Fa Xin

In my experience, compassion happens on its own as a result of being aware of your own condition.

Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing everyone.

There’s qi in everything we do, everything everyone does.

How many of the 10,000 things can you not touch ?

Or that Gods are the manifestation of the “all”.

Haha based on my knowledge of photography... I have no idea. My knowledge of photography is sorely lacking. Great picture though it just reminds me of pictures of dust orbs I’ve seen. What do you think it is? still hoping it’s the mothership come back for me and ST.

We’re finally going home!!!

I know you’ve thought of this, looks like something on the lens super magnified. Like lint.

The mothership, baby!

I have a different belief on the matter, personally. 😊 cheers though!

Yes this is true. On the flip side, it’s good to have kind people who are willing to help and capable of doing so.

I thought about examples from life. Not many came to mind. At work one time, a coworker of mine threw something at me - maybe a candy bar or balled up piece of paper and I caught it. He did it a few more times in the following days and I caught them all. He told a few of my coworkers, “if you throw something at him, even though he’s not expecting it, he catches it.” The last few months have been coworkers trying to catch me off guard and bounce something off my face...they’ve only succeeded once or twice! Usually when they don’t say “catch” as they throw it (seems I respond like a trained animal to commands) it just makes me happy to know- that all my years of training my hands, and my awareness, has culminated in this honorable display of skills. *deep bow*

Enjoy seeking while it’s there 😊

(59) Jesus said, "Take heed of the living one while you are alive, lest you die and seek to see him and be unable to do so." You only have this moment...live it to its fullest 😊

Maybe that suffering is a way to wake up to the Kingdom of God ?

(58) Jesus said, "Blessed is the man who has suffered and found life."

Wow. Pretty profound and explains it perfectly... thank you... Also, in my experience , it isn’t possible to pull out the weeds (fears, issues) without pulling out the wheat too (the enjoyable side of ego stuff). it all stays (weeds and wheat) or it all goes (harvest time)

Great discussion!! Going to move it along, as this one seems more interesting... 57 Jesus said, "The Father's kingdom is like a person who has [good] seed. His enemy came during the night and sowed weeds among the good seed. The person did not let the workers pull up the weeds, but said to them, 'No, otherwise you might go to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them.' For on the day of the harvest the weeds will be conspicuous, and will be pulled up and burned." One highlight of this verse for me is "No, otherwise you might go to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them." Does everyone think this is about taking the good with the bad? Or is it deeper than that?

This one to me falls into line with 54 and 55 - the corpse being worldly pleasures and attachments. Something that is ultimately empty but also impermanent. To recognize the impermanent nature of the world, and let go of attachments... you have sort of "risen above it"

(56) Jesus said, "Whoever has come to understand the world has found (only) a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world.”

Why would you want to seal a spirit away again?

Sure. That’s kind of what I meant. Thanks for clarifying.

It’s good that your acknowledging these things. They tend to drop away naturally if you keep looking at them.

I used to think universal love was walking around blissed out, helping everyone and feeling that strong compassion, heart centered love for anyone I saw. Boy was I wrong 😄 although I tried for a long time to stay in that place. Chanting the Mani mantra and doing loving kindness practice. It definitely opened my heart up but it didn’t end there, it kept expanding ❤️ Now I see that where I put my attention is “love”

(55) Jesus said, "Whoever does not hate his father and his mother cannot become a disciple to me. And whoever does not hate his brothers and sisters and take up his cross in my way will not be worthy of me.“ This one is a little more of a challenge... To me it means more of what 54 is about - sacrificing and letting go of attachments, but in this form of your loved ones. Especially transcending the expectations and path - your story - that your family and parents have created for you. Your conditioning. He also talks about "taking up HIS cross" - thinking and deciding for yourself... following your own way. Also, looking ahead to 56... I see a pattern emerging in these few verses...