Wat is die gevaar van bewustheid? Omdat bewustheid so wonderlik klink en belowend lyk; 'n gelukkige, vreedsaam, gesond, en energieke lewe sonder stres, uitbrand, en uitputting. Geen depressie nie, angs, vrese, slapeloosheid, verslawing(s), bekommernisse, of onsekerhede, maar 'n vreugdevolle en sorgvrye lewe met selfvertroue en met beheer oor jou lewe en ervaar toenemende kreatiwiteit. Wie wil dit nie hê nie? Al hierdie wonderlike beloftes word deur die duiwel as lokaas gebruik om die visse in sy waters te lok en hulle in sy waters te laat swem. En dit werk! Omdat baie mense, Christene ingesluit, het bewustheid omhels en bewustheid beoefen. Maar wat is bewustheid? Wat sê die Bybel oor bewustheid? Moet Christene bewustheid beoefen? Is bewustheid goed vir jou of is bewustheid gevaarlik? Wat is die geestelike gevaar van bewustheid waarvan baie mense nie bewus is nie?
Mindfulness het deel van die Westerse samelewing geword
Mindfulness het deel van die Westerse samelewing geword. Baie maatskappye, (sport) organisasies, instellings, en selfs die regering verskaf bewustheidsopleiding en het bewustheidspraktyke in die werkplek geïmplementeer.
Selfs in tronke, hospitale, skole, en kerke bewustheid is geïmplementeer. Maar weet hulle wat bewustheid aan jou doen?
Wat is bewustheid?
Mindfulness beteken om bewus te word van die huidige oomblik. Mindfulness is 'n bewustheid van gevoelens, gedagtes, sintuie, omgewing, ervarings, ens. sonder om hulle te oordeel. Jy aanvaar al hierdie dinge, net soos hulle is. Daar is geen reg of verkeerd nie.
Mindfulness is 'n gedragsterapie en aandagopleiding, waardeur 'n ingesteldheid van waaksaamheid van die siel en die liggaam geoefen word.
Mindfulness teaches you to embrace your feelings and emotions and brings you closer to your core being.
By applying mindfulness in your daily life, you’ll become conscious of yourself (siel en liggaam) and the things that happen around you. You shall get to know and understand yourself better and learn to deal with yourself; jou gedagtes, emosies, ervarings, and everyday matters and to accept yourself.
behalwe dit, by applying mindfulness techniques and mindfulness exercises you’ll learn to relax and prevent stress and burnout.
Mindfulness training
There are various mindfulness training that teach different mindfulness techniques and methods that cause you to become aware of your body and soul; gevoelens, gedagtes, sensory perceptions, and surroundings and cause relaxation for the soul and body.
Some mindfulness methods and exercises are mindfulness meditation (sit-meditation, body scan meditation, moving meditation (dance, Qigong, Tai Chi)), mindful breathing exercises (focus on breathing), joga, stillness retreat, mindful seeing, mindful listening, ens.
What is body scan meditation? When you do a body scan meditation for stress relief, you will sit in a comfortable position or lay down and slowly scan your whole body, including your organs, and become aware of every feeling that you experience at that moment.
The purpose of a body scan is to become aware of your body and reconnect with your body. Bodyscan meditation is also used in yoga (Lees ook: Wat is die gevaar van joga?).
Another mindfulness method or exercise is mindful breathing exercises. During this breathing exercise, you will sit in a certain position and focus on your breathing, so that you will become aware of your breathing. If during this exercise your mind starts to wander, you should bring your focus back to your breathing.
What is the purpose of mindfulness?
Mindfulness is a way of life with the purpose of finding yourself by becoming aware of yourself and your surroundings and accepting these instead of judging. Mindfulness should also cause relaxation, since you live in the moment and not think about your past or your future.
Mindfulness focuses on the flesh and the feeling. Mindfulness teaches you to cope with situations and accept the situations as they are.
Clinical psychology and psychiatry have adopted mindfulness in their therapies and use mindfulness for depression, spanning, uitbrand, addictions, and other mental disorders.
What is the origin of mindfulness?
Although mindfulness has taken a large place in modern Western society, mindfulness has its roots in Eastern religions and philosophies. Mindfulness derives from Buddhism; from Sati, which means mindfulness, and is based on Zen, Vipassaña (insight meditation), and Tibetan meditation technics.
Mindfulness is considered a power that contributes to the attainment of nirvana; the state of enlightenment.
Mindfulness is the first factor of the seven awakening factors of enlightenment and mindfulness is the seventh element of the eightfold path of Buddhism.
The seven factors of awakening*
- Mindfulness – to maintain awareness of reality (dharma)
- Investigation – of the nature of reality (dhamma vicaya)
- Energy – also determination, effort (viriya)
- Joy or rapture (pīti)
- Relaxation or tranquillity of body and mind (passaddhi)
- Concentration – a calm, eenpuntige gemoedstoestand of duidelike bewustheid (samadhi)
- Ewigmoedigheid – om die werklikheid te aanvaar soos dit is sonder hunkering of afkeer (opekkha)
Die edele agtvoudige pad
- Regte insig
- Regte besluit
- Regte spraak
- Regte optrede
- Regte bestaan
- Regte poging
- Regte bewustheid
- Regte konsentrasie
Mindfulness het die Westerse kultuur hoofsaaklik deur wetenskaplikes en sielkundiges betree, wat by Boeddhiste hul tradisies geleer het, beginsels, en metodes, insluitend bewustheid, en dit in Westers toegepas (klinies en kognitief) sielkunde en psigiatrie (Lees ook: ‘Does Christian psychology exist?').
Wat is die gevaar van bewustheid?
Wanneer jy bewustheid beoefen, jy het God nie nodig nie, maar jy doen alles self deur menslike kennis toe te pas, metodes, en tegnieke wat uit Boeddhisme afkomstig is. Omdat bewustheid afkomstig is van Boeddhisme en deel is van die Boeddhistiese pad, wat lei tot verligting.
Mindfulness is 'n metode, whereby you focus and become aware of every part of your flesh, meaning everything that takes place in your soul and body.
The spiritual danger of mindfulness is that through the awareness of your body and soul, you don’t connect them with yourself, but you connect them with the powers of darkness and give yourself to them. Because according to Buddhism, every awareness is considered a power that is unleashed in your flesh.
This power, which they feel and experience is, in werklikheid, a demonic power with whom they have connected themselves through awareness,and this demonic power manifests in the flesh (Liggaam, en siel).
Through awareness, every part of your soul and body will be given to demonic powers, en uiteindelik, you shall live under the reign and power of the kingdom of darkness.
When you decide to enter the path of Buddhism by adopting doctrines, traditions, Tegnieke, and methods from Buddhism, you leave the way of God and engage with evil spirits.
Does Christian mindfulness exist?
Geen!
What does the Bible say about mindfulness and should a Christian practice mindfulness?
Why do people, wat sê dat hulle Christene is, ask this question? Why are Christians so eager to participate in the trends of this world, which lead people into spiritual bondage in the spiritual realm? Why do they want to submit to the poor spirits of this world and be part of the kingdom of darkness?
Many Christians don’t want to be told what to do in the church and exalt themselves above every commandment of God and the commandments of Jesus and reject them, but they do want to submit to the commandments of Buddha and follow Buddha and Buddha’s way in order to find themselves and experience peace, vreugde, relief, bevryding, ens.
A born-again Christian has everything (s)he needs, namely Jesus and the Kingdom of God.
A born-again Christian is transferred from the kingdom of darkness by laying down the flesh in Christus, to the Kingdom of God, by the resurrection of the spirit from the dead, and has an experiential relationship with Jesus Christ; die woord, and lives after the Spirit from the Kingdom of God and no longer lives after the flesh from the kingdom of darkness.
Die persoon, who has become a new creation in Jesus Christ has received the inheritance of the Kingdom of God.
Why should the person desire to return to the poor beggerly spirits of this world, who keep die ou man in bondage?
The born-again Christian loves God and lives after the will of God and acts from the knowledge of God’s Word and the Spirit and doesn’t love the world and doesn’t act from the carnal wisdom, Tegnieke, and methods of the world, which derive from a.o. Boeddhisme.
Because what does light have in common with darkness? What harmony has Christ with Buddha?
The spirit of the world works in the children of disobedience, wat aan die wêreld behoort. They practice mindfulness.
But the children of God don’t belong to the world and are not conformed to this world but are transformed by the renewing of their mind. En omdat hulle die wil van God ken en aan Hom gehoorsaam is, hulle weerhou hulle van hierdie Oosterse leerstelling en sy gebruike ( Lees ook: Kan jy die geestelike van Oosterse filosofieë en praktyke skei?)
Wat is frisheid? Is christelikheid toegelaat om te doen?
Christelikheid klink so vroom. Maar christelikheid is niks meer as bedagsaamheid wat deur vleeslike mense gekersten word nie, wat nie die Gees van God het nie, maar het nog steeds die gees van die wêreld en wees lief vir die wêreld en behoort aan die wêreld.
Om aan hierdie wêreldse neiging deel te neem, hulle het 'n manier gevind om bewustheid te beoefen. Hulle het hierdie wêreldse leerstelling aangeneem en 'n vroom Christelike sous daaroor uitgegooi, deur die naam van bewustheid na christelikheid te verander.
With some tweaks and by adding Bible verses that are taken out of context, they have Christianized mindfulness and made mindfulness acceptable and introduced mindfulness in the church and the lives of people, wat sê dat hulle Christene is (Lees ook: 'Die Christelike sous’).
Instead of the people, who are inspired by the wisdom and knowledge of Buddha and want to follow the way of Buddha, going ahead with their Eastern occult practiceds and leave the church and join Buddhism and go to a buddhist temple, they bring Buddhist doctrines, beginsels, traditions, and techniques into the church and defile the church and the lives of believers (Lees ook: ‘Die okkultiese kerk').
What are christfulness technics?
Christfulness doesn’t stel die ou man af, but christfullness learns to cope with the flesh and ensures, that the flesh stays alive and reigns in the lives of people and the people present themselves in the world without prejudice. By applying christfulness technics, like meditation and prayer mantras, they try to experience and feel the grace and fullness of Jesus and God’s love in their flesh.
Take for example the ‘Jesus prayer meditation’. During the Jesus prayer meditation, they use breathing technics and mantras. While they breathe in they think or softly say the words “Lord Jesus Christ Son of God” and while they breathe out “Have mercy on me a sinner“.
These last words already prove that the person is not saved through regeneration, but is still the ou skepping and therefore a sinner.
Because a son of God (dit geld vir beide mans en wyfies) is no longer a sinner! A son of God has but has been made righteous and holy by the blood of Jesus Christ and has become a saint (Lees ook: ‘Eens 'n sondaar, altyd 'n sondaar?').
It proves that the person has not experienced a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. If the person had a true encounter with Jesus Christ and had an personal relationship with Jesus, then the person shouldn’t get involved with these Buddhist doctrines, which are an abomination and an insult to God. Since they put and worship the creation (Buddha) and his doctrine above the Creator and His Word.
By applying breathing technics and repeating the same words and the same sounds over and over again, they eventually enter a certain state of mind or trance.
The ‘self’ is the center of mindfulness
Everything in mindfulness revolves around self-awareness. Therefore the ‘self’ is the center of mindfulness. Mindfulness is full of pride and full of ‘self’. This applies also to christfulness.
People can use the name of Christ and add Scriptures from the Bible, when they practice mindfulness and meditation, but they still practice christfulness because of themselves (die vlees) and therefore the ‘self’ is the center of christfulness.
Mindfulness is focused on the awareness of the flesh, sensory perceptions, circumstances, acts, and the surroundings of a person.
The mindfulness methods are carnal techniques and methods, which people use to find themselves, experience certain feelings and emotions in the flesh, release energies into the flesh, and achieve a certain state in the flesh.
An awareness of the flesh or dying to the flesh?
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, deur die liggaam van die sondes van die vlees af te lê deur die besnydenis van Christus: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead (Kolossense 2:11-12)
But the life of a son of God doesn’t revolve around ‘self’ and the flesh, but it revolves around Jesus Christ, die wil van God, en Sy Koninkryk.
The Bible speaks nowhere about finding yourself and self-awareness, but about dying to ‘self’ (die ou man).
The Bible doesn’t speak about becoming aware of your flesh, but about laying down your flesh and commands to walk after the Spirit instead of the flesh (Lees ook: ‘Life is not about finding yourself, but about finding Jesus).
The Word doesn’t speak about submitting to the flesh, but reigning over the flesh and putting off the works of the flesh. Since the flesh has been crucified in Christ (Lees ook: Laat sonde nie meer as koning in jou lewe heers nie).
If the flesh is crucified and has died in Jesus Christ and therefore no longer lives, how can you live after the flesh?
The devil tries to tempt people with the words of God
The devil tried to tempt Jesus with the words of God, by using the words of God for His flesh. But Jesus knew Who He was and walked after the Spirit and knew His Father and His will. Therefore the devil was not able to tempt Jesus with his lies (Lees ook: Ek sal jou die rykdom van die wêreld gee).
The same applies to the sons of God, who know who they are in Christ and walk after the Spirit. They know the will of the Father through the Word and have a relationship with Him and are not tempted by the lies of the devil.
Egter, die ou man, who lives after the flesh and belongs to the world and is led by his senses, gevoelens, en emosies, believes the words of the world, and needs carnal knowledge, Tegnieke, metodes, and natural means to experience certain feelings and emotions and/or achieve the desired result in the flesh (Lees ook: 'n Tegniese geloof)
But faith is not a feeling. Faith doesn’t revolve around feelings and emotions. Faith and the presence of God and Jesus by the Holy Spirit can’t be measured by feelings.
To think, that you can put Christ in your heart through means of mindfulness or christfulness, meditasie, and prayer mantras and become aware of Christ’s presence in you, proves that those, who believe and practice this are not born again, but are unspiritual and have no knowledge of God’s Word and His Way.
Jesus is not a spirit, who you can evoke when it suits you, and when you have time.
You can’t place Christ in your heart through means of mindfulness or christfulness, meditasie, and prayer mantras so that you become aware of Christ’s presence in you. Because how do you know if Christ is in you? Through your feelings? Do you feel His presence? (Lees ook: ‘How do you know if Christ is in you?')
As soon as you think you feel Jesus, in werklikheid, a demonic power has entered your life, wat Homself in jou vlees openbaar en jou presies gee wat jy wil hê, naamlik aangenaam, vreedsaam, en vreugdevolle vleeslike gevoelens.
Wat is die negatiewe gevolge van bewustheid?
Wanneer jy betrokke raak by Oosterse filosofieë en pas die vleeslike tegnieke en metodes van bewustheid of christelikheid in jou lewe toe, jy sal die deur oopmaak vir bose geeste om jou lewe binne te gaan.
Miskien eers, jy voel rustig, kalm, ontspanne, en gelukkig, maar dit sal verander.
Sedert jy die pad van Boeddha betree het, deur Boeddha te gehoorsaam’ woorde en deur Boeddha se tegnieke en metodes toe te pas, wat jou na 'n toestand van verligting behoort te lei, demoniese magte het ingekom en sal in jou lewe manifesteer, en sal steel, doodmaak, en jou uiteindelik vernietig (John 10:10).
Miskien sal jy 'n verandering in gedrag ervaar en vinnig geïrriteerd raak, vererg, ongeduldig, haatlik, and an uncontrollable anger.
Maybe you’ll experience poor concentration, exhaustion, slapeloosheid, angs, vrese, feelings of depression, selfbejammering of sexual perversion.
Maybe you’ll start hearing voices in your head. Maybe you constantly argue with your spouse and experience marital problems or maybe you become (terminally) Siek.
Don’t let anyone spoil you through the dangerous wisdom of man
Soos julle dan Christus Jesus, die Here, aangeneem het, so walk ye in Him: Rooted and built up in Him, en gevestig in die geloof, soos julle geleer is, abounding therein with thanksgiving.Pasop dat niemand julle deur filosofie en ydele bedrog bederf nie, na die tradisie van mans, na die grondbeginsels van die wêreld, en nie na Christus nie. For in Him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. En julle is volmaak in Hom, wat die Hoof is van alle owerheid en mag (Kolossense 2:6-10)
A son of God is not led by his flesh and circumstances and doesn’t submit to the will, gedagtes, impulses, begeertes, and desires of the soul and the body. But a son of God is led by the Word and the Spirit and brings through the Word and the Spirit a change in the circumstances.
Only through submitting to God’s Word and through obedience and applying God’s Word in your life, you shall walk in faith and call those things which are not as though they were and represent and establish the Kingdom of God on earth.
Die enigste manier, that Jesus Christ comes into your life and abides in you, is through regeneration; the baptism in Jesus Christ, and the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
The prayer between the Father and His sons
Gebed is die kommunikasie tussen die Vader en Sy seuns (dit geld vir beide mans en wyfies). Wanneer jy deur wedergeboorte in Christus met God versoen is en jy 'n seun van God geword het, jy is in staat om deur die Gees met God te kommunikeer.
Jy mag met vrymoedigheid voor die troon van die Vader kom omdat jy regverdig en heilig gemaak is deur die bloed van Jesus Christus. Jy kan nie meer heilig of meer regverdig word en 'n hoër staat verkry nie.
In Oosterse godsdienste, filosofieë, en tradisies moet jy eers 'n sekere hoeveelheid kennis opdoen en sekere tegnieke en metodes toepas en deur allerhande stappe gaan om 'n hoër geestelike vlak te bereik en uiteindelik die toestand van verligting te bereik; nirvana staat.
Maar in die Christendom, it is impossible for a person to become righteous and holy and enter a higher level or state through means of carnal knowledge, Tegnieke, metodes, and steps since, because through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ and regeneration in Him, you have obtained the highest state in life, which is the state of son of God.
Jesus has finished the work! He has done it! And through the grace of God, everyone has been given the ability through His work and His blood to be reconciled with God and become a son of God (Lees ook: ‘Die ware betekenis van die kruis’)
Jesus has restored what was broken and restored the position of (geval het) man. While in other religions and philosophies, people are still looking to restore what is broken.
Egter, they don’t know exactly what has been broken and how to restore it.
They don’t know that through sin man fell from his position and became separated from God and that Jesus became their Plaasvervanger and took the sin of the world upon Him and accomplished the work of redemption for the old man and reconciled man back to God.
Jesus has gone the way, so that He could become the Way
Jesus sê vir hom, Ek is die weg, Die waarheid, en die lewe: niemand kom na die Vader nie, maar deur My (John 14:6)
Jesus has gone the way, which was impossible for the ou man to go. Since the old man is a sinner and is not holy and righteous. Therefore the old man was not able to be delivered from the power of the kingdom of darkness and the reign of the death, through his own works.
No religion, Filosofie, of lewenswyse kan die mens uit die dood verlos deur vleeslike kennis toe te pas, Tegnieke, metodes, gebede, rituele, opofferings, en so aan.
Slegs deur geloof in Jesus Christus en deur wedergeboorte in Hom, 'n mens kan gered word en uit die mag van die dood verlos word.
Jesus het die pad vir ons gegaan, sodat Hy die Weg vir ons kan word.
Die duiwel weet presies hoe om mense te versoek, wat na die vlees wandel, naamlik deur die dinge te belowe, hulle soek.
Al hierdie wonderlike beloftes, wat kwansuis werklikheid word deur bewustheid te beoefen, is niks meer as leuens nie, wat uiteindelik tot die vernietiging van mense sal lei. Die duiwel sal jou tydelike sukses gee, vrede, rus, pyn verligting, aangename gevoelens, ens.. in ruil vir jou siel.
Mindfulness is 'n okkultiese leerstelling uit die koninkryk van duisternis
Bedagsaamheid is 'n okkultiese leerstelling. Christian mindfulness or christfulness is also an occult doctrine and should be rejected from the church as so many false doctrines that are adopted from new age, Boeddhisme, and Hinduism and are Christianized, maar in werklikheid, Is leerstellings van duiwels that derive from the kingdom of darkness and belong to the devil and his kingdom (Lees ook: Nuwe era in die kerk?).
Because people still love themselves and are not willing to submit to the requirements and commandments of God and His Word and are not willing to obey them, but instead change and adjust the commandments of God to the lusts, sal, experiences and lives of people and the wisdom and knowledge of the world, the gospel has become powerless and the old man stays alive and kicking.
Jesus Christus, the hope of glory, doesn’t abide in you, sodat Hy jou in jou vlees kan dien en aangename gevoelens en vleeslike voorspoed in die wêreld en materiële seëninge kan verskaf.
Maar Jesus Christus, the hope of glory, bly in julle ter wille van die Koninkryk van God, sodat jy dieselfde lewe as Jesus Christus kan lei en die Koninkryk van God kan verteenwoordig en verkondig en mense verlos uit die mag van die koninkryk van duisternis.
Jesus is jou Verlosser en jou Here. That means, dat jy jou aan Jesus Christus en Sy woorde moet onderwerp en nie andersom nie (Lees ook: Hoe weet jy of Jesus in jou woon?).
Vrede en vreugde is vrugte van die Gees
Wanneer jy nie vrede en vreugde in jou lewe ervaar nie, jy moet uitvind hoe jy jou tyd spandeer. Do you walk after the flesh and do you spend your time on the things of the world and fill your mind with the things of this world? Or do you walk after the Spirit and do you spend your time in the Word and on the things of the Kingdom of God and fill your mind with the things of the Kingdom of God?
If the latter is the case, then you should experience the peace and joy of God in your life, since this is the fruit of the Spirit (Lees ook: ‘The fruit of the Spirit’)
You can say you believe in God and that you are a Christian, but if you adopt teachings, Tegnieke, and methods that derive from Eastern occult religions and philosophies, you open your life for demonic power to enter. The devil doesn’t care what you say, he only cares what you do. If you submit to his words through obedience and apply his technics and methods in your life, you shall submit to him.
Jesus doesn’t speak about mindfulness, meditasie, and breathing exercises nor about other Eastern knowledge, Tegnieke, and methods that are part of the way of Buddha and lead to enlightenment (awakening) and are preached and promoted in many churches.
There is only one Way and that is Jesus Christ. Only by the blood of Jesus Christ and through the death of the old man in Christ and the resurrection of the new man in Him, a person is redeemed from the power of darkness and transferred into the Kingdom of God.
If you have become the new man in Christ, you shall live in true freedom and you shall constantly experience the peace and joy of the Lord in your life.
‘Wees die sout van die aarde’
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