01-02-2013, 01:03 PM
(01-02-2013, 07:54 AM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: I think maybe one aspect of this is to teach the New Age community - - -
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I like your post. Not sure what I expected, but I'm not feeling disappointed. I'm in the midst of learning on my spiritual path every day, and do feel a lot of good is happening.
When Jesus performed a miracle he usually said, "Go and tell no one." Of course people ran out and yelled it from the roof-tops despite what he said. The lesson I have drawn from this is that it is too easy to take "miracle" and turn it into a means of getting attention, or fame, or power, thus corrupting its simple significance.
A miracle can be simply saying, "Wouldn't it be nice if the sun came out today." The sun comes out. Was it listening to my words? Who knows, but that can be the story I tell myself.
The spiritual teachers in the old Zen and Hindu and Buddhist stories were not so much into mass marketing and gathering huge followings as in being focused in their inner lives.