it is about whether we can counteract our thoughts. Thoughts can be classified into three types: good, bad, and neutral. Practice is about transforming bad thoughts into good ones and transforming good thoughts into unconditioned wisdom. This...
The Lords Prayer Biblical scholars disagree about Jesus' meaning in the Lord's Prayer. Some view it as "existential," referring to man's present experience on earth, while others interpret it as "eschatological," referring to the coming Kingdom of God. The prayer itself lends to both interpr...
“No, TikTok is no bird, but I bet there are TikTok’s about parrots talking.” Danny stunned his new disciples as he found a video of someone who trained his cockatiel to swear for a treat. His blonde-haired bowl cut, blue-eyed audience was more amazed about a creature they had neve...
Khenchen Nyima: Yes, because here [pointing to the Tibetan text passage translated above] it says regarding Amé zhab’s dream that he saw the appearance of Lord Mahākāla. He asked his guru about it, and the teacher said that it was not particularly good or bad. So, when we think of...
When Jesus was asked about His return, the first sign of many He referred to in all three chapters was religious deception. Many times He warned about religious deception and being led astray in this age, as if it would be worse than at any time in the history of the Church. In other...
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” There is nothing secret about total ...
know this, you also know that when once the lie about Mrs. Eddy and the authorship of Science and Health was destroyed, it was equally impossible for that lie to return. As Science and Health declares, “Neither disease itself, sin nor fear has the power to cause disease or a relapse....
He must not commit the sin of running away from his duties, but should perform every single one of them, without anxiety about the accruing results. He must train and control his senses; he must exercise and make agile and healthy his body; he must act mentally, i.e., study and ...
Wesley also influenced other key figures in the abolitionist movement, like George Whitefield, who helped spark discussions about slavery across the Atlantic. John Wesley supported women in leadership roles in Methodism. In 1761, he allowed Sarah Crosby to preach when she faced a large crowd in he...
heard about Jesus’s resurrection and failed to believe. Some have suggested that the “eleven” may have been a way of referring to the core of the apostolic body. However, while scholars generally agree that “the Twelve” became a nickname for Jesus’s main disciples (e.g., 1 Co...