...and where does spirituality flower? Right in the midst of this world....without material, what is the significance of 'spiritual'?
Both are yin and yang....both are necessary evils.
If you only look at one, ignoring the other, you stay divided. Embrace both, both liberate you...you find there is no difference between the two. Not two, not two , not two.
Humans are what they have always been....people are no more materialistic/spiritual today. Today we just know a lot of spiritual sounding jargon.As for language...what language can convey utter silence? What words can say the unsayable?
Come to think of it, Sanskrit does a pretty good job....it has accomplished the closest brush to say the unsayable....tries thousands of ways/expressions....if you know you get what it says.
It is not language, it is the experience of silence that creates the language.
So maybe language is not the key....the key is Self. When you know thyself, the expression comes too mysteriously...never the other way round
Great thoughts to ponder..thank you.
As an example. When I think of a number I don't necessarily think of it in a physical way I think of it as the perfect idea or thought. If I want to make use of it materially then I have to write it down. I effectively convert it from a thought to its material state.
Effectively the number as an idea has become an on going part of me. I don't have this same relationship with say healing. I should have because the same "spiritual" law of numbers is the same "spiritual" law of all creation including us.
Most people that we talk to who are multi lingual when asked do they think in their parent language when conversing in their non parent language say no they think directly in the non parent language.
Yet we try to understand or describe "spirituality" using materialistic concepts, and then wonder why we make such slow progress.
One reference that I "fall back" on is that Jesus never saw the body as material or substance, only the idea behind it, and by correcting any false idea he could replace the body's ill health with harmony.
He knew spiritual law, and thought directly in it.
If we all could "talk" Jesus language then there really would be heaven on earth.
Consider my spiritual language growing internally to view my self as a material being that needs to see the openess beyond what I was taught or to believe I was taught. Keeps me growing to new concepts and questions.
I consider myself to be part of the land, trying to speak in the language of the land spirits.
Easier in the doing than in the explaining of it.
Great thoughts to ponder..thank you.
You are welcome
I consider myself to be part of the land, trying to speak in the language of the land spirits.
Easier in the doing than in the explaining of it.
Exactly.