Grazy

Hi to SUSIE_WONG

We need people like you; there are many people down here who need to learn to open up and write from their heart.

I love everybody. Dirty, smelly and skint, upwards.

Due to my illness I am permanently on; Morphine, Pregabalin, Tramadol and Clonazepam.

As a result of all this my perception is altered and I see life as it really is, without any facades.

We are all born and our task is to overcome many, many, obstacles. This teaches us understanding of our own lives and those of others. From this we can start to develop Universal Compassion

We will all die and the “law of Life”, just like a computer will work out our value at our time of death.

We will pass thru many test just after our death and the strength and belief in the “Truth” that we have learned will help us to bypass the many temptations of the Bardo of Becoming and according to how loving we have been to other beings, we will eventually choose our own rebirth.

You can choose to believe what I have told you or have a laugh over it it, but all this is based on many years of studying the life of the Buddha, meditating and also on personal insights I have received over the years, including near death experiences, life reviews etc.

Wishing you all, a long and happy life!

My love to all readers

Grazy

Grazy

HI Mitzyboy,

I enjoy your posts and can see that you have much wisdom.

I will take on board you advice.

Unconditional Love, Universal Compassion and a Loving Heart.

This is what we all should be working towards.

Grazy

Lochy

Very nice sentiments.

I must admit, my answer to the main question of this post would have to be - "what chance do we have of the spanish liking us when they don't even get along between themselves!!??".

My “idea” of what spain would be like before I got here is very different to the one I see. I love the country, I love living here, and think the way of life is spectacularly much better here than in the UK. However, I’ve been amazed at how fractured the country is and how radical some of the politicians are. I wish Rajoy and others in the PP party would take some of your sentiments on board. They are currently involved in the politics of hate, spreading fear and prejudice in order to get power. It’s scary stuff when you hear them and it’s dividing the country even further.

Unfortunately, it also seems to be effective and people believe it

crispy

Hey Grazy

a person after my own heart, yes we are all on our own personal journey's if we know it or not I believe what we do now will reflect upon our rebirth.

There are six realms of rebirth and each one is a learning curve, that we each have to complete, in each realm there are many levels to obtain and rebirth can be within 31 possible destinations, starting with hell; a place of woe which brings evil acts done in previous lives but thankfully it is not a place of damnation. We then go through the animal, ghosts, Titans on the fifth level we have us humans highly desirable and difficult to attain so each and eveyone every one of us should pat ourselves on the back for achieving this level. Then we have the sixth rebirth which we are all striving for being reborn as a god in an idyllic paradise, we have potential and handicaps to our spiritual progress and we are all thankfully at different levels of this.

Through our journey's it is easy to become complacent and loose sight of the need to strive for nirvana it gladens my heart to read your post and hear that you are at piece with your self.

I wish you well, and I pray for your good health.

Grazy

Hi crispygirl and to all other esteemed members,

Your posts are wonderfully refreshing. When I read such posts it reminds me that, we are never alone

“To see the world in a grain of sand.”

What does it mean? Maybe it means that the purpose of life can be found in every minute detail of creation. Stare at a rose for a long, long, time and let all arising thoughts drift by, let go of all attachments and you will see this world as it really is, a place where we are all free to embark upon a spiritual journey.

People talk about politicians ruining the world, but it is people who are ruining the world.

Every time you recycle a plastic bag you are reversing this process. You! Not a politician.

Politicians only
hold office and the power that goes with it because of the way we the public think.

If we change our individual thinking, then all the politicians will be changed for different ones, who get our (The) message.

(For anybody who may be interested, I have had some powerful spiritual experiences in my life (All of which have been radically life changing.) and I am very willing to share them with people who are interested in looking beyond the material, which has no true existence (No independent existence.)

What have I given today? This is the most important question there is to ask.

Then ask what work have I done and what have I received as a result?

At the end of each day, dedicate all your achievements and your benefits to your god whoever that might be. Don’t take credit for your work.

As our ego becomes smaller, so the more inner peace we find.

My love to everybody and may we all find inner peace.

SUSIE_WONG

Sorry, but I don't agree, I can see no advantage in positive discrimination. I don't think it's the best way to help those who are weaker or less advantaged. If I don't get any help why should others do? All I have achieved in life is due to my hard work, and I have not received any help from anybody. But I have had the same opportunities as others, and that's enough for me. No discrimination is good, no matter how you call it.

Yes, there is tension between the regions, but it is not due to the pp. It's the nationalist political partys who create it, and this is not new. The regions with nationalist partys get more money and more investments from the main goverment, and they never have enough. For many years, regions like Cataluña and the Basque region have benefited of this while other regions who needed more didn't get enough. Talking about the dictatorship, during those years all the big companies where pushed to be based in the basque region and Cataluna, and for many years they have been the richest regions in Spain, while others had to put up with the leftovers. I think that can create a little tension, don't you?

SUSIE_WONG

Don't take me wrong. I love Spain, it's not perfect, but I would never dream of moving elsewhere. It has bars ( that are opened until late), octopus and jamon serrano. ¿Who could ask for more?

crispy

Grazy

All anger can be transformed into sharp intelligence, ignorance into calm equanimity and passion into warmth of compassion........the biggest feelings of failing can be the seed of the enlightened mind.

By seeing clearly how we cause harm to others by our selfishness, we can take personal responsibility for reducing the suffering in our environment. You are right it is us the people and not the politics and politictions.

rugbymatt

There is far too much loving on this thread for me to be involved, I'm off to TIO to watch someone get banned.

Grazy

I like you already. You can see that there is a way to end suffering.

You can also see that we bear the responsibility for everthing that happens to us.

I look forward to talking with you more!

Love

Grazy

rugbymatt

please make it stop........

Grazy

"Love is all there is" Everything else however much you may enjoy it is empty of indepenent existence. We are here to learn how to love. It's that simple.

Love (Oooops sorry!

Grazy)

rugbymatt

There is no such thing as love, affection, yes, attraction definitely, compassion, in some people yep.......but love? No, its a myth, a word invented for poets and artists.

Grazy

Some of them do. Some of them don't. Some of them don't even know we exist.

Does it even matter?

As long as we are happy ,that we are living our own lives in a RESPONSIBLE way and that we are following the path that we feel is beneficial, then that's it.

Your Q is one of the widest generalizations ever published on planet Earth and I am sure that you meant it to be so.

Grazy

rugbymatt

Jean hasn't been on for a week, man is she going to be shocked at her thread!!