Hello Everyone;
We are continuing with chapter two, paragraph three in the Letter of Aul to the Omans: "If we follow in the love and kindness of God, there are wonderful results. It doesn't matter what religion we follow, if any. Being a Buddhist, or Hindu, or Muslim, or Christian. or whatever, won't pull any special weight with God. God doesn't care so much about that. He looks at the heart. He looks beyond what others see and say about you and even beyond what you say about yourself. God knows the full truth of your being."
Commentary: You know that there are good and loving people in every religion. God does not favor one religion over another. He looks at the individual heart of everyone. The different religions appeal to different cultures and circumstances. It is folly to claim that there is only one true religion, yet many people are still doing that today, especially Christians and Muslims. I'd say relax and let go of any thoughts of superiority. God really does love everyone equally. How can that be? Because we are all part of God, part of the life everlasting.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Gospel of One; Letters of Aul
Hello everyone;
We are continuing with chapter two, paragraph two of Aul's letter to the Omans: "It is better to work on improving your own self than to point out the wrong doing of others. God is not fooled by anyone's posturings and self-righteous behavior. Yet God is not interested in punishing you or anyone else. God loves us and wants the best for us. If we have faults, let's admit them and work on them. We don't need to pretend we are perfect. God will lead us on to better behavior as we rejoice in his love and kindness."
Commentary: God is not fooled by any outward show or any evasive action we may take; so we might as well be honest with ourselves and admit our shortcomings. But that doesn't mean we should condemn ourselves. We are all learning how to behave, and Love is leading the way. Correct your self in a gentle way. Be kind to yourself and to others. That is the way of diversity in oneness.
We are continuing with chapter two, paragraph two of Aul's letter to the Omans: "It is better to work on improving your own self than to point out the wrong doing of others. God is not fooled by anyone's posturings and self-righteous behavior. Yet God is not interested in punishing you or anyone else. God loves us and wants the best for us. If we have faults, let's admit them and work on them. We don't need to pretend we are perfect. God will lead us on to better behavior as we rejoice in his love and kindness."
Commentary: God is not fooled by any outward show or any evasive action we may take; so we might as well be honest with ourselves and admit our shortcomings. But that doesn't mean we should condemn ourselves. We are all learning how to behave, and Love is leading the way. Correct your self in a gentle way. Be kind to yourself and to others. That is the way of diversity in oneness.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Gospel of One; Letters of Aul
Hello Everyone, namaste:
We are continuing with the Letter to the Omans in the Letters of Aul. We are starting chapter two, first paragraph: "When we look back in history we can see many mistakes and horrible examples of ignorance. Yet even today it continues with people fighting and killing one another. But we need to be careful about condemning others. It is easy to point the finger at others while ignoring our own faults. How do we know how we would act in critical situations? We might lose our cool under difficult conditions. And who knows what awful things we may have done in past incarnations."
Commentary: I'm writing this a week after the mass shooting at Virginia Tech that has horrified the nation. And the Iraqi war is still going on. Some people think they can't do anything to stop the violence, but there is a way to do it without condemning others and this paragraph begins to show how. Examine ourselves and get rid of any violent tendencies. Learn how to be peaceful and calm and loving in any circumstance. One peaceful person multiplied by many other peaceful people will have widespread influence. Day by day we can deepen our love for all life.
We are continuing with the Letter to the Omans in the Letters of Aul. We are starting chapter two, first paragraph: "When we look back in history we can see many mistakes and horrible examples of ignorance. Yet even today it continues with people fighting and killing one another. But we need to be careful about condemning others. It is easy to point the finger at others while ignoring our own faults. How do we know how we would act in critical situations? We might lose our cool under difficult conditions. And who knows what awful things we may have done in past incarnations."
Commentary: I'm writing this a week after the mass shooting at Virginia Tech that has horrified the nation. And the Iraqi war is still going on. Some people think they can't do anything to stop the violence, but there is a way to do it without condemning others and this paragraph begins to show how. Examine ourselves and get rid of any violent tendencies. Learn how to be peaceful and calm and loving in any circumstance. One peaceful person multiplied by many other peaceful people will have widespread influence. Day by day we can deepen our love for all life.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
gospel of one; letters of aul
Greetings; Namaste:
We are continuing with our reading and discussion of Aul's letter to the Omans. We are on paragraphs seven and eight of chapter one.
"Yes, humans have descended into the depths of depravity, and God let them! Yes, the God of Life has given us free will to make our own decisions, and alas, how far off course have we strayed at times. We don't even want to think about many of the abominable things that humans have done. At times we have lost all sense of compassion and love."
"The strange thing is, people have sometimes done awful things in the name of a loving God. They thought God was encouraging them to kill the infidels. Other people had no sense of God at all. They just did what they wanted to do for their own pleasure or benefit. It's not that we really didn't know better. In our heart of hearts, in our higher selves, we knew the truth, but we ignored it."
Sometimes people ask why doesn't God put a stop to the cruelty on earth. Why does a loving God allow such bad things to happen? Actually, he is stopping it through his perfect laws of cosmic justice. Eventually people will learn what they do to others, they actually do unto themselves. God, acting through angels and humans, has stopped many bad things from happening, but not all bad things have been prevented because events have consequences. We are working things out. The drama of creation lasts billions or trillions of years. The bad things may be a very insignificant part of the whole picture. The physical universe may be a small part of the whole creation. The higher vibration spheres of existence may be where most life is happening.
Okay, we are dealing with the here and now, so what do we do? In our heart of hearts, in our higher selves, we know what to do, we know who to be. It's time to be quiet and listen to our true Self.
We are continuing with our reading and discussion of Aul's letter to the Omans. We are on paragraphs seven and eight of chapter one.
"Yes, humans have descended into the depths of depravity, and God let them! Yes, the God of Life has given us free will to make our own decisions, and alas, how far off course have we strayed at times. We don't even want to think about many of the abominable things that humans have done. At times we have lost all sense of compassion and love."
"The strange thing is, people have sometimes done awful things in the name of a loving God. They thought God was encouraging them to kill the infidels. Other people had no sense of God at all. They just did what they wanted to do for their own pleasure or benefit. It's not that we really didn't know better. In our heart of hearts, in our higher selves, we knew the truth, but we ignored it."
Sometimes people ask why doesn't God put a stop to the cruelty on earth. Why does a loving God allow such bad things to happen? Actually, he is stopping it through his perfect laws of cosmic justice. Eventually people will learn what they do to others, they actually do unto themselves. God, acting through angels and humans, has stopped many bad things from happening, but not all bad things have been prevented because events have consequences. We are working things out. The drama of creation lasts billions or trillions of years. The bad things may be a very insignificant part of the whole picture. The physical universe may be a small part of the whole creation. The higher vibration spheres of existence may be where most life is happening.
Okay, we are dealing with the here and now, so what do we do? In our heart of hearts, in our higher selves, we know what to do, we know who to be. It's time to be quiet and listen to our true Self.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Gospel of One: Letters of Aul
Greetings Readers of all beliefs:
We are continuing with paragraph 6 of the first chapter of the letter to the Omans from my book: Gospel of One; Letters of Aul.
"Although God is plainly apparent to us, many do not recognize his presence. They have become confused and lost in the illusions of life. In the beginning we all knew God perfectly well, but then we incarnated into the physical universe and forgot who we are. We lost our sense of unity, we became needy, we started judging and condemning each other, we put conditions on our love, we developed a sense of failure and insufficiency, and we developed feelings of superiority and inferiority. We didn't know God anymore and we didn't know ourselves. We saw life as a struggle to survive and to get ahead of others. Then we thought God was on our side because we were "right." And so God was naturally against our enemies. The different religions of the world sprung up and became at odds with one another, as if there were different Gods who competed for the allegiance of humans. Even today people are killed because they belong to a different religion. Some people have even believed that their gods required animals or even humans to be sacrificed to placate them."
We may be born into ignorance about our divine origins, but we don't have to remain ignorant. There are many religions, but there can only be one over-all Creator of everything God. We are all part of the same God, no matter what religious beliefs we hold. May this simple truth permeate the hearts and minds of people everywhere. Acceptance of this truth would go a long way toward ending religious conflict and bigotry. God does not require anyone to follow any specific religion. We are free to co-create something beautiful with God.
We are continuing with paragraph 6 of the first chapter of the letter to the Omans from my book: Gospel of One; Letters of Aul.
"Although God is plainly apparent to us, many do not recognize his presence. They have become confused and lost in the illusions of life. In the beginning we all knew God perfectly well, but then we incarnated into the physical universe and forgot who we are. We lost our sense of unity, we became needy, we started judging and condemning each other, we put conditions on our love, we developed a sense of failure and insufficiency, and we developed feelings of superiority and inferiority. We didn't know God anymore and we didn't know ourselves. We saw life as a struggle to survive and to get ahead of others. Then we thought God was on our side because we were "right." And so God was naturally against our enemies. The different religions of the world sprung up and became at odds with one another, as if there were different Gods who competed for the allegiance of humans. Even today people are killed because they belong to a different religion. Some people have even believed that their gods required animals or even humans to be sacrificed to placate them."
We may be born into ignorance about our divine origins, but we don't have to remain ignorant. There are many religions, but there can only be one over-all Creator of everything God. We are all part of the same God, no matter what religious beliefs we hold. May this simple truth permeate the hearts and minds of people everywhere. Acceptance of this truth would go a long way toward ending religious conflict and bigotry. God does not require anyone to follow any specific religion. We are free to co-create something beautiful with God.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Gospel of One: Letters of Aul
Greetings readers of all beliefs:
We are continuing with paragraph 5 in "'Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"I'm proclaiming this wonderful gospel of the oneness of all life. It shows that God will save everyone because God is everyone. Those of us who already realize this feel secure and happy in the love of God. We trust in the complete and unconditional love of God. We see God everywhere--in the trees, in the animals, in the rivers, in city and the country, in flowers, and in people. Our lives overflow with the presence of God."
This paragraph does require some explaining. Since God is the life of everything, nothing can be lost, yet not all that God has created out of his own Self will have eternal individuality. God has given free will to the individual identities, and some have chosen to be destructive lifetime after lifetime after lifetime. Some may have gone so far down the destructive path that they will never come back. In such extreme cases God may choose to extinguish that individual identity. One bad lifetime isn't reason enough to send someone to eternal hell. We can't judge a person on the basis of one lifetime. Probably everyone of us has had past lifetimes of wrong-doing, and we have suffered the consequences, and in many cases we are still suffering the consequences of past wrong actions. In this process of life we are learning and growing and transcending. We are on the way to realizing that we are part of God.
Since we have almost no reasons to fear hell, we can concentrate on making the most of our opportunity to co-create heaven on earth or wherever we happen to be. It is our own consciousness that makes the difference. We always get what we co-create; so let us create that which is good, beautiful, balanced, harmonious, lovely and more.
We are continuing with paragraph 5 in "'Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."
"I'm proclaiming this wonderful gospel of the oneness of all life. It shows that God will save everyone because God is everyone. Those of us who already realize this feel secure and happy in the love of God. We trust in the complete and unconditional love of God. We see God everywhere--in the trees, in the animals, in the rivers, in city and the country, in flowers, and in people. Our lives overflow with the presence of God."
This paragraph does require some explaining. Since God is the life of everything, nothing can be lost, yet not all that God has created out of his own Self will have eternal individuality. God has given free will to the individual identities, and some have chosen to be destructive lifetime after lifetime after lifetime. Some may have gone so far down the destructive path that they will never come back. In such extreme cases God may choose to extinguish that individual identity. One bad lifetime isn't reason enough to send someone to eternal hell. We can't judge a person on the basis of one lifetime. Probably everyone of us has had past lifetimes of wrong-doing, and we have suffered the consequences, and in many cases we are still suffering the consequences of past wrong actions. In this process of life we are learning and growing and transcending. We are on the way to realizing that we are part of God.
Since we have almost no reasons to fear hell, we can concentrate on making the most of our opportunity to co-create heaven on earth or wherever we happen to be. It is our own consciousness that makes the difference. We always get what we co-create; so let us create that which is good, beautiful, balanced, harmonious, lovely and more.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
letter to the Omans
Namaste Everyone;
We are at Chapter one, paragraphs three and four of the letter to the Omans: "I am eager to come and visit you in Ome. I thank God for all of you and for your faithfulness. I love y0u all very much, and I pray for your well-being often. We will have much to talk about when we see each other again. Our meeting will be mutually beneficial, I'm sure."
"You know I've tried several times already to visit you, but other priorities have always come up. I have to deal with what seems most important at the time. Since we are one with everyone, I feel kinship with everyone. Still, you have a special place in my heart because of what we have been through together."
My commentary: Although we are one with everyone, it is only natural, in our human condition, to interact with only a limited number of people, and so those people seem special to us. We are born into certain families and become friends with certain people, but that doesn't keep us from having a loving attitude towards those who may be strangers to us. With this attitude of love for all, we can then focus on those people who are working or interacting with us.
We are at Chapter one, paragraphs three and four of the letter to the Omans: "I am eager to come and visit you in Ome. I thank God for all of you and for your faithfulness. I love y0u all very much, and I pray for your well-being often. We will have much to talk about when we see each other again. Our meeting will be mutually beneficial, I'm sure."
"You know I've tried several times already to visit you, but other priorities have always come up. I have to deal with what seems most important at the time. Since we are one with everyone, I feel kinship with everyone. Still, you have a special place in my heart because of what we have been through together."
My commentary: Although we are one with everyone, it is only natural, in our human condition, to interact with only a limited number of people, and so those people seem special to us. We are born into certain families and become friends with certain people, but that doesn't keep us from having a loving attitude towards those who may be strangers to us. With this attitude of love for all, we can then focus on those people who are working or interacting with us.
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