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Prayer to Reality.
Topic Started: Nov 7 2015, 10:57 AM (85 Views)
crow
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Take me out of myself, and into life.
"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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xor
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God is reality; reality is God. Truly nothing else is worth praying to.
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Any image or idea to which we pray is an obstruction to the pure face of reality. I've tried very hard to pray to this, that, or the other conception of divinity, knowing full well that it's only a conception (a pointer at best, not the real deal), and more often than not I've been beaten back for being so conceited. The loudest prayer is total silence. True worship is to admit no difference.
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Welkyn: " The loudest prayer is total silence. True worship is to admit no difference. " Love this statement, will examine more deeply about 'admitting no difference'.
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There is nothing to made of anything. No display is required. Whatever it is, is what it is. Anything else introduces insincerity.
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Any image or idea to which we pray is an obstruction to the pure face of reality. I've tried very hard to pray to this, that, or the other conception of divinity, knowing full well that it's only a conception (a pointer at best, not the real deal), and more often than not I've been beaten back for being so conceited. The loudest prayer is total silence. True worship is to admit no difference.

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There is nothing to made of anything. No display is required. Whatever it is, is what it is. Anything else introduces insincerity.

It sounds as though meditation would be a description more fitting of that particular method/process by which a deeper connection with reality may be achieved.
Religion in the Abrahamic traditions, on the other hand, requires the practice and inherent discipline of an actual formal prayer. The methods prescribed therefore may differ, overlap or seem as anathema to one spiritual path from another, and it may very well be the case in some instances.

But there is one thing which all these teachings and their methods have in common, and that is in offering the clearest known path of that which can guide it's adherents back to the source; the eternal, unfathomable, oneness of reality. The fact that something which tries to help mankind keep on the right track, has survived as long as at it has and that it's inherent wisdom still exists as deep as it ever could is reason enough to me that it's worth something. But of course, if any other lone-wolves should happen to fall into enlightenment from their own resources, I won't deny that either. Wisdom is wisdom after all.
Edited by xor, Nov 12 2015, 06:34 AM.
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Man's greatest stumbling block seems to be his propensity for insincerity. He deals in symbols. Abstractions that stand in for living at first hand. An acting-out of life, of experiencing, of being, of worship. Grasping this, is the key to transcendence.
Nothing magical is going to happen when one merely goes through the motions, no matter how diligently one goes through them.
One may 'feel better' as a result of one's diligence, as one may through the performance of any duty, but this business is not about 'feeling'.

'Sublimation' is a concept worth considering here: where a solid transforms into a gas, without first becoming a liquid.
I refer to the chemical process, by this. Not the psychological kind.
Metaphorically: If man is a solid substance, how may he become God? Perhaps by reducing his solidity, and becoming gaseous, ultimately leaving nothing behind that resembled his former self.
A solid may only occupy one location, while a gas may occupy any space, in greater or lesser concentration.
Base solid, or ethereal?

We are druids and alchemists, dressed up as couch potatoes; mutton dressed up as lamb :)
Edited by crow, Nov 12 2015, 10:36 AM.
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