Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Summary of various religions [Re: willie] #18383 - 07/05/02 03:46 AM Edit Reply Quote

I agree with you, Willie that you have to be in the present. But that doesn't automatically mean that the past is outdated (nor that the past is more important than the present). The updating is okay, but that's not the real problem. The real problem is that traditions have become dogmatic and their scope narrowed in the sense of M�navt�, but not in possessive behaviour. This last is a compensation for (inner) emptiness. People don't have the time to care anymore. The price for the modern fast consuming society is very high, which weakens the individual creativity. And this tendency is a mass movement (or better tyranny in many cases), which is also highly sophisticated. Technology giving some the blessings of comfort and saving much time, etc. is a luxurous situation actually not really needed and causing some form of laziness and also illnesses. What is forgotten is to spend an equal time and care for balancing oneself and not creating emptiness. This will minimize the urge to compensate and the vulnerability to follow charismatic and mesmerizing persons or groups who (with your permission/approval!) make you believe to have the answers. This mental pollution of emptiness will cause more damage than the environmental one. So, updating is only needed in the sense of actively participating in and uprooting the cause of modern discomforts: onesided material compensation for the basical need of human beings to be/feel complete. Underestimating the loss or underdevelopment of the immaterial compensation causes a gap. That gap is emptiness. This gap is filled with projected material ideas and models by matter oriented systems (in order to take control), from an anarcistic to a totalitarian view. This 'instant or surrogate' immaterial is in no sense comparable with the real immaterial compensation. This last has not it's source in the material, which is and must be the equal partner in the manifested world, but in the 'Absolute' or that which is beyond material and immaterial manifestation and is unconditioned (and is within yourself)! This is the basical framework, which should be learned when being raised up at home, with education at school and with experiences in growing up in society. The traditions may help to let this happen orderly, but can be also burdens when being dogmatic, that's right.