Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor tradition; nor rumor; nor what is in a scripture; nor surmise; nor axiom; nor specious reasoning; nor bias towards one’s beliefs; nor upon another's seeming ability; nor upon the consideration, 'The monk is our teacher.' When you yourselves know: 'These things are good; these things are not blamable; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness,' enter on and abide in them.
Thursday, 11 April 2013
And Then One Day I Realized X
It is quite stunning that I get excited over so many personal revelations and live off the fumes from my inner glow, then things get dull or life gets bad. Then I seem to always renew the personal revelation that I really don't know anything and carry on.
I have managed to see life from several perspectives: affluent, broke, fat, thin, smart, ignorant... and at each perspective, I always came to the conclusion that I didn't know anything all along. Seeing this pattern is my latest revelation, and today is the day that I realized X.
So what now? I just bought a bunch of books from a fellow practitioner who is taking his practice out west to find some "real teachers" because he couldn't find any to his satisfaction here in Charlotte. Maybe I'll read his books until things get dull or life gets bad. If that doesn't work, maybe I'll move west too.
I've moved North a couple of times. That was kind of cool, but I seem to alienate people no matter where I move.....
Wow! Was that a new revelation? Maybe I'll keep the books in the trunk of my car today......
With Trust,
Sean
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Teo
Its a good place to begin, realizing that we don't really 'know' anything. That can move us to a very open place and interestingly, after a lot of wandering about we are very likely to come back to the very same realization. Thanks for you honesty.
ReplyDelete@Ever Here Now, thanks for the confirmation of my status update of long journey, peace.
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