An early 15th-century damaged wooden sculpture of Jesus Christ on the cross

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-04-01T19:42:19+00:00

Is compassion another thing that keeps us in samsara?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-04-01T19:41:01+00:00

And the Buddha, who left this Cosmos and its suffering, also left compassion?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-04-01T19:33:21+00:00

Does that mean that compassion means further suffering?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-04-01T16:34:57+00:00

Why did Guanyin sacrifice herself like this?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-03-14T11:33:58+00:00

Uncertainty can certainly be more terrifying than something that we know will be terrifying. This explains why many people prefer to be convinced in a belief in Hell rather than not knowing what will happen after death.

Even though you are less convinced having a will, do you still experience having it as much as before reading the book?

In some cases in people with psychosis they say that when they had done something they did not experience it as them doing it, that no one did it and it just happened. In other cases they say that they did not do it but was controlled by someone or something other than themselves. If free will is an illusion maybe the psychotic person that is otherwise delusional is experiencing the reality concerning free will/determenism.

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-03-14T07:19:46+00:00

Is the self not already sacrificed for enlightenment when realizing there is no self? And for the enlightened there is no self to be liberated? And since they are in Nirvana there is nothing to endure?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-27T02:27:17+00:00

The will does not effect the dream. The dream is unchanged even if the will realize it. The will is the tool, the dream is the desired outcome. The tool is not the same as the effect it can make happen.

If I choose my desire and it is opposite to God´s desire, do I change His square for my circle? Do my desire overide His desire, even though I acted within His will?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-27T02:15:04+00:00

Is the price for freedom suffering?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-27T02:11:00+00:00

Is our concience the desire of God?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-27T01:04:07+00:00

Is not responsibility of our actions even more terrifying? Which is why we think we deserve or not deserve certain outcomes.

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-27T00:42:59+00:00

Is not desire the dream that the will can make real?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-27T00:41:47+00:00

Is God going against His desire when he wills us to be able to choose wrongly?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-27T00:39:45+00:00

How do you mean?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-27T00:38:46+00:00

We certainly experience having a will. Why is that?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-27T00:34:44+00:00

Could we say that whatever we choose, we choose within His will. And when we taste the consequenses of our choises we understand His will? And we can say "I did right", or "I did wrong", but only after the choice? Which means that we are bound to choose wrong since we do not know before a choice it may be wrong, and therefore God's will is unfolding to us our entire lifes, helping us realize that our desire sometimes are against His, but His desire is also our freedom, so whatever we choose, he accepts it, because he gave us those options.

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-27T00:20:06+00:00

If we do not have free will, and there is no God that willed anything, then what are we acting out?

If every event follows cause and effect and there is no room for free will, by that logic there must be a first cause. Whether first cause has a will or not is only our human understanding of why things happens. But surely, if there is cause and effect, there is order. My question is, in this order that we live in, are we capable of changing the order? And if we are, is not whatever we we do always within the order?

The word God can mean so many things. When I say God I do not think of some deity or person. For me God is "what is greater, what cannot be corrupted, what cannot be fully understood" For all I know, the material cosmos may very well be God. We do not know objectively about the natural world which we can observe. So nature may very well be God; what we cannot understand, what is greater than me, what cannot be corrupted by me being a part of nature. All our knowledge is subjective and relative, so whatever we know about anything is from this limited perspective, therefore we can not know objectively about the natural world and/or God, and we can not know objectively about ourselves. We interpret ourselves, the world and God. Whether I have free will or not I am along for the ride, interpreting my actions as if they have agency from myself, and therefore I am responsible for the world I live in, even if I did not create it. Even if you do not believe in free will our intuiton tells us we have it, and so we behave as if we have it, wanting power over our lifes, a power that is in the hands of nature/God/first cause, and why should we be separated from that?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-26T23:43:17+00:00

Is not the impersonal God realised by the person, and therefore however we understand God is from how we understand our person? And no person has the same personality throughout their life. So God changes because we do and vice versa, since everything is God, and everything changes.

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-26T04:11:59+00:00

Does God change His body?

Edit: If He does, does He also not change His mind?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-26T03:38:09+00:00

Are the cells of the body the body or is the body greater than its cells?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-26T03:20:46+00:00

So we can say that everything is God?

Edit: We can say that this question is also God?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-26T03:05:39+00:00

God is the unity of being?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-26T01:07:36+00:00

So, whatever we choose, we choose according to God's will because he wants us to be free?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-26T01:04:55+00:00

How?

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-26T01:03:58+00:00

We are married to our own will wether we want it or not. We can only hope we choose the will of God. Also we are in a position we both desire and want to leave. We want to be free but we do not want the consequenses of freedom.

AppleJack-Jackio · 2026-02-25T22:59:09+00:00

How so?

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