My name's Justin, and I'm a Buddhist. I take bits from Hindu, and Taoist philosophy as well though. I blog about religion, politics, philosophy, and whatever else I feel like blogging about. I've grown a lot over the years, but I'm still far from where I want to be. If you have any questions then ask away! Don't be shy.
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I feel like having questions.
I think people should entertain me with questions, I’d love to get to know more of my followers.
My finished tattoo! It’s so sore but I love it. OM for life.<3 Courtsey of my cousin Dennis.
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Har Har Mahadev!
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Student: So you're saying that there's nothing I can do to become enlightened?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: That's not common in spirituality where most of the time there is some kind of an underlying and subtle promise to get to this point of seeing through it all. Or is it more like my believing in such a teaching? But that's what teachings are normally all about, are they not? At least you're paying quite a few bucks for it, so they must contain at least some true aspects?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: But you're just sitting there, without a word? How can this teaching do me any good? I mean at least I can sense, or so I guess, what you mean. That from the outside there won't be any help? That I'd have to look internally?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: But that's really frustrating. For all the years of seeking, this should be the answer? Even outside spiritual circles, everybody is telling you the same thing: Look inside, all your answers lie inside yourself?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: But I wanted to have bliss, and I thought that's the way to go, to be happy once and forever, and I had quite a few fantastic experiences. I wished them to return more frequently. But they seem to be gone. And I can't do anything to make those experiences happen again?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: Is this not the saying: 'If you see the Buddha on the road, kill him'? What is to be killed then? Is it my thinking of being a spiritual somebody who's seeking for the truth? So you would not help me? I would have to do the inquiring all by myself? Well, but that's what I'm doing here right now anyway, is it not?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: What might it be if I'd really let it in, this feeling that there's nothing I can do? It dawns on me that all I've been trying to spiritually evolve has been some sort of manipulation. Even this feeling of 'nothing I can do' could be manipulated into existence? Yes, I clearly see this. Even this could be manipulated. Wow. So maybe it's pretty much easier? Maybe it's simply to surrender to the truth, to totally surrender to that of which I feel must be the truth? That I simply don't know anything at all?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: I mean after all those years of thinking 'coming closer to enlightenment', now I'm realizing I've had no clue at all about what's going on. But can this be so simple? Just to let go of control? Just to surrender to the unknown? Just to let the 'not knowing' sink in and to realize that I really don't know anything at all and ever so?
Teacher: (no words)
Student: (no more words)
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- Buddha
