Posts tagged ‘religion’

Dont look for gain by taking from others. Confucius

I also have this idea in my head that good and bad deeds influence your energy body, and you get angel wings or a beastly look (hooves, hairy legs, claws and fangs). And I swear I saw wings on ER medics. And I think that when a man with sins approaches such an angelic person, his demonic appearance manifests and can be seen… I just don’t understand why there are no angels in Asian cultures. There, saints (bodhisattvas) have multiple hands to help all in need, not wings. Maybe these hands are similar to wings..

Bodhisattva-China_-_Stone_carving_in_Leshan
Bodhisattva, China, Stone carving in Leshan

Yesterday I realized that I think about solipsism very often. I think that I cling to the idea that life is one and that this historical passage is universal for all incarnations. I feel there’s nothing to be found in science except for space travel and the evolution of cyborgs. So that will be it for the next 40 years, if I survive… So yesterday I was listening to a lesson about the pre-historical period of humanity and found out that humans have millions of years of history, but Homo sapiens only about 40,000 years of history… I really can’t understand such huge numbers. I think that a person, even during a 30-year lifespan (as was before), could have invented seed growing and animal domestication within a single lifetime. Yet scientists say there were millions of years of evolution. In moments like this, I feel this information is like a bug on the prism of my solipsism, very close, like in The Matrix. And in this bug, all the people around me somehow believe it and don’t doubt it.

the Matirx cocon solipsism

AI English translation of Miguel de Unamuno‘s “La oración del ateo” (The Atheist’s Prayer)

Ernesto Muniz’s collage
Ernesto Muniz’s collage

The analogy with reincarnations as dominoes is interesting – when they are lined up in a row and the first domino falls on the second, and so on – that is samsara. And no questions arise when it is a closed circle, i.e., if the end is the beginning.

But if the circle is broken by Nirvana (Moksha), then a question immediately arises – one that the Buddha refused to answer: if someone who has completely paid off their karma has no more bad karma and has attained Nirvana (timelessness), then what initiates a new cycle of samsara? Where does the karma for a new life come from?

Meike Hakkaart - Court of Ego
Meike Hakkaart – Court of Ego
Dante, the only way out of Hell is in its deepest point.

A thinking atheist who lives according to his conscience does not himself realize how close he is to God. Because he does good without expecting a reward. Unlike believing hypocrites
Who eats more sheep - shepherd or wolves?
Religions or Atheism?

Just an observation from life:

Observed: a security guard from a provincial town with delusions of grandeur. He claims he is God because he sold his soul to the devil and will become God after death. No real achievements, does not study, unskilled labor, drinks alcohol, uses substances, watches TV. I met him because he left a profile on an asexual dating site. It turned out he lied for unclear reasons and is actually a regular sexual person. Blocked.

From GPT chat:

Important point:

Grandiose delusions often arise in people who:

  • feel inner helplessness,
  • experience strong frustration,
  • live in limited conditions,
  • have a chronic sense of unfulfillment.

The mind compensates:

“Right now I am nobody, but actually I am chosen.”

This is not anger or stupidity – it is the psyche’s way of coping with pain.

grandiose delusion
grandiose delusion, religious delusion

About Christianity… they obey miracles – virgin birth and resurrection from dead…. why not to obey Motherhood as self-sacrifice and a moral person who died for own faith… why do they need to invent these miracles?

Orthodox icons - Jesus and Mother of God
Orthodox icons – Jesus and Mother of God

Studying religions I realized there are no human-made perfect systems, only divine system is perfect. I believe in science not in religions, but I dont exclude Divine cos of unexplainable power of deaths and rebirths… I have own connection with God without any religion, Buddhism so far is the closest understanding of the system I found and its atheistic cos the role of God plays Karma Law. I also believe that faith in God is humans natural purpose and its nice to put service to God first to kill ego and be more effective in everyday life. So I believe I’m agnostic – I believe in God but not in that God can be explained. I like Buddhism also.

Artist Alexey Egorov
Alexey Egorov