Meta tags:

Headings (most frequently used words):

2010, of, the, tuesday, bible, examples, genesis, 28, friday, monday, wednesday, march, february, zen, raging, paradoxidation, december, november, 19, october, 18, september, 21, april, 26, 23, 15, thursday, january, 20, about, me, links, previous, posts, archives, post, holly, extension, actions, value, silence, words, human, corruption, familiar, update, tao, strife, cain, good, evil, original, sin, feeling, death, spinning, an, old, yarn, creation,

Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (351), that (136), and (130), this (46), not (43), was (42), for (42), but (40), from (39), just (37), with (37), you (36), what (35), god (33), have (32), his (31), 2010 (30), one (29), all (29), about (28), are (27), when (26), things (24), would (22), had (22), good (21), him (21), life (21), out (20), now (20), there (20), has (20), very (17), more (16), were (16), our (16), cain (15), #silence (15), raging (15), paradoxidation (15), been (15), being (15), they (15), tao (14), then (14), man (14), like (14), also (13), can (13), without (13), story (13), which (13), farmer (13), 2008 (12), evil (12), comments (12), posted (12), these (12), some (12), family (12), 2007 (11), here (11), who (11), might (11), into (11), work (11), said (11), did (11), jesus (11), bible (10), zen (10), where (10), will (10), other (10), since (10), know (10), does (10), didn (10), them (10), state (10), your (10), any (9), between (9), another (9), really (9), yoda (9), blog (8), say (8), found (8), over (8), because (8), how (8), going (8), see (8), back (8), two (8), force (8), day (8), last (8), new (8), let (8), tree (8), why (8), abel (8), death (7), sin (7), genesis (7), post (7), could (7), should (7), many (7), kind (7), make (7), simply (7), everything (7), mean (7), time (7), must (7), around (7), believe (7), their (7), only (7), find (7), son (7), saying (7), means (7), physical (7), karma (7), october (6), march (6), february (6), 2009 (6), corruption (6), think (6), much (6), both (6), even (6), thing (6), something (6), take (6), most (6), anything (6), get (6), try (6), anakin (6), true (6), garden (6), point (6), doing (6), horse (6), its (6), same (6), than (6), through (6), soul (6), spiritual (6), december (5), november (5), september (5), examples (5), words (5), actions (5), talk (5), least (5), sense (5), knowledge (5), land (5), own (5), bad (5), nothing (5), dad (5), yet (5), away (5), comes (5), actually (5), happen (5), come (5), eat (5), perspective (5), question (5), enlightenment (5), still (5), often (5), came (5), later (5), while (5), shall (5), ground (5), offering (5), body (5), religion (5), april (4), january (4), may (4), feeling (4), face (4), com (4), keep (4), enough (4), christianity (4), explained (4), traditional (4), buddhism (4), usually (4), taoism (4), living (4), ultimately (4), creation (4), hebrew (4), separated (4), absence (4), don (4), exactly (4), contrast (4), relationship (4), different (4), definition (4), first (4), picture (4), missing (4), anyone (4), seen (4), sounds (4), angry (4), want (4), itself (4), clear (4), told (4), longer (4), well (4), though (4), fear (4), talking (4), christian (4), according (4), action (4), principle (4), self (4), become (4), seemed (4), again (4), replied (4), maybe (4), neighbor (4), live (4), done (4), today (4), written (4), better (4), nephilim (4), lecture (4), posts (3), original (3), strife (3), value (3), read (3), need (3), made (3), impossible (3), too (3), idea (3), hard (3), far (3), mind (3), doesn (3), part (3), cannot (3), those (3), thinking (3), fall (3), light (3), darkness (3), each (3), way (3), struggle (3), year (3), divorce (3), curious (3), few (3), getting (3), mine (3), lot (3), frustrated (3), right (3), ourselves (3), week (3), wanted (3), together (3), before (3), friday (3), wasn (3), move (3), master (3), able (3), someone (3), speak (3), readers (3), forever (3), kicked (3), hand (3), approaches (3), asks (3), notion (3), fruit (3), knowing (3), offers (3), offspring (3), desire (3), whatever (3), world (3), act (3), seeing (3), having (3), horses (3), such (3), immediately (3), broken (3), leg (3), turned (3), killed (3), heard (3), passive (3), lord (3), tuesday (3), earth (3), kill (3), possible (3), rather (3), already (3), line (3), speaking (3), brother (3), spirit (3), three (3), write (3), honest (3), book (3), called (3), noise (3), http (3), allows (3), inner (3), thoughts (3), although (3), probably (3), titled (3), christmas (3), disclosure (2), policy (2), august (2), july (2), june (2), archives (2), spinning (2), old (2), yarn (2), familiar (2), update (2), human (2), extension (2), holly (2), never (2), knows (2), message (2), states (2), difficult (2), page (2), bit (2), little (2), series (2), leading (2), guess (2), used (2), eyes (2), universe (2), thought (2), started (2), particular (2), belief (2), interacted (2), basis (2), seems (2), road (2), active (2), general (2), personal (2), experienced (2), ideas (2), parallels (2), stories (2), account (2), contrasts (2), waters (2), above (2), below (2), space (2), water (2), wet (2), imply (2), existence (2), order (2), definitions (2), opposites (2), always (2), chapter (2), concerning (2), animals (2), looks (2), denial (2), wednesday (2), writing (2), left (2), times (2), emailed (2), direction (2), biggest (2), home (2), early (2), interested (2), felt (2), feel (2), walked (2), became (2), sent (2), pretty (2), afraid (2), expected (2), relief (2), yourself (2), lose (2), natural (2), miss (2), attachment (2), leads (2), visions (2), side (2), yes (2), pain (2), premonitions (2), monday (2), keeping (2), gave (2), next (2), months (2), eden (2), tells (2), save (2), naturalist (2), ever (2), jewish (2), starts (2), deal (2), ate (2), forbidden (2), opened (2), negative (2), stay (2), put (2), brings (2), certain (2), sometimes (2), either (2), extend (2), society (2), throw (2), significant (2), law (2), simplicity (2), results (2), cursed (2), constant (2), differing (2), striving (2), hold (2), makes (2), call (2), judgements (2), values (2), necessary (2), play (2), experience (2), simple (2), goes (2), brought (2), hurt (2), saving (2), area (2), service (2), fortune (2), returned (2), rule (2), translated (2), wei (2), pure (2), oneself (2), experiences (2), chinese (2), reach (2), taken (2), promised (2), becomes (2), breath (2), created (2), word (2), place (2), further (2), disturbance (2), caused (2), against (2), blood (2), responds (2), happened (2), sake (2), crouching (2), door (2), fallen (2), sacrifice (2), sons (2), meditation (2), naturalistic (2), night (2), once (2), various (2), religious (2), decided (2), ways (2), king (2), others (2), writer (2), totally (2), rabbi (2), asked (2), greater (2), www (2), essence (2), speech (2), facet (2), mode (2), external (2), distractions (2), lives (2), lets (2), explains (2), dimension (2), thus (2), maharal (2), person (2), says (2), wise (2), ethics (2), fathers (2), radio (2), got (2), fool (2), trying (2), else (2), answer (2), misunderstood (2), claimed (2), behalf (2), bite (2), course (2), subscribe, atom, previous, alicia, elifritz, donna, quixote, sugarlight, jeffery, cancer, joie, cuillere, theologue, llama, herding, 101, spoonfreud, jason, staniger, news, bored, links, view, complete, profile, alter, ego, devil, advocate, clarification, ask, iowa, united, location, name, explain, masters, glad, touches, subject, until, run, looked, circled, showing, ineffability, observed, disconnects, frame, using, base, absolute, real, tangible, understanding, western, theistic, philosophical, system, exists, outright, gods, include, divinity, current, landscape, attentive, earthly, middle, transcendent, nor, mystically, sufficiently, driving, drew, themselves, mindset, expanse, creating, dividing, down, vice, versa, dry, understood, sides, shows, validation, use, separate, classes, problem, classed, contrasting, easily, defined, stand, opposing, opposition, rest, places, birds, air, creatures, sea, beasts, food, chain, painted, depict, peaceful, components, incomplete, design, animating, dependent, bye, automatic, exclusion, hang, grandma, thursday, gone, remember, parents, sucks, watched, anticipation, teen, fatherless, sporadic, interaction, deep, meaningful, seemingly, moved, happening, forth, emails, frustrating, sad, contained, misunderstandings, empty, hoping, gain, busy, works, spends, grandmother, hospital, care, facilities, sounded, preparing, myself, hopes, continuing, meeting, girlfriend, her, meet, reason, abandoned, merited, open, ours, situation, talked, increasingly, accept, backed, under, assumption, mad, figure, needs, met, email, forward, loyalty, attention, proclaimed, boldly, impact, anymore, unwillingness, lieu, responded, telling, intentions, pursue, ready, show, waiting, meantime, weekend, watching, children, resonated, reminiscent, losing, almost, finally, hasn, feels, train, rejoice, transform, mourn, jealousy, shadow, greed, won, careful, sensing, future, loss, path, dark, close, suffering, revenge, sith, friend, tonight, kick, seat, pants, putting, entry, safe, huh, simplify, give, clearer, cut, adam, eve, trees, freely, hone, anyways, assume, initiates, separation, snakes, tempted, firmly, convinced, majority, gnostic, mystic, agreed, snake, referred, beast, interpretive, purposes, bigger, mankind, answers, emphasis, long, eating, chance, gospels, rich, young, ruler, replies, modest, challenge, terms, identification, labeling, perceptions, harm, experiencing, bliss, worrying, wikipedia, jainism, whole, crumble, less, murderers, streets, stopped, economy, collapse, continuous, thievery, peace, level, imperative, drop, held, dogma, nutrients, competition, minds, superiority, producing, exact, morals, ideals, possibly, captive, whenever, overcomes, partnership, partner, win, weak, buddhists, placed, activities, seldom, himself, happy, unable, recognize, societies, continue, motion, vocations, vital, roles, wouldn, stuck, misery, mercy, stops, process, practical, example, classic, tale, taoist, running, farmers, injury, ended, predict, outcomes, silly, judgement, calls, admittedly, events, military, recruiters, house, sign, saw, splint, useless, cripple, boys, enlisted, town, victims, surprise, attack, enemy, praised, indeed, blessed, war, tending, brushing, broke, awful, journey, congratulate, wow, great, ran, caught, wind, terrible, turns, punishment, husband, wife, childbearing, emnity, woman, serpent, lit, uncut, wood, uncarved, block, unhewn, log, metaphor, meaning, jian, represents, receptiveness, symbol, potential, perception, prejudice, taoists, preconceptions, illusion, primordial, believed, nature, unburdened, wrong, beautiful, ugly, free, learned, labels, goal, following, awareness, wade, giles, pinyin, simplified, teacher, inherit, eternal, lest, therefore, behold, hoarse, illustrated, seeks, loses, suffer, seven, passivity, gentelness, abrasive, purposely, forced, production, takes, accurately, suffocates, moral, insufficient, gently, guides, harmony, non, naturally, hungry, tired, sleep, incidentally, tradition, offered, grow, randomly, picking, wild, growth, took, lesser, species, prepared, producer, consequences, atonement, half, sorry, balance, star, wars, fans, echo, working, voice, crying, mough, receive, yield, strength, fugitive, wanderer, babysit, response, interesting, keeper, brothers, field, discussion, presupposition, fighting, acceptable, upsetting, apparently, accepted, questions, pleasing, accepts, rejects, fruits, grains, meats, mentioned, mysterious, presentation, commandments, divine, practice, event, worse, sexual, relationships, daughters, israel, scholars, agreement, alleged, corrupt, degree, survive, righteousness, deals, buddhic, contemplation, consciousness, animism, indulgence, black, white, round, flat, changed, letting, guide, every, messages, saved, power, holy, empower, flesh, after, originally, described, mark, evolution, transgressing, commands, failing, prefer, application, throughout, applications, across, interchange, strive, agianst, wicked, james, translation, wished, solution, flood, purge, gospel, accounts, couldn, wipe, people, off, approach, wiping, leave, extra, explanation, rewriting, interpreted, angels, giants, type, entering, brutally, partially, lie, ends, reactions, relate, grain, salt, offended, hate, quick, google, phrase, morning, article, devotional, reading, practices, prescriptively, particularly, appealing, embarrassed, comfort, step, suggest, isolated, connected, remains, quotation, aish, 48931747, html, interconnectivity, derived, remove, focus, upon, century, commentator, comprised, element, dimensions, derives, aspect, controlling, regain, control, quiet, lead, gives, role, best, guided, neshama, guf, mystical, ben, days, grew, men, among, gamliel, shimon, genuine, heights, attained, introspection, dint, medium, vehicle, wisdom, solomon, closing, lips, proverbs, alone, car, wonder, booming, international, business, fearful, opportunity, penetrate, ignore, precious, profound, selves, painful, core, absolutely, shakespeare, writes, hamlet, thine, follow, fail, regard, help, effort, stimuli, occurrences, allow, dealing, avoid, possession, tuesdays, morrie, leff, boruch, easterner, positive, certainly, mindful, notice, haven, blogged, wont, mention, bang, thunk, accuse, blasphemous, intent, recently, affiliation, look, lady, yyyyeeeeesssssss, note, pieces, major, pillars, agreeable, mainly, vedanta, adhered, enter, text, actual, distracted, confused, finger, tied, sit, month, sure, motivation, passed, holiday, summary, reflect, amidst, fanfare, reflected, verses, typically, pulpits, poor, revolutionaries, gurus, messiah, saviour, argue, traditionalist, neither, however, presume, spent, several, learning, religions, east, result, fancies, imported, virgin, birth, unique, resurrection, oddly, beginning, believing, possibility, miracles, bottom, built, intriguing, listened, multiple, occasions, myth, alan, watts, audio, minute, sized, portions, youtube, distinguishing, short, importance, celebrating, wait, harder, swallow, functionality, whether, along, lines, formal, format, paperback, serving, vimeo, 15292358, myspace, science_prodigy, 472205675, humus, messiahship, hoopla, intention, spirituality, slob, sloppy, perfectionist, smart, foolish, intellectual, custom, search,

Text of the page (random words):
dy why not say that silence is good for the soul or for a person in general the maharal a 16 th century mystical commentator explains that man is comprised of body and soul guf and neshama the physical element and the spiritual everything man does has its basis in one of these two dimensions when one dimension is active the other is passive maharal explains that speech derives from the physical facet of man when we speak our physical aspect is controlling us silence allows our spiritual dimension to regain control since the spiritual mode of man is silence quiet allows the spiritual to lead the physical while speaking gives the physical the leading role the best thing for the body is when it is guided by the soul thus there is nothing better for the body than silence why is speech derived from the physical facet of man how is silence the mode for the soul silence allows us to remove all of the external and physical distractions in our lives and lets us focus upon the essence of our being the soul though i would go a step further and suggest that our soul or essence is really not just isolated to us but rather connected to the greater interconnectivity of all other things the value of silence still remains quotation taken from http www aish com sp ph 48931747 html posted by the raging paradoxidation at 10 18 2010 08 45 00 am 1 comments words as a writer i have come to find that one can having three different approaches to writing write what you know write what you try to know by entering into another perspective make up what you write in doing each of these there are three more approaches be brutally honest be partially honest lie in all of these one ends up with their readers having three possible differing reactions being able to totally relate to what is written being able to take things in with a grain of salt being offended or hurt by what is written in some ways i hate being a writer posted by the raging paradoxidation at 10 18 2010 08 34 00 am 0 comments tuesday september 21 2010 human corruption genesis 6 in the bible starts out talking about nephilim in the land that had sexual relationships with the daughters of israel scholars are not in agreement as to what exactly these nephilim are simply translated it is alleged to mean sons of god sons of god has been interpreted to mean a few different things fallen angels giants or another type of man for the sake of saving space here on my blog i have decided to leave a lot of the extra explanation of the nephilim to others who have already done so as to keep me from just rewriting what has already been written more on the nephilim can be found here it was because of the offspring of the interchange that god had decided that he was no longer going to strive agianst man as all their ways were wicked the king james translation of the bible even goes as far as saying that god wished that he had not created man the solution a flood to purge the evil did it work ultimately it did not because later on the bible the story then looks the same by the gospel accounts god was now seeing that he couldn t wipe people off the face of the earth again so he had to take a different approach wiping out their sin sin as originally described simply means missing the mark or missing the point the evolution of the idea later turned it into transgressing certain commands or failing to act when one should i prefer the idea of missing the point because that seems to have the most significant application throughout all hebrew christian and other applications across various religious experiences corruption is corruption it cannot be changed it might be possible to better deal with letting the corruption guide one s every move but ultimately the christian messages is that once saved one must live a life of self denial through the power of the holy spirit which will empower them to no longer live according to the flesh but after the spirit sounds like god is still striving no black without white no round without flat no day without night no righteousness without sin corruption just is there is no getting around it one either deals with it by means of the spirit of god or through buddhic meditation and contemplation or through zen consciousness where everything has it s place or through naturalistic animism where it is the point of indulgence the world and all that is in it is corrupt to some degree but i see it as necessary for all other things to still survive posted by the raging paradoxidation at 9 21 2010 10 02 00 am 0 comments wednesday april 28 2010 familiar update my dad and i are talking again i know that we both have things to work on through this but it is better than what we had sometimes things do get worse before they get better posted by the raging paradoxidation at 4 28 2010 02 04 00 pm 0 comments friday march 26 2010 bible examples of tao the strife of cain genesis 4 the act of sacrifice that is first mentioned in the bible is a mysterious one the written presentation does not account any commandments from the divine concerning the practice in any event we find both cain and abel offering a sacrifice to god cain offers fruits and grains abel offers meats from animals god accepts abel s offering and rejects cain s cain becomes angry with god and then questions as to why his offering was not pleasing to him god responds with why are you angry and why has your face fallen if you do well will you not be accepted and if you do not do well sin is crouching at the door its desire is for you but you must rule over it one day the two brothers were in the field talking something happened that made cain angry enough to kill abel for the sake of discussion i will work from the traditional presupposition that the two were fighting about why cain s offering was not acceptable whatever was said was upsetting to cain and sin was apparently crouching at the door when god comes back around he asks where abel is and cain responds by saying am i my brother s keeper or we might say today how should i know today wasn t my day to babysit him but in the story god knows exactly what has happened and the response is interesting what have you done the voice of your brother s blood is crying to me from the ground and now you are cursed from the ground which has opened its mough to receive your brother s blood from your hand when you work the ground it shall no longer yield to you its strength you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth from the perspective of the tao this could be put simply as what have you done your action has caused a disturbance in the force for the star wars fans that will now echo into the very ground on which you work your working against this force or the tao has caused you to now be at strife with everything cain was then in the place of being half sorry his biggest fear was now death but god promised not to let anyone kill him that would be a further disturbance to the balance of life now the parallels are not word for word line by line but there is enough there to see a principle if actions do not have re actions they still at least have consequences and there is no speaking here of atonement cain in hebrew means producer abel means breath incidentally cain according to tradition had to work at what he offered to make it grow he created his own garden rather than just randomly picking from the wild growth abel didn t have to work at his offering he took from the lesser species which was already prepared of itself the possible moral of this story is that the tao is of itself the tao does not need direction the tao in simple yet insufficient words is the force that gently guides but does not lord over anything the principle means of living in harmony with the tao is to live in a state of non action or just naturally when hungry eat when tired sleep just as cain killed abel forced production of something in life takes away the breath or more accurately it suffocates life just as god promised that anyone who would try to kill cain would suffer seven times as much the same is true when we try and purposely become passive it is impossible to force passivity the more we would try and force gentelness the more abrasive it becomes jesus illustrated this when he said he who seeks to save his life shall lose it but he who loses his life shall find it let go the earth is going hoarse posted by the raging paradoxidation at 3 26 2010 03 31 00 pm 0 comments tuesday march 23 2010 bible examples of zen good evil original sin genesis 3 i am not very good at keeping up this blog but a friend of mine emailed me tonight about my last post and it kind of gave me a kick in the seat of the pants about putting this next entry out here since i ve been thinking about it for a few months now the knowledge of good evil sounds pretty safe huh sounds like it might simplify a lot of things in life like it might give a clearer cut definition of the way things should or should not be many of us know the story of the fall of man where adam and eve are in the garden of eden and god tells them of all the trees that are in the garden you can freely eat save for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil many of us also usually just hone in on the part where even though god said not to eat they did it anyways and then assume that is the point of the story that initiates man s separation from god my take on this story is going to be from a naturalist perspective in that i don t believe that there were ever any talking snakes that tempted anyone i am also firmly convinced that the majority of early jewish and christian gnostic mystic readers of the story agreed the snake who actually starts out as being referred to as the beast is just there for interpretive purposes so which is the bigger deal that mankind ate from the tree or the kind of tree from which they ate i think that god answers the question in the story then the lord god said behold the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil now lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever therefore the lord god sent him out from the garden of eden to work the ground from which he was taken genesis 3 22 23 emphasis mine to know good and evil according to god here was to become like god which has long since been forbidden and now since their eyes had been opened to the negative enlightenment god didn t want them to stay in that state forever by then also eating from the tree of life so he kicked them out of the garden before they had a chance to put their hand to it there is a story in the gospels where the rich young ruler approaches jesus and asks him good teacher what must i do to inherit eternal life to which jesus replies and asks why do you call me good most would say that jesus is just being modest but i believe that it was a challenge to one s own notion of good and evil the point is that the fruit that brings the knowledge of good and of evil is the fruit that leads to the road of death or in terms of zen or enlightenment it is our own identification or labeling of things according to our certain perceptions of good and evil that do us the most harm in experiencing the bliss that comes from sometimes either just not knowing or just not worrying about it taoism offers the notion of p u from wikipedia p u simplified chinese 朴 traditional chinese 樸 pinyin pǔ pú wade giles p u lit uncut wood is translated uncarved block unhewn log or simplicity it is a metaphor for the state of wu wei meaning without action and the principle of jian 儉 29 it represents a passive state of receptiveness p u is a symbol for a state of pure potential and perception without prejudice in this state taoists believe everything is seen as it is without preconceptions or illusion 30 p u is usually seen as keeping oneself in the primordial state of tao 31 it is believed to be the true nature of the mind unburdened by knowledge or experiences 32 in the state of p u there is no right or wrong beautiful or ugly there is only pure experience or awareness free from learned labels and definitions it is this state of being that is the goal of following wu wei this can be seen in not only taoism but also buddhism and jainism this does not extend itself to say that society as a whole should throw out this notion as the society would crumble life would be less significant if murderers walked the streets without being stopped the economy would collapse at the action of continuous thievery law must still be law by principle to keep the peace but on a personal level it is imperative for simplicity to drop the self held dogma of the nutrients from the forbidden fruit the results of this cursed tree emnity between the offspring of the woman and the serpent a constant competition between differing minds which are both striving for superiority pain in childbearing the struggle in producing offspring that will hold our exact morals and ideals that possibly hold us captive the husband shall rule over the wife whenever desire overcomes a partnership the partner will win out because the desire makes one weak buddhists call this attachment work turns into punishment because judgements and values are placed on activities seldom will one find himself happy in whatever they are doing unable to recognize that in order for our world and societies to continue in motion all vocations are necessary and play vital roles without these judgements and values work could become play god kicked them out of the garden so that they wouldn t eat from the tree of life and stay stuck forever in their state of misery i see that as an act of mercy the tree of life is only for those who experience an enlightenment that enlightenment is often as simple as seeing that knowing good from evil doesn t keep one from doing evil or being good it just stops things from being what they are in the natural process of things a practical example of this comes from the classic tale of the taoist farmer that goes a little bit like this a farmer had a horse that ran away when the neighbor caught wind of it he came around and said to the farmer what a terrible thing to have happen the farmer replied by just saying maybe about a week later the horse returned home and brought another one with it that it had found out on its journey when the neighbor heard about it he came back around to congratulate the farmer wow not only has your horse returned but you now have two horses what great fortune you have the farmer replied by just saying maybe one day the farmer s son was tending to the horses while he was brushing the new one it kicked him and in his fall he broke his leg when the neighbor heard about this he came around and said oh how awful that your new horse has broken your son s leg the farmer replied by just saying maybe the next day the area s military recruiters had come around to the farmer s house when the farmer said that he had a son they immediately wanted to sign him up for service...