Enlightened Living

Mindfulness practice in everyday life.

Michael J. Formica, MS, MA, EdM is a psychotherapist, social scientist, and educator in Westport CT. He is an Initiate in the Shankya Yoga lineage. See full bio

May 13, 2008, Spirituality

Comments on "I Am One, You Are One, We Are Altogether One..."

I Am One, You Are One, We Are Altogether One...

By Michael J. Formica on May 13, 2008 in Enlightened Living

"Split a piece of wood, you will find me. Turn over a rock, and I will be there."

These days, statements like that would probably get you locked up in a psych ward. But in truth, this experience is at the core of enlightenment, rapture, satori, samadhi and epiphany. Read More

God is Within Me, Also

Submitted by Meghan on May 13, 2008 - 2:00pm.

I love this blog. I am a very devout Christian, and I believe that this is a message that needs to reach all people. If everyone recognized the significance of God within themselves instead of looking outward for Him, more people would find the truth.

This belief that God is very

Submitted by homa on May 13, 2008 - 3:50pm.

This belief that God is very interesting but sometimes it makes me confused because if god is in everything ,is god in evil too? or there are two different truth of God and Evil ?
homa

Good and evil

Submitted by Michael J. Formica on May 13, 2008 - 4:43pm.

Homa... What a fabulous question. And one worthy of a doctoral dissertation in theology. Everything occurs in balance. You cannot have light without darkness, and you cannot have darkness without light. If there is good, there must be evil and if God is the Creator then, S/he is the antecedent and the perpetuator of all things...good and evil included. The Hindu religion has a great take on this...in this patheon, Indra is the whole, and within Indra exists a trinity...Brahma, the creator, Shiva, the destroyer, and Vishnu, the sustainer. God, then, is all things... By the same token, in the Christian religion, we can look at Michael, the Archangel. Michael is the strongest and most 'evolved' of the arcs. He is the the Warrior of God and the one who smote the dragon, casting Lucifer (also an arc, and a son of God, by the way) out of heaven...he is also the Angel of Death. Balance...always balance... The regretable imbalance is often created by us...the all too human element... Blessings, Michael

Qualification

Submitted by Michael J. Formica on May 13, 2008 - 4:48pm.

I said Christian religion...I meant Old Testament...sorry... :-) Michael

I Am One, You Are One, We Are All Together One...

Submitted by Tricia Wallace on May 14, 2008 - 9:42am.

To sense the inter-connectedness of things enables us to begin to rise above the conditional opposition within us. As we begin to sense the energy fields vibrations and fluctuations, our self-view and understanding of the world changes.

It's all about changes from with-in. We are all one people. There is no self. No me. We are all human beings with different manifestations called consciousness.

What good is a person's knowledge, in any faith, unless it prompts them to prevent the pain of other's as of it were their own pain.

Namatase,
Jalus

Getting There While Being There.

No Time to Lose

Submitted by Michael J. Formica on May 16, 2008 - 2:48am.

Tricia: I'm wondering if you have read this wonderful book on the the bodhisattva ethic by Pema Chodron. It might be worth a look... Blessings, Michael