Comments on: Question of the Week: 9/10 – 9/16 http://www.takuin.com/question-of-the-week-910-916/ { The Writing of Takuin Minamoto } Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:25:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff http://www.takuin.com/question-of-the-week-910-916/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Jeff Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:12:32 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/09/10/question-of-the-week-910-916/#comment-101 I have more to say <a href="http://micropolitanliving.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/45/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I tried to send trackback and pingback. Apologies if I left a mess in your inbox. I have more to say here.

I tried to send trackback and pingback. Apologies if I left a mess in your inbox.

]]> By: takuin http://www.takuin.com/question-of-the-week-910-916/comment-page-1/#comment-100 takuin Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:14:01 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/09/10/question-of-the-week-910-916/#comment-100 Patricia and Jeff, Thanks for your input on this topic. I hope to hear more from you both in the near future. Feel free to post more comments if you feel the need to do so. Have a great day. Takuin Patricia and Jeff,

Thanks for your input on this topic. I hope to hear more from you both in the near future. Feel free to post more comments if you feel the need to do so.

Have a great day.

Takuin

]]> By: Jeff http://www.takuin.com/question-of-the-week-910-916/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Jeff Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:38:51 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/09/10/question-of-the-week-910-916/#comment-98 For most of my life I was very religious. I desperately sought enlightenment outside myself in spite of a nagging sense that there were fundamental logical problems with the doctrine I had been taught. I *assumed* that there were theologians, philosophers, or teachers somewhere who had found solutions to the conflicts that naturally arose in my mind. Eventually the teachings of my religion came into direct conflict with what I innately knew to be the right course of action. This gave me courage to question and eventually to abandon my search for external enlightenment. In the culture in which I live there is pressure from a very early age to adhere to religious conventions and accept the dominant theology. Many children are subjected to religious ceremonies before they are old enough to understand what they are doing. This pressure is intense and pervasive. It becomes fundamental to our way of thinking. As we mature and begin to think for ourselves, we may come to reject the dogma and cosmetic trappings of religion, while we retain and embrace the underlying theistic, metaphysical model. I do not know whether this is because people can no longer imagine life without supernatural beings and causes, or merely because such an outlook binds them to the people around them, implicitly embracing and nurturing our actual fundamental oneness while maintaining illusion in consciousness. Where does the illusion come from? Unfortunately that is lost in the prehistory of our evolution. Our minds are capable of generating paradoxes and models which cannot exist in reality, and we can be confused about what is real and what is not, but this is not a sufficient explanation of the origin of the idea of a supernatural realm. For most of my life I was very religious. I desperately sought enlightenment outside myself in spite of a nagging sense that there were fundamental logical problems with the doctrine I had been taught. I *assumed* that there were theologians, philosophers, or teachers somewhere who had found solutions to the conflicts that naturally arose in my mind.

Eventually the teachings of my religion came into direct conflict with what I innately knew to be the right course of action. This gave me courage to question and eventually to abandon my search for external enlightenment.

In the culture in which I live there is pressure from a very early age to adhere to religious conventions and accept the dominant theology. Many children are subjected to religious ceremonies before they are old enough to understand what they are doing.

This pressure is intense and pervasive. It becomes fundamental to our way of thinking. As we mature and begin to think for ourselves, we may come to reject the dogma and cosmetic trappings of religion, while we retain and embrace the underlying theistic, metaphysical model.

I do not know whether this is because people can no longer imagine life without supernatural beings and causes, or merely because such an outlook binds them to the people around them, implicitly embracing and nurturing our actual fundamental oneness while maintaining illusion in consciousness.

Where does the illusion come from? Unfortunately that is lost in the prehistory of our evolution. Our minds are capable of generating paradoxes and models which cannot exist in reality, and we can be confused about what is real and what is not, but this is not a sufficient explanation of the origin of the idea of a supernatural realm.

]]> By: Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker http://www.takuin.com/question-of-the-week-910-916/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:48:20 +0000 http://www.takuin.com/2007/09/10/question-of-the-week-910-916/#comment-97 Because of what we have been taught and what we believe, just "being" doesn't seem enough, but the reality is that "being" is exactly what it is all about. Most of us have forgotten what the connectedness of "being" feels like and that is what we are searching for. The problem is we always search in the wrong place, somewhere out there, separate from us. The "being" happens when we reconnect with the Divine spark that we all are in our hearts. The bliss that we all strive for comes from the connection of "being" the oneness. Don't know if I am making any sense or not. Because of what we have been taught and what we believe, just “being” doesn’t seem enough, but the reality is that “being” is exactly what it is all about. Most of us have forgotten what the connectedness of “being” feels like and that is what we are searching for. The problem is we always search in the wrong place, somewhere out there, separate from us. The “being” happens when we reconnect with the Divine spark that we all are in our hearts. The bliss that we all strive for comes from the connection of “being” the oneness. Don’t know if I am making any sense or not.

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