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Bardo

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Gratefulness
Apr 28^th, 2011 at 10:19am

It is good to be grateful. Grateful for what we have, and for what we don't have. I know this is true, and I spend as much time as I can expressing my thanks for all of my "blessings". But if there is no anthropomorphized God, a personal omniscience guiding the multi-verse, then to whom am I being grateful? And why? Not that I want to feel ungrateful, because the feeling seems closely related to grace, and even enlightenment. But what is the purpose?

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Reply #1 - Apr 28^th, 2011 at 10:38am

I feel grateful for the opportunity to learn, grow, and evolve spiritually and emotionally. I see purpose in that, even if I don't know everything there is to know out there. At least I know where I've come from, and am happy, thankful, and grateful for how far I've advanced. At least, that's what matters to me, evolving spiritually and emotionally, and it doesn't matter to me what someone else out there has "planned" for me.

I mean, it's great that we appreciate and are grateful to our parents for creating us, but at the same time it's not necessary to "owe" them anything. What we owe is to ourselves, for that's who we're responsible for. We're responsible for our own being and what we learn, take, and give because we're constantly molding ourselves both spiritually and emotionally.

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Re: Gratefulness
Reply #2 - Apr 28^th, 2011 at 12:42pm

Bardo wrote on Apr 28^th, 2011 at 10:19am:

It is good to be grateful. Grateful for what we have, and for what we don't have. I know this is true, and I spend as much time as I can expressing my thanks for all of my "blessings". But if there is no anthropomorphized God, a personal omniscience guiding the multi-verse, then to whom am I being grateful? And why? Not that I want to feel ungrateful, because the feeling seems closely related to grace, and even enlightenment. But what is the purpose?

Hi Bardo: Graditude is only 'one' of the aspect of The Eternal Self... the question is what is The Eternal Self... that you have to answer for yourself...

As to the issue of the Anthropormophic God... if you understand the Astral mud and how individual entities can get control of it and seem like 'gods' to lesser beings who have no idea about the power of the Astral Mud... then it can 'seem' there is a 'god'.

Consider yourself fortunate even to be expose to the idea that there is Astral Mud.

S.

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Calypso Full Member Offline ALK Member Posts: 101 Chicagoland Gender:	Re: Gratefulness Reply #3 - Apr 28^th, 2011 at 1:05pm I am so grateful for Astral Mud.
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Justin aka Vasya Ex Member	Re: Gratefulness Reply #4 - Apr 28^th, 2011 at 1:42pm Calypso wrote on Apr 28^th, 2011 at 1:05pm: I am so grateful for Astral Mud. Me too!
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Seraphis1 Super Member Offline ALK Member Posts: 1446	Re: Gratefulness Reply #5 - Apr 28^th, 2011 at 9:30pm Calypso wrote on Apr 28^th, 2011 at 1:05pm: I am so grateful for Astral Mud. Now all you have to do if figure out how to mold it. Say like the Facilitator... hee, hee... S.
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Re: Gratefulness
Reply #6 - May 9^th, 2011 at 10:51am

One of my pl meditations had me viewing my surroundings with 360 degrees of vision of wondrous and eternal sights, of thousands of beings as points of light, all filled with absolute love and compassion directed toward me; I felt immensely powerful and knew everything; I could go anywhere instantly and wherever I was I was never alone, but accompanied with that never ending absolute love. My description is fairly brief because my words cannot do it justice...my experience was simply amazing. I think that is where we come from and where we go upon our return. And for that brief vignette I am grateful.

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Re: Gratefulness
Reply #7 - May 9^th, 2011 at 11:42am

Hi

To me (now that you mention it

) gratitude sent into the heavens
is a loving recognition of the Great Love that is the essence of all, or is All. When we put ourselves in tune with that we also receive some more of that essence into our lives, that feeling that seems closely related to grace. It is grace that you receive because you acknowledged that Power.

Thank you for the reminder

Betson

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