Hello friends, oh happy TGIF. And everybody looking forward to a big fun weekend, right?? Yeah.
But, let me ask a question. For those who profess Christianity or merely believe in GOD. Where do you think you will go when you take leave of this world???? Heaven or Hell or no where, that this is all there is. Well, by the time I get through revealing your 8th and 9th Consciousnesses, you will have some serious thoughts to ponder, just assuming you love life and all that, and happy, happy. So here we go.
EIGHTH CONSCIOUSNESS:::
All experiences from our present and previous lifetimes accumulate in the eighth conscious-ness, believed to be the realm that undergoes the cycle of birth and death. The eighth is also known as the ALAYA-consciousness -- the Sanskrit word alaya meaning "repository" or "storehouse." This consciousness receives the results of thoughts, words and deeds and stores them as karmic potentials or "seeds." Since karmic seeds are found only at a very deep level of life, they are unaffected by the external world. Nevertheless, there is a reciprocal influence between the seeds lying deep in the alaya-consciousness and the surface levels of consciousness, where the three kinds of action -- thinking, speaking and doing - are carried out.
ON THE MOST PRACTICAL LEVEL, THE SEEDS STORED IN THE alaya-CONSCIOUS-NESS INFLUENCE THE WORKINGS OF OUR FIRST SEVEN CONSCIOUSNESSES. KARMA AFFECTS EVERY ASPECT OF BODY AND MIND. PEOPLE RECOGNIZE AND RESPOND TO THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES IN DIFFERENT WAYS, DEPENDING ON THEIR PERSONALITIES. CERTAIN PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES, TOO, SUCH AS BODY SHAPE, MAY REFLECT LIFESTYLE, EATING HABITS, BIOLOGICAL MAKEUP AND ENVIRONMENT.
SPIRITUAL CONDITION REFLECTS LIFESTYLE AS WELL AS EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE. THUS, THROUGH THE WORKINGS OF OUR KARMA, WE HAVE ARRIVED PHYSICALLY ADN SPIRITUALLY AT OUR CURRENT STATE OF LIFE. THE
REWARD OR RETRIBUTION OF KARMA PRIMARILY EXPRESSES ITSELF IN THE FORM OF ONE'S INTERNAL STATE OF LIFE. IT WILL ALSO BE REFLECTED EX-TERNALLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL'S ENVIRONMENT OR SOCIAL SPHERE.
ACCORDING TO REVERED JOSEI TODA; "ALL OF OUR ACTIONS IN PAST EXISTENCES ARE CONTAINED IN THEIR ENTIREY IN OUR LIVES...WHILE WE MIGHT WANT TO SAY, "WHAT I DID IN THE PAST IS IRRELEVANT; I WAS BORN WITH A CLEAN SLATE, 'WE CANNOT ESCAPE OUR PAST SO EASILY. 'WHY WAS I BORN POOR?' 'WHY WAS I BORN STUPID?' 'WHY IS MY BUSINES FAILING EVEN THOUGH I AM WORKING AS HARD AS I CAN?' THE ANSWER TO ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS IS TO BE FOUND IN OUR PAST LIVES."
O.K., I am going to knock it off right here, and let you give the above passages some thought and we will continue where we left off here next blog. Have a good one, Cheers CJ
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