Hi Paul,
Why reinvent the wheel when it's been done? 😉
Judy
Hi Judy
Why reinvent the wheel when it's been done? 😉
Thankfully the wheel has been reinvented a few times by free thinking individuals in different forms.
Otherwise we would have cars with wheels made out of planks of timber which are pegged together and fall apart every few miles, we would also not have other modes of transport like hovercraft's, tracked vehicles and aeroplanes, which I am sure would not have been conceived as possibilities by the person who originally invented the wheel 😉
The wheel is probably the most important mechanical invention of all time. Nearly every machine built since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution involves a single, basic principle embodied in one of mankinds truly significant inventions. Its hard to imagine any mechanized system that would be possible without the wheel or the idea of a symmetrical component moving in a circular motion on an axis. From tiny watch gears to automobiles, jet engines and computer disk drives, the principle is the same.
There is an interesting corollary here with my understanding of metaphysics. While there may be billions of physical applications of the wheel, the PRINCIPLE (the spiritual idea) behind the wheel has always been the same and furthermore, it has always existed, even before the material world was formed.
You could destroy every known wheel on the planet, but you would never be able to destroy the idea, the principle, behind the wheel. It was always there to be discovered and always will be.
The laws of aeronautics existed when our cavemen ancestors roamed the earth - they were simply not aware of them. One quote I am very fond of is, "Nothing changed when you discovered the earth was round, nothing changed, you just went higher."
Likewise, I understand that there is one universal Truth, which encompasses the universe, including man something that all religions, philosophies and also natural scientists are trying to reach and understand and of course, different individuals throughout time have had glimpses of it.
To me, Jesus was the one individual who fully understood Truth and was able to embody and demonstrate it. He was the most scientific man who ever trod the globe. Many others have had glimpses, including Mary Baker Eddy. For almost 45 years, she practiced what she was learning and taught others too. She healed hundreds of people of every possible type of disease and disability, including those termed incurable and terminal, plus, on at least 4 occasions, raised the dead. She wrote down her discovery in Science and Health, a book that explains and unlocks the healing power of the Bible. Millions have found healing through the study of her book (including me, many times) Why on earth would I not want to learn from something that has been proved and which works?
Eddy discovered the spiritual laws that she explains in the book, but just like Newton discovered laws of gravity and mathematics, neither has the monopoly on them, they have simply helped us along the way. They are the pioneers, hewing out the path for others to find and follow and make the understanding their own.
Studying works of wisdom, inspiration and enlightenment has a very long history. We wouldn't have schools, colleges and universities if learning from others who have gone before was not useful for the advancement of mankind.
Judy
Hi Judy,
First of all I think that the "SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION OF IMMORTAL MIND AND MORTAL MIND" you have linked in your post is a very useful analysis.
Looking at the 3 stages above, its difficult to get my head round how I would relate certainly to the 1st as being the real and true and the 3rd which explains the beliefs of matter, time, space etc.
Te quote below is about Brahman. It appears to me, at least, that there are similarities with the idea of "God."
In the 'Taittariya Upanishad' II.1, Brahman is described in the following manner: "satyam jnanam anantam brahma", "Brahman is of the nature of truth, knowledge and infinity." Infinite positive qualities and states have their existence secured solely by virtue of Brahman's very reality. Brahman is a necessary reality, eternal (i.e., beyond the purview of temporality), fully independent, non-contingent, and the source and ground of all things.
And in the case of the idea of the illusion of mater:
In Christian Science, everything is mental but we see a clear distinction between the divine and what appears to us at the moment as the material its really a counterfeit of the real and true spiritual substance.
Surely the illusion of a rope being a snake is an example of a counterfeit in perception.
Norbu
Te quote below is about Brahman. It appears to me, at least, that there are similarities with the idea of "God."
And in the case of the idea of the illusion of matter:
Surely the illusion of a rope being a snake is an example of a counterfeit in perception.
Yup, as I said, I can relate to no 1 & 3, it's 2 that I didn't feel comfortable with, but it's only words, after all.
Judy