'Spirituality' Category
Self-Improvement? or what is the self and what would improvement mean?
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What is the self? A friend of mine went to a talk by a Buddhist monk. His question about self-improvement was: finally, doesn’t it come down to a hostility to the self? That is, self-improvement means judging ourselves as inadequate: that we need to be something other […]Self-Improvement for Dummies.
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The usual approach to self-improvement encourages us to be heroic, independant, take initiative and be positive. All of which are admirable. But I have a confession (or series of confessions) to make. I think that I feel pretty weak and easily influenced much of the time. When […]Your Neighbour and Your Self: Which First?
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Jesus said (summarising the law concerned with people rather than focused on God):
You shall love your neighbour as yourself. Here’s my guess about what Jesus meant. We naturally want to be healthy: we spit out what tastes bad. If we see a projectile heading for us we dodge. […]On Easter: the death and resurrection of the ego
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Part Two: Resurrection
“Having it all” does not lead to happiness. This is the start of the Easter message. (There is a very funny website about this - satirising our consumer culture; and especially the desire to fix everything with a pill - called Havidol (avafynetyme HCl) - when […]On Easter: the death and resurrection of the ego
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Part One: Death.
Death to self is a major theme in christian theology. In the churches I grew up in this was succinctly summarised in the saying, “The trouble with sin is that it has “I” in the centre”.
The christian tradition, along with many other spiritual traditions, is hostile to greed. For those […]Two Ways to Connect with Spirit
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Over the years I’ve found two ways that work for me to connect with spirit. One is solitary and the other involves other people, or at least one other person. I don’t know whether they will work for you or not, but they don’t require much equipment and aren’t dangerous, so you may […]I want to talk about spirit: but I don’t know if I can
This post is explaining (as well as I can) a problem that I see. It doesn’t provide any solutions, but I hope you will agree that it is an important problem; and share through the comments any ideas or approaches you may have to the problem.
What’s my problem? My problem is that I don’t know […]
