05-06-2020, 08:23 PM
(05-06-2020, 05:08 PM)sillypumpkins Wrote: I think 'rites of passage' are certainly still present in today's society, they're just different from how they used to be. getting your first car, drinking alcohol for the first time, losing your virginity, i feel all these things are viewed as 'rites of passage' to a certain degree in society.
while they might not be as 'intense' as being sent into a dark cave for a month long meditation, theyre still rites of passage.... just... yknow, different. the world is always changing
I think they exist but none of them seem to inform a person about the innermost mechanisms of their minds.
Separation of church and state are good things but it has made it that spiritual understanding of your intellect is something that has been put in to exile. People cringe at the concept and it's inappropriate to discuss these ideas at the workplace for the most part. "Your spiritual opinions/religion are ones you keep to yourself we don't want to have to refer you to HR"
Getting drunk damages your mind, operating a vehicle is great but doesn't transform your morals. I'm not lecturing people but we none of it informs you how to treat people with "love." At all.
I think it really boils down to you becoming a person who has a concise understanding of the felt experience of truth doesn't economically bring benefit to your city council, or people trying to sell you products or use you as a tool to make money or as a part of some larger agenda groups of men would like to bend people toward following instructions. "A soldier is trained to follow orders."
What incentive does anyone have to tell you about the proper way to experience sahaj samadhi as a being of peace satisfied with a simple non-materialistic life. Who gets money out of that? No one gets their agenda satisfied as a result of an individual finding inner peace and it would make a lot of people tear their hair out in frustration if suddenly masses of young people thought this way. That's the 1960s in a nutshell.