Category: religion
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Words painting new reality
While walking in the park I’ve been contemplating on importance of words in human life. There’s something magical about words. Their significance is not limited to mere communication media. No wonder that iconic Bible verses about creation of the world in John 1 start with “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was…
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Mind-numbing boredom and some Bible verses
Probably everybody feels boredom from time to time. But after a successful spiritual reconnection to my own emotions the intensity of boredom reached new highs. The painfully empty, slow minutes disappear without a trace, nothing changes. In this state, it seems that no measure of time and no events can ever change my unbearably useless…
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Who compiled the Bible?
It seems that true faith is not simply a matter of mechanically following the religious rules. True faith can’t be measured by deeds, but is inside, an honest approach to Bible and God. But how can a believer be honest if he or she doesn’t know the origin of the “rulebook” – Bible? My impression…
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Is consciousness unchanging?
This article continues a series of “active reading” posts dedicated to personal and subjective reading of a “Cutting through spiritual materialism” book. I thought to myself that a literary journey to Buddhism has to start somewhere. So it seems that this book, covering common pitfalls in attaining enlightenment is as good of a starting point…
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Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Yesterday I began reading an intriguing book on the topic of pseudo-spirituality in Buddhism, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. The book’s title intrigued me because I have long felt that yoga and meditation, which are widespread in European countries, are associated with the religion of Buddhism in the same way as T-shirts with the image of…