TREE OF LIFE
TREE OF LIFE
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This website deals with sacred text from around the globe. In working with the information contained within the scriptures; delivering studies and posts designed to enlighten and inform. The basis is a grounding in sacred texts that is unparalleled in religious ideology.
RESEARCH TELLS US
All religious traditions agree that this world is imperfect, however religions differ in ideas surrounding the concept. The inescapable viewpoint is that we live in a world of change, earthly life is one of suffering and death is an inevitable part of life. The central understanding is in order to overcome suffering a person must live a righteous or noble life in being considerate of others and not a covetous nor self-centered one. If there is an afterlife or even eternal life this is the only way to attain it. By honest living, treading the straight path or noble way also through renunciation, non-attachment, not being taken by worldly pleasures; there is realization and salvation.​
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Many beliefs advocate misuse of free will as the cause of this imperfection, bringing about a fall from completeness and resulting in chaos. Monotheism makes claim of one perfect God as the source of creation, Polytheism contends that there are many gods; undoubtedly evolution is taking place.​
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Here and now we are not in a state of perfection. In being considerate of others the conflict is overcome, overriding the force that divides and causes chaos. There will always be suffering in the world, just as with freedom of things like fear and grief is not to be totally separated from them; rather to be not attached and to endure them, just as it is with liberation from cyclic existence and rebirth. Through enlightenment, spirituality and unselfish living we attain oneness of being. In coming from the heart, where the idea of a perfect God would be situated.
Psalm 121
A Song of Ascents.
1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord watches over you The Lord is your shade at your right hand;
6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord will keep you from all harm He will watch over your life;
8 The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
Indeed, the believers, Jews, Christians, and Sabians — whoever truly believes in God and the last day and does good will have their reward with their Lord. And there will be no fear for them, nor will they grieve. - Qur'an, Surah Al-Baqarah [2:62]
"The Creative knows the great beginnings.
The receptive completes the finished things."
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"The kind man discovers it and calls it kind.
The wise man discovers it and calls it wise.
The people use it day by day and are not aware of it,
for the way of the superior man is rare."
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- I Ching
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