Monday, April 14, 2008

Many paths

Now that I have basically covered the road to enlightenment. I want to turn my attention some aspects of the road.

There are almost as many paths to enlightenment as there are people. True, most of them are based on Eastern philosophies and "new age" thinking. However, they are not the only ways to enlightenment. We each have the ability to reach enlightenment because it is really a self awakening. So, just how each individual arrives at that awakening is particular to that individual.

As I just said, it is not necessary to follow some Eastern philosophy to reach enlightenment. Yet, that is the way most people use to get there. I wondered why we in the west have not developed more of an enlightened pathway. I have done much research to try and understand and answer this question. More on this in my next post.

Mr.T

1 comment:

Mary Sonya conti said...

delighted to find this site. Am of the mind that meditation and active soul searching for answers from the truth within us has to be both active and inactive at the same time. To remove oneself from life (through meditation) we shutdown a huge part of experience that is necessary for growth. Feel that must be a positive/negative both working at the same time to grow.
Feel that we are put on this earth to learn; experience being the positive some situations we put ourselves into being negative that we must strive to turn positive. Hopefully not off the track here.