Gaia Community: Ian Gardner's Blog

Riches.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:14:59 GMT

In the autumn of my life I am richer than any amount of riches could have made me.

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Words of Wisdom.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:12:37 GMT

Words of wisdom stand in their own right without attribution to anyone.

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Enlightenment.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:05:03 GMT

As the darkness that is the “I” lifts, all else becomes lit.

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Levels of Consciousness of the Spirit and the Moul.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:33:22 GMT

The conscious and the subconscious are attributes of the moul; the superconscious is Spirit, or thought.

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Cessation of Karma.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:51:59 GMT

The fundamental law of physics is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Karma, literally, means action and action is caused by mental activity or, as I call it, menting.

The fundamental law of Karma is that for every ment there is an equal and opposite reaction.

So, every time our mind (moul) generates a ment the opposite is also generated and this continues until we cease to generate ments.

We cease to generate ments when when the mind is finally stilled, when the moul has finally been eliminated, when all attachment is nullified and we have total non-attachment, and all that is left is the Spirit Self - that which was created in the image of the Great Spirit.

This is the cessation of Karma, the cessation of birth and death.

This is Buddhahood, this is Christhood!

Tags: Karma, its cessation, Buddhahood, Christhood

Origin of the Species.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:52:03 GMT

If you wanted to study a plant would you go to the origin of the species or a hybrid? Similarly, where would you go to study a particular spiritual teaching?

Tags: spiritual study, sourcing knowledge

Out of the mouths of babes . . . . . . . etc.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:42:53 GMT

These two anecdotes illustrate the awareness that many children have which most adults cannot recall:

I once saw a child and his mother on TV. He was about 7 years old and was suffering acutely from some extremely painful affliction - from memory it was arthritis - and the program was about the affliction, not spirituality. At one point, when the mother was carrying on about the pain her son was enduring etc. he just looked up at her and said, quite matter-of-factly, 'Mum, I will be in this body for only a short time more.' or words to that effect.
Yesterday, during an interview about her life, when she was chatting about her 18 year old daughter a woman said, 'When she was four she said to me, '"I waited a long time for this. I waited a long time for you to have me."'

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The Illusion and Emotion.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:42:29 GMT

Although all that happens is an illusion the emotions of suffering and pleasure are, to all intents and purposes, real in terms of the purpose they serve: this being spiritual growth leading to nirvana.

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The "Garden of Eden".

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:19:39 GMT

All things, and all things acted out therein or therewith, are a creation of the individual Spirit, and therefore the collective Spirit, and are an illusion. It is this illusion that is perceived as reality yet it is no more real than the reality of a dream.

However, it is within this perception that we ment and act on the path to the final realisation.

Note 1. An ancient quote, predating Shakespeare: the world is a "wide and universal theater,"

Note 2. Extract from The Milk Is White:

When we leave our body our life here becomes the 'dream' and where we then are becomes the reality. When we reach full enlightenment, Christhood or full realisation, call it what we will, that is the only reality, and there is no dream of any sort.

From our physical mindset, therefore, we create both the dream 'reality' and the virtual 'reality' with the latter more approximating the reality of the former when technology is refined. In the manner in which the dream and the technologically created 'reality' are similar but not the same so is the similarity between "life in the physical" and our existence when not in the physical.

Tags: illusion, perception, impermanence

What One Can Lose.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:25:52 GMT

What one can lose is illusion, is perception, is impermanent.

One can never lose what is.

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Casting Stones.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:29:11 GMT

Where the biblical ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.’ is concerned it is wise to be aware, and remember, that “being without sin” applies to our previous lives as well as the present one. Thus, the statement takes on a different dimension.

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A Succession of Choices.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:04:16 GMT

One’s life is the consequence of a succession of choices; the major, minor, conscious and unconscious choices. These consequences do not manifest in a single lifetime so, if one’s life is pleasant and trouble free it is very likely that the opposite is still to be experienced to bring experience as a whole into a state of balance. Be not fooled!

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Free Will and Its Consequence.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:34:50 GMT

We have been given free will and the creative ability of the Great Spirit.

We create our future, so when we face that future there is no purpose in pleading for the Great Spirit’s help for “As you sow, so you shall reap!” applies.

However, the field is ploughed and fertile so sow!

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Creativity and Arrogance.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:32:06 GMT

From the dawn of time we have been obsessed with improving all aspects of nature - a state that is the epitome of perfection. This obsession is neither humble nor achievable.

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Bad and Good.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:34:04 GMT

Mental activity (menting) is negative, positive or neutral and creates energy vibrations accordingly. Its effect on all things is negative, positive or neutral and these three attributes are commonly called "good", "bad", "right", "wrong" etcetera.

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The Truth and Its Conveyor.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:32:37 GMT

Where the Truth is concerned an individual is unimportant as their purpose is to convey.

Note: For example, it is said that when the Buddha was nearing the time of his death his disciples pleaded with him to stay longer but his response was, “You do not need me.”

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Bad and Good.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:03 GMT

In Earthly life there is nothing really “bad” for the Spirit you because negative mentality only delays full enlightenment and the cessation of the cycle of birth and death. However, for the physical you - in all the possible states of physicalness - “bad” things can result in pain or suffering or unhappiness or all of these.

Likewise, the opposite applies.

Tags: Good, Bad, delaying enlightenment.

Karma.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:02:19 GMT

The Law of Karma is very simple but its application is as varied as the menting* of the individuals which activate it.

See “Ians Dictionary”

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Imaging the Great Spirit.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:46:10 GMT

The fact that, in a spiritual context, one is made in the image of the Great Spirit does not mean that one is correct in imagining the Great Spirit as something like one’s Earthly self. To do this accurately one has firstly to be able to imagine one’s own spiritual image.

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Deification.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:19:56 GMT

The deification of people and objects is a throw-back to the deification of the sun engendered by ignorance and/or the need for a psychological crutch.

Tags: Deification, psychological crutch