Originally posted by Rainbow Jigsaw:
It's just my personal advice to anyone truly wanting to connect with Creator/Source/God, to read less, analyse less, experience more, feel more. The connection needs to be made with your heart and mind combined, not your mind alone. A mind operating without the heart is only good for analysing academic papers and spiritual articles.Many writers out there on the Internet and bookstores have no clue what they are writing or talking about, as they have yet to experience it for themselves. Even for the few writers who have experienced themselves and know what they are writing about, many readers have no clue how to interpret what they are reading. Which is why the academic debates and battles over existence of Creator/Source/God is never-ending. At the end of the day, just believe what one is comfortable with. If one is meant to understand and experience something, he will be able to, somehow.
Though I'm blunt here, I mean no offence to anyone. Just my honest sharing. :)
Rainbow Jigsaw of Life
I agree with you.
But I think the TS already knows that the transcendental cannot be approached through logic, as when I asked him what he is refering to as 'God', he said "can't remember any names sorry cos i just happened to read some. i just mean the kinda 'God' that one reaches in meditation? what's that kind of 'God' in that context?"
Sometimes, it is good to offer pointers on how to directly experience the transcendental. Such pointers should of course come from someone who have already have that direct 'touch' of the essence.
In fact, one thing I should stress is that it is not difficult to have that direct 'touch', insight and realisation of the divine. Many have that misconception. Many think that only those who sit in mountains and caves for many years are going to have any enlightenment.
I dare say that if you practice hard, there is no reason you cannot have that realisation after a few months to a few years. Thusness too said this himself before, based on his own experience of course.
Contemplating koan like 'before birth, who am I?', 'who am I?' is going to lead to that realisation pretty quickly. It took me slightly less than 2 years from the time I started on that koan to gain direct insight. And I wasn't even practicing hard :P (however I started meditation a few years prior to that, in 2005 in fact)
However... the initial realisation is far from the end of the path. There is a process of deepening insight.
But anyway what you said is very true...
read less, analyse less, experience more, feel more.
This is the essence of koan practice, or vipassana, or dzogchen, mahamudra, etc.... these insights tradition have all in common is a direct and attentive bare mode of observation that allows the seeing of things as they are.
The 'direct' mode of attending to Truth is what is most important and what makes koan, vipassana, etc so successful.
Originally posted by Aloozer:Sorry that this may not pertain to buddhism stuff but no harm trying if some of u can tell more about it.
I am referring to the 'God' and 'Love' that are always talked about by spiritual teachers. Because some of us may be confused(like myself) when we think in terms of the personal God and romantic love.
Love is the necessary complement to compassion. Love serves as the catalyst by which compassion exists and thusly develops. Contextually, compassion is defined as the wish that all beings might find both happiness and the causes of happiness...
Love, here, means total unconditional love for all beings without any distinction or partiality. Love between men and women, and love for family and friends, is often possessive, exclusive, limited, and mixed with selfish feelings. There’s an expectation of getting back at least as much as one gives. Such love might seem quite deep, but it easily vanishes if it doesn’t live up to expectations. What’s more, the sort of love we feel for those close to us is often accompanied by a feeling of distance, or even hostility, towards ‘strangers’, and or those who could pose a threat to ourselves and to those we love...
True love and true compassion can be extended to our adversaries, while love and compassion mixed with attachment cannot include anyone we see as adversarial. Yet, true love cannot be polarized, restricted to one or two specific beings, or contaminated with partiality, as it should be completely disinterested, expecting nothing in return...
Love and compassion in Buddhism are in-dissociable from wisdom, from the true nature of things, and are aimed at freeing others from the ignorance that is the primary cause of all sufferings.
It is love and compassion in this manner that forms the very foundation of the path.
well love and compassion cannot do without wisdom.