Q&A

About free will. A conversation

Free will December 12, 2011 Friend: Sounds like you believe that there is no free will. I get the whole determinist logic, if that’s where you’re coming from. I just don’t buy into it. I can allow my body/mind to … Continue reading

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Suffering and guilt about my mom

A conversation with a friend ~~~ Friend: Hi Magdi, I have a question. Just a few moments ago I was aware of some dis-ease in the chest area, thoughts started to arise about my mom who recently passed and I … Continue reading

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Is the pain in my chest a natural process?

Question from a friend. Friend: Hello Magdi, since i’m contemplating my experience, the belief to be a separate self seems to weaken with time. However, at the body level, the more i offer my bodily sensations to awareness, the more … Continue reading

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Life will trigger the negative emotions. Your job is not to hold on to them.

As a result of ignorance (the belief that I am a mortal body mind), specific contractions are embedded, stored  in the body mind. These contractions are those of fear, worry, anger, jealousy, envy, regret, shame, pity, coveting and other negative … Continue reading

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What is sin?

Question: What is sin? Actually …. what is it? ~~~ I came to understand sin to signify moving away from God and turning our attention to the forms… loving the world, body and mind.            Instead … Continue reading

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A conversation with a friend: Live your understanding.

Questioner: Hi Magdi, thank you very much for your talk. What resonated the most was what you said that once you realize that you are not the body-mind, you said to live up to that discovery… How to do that? … Continue reading

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