Religion
Right Livelihood: Malicious Monetary Freedom-ination
What I’ve gleaned from reading, is that Right Livelihood is living freely, without capitalizing on others. It is gaining your livelihood while also lifting up the world and others around you. Our livelihood must come from the elevation of the existences in experience around us. As soon as we seek to make a livelihood by extracting it from someone else we are not in “Right Livelihood”. Once our mission becomes to capitalize or manipulate someone into giving us money, we are outside of Right Livelihood.
The 4 Elements in Christianity And The Unadulterated God: I AM
By seeing the elements in everything around us we almost accidentally stumble over this christian concept of God in the process. The elements are not God, because God is all things, including the elements. Through acknowledging and observing the four Elements in Christianity and all things has the ability to bring Christians closer to God by bringing consciousness closer to where that idea of God resides.
Four Nutriments of the Buddha: The 4 “Foods” of Seductive Suffering
The Four Nutriments identified by the Buddha are Food, Sense Impression, Volition, and Consciousness. I found this immediately interesting from an elemental perspective as they lend themselves well to elemental classification. Food as earth, Sense Impressions as air, Volition as water, and Consciousness, as always, fire.
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