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This comment is to the prayer video.
As I grew out of Catholic Religion and into the Christian religion, I experienced some answers to the doctrines that seems archaic. Perhaps that was because Christianity was new to me compared the Catholicism.
But, as I began to study the words that others preached from, I found a great number of problems that didn’t add up. There seemed a real pick-and-choose system of what would be preached and what would be scanned over as if not important, or worse, not ever mentioned.
I began a Christianity based upon my own relationship that I felt I had with God, rather than what others told me I should or shouldn’t have. Specifically, for the reason of this section’s discussion I bring up prayer. It never seemed right that prayer was for things wanted or hoped to be avoided. Which prayer is right when one person prays for nice weather for picnic, when another prays for rain so the crops will grow.
I decided to pray in the way that really felt right. This prayer centered on people rather than what people wanted or didn’t want. If someone asked that I pray for someone to get well, I’d pray that whatever the person needed to learn in order to get better would be quickly found out. In each thing that people requested prayer, I would pray that the person would quickly learn whatever it was they were in that circumstance for, so they could get out of that circumstance.
For my prayers about myself, they stopped asking for this and that. Instead, my prayers turned to asking that I would learn, grow, and develop, into the person that the God that was beyond-my-understanding wanted. For whatever reason, in my mind it was clear that life was for some purpose and that purpose was not consumption. It seemed logical that life would be a living lesson and I really wanted to learn what I was supposed to learn, rather than goof off.
My prayers were not like any prayers of anyone I knew and I most carefully had to craft them when verbal because it was also clear whatever I thought about life, others had different thoughts. It seemed better to let them live where-they-were rather than demand they think like me.
Ah, I thought these reflections were to place or chronical our thoughts and observations as we go through the lessons. It seems I was wrong as I now see that my comment on the first section is also the first comment on this second section.
If I were to comment here, I’d say that because I was born into a strong family of faith in the Catholic religion that my first thoughts of God where the Old-Man-On-A-Cloud God. Yet, at some early point in my life I realized that could not be true. It didn’t make sense that we seemed to understand God so well for being supposedly so far below him.
I took on, in my Catholic religion of my youth, the overarching thought that God was far more than what anyone could express to me. My God, the one I prayed to, was so great it he was beyond description. And still, this “beyond description” God was described by the masculine pronoun. I knew there had to be more, but was still stuck in a web of doctrine.
For much of this, it seems that I’ve always known it yet perhaps without the words to express it. If I was to point out something ‘specific’ that was certainly not known, or even thought, I would go to the five spiritual worlds. In this information I wonder why five. I wonder if they somehow progressed from one to the next through some progression, and I imagine they do.
The idea of there being five spiritual worlds brings in some real specifics. These are things that seem could not be considered apart from direct communication from person to person, along with the corresponding faith to hold that the five spiritual worlds are real both in number and description.
The thought of me accepting something of this sort, where the only proof seems to be found in the faith of the person passing the story along, reminds of religion. It also creates the hope that there is more than that.
Thanks, Tony, for the all lessons. I really appreciate everything. This part specifically blew my mind:
“Things grow only as a result of the expansion of desire and we are purposefully given our desires in their egoistic form. It’s our only tool. And it’s only by expanding the ego and then correcting it that we could ever reach a state in which we would be able to exit it. And it’s this process, like rungs of a ladder, that allow us to gradually encompass and attain all of reality and achieve an identical nature as the upper force. The outer action doesn’t change, only the intention behind it and that’s enough because on the causal, upper force level, intention is the only action”
KABU 210211-3
Thanks Tony:
In all these years, I have served in different capacity, this is the most usual and more difficult (impossible) to answer: Why me? Why now? Why this? Why like this?
I don’t think the Creator create the world for ours suffering, but I am very blessed and always have being blessed, but looking over 70% of the peoples…
For every action is a number of consequences, some one goods some one no that good. Why that consequence and not this one or that other one?  Why always is that peoples, the only one affected by the butterfly flapping wings in the other end of the world? The will of receive? Can they have any other will?
I pray, I do very often, try no to ask for me, I try not to change his will, just to light the path he picked for me. He does, every day. Don’t know if right or not. Maybe I just don’t want to walk alone.
I know, I know; pls don’t give up on me.🙂
Regards Rafael
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