Scott Morrison - "No path"

[Guest guest]

There Is No Path

 

It seems to keep on cropping up --

maybe we haven't looked closely enough,

so let's go through it again.

 

Is awareness a "spiritual path?"

Can love be taught?

Is freedom something that can be acquired or possessed?

Or, how about this one:

Can just anybody be awake?

 

When we pit Buddhism or Christianity or Advaita or Yoga or 4th Way or

Sufi or some other school or path, subtly or overtly, against "the

others," we indulge in a kind of political competition and identity

control game that creates endless confusion and resentment. It is one

of the main reasons most scientists, and the public at large, don't

trust religions, and rightfully so.

 

So why waste any more time

with this absurd practice of spiritual one-ups-manship,

of comparing Gods or enlightenments or dharmas.

The truth is simply the truth.

It has no defense and does not need one.

 

The maneuver to make my group, my tradition, my lineage, my teacher,

my spiritual path, my religion, my dharma, my enlightenment superior,

is simply a devious way of saying "I am superior." (And therefore not

inferior.) When we try to whitewash these painful old feelings of

unworthiness and inferiority with the implication that now we are on

this "spiritually" superior path, we keep ourselves wounded,

unhealed, and separate.

 

Stop it! Just stop.

Tend to these childhood and adolescent wounds

with the compassion and understanding they need,

for as long as it takes,

and let them heal, once and for all.

 

"Love" is not Christian, and "The Dharma" is not Buddhist,

"Satsang" is not Hindu or yogic, and

"Conscious Beings" are not 4th Way.

Awareness does not belong to anybody.

Does not everything belong to Awareness?

 

Everyone is included in this.

No one is excluded.

No one.

 

There have been encounters in your life, possibly,

perhaps even in yourself,

with a heart so open and so direct and so sincere and so honest,

that you were deeply moved by it.

It wasn't limited to bodies or points of view.

Just Pure Being, without a name.

Why not give yourself to This?

 

- Scott Morrison -

http://www.openmindopenheart.org/

[Guest guest]

Thanks Scott ...

or as Alan Watts put it ...

 

"I am it

You are it

He is it

She is it

and

Thats that."

 

-karl

[Guest guest]

Or, as Rip van Winkle put it:

 

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz .....

 

 

 

, carlo7 <carlo7@p...> wrote:

>

> Thanks Scott ...

> or as Alan Watts put it ...

>

> "I am it

> You are it

> He is it

> She is it

> and

> Thats that."

>

> -karl

[Guest guest]

Many years ago I visited an indigenous tribe down in Mexico in the

really, really back country in the mountains. In my naivite I asked

one of the elders what his religion was.

 

After a long time and a struggle for the right words he finally

said, "Yo vivo!" (I am alive!)

 

There were some words of explanation after that but I have never been

able to better that answer.

 

John L.

 

, "fewtch" <coresite@a...> wrote:

> There Is No Path

[Guest guest]

Hi John,

 

, "John Logan" <johnrloganis> wrote:

> Many years ago I visited an indigenous tribe down in Mexico in the

> really, really back country in the mountains. In my naivite I asked

> one of the elders what his religion was.

>

> After a long time and a struggle for the right words he finally

> said, "Yo vivo!" (I am alive!)

>

> There were some words of explanation after that but I have never

> been able to better that answer.

 

Beautiful... I couldn't better it either. Perhaps "Yo soy" (I am)

would be its equal...

 

Peace,

 

Tim

[Guest guest]

Hi Tim,

Thanks. Note this reply came after a long period of silence.

We were sitting in a one room school building built by some

missionaries (which this tribe had finally rejected) and the remark

was proceeded by his asking me to look out the window.

 

"Do you see that?" he asked.

I responded, "You mean your religion is about Nature."

 

More words of explanation about what my reply meant. Then the long

silence -- and finally -- "You see that out there?"

 

I looked and saw high desert terrain with boulders the size of a

house, mesquite, uneven ground, etc.

 

I said, "Yes" with no thoughts about what he meant this time.

 

A little more silence, he leaned forward and then said, "I am alive!"

 

The voice was soft but the impact blew away all my learning about

religions.

 

I might add that the translator for us was an InterTribal Medicine

Man who also was unprepared for the answer the Elder gave and who

went silent also in the face of the revelation.

 

BTW "Yo soy!" works for me as well. In English that comes out as "I

am" but in Spanish there is an overtone of a dynamic which might best

be translated "I am being what I am being".

 

Be alive!

 

John L.

 

, "fewtch" <coresite@a...> wrote:

>

> Hi John,

>

> , "John Logan" <johnrloganis> wrote:

> > Many years ago I visited an indigenous tribe down in Mexico in

the

> > really, really back country in the mountains. In my naivite I

asked

> > one of the elders what his religion was.

> >

> > After a long time and a struggle for the right words he finally

> > said, "Yo vivo!" (I am alive!)

> >

> > There were some words of explanation after that but I have never

> > been able to better that answer.

>

> Beautiful... I couldn't better it either. Perhaps "Yo soy" (I am)

> would be its equal...

>

> Peace,

>

> Tim