Guess again.
On Apr 28, 7:22 pm, Tinker <[email protected]> wrote:
> My take on the Dali Lama crying when he was asked if there was an easy
> way to enlightenment sets the stage.
>
> Dali cried because he knows that the way to enlightenment is too
> difficult, for enough of mankind to learn, and would never be able to
> bring about the transcendence that Buddhism seeks as its flavor of
> Unity.
>
> Why is it that all the great minds of our time and those of history
> all converge on the fact that the power for solving all of the
> problems of the world is within the mind of mankind, but none have
> been able to affect the ways of mankind to bring about any significant
> change?
> The power connection in the mind has many different descriptions of it
> and directions on how to access it. It can be simply a magnificent
> light and it can be Jesus in all his glory. And it is exactly what it
> is according to whoever is describing it. It is a real thing and
> that’s the description that is available from previous information
> that has been incorporated into the belief structure of the
> individual.
> It is energy. It is indescribable. But it is such a wonderful thing
> that we have to describe it so we can claim it as ours. The method of
> description is metaphor, using that which is familiar to us.
> It is a resource for the individual to connect with the collective
> intelligence.
> When we connect with it we get a personal charge, it is a personal
> thing, the opposite of a Unity thing.
> We have gone to it (possibly only subconsciously), identified it and
> made it our personal knowing and understanding justifier, establishing
> our personal religion. And we exclude anything that is not in line
> with our personal religion.
> This is not the way to Unity.
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