Friday, September 22, 2006
Belief Versus Self-Realization
If everyone you meet is essentially yourself, each individual's humanity masked by ego, does that knowledge change anything? Do people need spiritual teachers? What about those people who became spontaneously enlightened by events in their lives without teachers? Wouldn't those events suggest that the requirement for a spiritual teacher is delusion? That one is still looking outside oneself instead of inward where truth is to be found? Doesn't history suggest that organized religions are essentially misdirecting people away from the core truths they were founded upon?
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Yes you are right! selfrealization is d best way to NIRVANA....
But at times a teacher is d one showing that path....now, teacher doesnt necessarily mean human....anything that takes u to dat very path can b termed as your teacher...watever d cause....there is nothing like it wen u are enlightened!
But at times a teacher is d one showing that path....now, teacher doesnt necessarily mean human....anything that takes u to dat very path can b termed as your teacher...watever d cause....there is nothing like it wen u are enlightened!
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: 10:08 AM
: 10:08 AM
I think we need teachers to show us nobody is perfect. Either you are wrong or he is wrong. Or otherwise.
It changes everything and it changes nothing... everything seems normal, even though seen differently than without this realization.
Most everybody says people need teachers. Maybe most people do. Jon wrote a good entry about the topic: http://frimmin.com/2006/04/07/find-yourself-a-teacher/
What about those people? Even Kitabu says that some things aren't suggested to be undertaken without a teacher; I wish I'd had one, before, maybe I wouldn't have flipped out for so many months. But having friends on the same path helped. The teacher is really just trying to show people that it CANNOT be taught... and occasionally demonstrates that there is something more to the universe. And maybe help you see what's already there.
It's apparently the exception, not the rule, that people become enlightened without teachers.
Most everybody says people need teachers. Maybe most people do. Jon wrote a good entry about the topic: http://frimmin.com/2006/04/07/find-yourself-a-teacher/
What about those people? Even Kitabu says that some things aren't suggested to be undertaken without a teacher; I wish I'd had one, before, maybe I wouldn't have flipped out for so many months. But having friends on the same path helped. The teacher is really just trying to show people that it CANNOT be taught... and occasionally demonstrates that there is something more to the universe. And maybe help you see what's already there.
It's apparently the exception, not the rule, that people become enlightened without teachers.
Dear Commentators....
Thanx...dats wat i said A TEACHER has no FORM....watever teaches you smthing is yr teacher....it cud even be a banana skin fallen on d ground! u slip an fall....and it is only then u learn that u must nt only look to d left and right and cross a road (as taught by our teacher's)but also look below your feet so that d next time u dont slip ...atleast over a banana skin!!!
And it sounds an exception when we are ignorant!
Its a universal rule!!!
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Thanx...dats wat i said A TEACHER has no FORM....watever teaches you smthing is yr teacher....it cud even be a banana skin fallen on d ground! u slip an fall....and it is only then u learn that u must nt only look to d left and right and cross a road (as taught by our teacher's)but also look below your feet so that d next time u dont slip ...atleast over a banana skin!!!
And it sounds an exception when we are ignorant!
Its a universal rule!!!
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