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The Sound of One Hand Clapping
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| Welcome to hilarious teachings. |
Tao has many meanings. Here it stands for handling routines, handling ways, proficient and savoury outlets.
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A Bad Choice Is No Good Choice
When you have to make a good choice and do not make it, that in itself is a bad choice [cf. William James]
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He also insists: "Why do you call me good?" He does not confirm the faith that he is good, in other words. Look at what happened to the first Christians. Some survived, millions suffered and died for Heaven while firmly believing the end of the times was about. They were wrong about it, and so were apostles.
One had better refrain from the bestiality that dreams up that vicarious sacrifice of innocents is good and merciful. It is criminal, a heinous sin. Do not get fooled and outsmarted by "God", lassie.
No matter what mystery it is, "win the trick" - through the proper Spirit to guide you from within. It was promised to all followers. All the apostles and that Spirit used it to drop all the sayings of Jesus - they were for Jews - and hence favour Gentile Christians - the vast majority of Christians, that is. [Acts 15; 21:25]
To be a winner starts and ends with being yourself well, and let things evolve.
Lessons
There appear to be several sorts of gospel faith, and the one can kill the beginner. Hence, choose wisely and well, and just refrain from great-looking sayings that have merely affection-value. [Matthew 19;26; Mark 9;23; Matthew 17:21; John 14;12]
Mortal dangers of faith in Jesus Today
Young teenager girls believed Jesus literally and died from it
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| Little Cow's wisdom: Do not welcome danger, and do not seek it out either, no matter what they say. |
They reminded each other of the promises of Jesus, held hands and went into the surging water, intent on walking on it and over to the other side. They were found some time later further down the stream. All were dead.
The unfortunate deaths grieved and upsed Dr. Cho and many others. What went wrong? he pondered. They had taken Jesus on his word. They did their part in the faith thing, it seems.
But then it occurred to the minister that they had acted on general statements from back then, not on personal guidance directly to any of them. That was their error, he concluded in a book of his. [One may search Skat or Dfd for the tale.]
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Adjoined
Ak: Yogananda, Pa.: Man's Eternal Quest. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1975.Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) Oxford University, New York, 1996.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1958.
Zf: Reps, Paul: Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. Penguin. Harmondsworth, 1971, updated 1997.
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