Insights and Thoughts

[Cameron]

I thought it might be good if there was a thread where people could post insights or revelations about life that they've experienced on their spiritual journey, so perhaps we may all gain something from them, whatever our traditions.


When we realize the condition of mankind, existing in suffering and ignorance, how can we be angry with anyone?

 

[Born_to_Lose_Live_to_Win]

I thought it might be good if there was a thread where people could post insights or revelations about life that they've experienced on their spiritual journey, so perhaps we may all gain something from them, whatever our traditions.


When we realize the condition of mankind, existing in suffering and ignorance, how can we be angry with anyone?

Very good thread IMO.

I'd like to relate my personal experience.

It was no big revelation. In my hometown in India, one day I went to a nearby Hindu temple to worship. On the way I saw a tattered old man in soiled clothes searching for something in a roadside gutter. I didn't feel like going to the temple that day. I just came back home.

This happened when I was 16. That particular sight made me start asking a lot of questions and to ponder about life, etc. That was my eye-opener of sorts.

 

[Isis-Astoroth]

After seeing first hand the effects of cruelty on a dog it made me wonder why people act why they do, and how anybody could be so insenstive to nature and their living environment.

 

[Born_to_Lose_Live_to_Win]

Just thought of giving a new life to this thread.

 

[vedickings]

When I was 15, I did my first fast 4 days on green tea, I saw for the first time how program we all are and how attach to the phyical world of illusion we can be.

Another time around the age of 15 - 16 a good friend of mine ask me to imagine myself existing without the body, so I imagine it. Then he ask me to imagine myself existing without my mind-thought complex, so I imagine it. Then he ask me to imagine myself existing without the ego, and so I imagine it. And something happen, it was like a flash in in myself. I have never been the same after that experience.