To follow Christ does not mean to commit idolatry and venerate an idea of an individual man above everyone else; it means to "let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus" as said in Philippians 2:5.
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Is the soul separate from the body? Is the body and its senses not a means for the soul to experience reality?
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The mind referred to in my tweet you subtweeted was not the 'mind of Christ' of this tweet. I meant a mind preoccupied with prejudices and abstract information, not the mind that is empty of itself like Christ's mind was empty of himself.
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I draw no distinctions between matter and spirit. It is all the same reality; 'matter' is just one part of the spectrum—a certain vibratory frequency of this intangible reality that we perceive with our senses—and 'spirit' the rest.
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Sensory input becomes 'objects' only in the 'mundane mind', through conceptualization superimposed on reality. With the mind 'empty', one realizes this lack of distinction, or rather that all distinctions and divisions existed only on the mind and not in the reality underneath.
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Agreed.
But, let me get this straight: it seemed to be that you were giving more "reality" to sensory impressions than to abstractions or thoughts? And (if that is the case) I don't see why you would do that, given that what you are saying here is applicable to both.
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One can get that impression for sure. It is not the intention: thoughts are reality exactly as much as everything else; existing on a part of the spectrum not perceived by our senses but cognition. What I'm trying to say is that it is very easy to become confused with ...
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