Tony
22nd July 2012, 11:22
Still jumping to conclusions?
If we are truly investigating something we need to look at the biggest possible picture, rather than our part of it. If we start by not trusting anyone, then the investigation will be fruitless.
“I only trust myself,” comes the reply. Well, that's not saying much is it? That is your own very limited view point.
How can I trust someone who only trusts themselves?
Frank Sinatra has a lot to answer for...”I did it myyyyy way!”
The problem with being the ultimate sceptic is that you could be saying, “I am superior to others, because I believe nothing.” It's a way of covering up one's own fears and lack of confidence...
my mum used to do that!
Jumping to conclusions and disbelieving everything is a really negative way to live – as is believing in everything. Mistrusting everything is a little more than paranoid, don't you think?
We are then in danger of throwing the baby out with the bath water. There is goodness in everyone, but it does not mean I trust them, although they may still good people.
However, the question of who or what to trust needs to be addressed.
This, of course, brings us back to the question of what is real or true, and that will depend on whether are talking about the physical or non-physical realms. There is no end to changing phenomena and intrigue. Sentient being are masters at both that, and self deception.
To keep on saying... “Me good. Them bad,” is childish.
Finding fault with the others is easy, because we are all still sentient…confused...not quite there yet...not enlightened.
Finding fault with ourselves is not so easy: that takes some real work!
If there are controllers of this world, they must be laughing at people over reacting and trying to display super-insights, when it's actually just super-imagination. If we are to find the truth, we have to stop guessing, and then finding ways to justify our guesses.
Take the thread about the Dalai Lama: this is just a copy and paste...again. Kathie has just written to eight Tibetan offices of his Holiness to get clarification on the matter. We know his Holiness is interested in science, and even says that if science proves Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism must change. He works very closely with neuroscientists, looking at consciousness.
Personally, I am sure that Tibetans - and Buddhists in general - have no idea about what might be going on in the world. I've written on two Buddhist forums and I find this so. I've brought it up in retreats and I just get stared at blankly. Do I think, because of this, they are all illuminati? No, of course not! They are just ignorant of these matters.
What makes talking to the public very difficult is..............THE WILD SPECULATIONS on forums! These cloud the issues totally, and give people the ammunition to dismiss all of it as the ravings of conspiracy nutters! They stop listening! They lump us all together...yes, they too jump to conclusions!
Yours - finding me a little frustrated this morning -
Tony
If we are truly investigating something we need to look at the biggest possible picture, rather than our part of it. If we start by not trusting anyone, then the investigation will be fruitless.
“I only trust myself,” comes the reply. Well, that's not saying much is it? That is your own very limited view point.
How can I trust someone who only trusts themselves?
Frank Sinatra has a lot to answer for...”I did it myyyyy way!”
The problem with being the ultimate sceptic is that you could be saying, “I am superior to others, because I believe nothing.” It's a way of covering up one's own fears and lack of confidence...
my mum used to do that!
Jumping to conclusions and disbelieving everything is a really negative way to live – as is believing in everything. Mistrusting everything is a little more than paranoid, don't you think?
We are then in danger of throwing the baby out with the bath water. There is goodness in everyone, but it does not mean I trust them, although they may still good people.
However, the question of who or what to trust needs to be addressed.
This, of course, brings us back to the question of what is real or true, and that will depend on whether are talking about the physical or non-physical realms. There is no end to changing phenomena and intrigue. Sentient being are masters at both that, and self deception.
To keep on saying... “Me good. Them bad,” is childish.
Finding fault with the others is easy, because we are all still sentient…confused...not quite there yet...not enlightened.
Finding fault with ourselves is not so easy: that takes some real work!
If there are controllers of this world, they must be laughing at people over reacting and trying to display super-insights, when it's actually just super-imagination. If we are to find the truth, we have to stop guessing, and then finding ways to justify our guesses.
Take the thread about the Dalai Lama: this is just a copy and paste...again. Kathie has just written to eight Tibetan offices of his Holiness to get clarification on the matter. We know his Holiness is interested in science, and even says that if science proves Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism must change. He works very closely with neuroscientists, looking at consciousness.
Personally, I am sure that Tibetans - and Buddhists in general - have no idea about what might be going on in the world. I've written on two Buddhist forums and I find this so. I've brought it up in retreats and I just get stared at blankly. Do I think, because of this, they are all illuminati? No, of course not! They are just ignorant of these matters.
What makes talking to the public very difficult is..............THE WILD SPECULATIONS on forums! These cloud the issues totally, and give people the ammunition to dismiss all of it as the ravings of conspiracy nutters! They stop listening! They lump us all together...yes, they too jump to conclusions!
Yours - finding me a little frustrated this morning -
Tony