I appreciate my mind most when it’s open and engaged and
responding to the world. This can be done without scepticism and doubt but with
great respect.…
Questioning makes us a vessel of learning.
When we question openly, our spiritual practice becomes a
living experience, without dogma or fixed ideas
Often, spiritual people want to escape the intellect. In our
tradition, we recognize that the intellect is a very powerful tool.
We deeply
honour the conceptual mind as a means to openly explore the unexamined
assumptions that underlie our beliefs about our experience.
Compassion has to be the backdrop of all of it. We have to
stay open with ourselves and everyone where they are. ...
This seems to bring
clarity and intelligence to our mind.
“What serves,?”
is a powerful question
Whereas,
“What’s right or wrong?”
will always be impossible to answer
considering there is no one to be the arbiter of those beliefs.
Renunciation is not a rejection of the richness of the
world. Renunciation is giving up your fantasies and getting in touch with the
fullness and poignancy of life.
Absurdity >>>>>> Believing in a god or
deity that's gender specific and believing that this entity prefers a favourite
political party, nation, race, religion, or sports team.
Jesus, Mohamed, Gandhi, Confucius, Martin Luther and Buddha
are all gone and have left you holding the bag.
If you think about it, we live and move about in the state
of boundary less at all times, so just by default we are bound to experience
the truth of things here and there.
And we need to recognize these blessings
when they arise.
We’re so limited by our beliefs…
who we are,
who someone else
is.
There is infinite evidence that life is bigger than the thoughts we have
about it.
A teacher can point the way, and perhaps help you get there
faster, but you have to do it yourself, it is up to you.
You are an integral part of the great interdependence of all
things; therefore, what you do matters.
ps/smoh
