New Blog!

I’ve started a new blog to dedicate to realizations and ideas about spirituality, without the personal slant of this blog. It will be where I post insights and whatnot from now on, basically the way I have here.

http://wisdomidonthave.wordpress.com

The following is from the ‘About’ page:

I’ve often had the feeling that by describing my realizations and insights, I diminish their personal significance. However, I’m often inspired to share my little ‘aha!’ moments (also known as “ideagasms”). Perhaps I’m inspired to share for a reason, and perhaps the verbalization of insights diminishes them because they weren’t true insights.

A true insight is a new identity. An expansion of your sense of self. A permanent change in perspective.

Such a thing could never be diminished so easily. However, an idea that seems special can quickly lose its significance when it becomes apparent that it is only an idea, and not one of these fundamental shifts. Ideas can be important in facilitating true insights and spiritual evolution, but in order to truly know anything, it must become part of your identity. Therefore, nothing that is truly known can be put into words.

If only I truly knew that.

Thank you very much!

Why All Actions are Neutral and All People are Innocent

The idea that ‘nothing is inherently good or bad’ can be interpreted in two basic ways.

Moral relativism states that nothing is inherently good or bad; therefore, saving a life and murdering someone are of equal benefit to the world, and the ends justify the means.

The other interpretation doesn’t imply moral relativism and grant everybody the automatic right to do anything. Instead, it grants everybody the right to unconditional forgiveness. It says, “You’re free to do whatever you want, but there’s a direction you’ll like and a direction you won’t like. Choose the latter as much as you want to, the former will always be there for you, but be warned.”

Instead of specific actions or things being good or bad, good and bad are directions; only they’re not called ‘good’ and ‘bad’. The directions are ‘toward God’ and ‘away from God’, or ‘for the good of the limited, imaginary self’ and ‘for the good of the infinite, real self’. So instead of specific actions or deeds being inherently bad and rendering them spiritually off-limits (which would disrupt the law of free will), it is not the action that contracts or expands you, but the motive.

There is only one moment in which experience happens.

Let’s say, at this moment, you’re here:

Limited self/illusion/ego<—————|—————->Infinite self/reality/God