Iranian of the Day

Re: Kabbalah

I can connect to what you say. For sure, you touch upon the very essence of all Abrahamic religions and probably including Buddhism and other ones I was not fortunate enough to study.
After all, If you gather all prophets (the models of humanity) under a tent, you won't hear any word of argument but all harmony. But then, that is why we are here on Earth - To play our vitality and show our preparedness to meet the ultimate beauty - The One and only existence.

Peace;

Re: Anon...14

Anon...14 Aziz, kamelan dorst hast harfetoon. Mas'ale injast ke in yek seri adamha ro onn MIDDLE MAN ha nemitoonand control conand. Dalilesh ham vazeh ast. Be har hal in mas'ale hamsooye kamel dare ba hadaf ensan roo zemin. Man mitonam Mohammad ya Jesus ra sarmashgh gharar bedam, kar dorost anjam bedam, ya anharo alam conam va fesad ijad conam - In haman hagh e entekhabe mast. Lotfan role Eblis ra az yad nabarid.

Mard e khoda anast ke na tanha "MIDDLE MAN" ra az yad bebarad, balke khod ra ham dar moghabele Hagh nabinad:
Hafez to khod hejab khodi ze mian bar khiz!

Great Transformation Happens

Great Transformation Happens in the Little Moments:

Kabbalah Teachings:

World peace is definitely an attainable goal, but only after we have found it within ourselves.

The kabbalists relate the idea that the world rests on a scale. One side of the scale holds the energy of our positive actions, and the other side holds the energy of our negative actions.

The Zohar says that our actions are like grains of sand on that scale. Notice it doesn’t say rocks or coins or some larger object. In his choice of words, Rav Shimon Bar Yochai (author of the Zohar) is telling us that we never know which little action will tip the scales in our favor. Every act of sharing and every moment of restriction ends up on the scale - which side it goes to is up to us.

When students ask me what they can do in response to the horrors of life — the starving children in Asia, the AIDS epidemic in Africa, the war in Iraq — I tell them what the kabbalists have been teaching for millennia — change yourself. Giving your friend those five minutes you don’t have as you are rushing off to an important event, treating your competitors with human dignity, loving someone when you dislike them — that’s how you change the world.

You can effect change in remote areas of the world by effecting change in your home, in your school, in your workplace.

The interconnectedness of all humanity is a fundamental kabbalistic teaching. Whether we see it or not, we share the same scales with the children in Asia, the mothers in Africa, the soldiers in Iraq.

A brief parable explains this. Two people were in a rowboat, when one suddenly took out a drill and began boring a hole in the boat’s bottom. His companion yelled, “Are you crazy? What are you doing?” But the other boatman just kept drilling. “Mind your own business!” he said. “I’m drilling under myself, not you!”

The lesson is clear: we must recognize that “we’re all in the same boat.” This is hardly a new teaching, but it is an awesome one, and we need to see it each day as if for the first time. It is not nearly enough to concentrate solely on our own development; yet “spiritual” people often fall into this trap. “As long as I am growing,” they think, “that’s all that matters.” But we have just seen how very far this is from the teachings of Kabbalah. As much as we are responsible for ourselves, we are responsible for the world.

This month, as you begin to realize the influence every word and deed has on others, do your best to bring this awareness into all the “seemingly insignificant” moments. You never know which grain of sand will tip the scales in the world’s favor.

World peace begins within the individual. Before we can change the human condition, we must change ourselves. It is often easy to rally around a cause. It is far more difficult to look in a mirror and begin the work of inner transformation.

If a beggar is in need of five dollars and a passerby has only a nickel, he cannot fulfill the beggar's needs. In other words, we can share only what we possess. Before we can embark on a mission to change the world, we must first transform ourselves, change our ways, and attain true joy and fulfillment in our own lives.

And if there is any doubt whatsoever that we ourselves still require further correcting, bear in mind the harsh Kabbalistic truth - that which our eyes witness out in the external world, all the evil, all the wickedness, is but a mirror image reflecting the remains of evil that lay hidden and undetected in our hearts.

ask the fucking God to send me a women for fun?

//hajiagha.tripod.com

where is this fucking God?

where is this women to I have fun? money is God.

Conversation

This has been a very healthy conversation overall. If anyone would like to continue this, since this might be offline tomorrow, please feel free to email me at: yasidarbahar@yahoo.com

LostIdentity

LostIdentity خیلی ممنون برای نوشته هات . فقط مشکلی که اینجا هست اینه که اکثرا ادمها به خاطر این middle man ها توی سر هم میزند و حاضرند طرف مقابل رو از بین برند. چرا؟ چون فراموش میکنند که هدف نزدیکی به خدایی هست که یگانه ومشترک برای همه هست وبقیهش فقط وسیله ئیست برای نزذیک شدن به حق.

Only Love

Stay Beautiful

To each story
To each claim
There are two sides
Therefore learn to stay
Fit and thin and sharp and agile
Like a tender leaf money
In order to be able
To see the two sides of
The same coin as a whole in fullness
Before rushing to the court
With all your documents at hand
Like a tall stack of bonded money
Pointing to your righteousness
To settle account in your favor
Before the judge

Dr. A.H. Danesh

Ordakinejad

Dear Ordakinejad,
I understand your position. In fact, many of nominal Chrisitans think of Jesus as a moral teacher or prophet of a new way. Of course, Hume is one of the fathers of modernism and as part of empiricism beleives that unless you see and touch and measure something, it does not exist. Post-modernism, however, has revealed the arrogance of modernism and the limitations of our sensory experiences. For example, according to empricism, if we cannot see any living organism in the space and examine it with our scientific methods, then, it must not exist. Well, we really do not know whether or not life exists outside our galaxy, so we cannot tell. That is to say, we are limited by empricism because our senses and abilities are limited. To say that nothing beyond what we can experience exist does not make much sense.
I agree that religion is a two way street. That is why if we are not open and already have made up our mind about something, God will not be able to work in our lives. As for the resurrection, there are reasonable support and historical evidence for something strange happening to Jesus. They are outside Bible sources and facts of history. If you have done all the research and come to the conclusion that it did not happen, I respect that. If you have not studied all those historical resources, then, how can you tell either way for sure and with any certainty at all?

Good for You, Shabnam!

I respect your thoughtful understanding of religion. I try not to make blanket assumptions about members of any faith (which is why I posed the question as such).
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Sadly, though, many uneducated Christians do, in fact, hold exclusive and quite literal beliefs about salvation. Religion is a two-way street, and the practitioner has as much of a role in shaping the experience as the texts.
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That said, I would never buy the literal truth of Jesus resurrection, or accounts of his miracles. As Hume would suggest, accepting accounts of miracles is only reasonable when the falsity of the account would be a greater miracle than the event itself...that is to say, never.

Iran the Originator and Emancipator

Before there were any Jews , Christians or Muslms ...

There was IRAN - my FIRST religion is IRAN

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RE: Anon...14

You say:"خدمتتون میگفتم که ما بنده های خدا اگر واقعا به وجودش ایمان دا ریم احتیاج به این middle man ها نداریم که بخواهیم با خدای خودمون راز و نیاز کنیم. تمام"

Age in fekr shoma ro be khoda nazdik mikone, da'ghighan hamintor hast ke shoma mifarmayeed. Be har hal baraye man, Mohammad, Ali, Hossein, Rumi, Hafez ya Jesus mesale yek tour-guide hastand. Ta cheshme del be jamale Izad ta'ala roshan shod, inha hame napadid mishavand. In daghighan haman chizi ast ke khod in pishvayan madd e nazareshoon hast. Che basa ma ham cherghe raahe yeki bashim va nemidaneem, hatta agar dar hadde yek sham'a.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...

I shall fear no evil because I am Iranian. . . what that means I am full of shit and a lifelong memeber of the hesbeh baad. If there is no God then fuck him as I never spent a day thinking about him. . . and if there is one then the lord is my sheppard and will lead me to the path of the righteous as his prodigal son. Either way. . . what I want to know know is when will god dye. . .and what should I wear to his services (I'm big on being fashionable for big gigs). . .in the meanwhile, the earth shall be inherited by foreclosers and mortgages held by multicorp banks (translation. . .fuck the meek). . .

Persian (Christian)

Persian (Christian) Sermons:

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Anonymous14

Dear Anonymous14,
Good for you, if you do not need a middle man and you are so close to God. I wish I could say that. For me, honestly, it is not a matter of raz-o-niaz. It has been a matter of a presence that has changed who I am, how I think and feel about others, and how I live my life. It does not, by any means, mean that I am perfect or even a good person. What I experience is that I have, at least, an open heart and try to receive the grace and mercy of God and allow it to change me.
Again, you call Christianity stupid.I used to do that as I did not know much about Christianity. Eventually, I listened more carefully, not to people. There are good and bad people everywhere. I read the Bible and listend carefully. I might be simple-hearted, but I am a better person because of it.

Shabnam

ببین خواهر ....میگن نه این خوبه نه اون بعدش هم لعنت به همشون. حالا شما هر چی میخواهی روزه بخون.ما بندهای خدا ....منظورم خود خدا هست نه اون فرضیه احمغانه مسیعی ها که ادعا میکند خدا یعنی مسیع....در هر حال داشتم خدمتتون میگفتم که ما بنده های خدا اگر واقعا به وجودش ایمان دا ریم احتیاج به این middle man ها نداریم که بخواهیم با خدای خودمون راز و نیاز کنیم. تمام.

Anonymous14

Dear Anonymous14,
You call someone whom you do not know a liar and stupid. How do you know that I am not merely ignorant? Or misled? That does not show a true judgement on your behalf.
You also warn me about taking my children to the priest. If all priests would become evil because of the mistakes of a very few, then, all Iranians would be terrorists and idiots because of the terrorism of a few and a stuipidity of a few. Again, not a good judgement on your behalf.
Nontheless, I am not resented. I know if you were familiar with Jesus Christ, you would not judge as such. We are not called to judge others but to love them as God loves us. That is a sincere statement not about making someone "khar." I am sorry you find that hard to believe. Perhaps there are good and sincere persons in the world if we listen without judging.

Shabnam

Shabnam احمق چرا دروغ میگی. برو دوباره با اون کشیش احمقتر از خودت مشورت کن.درضمن یادت باشه به این راحتی کسی رو نمیتونی خر کنی . اگر بچه هم داری مواظب بچت باش وقتی به دیدن اون کشیش میری.

No going to hell

Christians, the theologically educated ones, do not believe that those who do not believe in Jesus would go to hell. In fact, hell and heaven are not places that one would go to. Heaven and hell are states of being at the presence or absence of God. For Christians, God is present to the world and each individual in a real and tangible existance. The experience of God's presence is amazing. We expect the fullness of this experience at the return of Christ. Those who do not believe in Christ are trusted to the love of God.

Another well meaning but misguided employee of. . .

employee of the "Invisible Man In The Sky" corporation. . .subsidiaries of this big business corporation include Judacorp, Christiancorp, Islamcorp. Budahcorp, Zorocorp, and of course there is the department of develeopment for dellusional messianic employees promoting the end of the world corp (a wholly owned subsidiary of all 5 named branches!. . . Talking to God is wonderful . . . for those who hear back there is Paxil. . . please ask your doctor about it as it may have side-effects! :)

Going to Hell?

Does this kindly, seemingly wise and good hearted gentlemen believe non-christians, those who do not accept isAye masih as their lord and savior...are to spend an eternity in hell?

I advise clear-headed Iranians to take his good advise, but ignore the Christian dogmas.

Blessing...

Thanks for sharing. It was a blessing.
May the Lord keep you...