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Clinging to reason and science
Another thing I sometimes struggle with is clinging to reason and science. In my university days I studied mechanical engineering, quite a hardcore subject about efficiency, and before that I was schooled in mathematics and physics. It made me quite a sciencey guy for many years, and lately I have noticed that it is something I often base my views on.
And so in the interest of not clinging to views, I have been taking on board more of a “perhaps” kind of attitude for things which are outside the realms of scientific endeavour. For example, the other day my mother sent me an article about Osho’s dentist Devageet, who has been talking about how our teeth are linked to the collective subconscious and carry memories from the Akashic records. Usually the scientist in me would immediately say “Never!” But nowadays the mystic in me prompts me to say more “well, maybe.”
The thing is, I was always very forthright in expressing pro-science opinions, my scientific opinions were very strongly formed. I feel it is a deficiency to carry these kinds of views and not to take in a wider view of Existence.
Jeroen
Re: Funny Stuff
I just wanted to share this, a friend said it to me this morning…
Jeroen, many spiritual people are not sceptics, they are septics. Existence has been playing with them by giving them brain rot. One of the symptoms of this debilitating disease is that it often prompts its victims to speak in tired spiritual cliches that actually mean very little. The sad thing about it is that the brain rot victim is in such a sorry state they are fooled into believing they are speaking highly original words of wisdom.
You know, like “Existence is working on you”. “Existence is playing with you” is similar. It is all recycled bunkum and strictly for the dummies.
I laughed-out-loud, really, it hit my funny bone.
Jeroen
Re: Our personal quotes
-pushing mountains is like faith, wait till they come to you
-clever is not clearer
-quote a quarter of goat
lobster
Re: How to Teach?
Realize that everything we see, all that we do, everyone we meet teaches us.
We are just not always open to the lesson.
The most profound lessons can not be learned if our ears are plugged and our eyes closed.
Do you breeze the breeze, the touch of a hand, the cloth upon your skin?
Do you smell all the aromas, the scents about you?
Do you taste all the flavors?
Dare to live!
Dare to laugh!
Dare to be!
Dare to explore!
The teacher is the student.
The student is the teacher.
If you can not live, you can not teach.
If you can not teach, you can not learn.
If you can not learn you can not live.
LIVE!
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: How to Teach?
Teach to learn.
I recently learned of a learning-type that suits me called the "explainer" or "active learner" who learns through explaining it or teaching it themselves.
Re: How to Teach?
It’s funny, I had this thought the other day, that anything that you really believe in you should be prepared to teach. I found that even the mere fact of explaining what I believed was a form of teaching, a form of passing on the dharma. So its a good idea to be prepared to do it well.
For me buddhism is about finding happiness, peace and freedom from suffering. That is usually where I start to talk, when I am talking about beliefs. Happiness is what remains when all unhappiness is cleared away. Peace comes from calm and simplicity. Freedom from suffering comes when we let go of clinging.
It’s not easy, teaching. It requires clarity of thought on what we want to pass on.
Jeroen