They can open up areas of your mind and help you with your self-realisation.
Tell me the riddle you have in your mind.
2007-04-04 01:14:02 · 13 answers · asked by James 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What do you want ?
Why are you here ?
and
Who are you ?
2007-04-04 03:20:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
As you know, I am fixated on asking riddles. Jesus often presented riddles (They are known as parables ) in order to do just what you said, "to open up people's minds" and to consider the possibility of a Heaven and of being born again into a spirit of harmony and being born again into a new justice system. Justice system?
Yes, our attitudes are, in a sense, our justice system. When you were first born, you soon had an attitude of selfishness (what can I put in my mouth, and what will give me pleasure?) and an attitude that if anyone hurts me, I will not only not forgive them, I will hold a grudge, and in extreme circumstance I will seem revenge.
To be born again, means that your attitude, your inner self, your code of "right and wrong" will not let you hold a grudge or seek revenge. - (Being born again simply gives you an attitude compatable with harmony-loving people of Heaven)
smiles -
2007-04-04 10:15:19 · answer #2 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Riddles are play with words, semantic tricks. Looking, studying and reacting to reality is more useful to open your mind, than unproven claims of higher mystical powers.
2007-04-04 01:19:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I quit seeking, as well as when I give up trying not to seek, only then does "The Mind" become clear for awareness to experience the perfection of what it is perceiving.
2007-04-04 04:18:33 · answer #4 · answered by cosmicaware1 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why do Christians think they have a monopoly on the concept of "the Truth"? Are they completely unaware of the absurdity of every claim they make?
2007-04-04 01:27:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know an old zen koan, "what did my face look like before my parents were born". I also know the answer but I can not speak it.
2007-04-08 13:32:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If there were 600,000 hebrews in the Sinai desert after the exodus, what did they EAT for 40 years.........???
2007-04-04 01:23:14 · answer #7 · answered by Theban 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's my riddle:
Why don't atheists believe in the truth?
If they're such free thinkers, then why can't they open their minds to what is absolute & true?
2007-04-04 01:19:05 · answer #8 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
How about "How many chucks can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
2007-04-04 01:19:33 · answer #9 · answered by Militant Agnostic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
2007-04-04 01:19:14 · answer #10 · answered by anemephistus 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋