Our memory accumulates all the rubbish, unwanted theories, likings and dislikings, personal prejudices, predilictions. Empty yourself so that the cup can be filled with grace said Sai baba. It seems logical that when the cup if already filled, how it can be filled with grace. What is your opinion on this?
2007-04-16 00:41:15 · 11 answers · asked by nagarajan s 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You don't have to empty your mind of all knowledge. You only have to empty your attachment to it and identification with it.
2007-04-16 01:55:54 · answer #1 · answered by Sabrina H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, dogma corrupts the mind. The bible is a pill to prevent thinking. Catholics are slaves to their church, Protestants are slaves to their bibles. It’s always good to dump everything you have been taught and tell them all to go get stuffed and start over. Buddha went into the wilderness to do this, Jesus did the same. Problem is when they come out their disciples turn their enlightenment into the last thing they wanted; dogma and churches (Buddha not so much but still).
2007-04-16 00:51:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The statement that you said for the title of your question is probably true. But there's no way of knowing because I doubt anyone has actually done that yet. But I have no idea of how to do that (Fill a filled cup even more)
2007-04-16 00:53:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
2007-04-16 00:46:16 · answer #4 · answered by guppy137 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grace is already everything that we are. Grace would be weak indeed if our illusions of ego could bar it entry to its eternal home. Grace has not gone, nor could it ever leave. Ours is the heritage of the beloved.
2007-04-16 01:01:08 · answer #5 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a nice theory, but to empty your mind of all these things is only possible by complete cessation of neurochemical activity.
2007-04-16 00:49:28 · answer #6 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being exposed to a range of these things actually helps to expand the mind.
That's half the reason so many people are in this forum.
2007-04-16 00:46:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tell me where the "delete" button is in my mind, and I'll give it a try.
2007-04-16 00:48:05 · answer #8 · answered by Dirk Johnson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you're on to something but so far you don't make sense. Keep working on it.
2007-04-16 00:49:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No truth about your notions.
jtm
2007-04-16 00:45:33 · answer #10 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋