It is not the God within which we have to search - He is there O.K. , has always been and will always be. We have to look outside at the multitude , and evolve a moral code for the benefit of individuals and humanity as a whole.
On Jan 25, 8:26 am, Vam <[email protected]> wrote: > "Is this not an important part of the dynamic multidimensional mind > Vam, can you find nothing of value with meeting this view at least as > a challenge?" > > James, starting with God is a bad idea. Perhaps, ending up at it is > what needs to happen. Dawkins was in Jaipur here and I found his view > a lot more balanced, less bigoted and militant. > > And Neil is right : it must deal with morality. Where his discourse > runs dry is when he is quoting other people ! That is also my > compelling logic against intellectual property rights. What damned > "rights" on knowledge of any kind ? Or, why must we have to give > references, when all we wish to say is ours, with us ? If it's not > ours, for us to say, we should STFU ! > > The formal aspect of Truth or truths is onerous. There are libraries > out there where it goes dry. It is the informal one that I wish to put > across : it is mine... and for that reason should be everyone's, of > everything. And that ( informal aspect ) is... HOME. The search for > that place which is truly ours, where we can rest without fear, free > and fulfilled, which nothing in the whole universe can take away from > us. Truth is our Home. > > This is no parable I've begun. People are spent for and on a " home " > for themselves. They build, buy, rent one for the body... house or > apartment, car or craft. But then the worst a-holes amongst us come to > believe that home they are so invested on is also the " home " to > their emotion, to their thought, their identity, and their happiness > too ! Well, it is and it definitely isn't. > > The better ( a-hols ) take on a wife, friend, progeny or pet, > community or cause, to engage their emotion-thought-identity where, > with whom or which, one then feels at home. Of that our thought is > preoccupied... that same ' faculty ' that had been used to focus on > money to buy the home, on the value of food and worth of delicacies, > on the relevance of what is beneficial and serves our purposes and > what does not. > > That pitch of ' acquisition,' value, worth, relevance... is also there > in our thought and eye, as in it pre-exists and is consciously or > subconsciously applied, for the home-objects of our emotion as well. > For a lifetime, we carry that pitch to manage, manipulate, decide and > deal with what is outside us to acquire the material home-object in > our aim ... a domain that, for all practical purposes, encompasses > everything. For everything, external and internal, is outside the > agency, the ego-person, we are through the pursuit after our aim. > > What is concurrent within, inside of us - the "ego-person," is a build > up and an intensification of VANITY... which expresses as : " I > possess;" " I win;" " I will acquire;" " I am successful." It is all a > matter of process that is normal to our drive and inevitable to our > search. But, as surely as sure can be, it is Vanity that also blocks > our evolution and progression into the true Home to our emotion - > which is Love, to our thought - which is Silence, to our identity - > which is Zero, and to our spirit - which is Bliss Infinite. Because it > limits us to what we have, even as it automatically makes us pore over > all that we does not have; and, it is limiting because while with it > we can never give up that " pitch " we have internalised along the > journey and can hence never view and see things with Love and Silence, > and be Zero with Bliss Infinite. > > These are the real aspects and issues to spirituality : Home and > Vanity. It is these that I find more pertinent than God or whatever. > It is these that will make us be better and excel, that will address > the monstrous twists with which people reduce the best of systems and > opportunities to gutter, that will redress the moral deficit in our > public and personal lives.
