http://www.magic-tree.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:26:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en January 21, 2011 The Buddha’s Eight Fold Path appears to be a guide toward ascension into the finer levels of spiritual awareness.  What can you tell me of the next fold in the practice of union - Right Livelihood? January 23, 2011 The next two folds of the Eight Fold ... http://www.magic-tree.org/?p=978 January 18, 2011 Right Action and Right View appear to be prerequisites for the other six aspects of the Eight Fold Path (Right Livelihood, Right Speech, Right Thought, Right Exertion, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration).  These first two form a foundation out of the solid rock (Matthew 7. ... http://www.magic-tree.org/?p=975 January 16, 2011 I can see from what You have said that the Five Dispositions and Five Orientations have their correspondences to the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes of Matthew 5. 3-14 and that they are further elucidated by the rest of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew, chapters ... http://www.magic-tree.org/?p=972 January 15, 2011 -part 3 of 3 Thus it is that My Burden is light and My Yoke is easy in the effort to be only that, that You truly already Are.  Thus you, in form, become the salt of the earth, the light of ... http://www.magic-tree.org/?p=968 January 15, 2011 -part 2 of 3 Remember that I Am your Self!  How hard can it be to be completely devoted to One’s Self?  You need merely make the shift in awareness that your self is not the separated egotistical self concept that arises ... http://www.magic-tree.org/?p=963 January 15, 2011 -part 1 of 3 Orientation 5. Devotion to I Am, The Love in everything. You can see, perhaps, that all the Law represented by these Five Orientations and the Five Dispositions before them, boil down to this last Orientation that I Would Encourage you ... http://www.magic-tree.org/?p=961 Jesus knew the consequences of shining My Light among men.  He said “Blessed are you when men revile and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.  Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in ... http://www.magic-tree.org/?p=952 January 8, 2011 You must be still to realize My All Encompassing Presence and Know Me.  While you still rely on eyes that are dual you cannot truly See Me as You did in the Garden before duality.  You must learn to see with one eye; one I. I Am ... http://www.magic-tree.org/?p=949 January 2, 2011 Orientation 4. Spiritual interpretation of all things physical. It is with empty hands that your approach to Me must be made.  How shall you empty yourself when you are so full of yourself; full of form; full of identification with your body, with your thoughts, ... http://www.magic-tree.org/?p=947 December 29, 2010 - Part 2 of 2 Does it seem like an impossible dream, you being Me?  Remember You are not the form.  I present a rainbow of spiritual value to you that appears elusive, ethereal.  It seems that as you chase after it and ... http://www.magic-tree.org/?p=940