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A massage to superpowers

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Some 2500 years ago a spiritual instructor in China named Lao Tzu, worked as librarian of one of the Tang Dynasty emperor. Witnessing the growing decadence of the empire, Lao Tzu left the capital. An officer recognizing him asked that he delivers his wisdom before disappearing. Lao Tzu remained with the officer for a while and wrote his only book, the Tao Te Ching. What Lao Tzu called the Tao, the early Zoroastrianism called it the KHOD and I call it the INFINITE ISness of Reality. When we read Lao Tzu’s definition of what is a great nation we realize that what nowadays superpowers are doing is just insane and criminal. They should rethink their philosophy since obviously materialism, its quest for power and its abject violence, do not work at all, it is a total fiasco. A GREAT NATION ACCORDING TO LAO TZU. When a country obtains great power, It becomes like the sea: all streams run downward into it. The more powerful it grows, the greater the need for humility. Humili

Nirvana निर्वाण

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The term Nirvana or निर्वाण in Sanscrit, literally means "blown out", as in an oil lamp for instance. In fact this is our thought-identity that is blown out when we retrieve BEING in us which is mere OBSERVATION of what IS at the tip of the always renewed Present Instant. But people are usually so much identified with their thinking mind that they must stop thinking altogether as to realize they are still and even more intensely present when their thought activity stops, or, said differently, when their thought-identity is blown out and they just ARE. This ISness in us which is Reality’s INFINITE and indivisible ISness is pure consciousness, the only consciousness there IS. And everything only exists into this consciousness which since INFINITE is everything’s ISness. When we retrieve BEING in us we realize our thought-identity was a hindrance, a gap, a veil, screening Reality. Nirvāṇa is what we experience when we retrieve the Kingdom of God or Reality’s INFINI