Re: what our mind is for.

From: Pastor Frank (PF_at_christfirst.com)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:18:02 +0800

"Rafael Leyre" <Rafael_Leyre@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> It is useless to describe the mind separated from the surrounding
> world. Our mind is the carrying out of our being, or more precisely of
> ‘our being present'. To be is to be in our environment, and this
> environment is an ongoing process of change and exchange. We have
> inherited the imagery that our ‘spirit' or ‘ghost' is behind our eyes
> or in our heart, but it really is on the outside, where we touch. This
> does not imply that we are herd animals, because exchange does not
> require similarity, but the most solitary hermits are revered by the
> community they seemingly left behind.
> Humans and other animals need to exchange water, food, air, sound and
> images, and we cannot raise a question or make an assertion without
> exchanging with other beings. Our mind never escapes those
> interactions: even when we believe to express transcendent truth, the
> words we form our thoughts with, the air that makes our voice sound,
> the movements of our lips and the ink on the *** of paper before us,
> everything we call mind, is borrowed from the environment that streams
> along. If our minds were made of a different substance than the rest
> of nature, we would know and feel it beyond reasonable doubt. Such a
> crucial structure at the centre of or awareness could never become an
> undecided subject of dispute between believers and disbelievers.
> When we drink a glass of water, this water has poured from innumerable
> sources, and streamed down to the sea through countless but always
> different landscapes; it has been swept up from the sea by winds
> caused by the Earth's rotation caused by the explosion of our galaxy,
> and rained down on deserts, prairies and forests before it welled from
> yet a different spring. And a few hours after we drank it, it will
> return in this perplexing roller coaster of being. Each of us carries
> a few atoms that one time were present in the living body of
> Tutankhamen, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus… (29) Heracleitus has said that
> you cannot step twice into the same river, because the water is always
> renewed. But not only the water, also the bather is new at every
> trial.
>
    That's the present. Now tell us what your purpose is here on earth and
how you aim to change the present to something better, greater, more
glorious etc. What will you do to make which improvements to the present?

Pastor Frank

        THE MANDATE OF JESUS
**Jesus in Lk:4:18: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of
sight to the blind.
**Jesus in Mk:2:17: When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are
whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to
call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
**Jesus in Lk:9:56: For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives,
but to save them.
**Jesus Mt:18:11: For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
**Jesus in Jn:12:47: And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge
him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
**Jesus in Mt:11:28-30 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am
gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my
yoke is easy and my burden is light."

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