible that anyone can ever go outside of God.
If one tries to run outside of the sky, it is not possible because the sky is always found in front of us. Similarly, there is no end to the endless God.
But even though it is only God that we meet continuously, it is inseparable from the body, and though it is what is closest to everyone, it is also hidden.
One exists within it but does not know it. One imagines to have understood it, but really the Absolute Reality cannot be understood." -- Dasbodh Chapter:7, Sub-Chapter:4

 

[Clout]

Do not pay attention to the passing scenes of life. You are the immortal Self (Consciousness) living only temporarily in a dream that is sometimes (imagined) to be a nightmare"-- Yogananda

Yes, this clip from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'-

 

[Alanantic]

Yes, this clip from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'-

To sleep... perchance to dream. Ah, there's the rub...

 

[Clout]

Regarding "reality", we could speculate that Jesus KNEW life was just a dream, and that he was a "Master of the Art of Dream Manipulation', able to bend reality to produce what looked like 'miracles' to people..

The 37 MIRACLES OF JESUS http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/jmrcls.html
"..even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." (John 10:38)
Bringing little girl back to life
Bringing widows son back to life
Bringing Lazarus back to life
Stilling the storm
Feeding 4000
Walking on sea
Feeding 5000
Coin in fishes mouth
Withering fig tree
Big catch of fish
Water into wine
Another big fish catch
Healing leper
Healing Centurions servant
Healing Peters mother-in-law
Healing sick at evening
Healing paralysed man
Healing haemorraging woman
Healing two blind men
Healing mans withered hand
Healing Canaanite womans daughter
Healing boy with seizures
Healing blind man
Healing deaf and dumb man
Healing another blind man
Healing crippled woman
Healing man with dropsy
Healing 10 lepers
Restoring a cut-off ear
Healing noblemans sons fever
Healing crippled man at Bethesda
Healing a born-blind man
Casting out demons into pigs
Curing a mute lunatic
Casting out dirty spirit
Curing a possessed blind-dumb man
Appeared to his followers after his death
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PS- Jesus also said WE can do miracles if we had the knack ("move mountains").
To speculate further, perhaps prayer is a kind of "thought pressure" that can nudge reality in the direction we want it to go..

 

[Zakat]

"God is endless above and below the universe. There is no place, or even the smallest particle that it does not permeate.
God permeates all of the water, land, wood, and stone. Not a single being is without it.
Just as water is in and around water animals, in the same way, this pure God is in and around all living beings.
However, this simile with water is not entirely appropriate, because there are dry places which exist apart from water, while it is not possible that anyone can ever go outside of God.
If one tries to run outside of the sky, it is not possible because the sky is always found in front of us. Similarly, there is no end to the endless God.
But even though it is only God that we meet continuously, it is inseparable from the body, and though it is what is closest to everyone, it is also hidden.
One exists within it but does not know it. One imagines to have understood it, but really the Absolute Reality cannot be understood." -- Dasbodh Chapter:7, Sub-Chapter:4

I recall you mentioning once that you're afflicted with some sort of sadness?

 

[Zakat]

Regarding "reality", we could speculate that Jesus KNEW life was just a dream, and that he was a "Master of the Art of Dream Manipulation', able to bend reality to produce what looked like 'miracles' to people..

The 37 MIRACLES OF JESUS http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/jmrcls.html
"..even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." (John 10:38)
Bringing little girl back to life
Bringing widows son back to life
Bringing Lazarus back to life
Stilling the storm
Feeding 4000
Walking on sea
Feeding 5000
Coin in fishes mouth
Withering fig tree
Big catch of fish
Water into wine
Another big fish catch
Healing leper
Healing Centurions servant
Healing Peters mother-in-law
Healing sick at evening
Healing paralysed man
Healing haemorraging woman
Healing two blind men
Healing mans withered hand
Healing Canaanite womans daughter
Healing boy with seizures
Healing blind man
Healing deaf and dumb man
Healing another blind man
Healing crippled woman
Healing man with dropsy
Healing 10 lepers
Restoring a cut-off ear
Healing noblemans sons fever
Healing crippled man at Bethesda
Healing a born-blind man
Casting out demons into pigs
Curing a mute lunatic
Casting out dirty spirit
Curing a possessed blind-dumb man
Appeared to his followers after his death
---------------------------------------------------

PS- Jesus also said WE can do miracles if we had the knack ("move mountains").
To speculate further, perhaps prayer is a kind of "thought pressure" that can nudge reality in the direction we want it to go..

 

[Alanantic]

I'm sure Jesus knew that.

I recall you mentioning once that you're afflicted with some sort of sadness?

I have my ups and downs. You can't have one without the other.

 

[Zakat]

I'm sure Jesus knew that.

I have my ups and downs. You can't have one without the other.

I know the feeling.

One advice, consider The Almighty your One and Only True Beloved.



La Hawla wa Laa Quwwata illā Billāh

No Power nor any Strength except by God

 

[Alanantic]

I know the feeling.

One advice, consider The Almighty your One and Only True Beloved.

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La Hawla wa Laa Quwwata illā Billāh

No Power nor any Strength except by God

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -- J. Krishnamurti

 

[Clout]

Jesus said "I'm the Son of God", but muslims say "No you're not"
God said "This is my son", but muslims say "No he ain't".

 

[Zakat]

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -- J. Krishnamurti

Who says I am?

If anything, I truly cannot wait to die and witness the immensity of the Day of Judgement.

 

[Zakat]

Jesus said "I'm the Son of God", but muslims say "No you're not"
God said "This is my son", but muslims say "No he ain't".

Blah blah blah, aren't you tired of repeating yourself?

 

[Alanantic]

Who says I am?

If anything, I truly cannot wait to die and witness the immensity of the Day of Judgement.

i can't wait either. Unlike you, I'm pretty sure all judgments end in death. Life is a School. In death, we're relieved of all the Drama, trials, and tribulations. We go back Home.