Chinese "civilization" does not exist.
Makes me think McCarther was right; we should have H-bombed them back into the Dark Ages in the 1950s.
If you are not shaking after watching this, I don't know what else could do it.
Realizing the Manifest Self--the Life Force permeating our humanity--and the Unmanifest source from which it arises.
Edji, I am too chicken to watch this. Just the thought of it makes me so sick. God help us.
ReplyDeleteWhat does advaita teach us? Welcome everything? Help me, please.
Serena
Did not want to watch all of it as the silent dogs says it all. What goes around comes around and no doubt these 'people' will need to pay back at some point. Bless those poor dogs...as a vege don't really see how you can eat meat, and it is even worse if you have seen how they are killed and still feel happy to eat! There is a reason the most peaceful communities in the world are vegetarians and those communities who eat a lot of meat have a very different make-up and culturally acceptable behaviours such as eating dogs! H bombing women and children blindly not the greatest of ideas.
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I have a slightly different take. Instead of looking around the world to focus on the cruelties we can actually look right in our own backyard and see worse. When 21 years old and in Vietnam(this happens all the time in a war zone -even today) the most unimaginable atrocities were taking place. I can give first and second hand accounts, nightmares that would cause your brain to recoil with terror. My experience is from the American side things, I couldn't believe people could actually do these things to another human being and not always the enemy. Then one day to my horror I found that even I could be capable of such things. On a deeper lever realization came in that most everyone does possess in a very deep, hidden level ( I am sure 99% of you will not acknowledge) the capacity to harm another human being. I will guarantee if you are in a war zone that destructive force has a possibility of manifesting even if you think not. So what is the point of this? Edji actually has a zest, enthusiasm, and compassion for life that is off the charts and from my take he would like to impart some of that as a gift to you. The pain and suffering on this Earth has to be taken into consideration along with the bliss, beauty and peace you are all stirring up. Looking without any denial into your own soul, acknowledging and coming to terms with the deep, dark creations within appears to be a grand start to dislodging them. The outside is just a reflection. Bomb? Ah the only bomb that would be dropped would be the Bomb Of Love as it fosters transformation.
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Serena, Advaita teaches discrimination and dharma 1st rule of which is to cause no harm. Welcoming adharma (which is what these people are doing) is ignorance.
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Yes, but what about the idea that the Universe is unfolding perfectly just as it is? There are no "doers" and there is nothing to be "done".
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Horrible things are being done to animals all around the world. It's so heart-rending. Humanity still has so far to go.
ReplyDeleteSerena, that too is just an idea. In something like this, let your heart decide, not your head based on read ideas.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, there is no question that the heart - at least my heart - does decide! Those ideas about the ultimate perfection of everything have always troubled me. How do manifested horrors occur in the context of universal Love? I have had very clear experiences, or glimpses, of the illusory nature of my personal identity; nevertheless, "I" recoil reflexively at suffering.
DeleteYou once spoke in a satsang about feelings of guilt. You were asking us to face our greatest regrets and to think about what we would like to be forgiven for, if that were possible. My greatest regret is that I performed experiments on lab animals when I was a grad student in experimental psychology 45 years ago. Eventually I left the field because animals are tortured mercilessly in labs. I'm sure this is still going on and it is just unbearable to think about. What to do? How to live with the guilt? How to make things better? I suppose philosophically this is an exercise in futility. Is realizing the Absolute a solution?
Love, Serena
No doers and nothing to be done is from the stance of the atma, consciousness, I, presence whatever you want to call it, where there is no doer, and everything even the worst things are unfolding perfectly. However when you see humans 'do' it is difficult to extract this understanding as one identifies exclusively with the body/mind and physical activities and judges according to their beliefs, culture upbringing. Mona
ReplyDeleteIts not just the Chinese, slaughter houses across the US and western world are responsible for equal atrocities. http://beforeitsnews.com/spirit/2013/07/graphic-burn-your-ryes-out-now-even-watching-this-will-ruin-your-for-life-kids-please-turn-away-this-it-not-for-children-2479760.html
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