Month: November 2014

14.11.14

“ Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. ”
— Ayn Rand

“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.”
Edward Kennedy

Stop downloading/buying too many courses, movies, books, music, etc. Move from collecting to digesting!

Am I not a curator?

13.11.14
– Monthly – saving & giving
Annual – insurance & investment
– What is (really/truly/actually) going on here?
– You share with your own fellowship, you give to strangers.

14.11.14
– “Bottoms up” 😉
– My work is so unconventional, can it still be called “Christian ministry”??
– Is man GOD’s creation or is GOD man’s idea?
Hmmm… sounds just like the chicken-egg problem.
Can both be true?? Of course, they must be!
– Since spiritual work (ministry) is entirely voluntary, unlike other jobs, one must be very flexible to make allowance for the constant change, because of the lack of rigid structures.
The inside-out dynamic must always overrule the imposed system.
– Never allow your online activity to compromise your physical presence.
– “Live & let live.”
This norm also has its exceptions.
– Hyper-connected?
– What is the difference between pansexual & bisexual?

16.11.14
– Maybe “GOD” is our (mankind’s) ultimate (evolutionary/eschatological) destiny. Maybe this is what we call heaven/new creation/salvation/eternal life. Maybe death is the end – for the individual. (This makes every single breath precious! We, each & every one, must therefore strive to create a world in which every person has ample opportunity & resources to make their unique contribution to this Process. We are still very very far from that ideal situation! All the great men & women of history are those who have added giant leaps to this enterprise of deification, in one or more dimensions…) But the resurrection of Jesus shows that Man (the human race itself) is immortal, & even our own folly/evil (the Cross) cannot destroy us, because GOD is within us & emerging through us (gestation)! Therefore the meaning/purpose/significance of one’s life is contributing as much as one can (at least one single step – direct/indirect – spiritually, morally, technologically, culturally, socially, physically, psychologically or ecologically) for this progress/development of all creation (especially mankind) toward the ‘Omega Point’. The Coming One is not moving toward us from the outside (chronological future) but among us from the inside (ontological potential)……
– Eco-friendly living is of paramount importance especially because this planet is the one & only home for mankind, the sole divine image/God-bearer.
– Don’t eat animals.
Don’t hate people.
Don’t pollute the planet.
– The Hindu Friday Review November Music Festival:
13.11.14 – Bickram Ghosh: contemporary percussion – super!
16.11.14 – The Indian National Orchestra: Contemporary Indian Classical – awesome! 🙂
– Soil » Ape » human » GOD
Inanimate organic stuff » animate creatures » sentient/conscious beings » ?!
Theistic evolution
– Movies:
“Only Lovers Left Alive”
Is GOD (our own unconscious ego) demonic?!
Sustaining me & mine, by zombifying & parasitizing everyone else.
Are they (the lovers) really alive?!
American imperialism?
– What’s the difference between union with GOD & becoming GOD?
What is becoming but the active verb form of being?

17.11.14
– “Thanks once again for introducing me.to BLINKIST……u r a priceless treasure” – x
– Stop staring at that screen & gaze at the sky for a while.
Stop that music & listen to your own heart for a while.
Stop running around and look at each other’s faces for a while.
– Zazen

18.11.14
– Adam & Jesus – both Christs – they knew divinity is our destiny, but their respective ways to this goal was divergent! Instead of grasping for it hastily as if it is something we don’t already have, we must allow GOD to incubate within (& among) us and let Him come to fullness in His own time…
– Endgame
– The self is to be transformed.
The world is to be saved.
People are to be loved.
There is work to be completed.
There are rules to be broken.
– Maybe the good life that you long for is not far away from where you are, but deep inside it!
– Ideology:
Everything is spiritual.
Vs.
Everything is political.
Vs.
Everything is psychological.
Vs.
Everything is cultural.
Vs.
Everything is economic.
Masters of suspicion:
Nietzsche – look at the philosophical/linguistic aspect.
Darwin – look at the evolutionary/biological aspect.
Freud – look at the psycho-sexual aspect.
Marx – look at the political-economic aspect.
– Inter-faith minister
– At what point does a liberal Christian become a non-Christian (maybe also anti-Christian)?
It is even more important to ask, why does this question matter at all??
– Ministry – I must be very patient, very flexible & very positive!
– Spiritual work – what is it? How is it? Why is it? Who is it?