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โˆ my old beliefs and ideas about **GOD** โˆ

Posted: Fri, Jun 14, 2013 08:08:19 AM

ranged from the fear of a punishing or vengeful to little or no belief at all. so a topic that lends it self to a history lesson that i choose not to develop this morning, in fact when i chose this seed thirty minutes ago, i had no intention of going there. i do need to do a very brief reprise of what i have said more than once, i am not really a “GOD” guy, and all the FAITH i have today is not rooted in any western religious tradition. in fact i once found that almost all the religious traditions bordered on superstition and was quite content to deride and look down on the adherents to those traditions. today, well i am just a bit more tolerant and less arrogant in my beliefs, as i have come to more than an understanding of the POWER that fuels my recovery, whatever that may be or look like.
yes how i depend on that POWER, looks very superstitious to me, once i look through the rational lenses of reason. i cannot sense that POWER with any of my physical senses, i cannot quantify how that POWER does for me, what i cannot do for myself and coming to FAITH in such a notion, well let me just say that is really the oddest thing of all. i always go back into a line from the play about the Danish prince that there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt about in my philosophy.
well that when on a bit longer than i desired. explaining the unexplainable is not something i tend to dwell on any more. not everything needs to be quatified or qualified, some things just are, and this morning i can accept that statement. truthfully, there is no reason i should be on this bus, headed to my last day of contract labor from the house i share with the woman i love, in a world that is neiher kind nor caring. i should still be out there running and gunnung and suffering the consequences of active addiction. that was not however how things worked out and as i look at where i am today, i am grateful that i GOT the life i have been given. whether that life comes from a certain change in how i think and behave, due to Skinnerian conditioning, or a POWER that fuels my recovery. the result is more than i probably ever deserved and i certainly GOT mercy and not justice in the grand scheme of things. i hear addicts all the time, whining about how they cannot find A purpose in their lives. or expounding on the notion that somehoe they are heer for a very specific reason, that “GOD” has a plan for them, and perhaps they are correct. me, i am quite comfortable that ia higher purpose may exist for me, but i need not worry or even think about it, until it is revealed. i am quite content being on this side of the grass and having the opportunity to choose to live today. i could get all mystical and weird at this point, but in the end, i am not that sort of person and can come to be comfortable accepting that there is more than i can ever dream of.
it si an excellent day to be clean and although what i had planned for today, has not come to pass, i can accept that it just was not meant to be. i will work with what i have and leave the rest in the weeds. on that note i think i will sign off and enjoy leaving the commute to someone else.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 1

3) He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without
desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them
from presuming to act (on it). When there is this abstinence from
action, good order is universal.