04-29-2021, 04:21 PM
(04-29-2021, 04:11 PM)jafar Wrote: Many ascended teachers knew that the objective is actually to merely triggering the 'wishes to know'.
To make the student 'ponder' and 'seek'.
As those who seek shall definitely find.
And those who merely believe and obey, will never find, they're stuck in their comfort of un-knowing-ness.
Once the seeking has started.
The student will definitely make many wrong turns on the crossroad.
Yet the wrong turn itself is part of the seeking process.
Through walking the wrong path he gained understanding, why it leads to dead-end.
And by walking the trail back to the crossroad, the student will now be more equipped to know better on which path that most probably will not lead to dead-end.
There is a story of Siddhartha when asked on the issue of God existence, he answered "God do not exist" to the Theist and give the answer of "God exist" to the Atheist. Because both are actually on the same boat, they believe in something that they don't know. The answer was given to make them start the 'seeking' themselves. If they admit that 'they don't know' and start the seeking, rather than merely believing, then the chance of knowing will become a possibility.
I love this!
Parables and stories always make these tricky topics much more relatable -- that's why JC had so much success (ya know, besides the whole constant miracle thing)... Very cool post, jafar. Much gratitude.