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The Revealed Religions

The revealed religions are of special importance to us. Those religions, that trace back to one human being, that told other human beings, he or she had been bestowed upon a revelation by God, and who asks others mostly by threatening with eternal perdition to believe this very revelation. The revealed religions are quasi the top of the religions of the I, the ‘ego’.

Not only the God, who is said to have given a revelation, is an ‘I’, an ‘ego’. Also the revelator speaks as an ‘I’, that asks others to submit their ‘I’ to his. If we consider the matter impartially we notice the revelator to be only talking of himself und that the belief he is asking is the belief in him, the revelator.

Thus he also suggests at the very same time, God will under no circumstances bestow a similar revelation upon anyone else, that everybody else is excluded from a similar revelation and that God him/herself will abide by this revelation for all times to come. The revelator raises thus not only above his followers but also above the God revealed by him. That is why particularly the revealed religions require enlightenment and purgation.

by Bert Hellinger

Mistakes

A man aproaches the Mullah:

"Nasrudin, why is it, that Allah does not talk to me like he does to others?"

"O sure He does" says Nasrundin "he uses your mistakes to tell you the way!"

Enlightenment

"...did any of your students ever become enlightened?"
"Sure. many of them"
"How can you tell?"
"Easy. They stop following me or anyone else, do not talk ceaselessly about 'teachers', 'teachings', 'spirituality' and other such matters, and they go on with their lives free from fears and pretences."

A mere Candle

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

Don Juan Matus as quoted by Carlos Castaneda

Remind me of who I am!

Each day an old man while beating a drum would sing out his stories of justice and peace. In spite of his neighbors ridicule he would not stop.

One day a young man yelled out to the old man:
“Why do you do this? No one is listening. No one is changing.”

He gently says to the young man:
“I do not do this to change you but to remind me of who I am.”

Wrong

One day a group of seekers are sitting and drinking tea. One of them, because he thought he knew everything, states,

“My master taught me that until the man who has not been wronged is as indignant about a wrong as the man who has actually been wronged, mankind will not be fulfilled.” For a moment an impressive silence, and then the Mulla speaks,

As it happens

This is a true story.

We Germans like Law & Order. Not only the television show, but also the actual civil condition of 'law & order'. It is our way to encounter reality whilst reserving a minimum of illusional control on the matter. However.

The Seeker

It was late in the night when a friend found Nasrudin crawling over the pavement. He obviously was looking for something he needed badly and when asked informed the friend, he was looking for his keys.

How Sweet!

A man was being chased by a ferocious tiger across a field toward a cliff. In order to escape, the man caught hold of a vine and swung himself over the edge of the cliff. Dangling down, he saw, to his dismay, there were more tigers on the ground below him!

didn't we?

An elephant walking through the jungle came to a ravine that was spanned by a rather flimsy rope bridge. He looked at it and decided it was probably just stong enough to bear his weight. As he took his first step onto it a flea jumped into his ear. Gingerly the elephant made his way across. Once at the other side, the flea jumped out and boasted...

She Is Black

In Mississippi, there're those two guys from the Klan - one of them is going to die within days. So he says to his lifelong best friend: "Listen: I will do my very best - I promise - and we'll meet in a dream, so I tell you all about Heaven and God!" He dies and some days later he appears his sleeping friend in a dream.

Evil God?

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

Epicurus

Blackwater ‘may be worse than Abu Ghraib’

To describe the ongoing Blackwater scandal as a fiasco would be a dramatic understatement. Not only do we have a situation in which private security contractors stand accused of killing Iraqi civilians without provocation, we also have deep divisions brewing between the Pentagon and the State Department, coupled by State stonewalling a congressional investigation.

(continue on The CarpetBaggerReport)

Playing Golf

Moses, Jesus and an old man are playing golf.

Moses’s golf ball ends up in a pond, he divides the waters, hits the ball, and is happy with his shot.

Jesus’ golf ball ends up miraculously floating on the water, so he simply walks on the water to it, hits the ball, and is also happy with his shot.

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity

„Patriotism“ is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by „patriotism“ I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one‘s own nation, which is the concern with the nation‘s spiritual as much as with its material welfare-never with its power over other nations.