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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (14509)	1/15/2003 10:04:40 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 28931

Attention "intensified".... >>>>"Attention is destiny, guaranteed" meaning what you give your attention to has the power to influence and direct your activity in consciousness in the so-called "future">>>> >>That's an interesting statement ...intensify that a bit , would like to see where it leads.>> I called this "connectivity". And there are two types of bandwidth that descibe the connection: 1) Smart Bandwidth - Light Bandwidth 2) Dumb Bandwidth - Dark Bandwidth When the connection is in the natural "right order" what manifests is truth, goodness and love. This is the way of Light and Life!! When the connection is not in the natural "right order" what manifest is the antithesis of truth, goodness and love. This is the way of Darkness and Death. When connection # 1 is established the focus is on Energy so we have: E = mc (squared) When connection # 2 is established the focus is on Mass so we have: M = e/c "Intelligent connectivity" - ie. smart-light bandwidth - is about the natural spiritual reception, sharing and manifestation of usefullness and service to others and our world/universe. Here we are conduits that freely and unconditionally receive and share the ulimited universal energy from our creator. "Dumb/Insane connectivity" - ie. dumb-dark bandwidth - is about the unnatural and illogical reception - through selfish claims - and manifestion of the energy, light, truth and love of our creator into this belief and focus on the Mass/Material aspect of reality while we deny the underlying spiritual foundation of the energy. Here we become insane frictional tar pits that claim rights and ownership while sucking and dividing the universal energy received from our creator. Attention intensified in connection #1!! Attention is negated, refracted and divided in connection #2! Peace and God Bless! 119293!!

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (14509)	1/15/2003 5:59:28 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Attention is destiny, guaranteed" meaning what you give your attention to has the power to influence and direct your activity in consciousness in the so-called "future" When Adi Da says this, he refers to his statement that the essence of MIND is attention, and where attention goes, feeling, breath and action follow. Adi Da also suggests that the accumulation of attention in given directions is the basis of TENDENCY or the inclination of a person or animate beings to experience and re-experience life in particular ways. In other words: "you become what you meditate upon" Freud was on to the the same general subject under his title "repetition compulsion", but he was talking about compulsive hand-washers, etc. He did not quite cotton on to the fact that "repetition-compulsion" was one of the basic mechanisms of egoic existence. My first Guru, Meher Baba wrote a lot about "sanskaras" or the tangible attachment created in mind in a given moment of attention. He talked in terms of positive and negative sanskaras, depending on the nature of the action. Enlightenment without the help of a Guru required (he said) the ABSOLUTE balancing of all positive sanskaras with all negative sanskaras in a given moment (virutally impossible since new sanskaras are created in every moment). The Buddha, I believe spoke in terms of something like 1 million + sanskaras being created in any mind-moment (a mind moment being a tiny fraction of the blinking of an eye). So, in short, you create your destiny by what you give your: -- attention -- feeling -- breath -- bodily action to. Having a Guru (or transcended Being) is more than a little handy because of the process allowable via: -- you become what you meditate upon -- the Guru as a liberating FORCE Namaste! Jim