TurquoiseB wrote: > 20. The more spiritual aphorisms you read instead of > coming up with your own, the stupider you become.
Question: What would a materialist like you be doing writing "spiritual" aphorisms? Go figure. > Presented just for a laugh, and as a possible > replacement for the Vedas, with IMO just as much > potential value for the spiritual seeker: > > 1. The more concerned seekers are with shielding > themselves from people, animals, places and things > that drain their energy or "personal power," the > less likely it is that they have any of it to drain. > > 2. The more that seekers refer to their path or > spiritual technique or tradition as "the best" or > "the highest," the more likely it is that they've > never tried another one. > > 3. The more that seekers argue for the "rightness" > or "correctness" or "truth" of their path's dogma, > the less likely it is that the dogma is any of those > things, or that it has any worth. > > 4. The more convinced the seeker is of his present > state of consciousness, the less likely it is that > he is correct. Unless his assessment of his state > of consciousness is CC (Cluelessness Consciousness), > in which case he may be onto something. > > 5. The more a seeker demands to be taken seriously, > the less likely he will be. > > 6. The higher a seeker considers himself on the > evolutionary ladder, the more likely it is that he > just hasn't looked up in quite a while. > > 7. The more "beneath him" a seeker considers other > people, the more likely he is to step on them and > use them as stepping stones to climb higher. > > 8. The more a seeker claims to be "moral," the more > likely he is to be a closet megalomaniac. > > 9. The more reverence the seeker has for the words > of scriptures and teachers of the past, the less > reverence he is likely to have for the words of > people around him in the present. > > 10. The more compelled the seeker is to "defend" > his beliefs and his path, the more worried he is that > they aren't true and that he's wasted his life > following them. > > 11. The more that a seeker feels compelled to change > others and "make them better," the less likely it is > that any of their advice, if followed, *would* make > the others "better." > > 12. The more that seekers laugh at the attempts of > others to "make them better," the more likely it is > that they're doing just fine, and have no need to > be better. > > 13. In general, the more a seeker laughs, the more > likely it is that he's on the right path. Conversely, > the more a seeker is serious and demands to be taken > seriously, the more likely it is that he's lost his > way. > > 14. Repetition is the mother of anal retention. That is, > the more the seeker uses a word to describe others, the > more likely it is that he is really describing himself. > > 15. If a seeker has gone more than a couple of months > without expressing an original thought (that is, one > that he didn't read somewhere or have told to him by > his teacher or tradition or some other "expert"), chances > are he has lost the ability to have an original thought, > and may never have one again. > > 16. The more a seeker claims to know what God "wants," > the more likely it is that he has mistaken himself for > God and what he wants for what God wants. > > 17. If a seeker doesn't like to be around animals or > children, chances are the animals and children don't like > to be around him, and he's trying to hide that fact by > avoiding them. > > 18. If a seeker on a spiritual chat board has gone more > than a couple of months without describing an event in > his personal life that was ecstatic and wonderful and > full of light, chances are that there really haven't > *been* any of those moments in his life during that > period. > > 19. The more important a seeker considers himself in > the cosmic scheme of things, the less likely it is that > the cosmos would even notice he was gone if he died. > > 20. The more spiritual aphorisms you read instead of > coming up with your own, the stupider you become. :-) >
