The Value of Experience

“If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.” 

― Anthony de Mello

If you are into any spiritual or religious practice the real truth is, you are finding out who you really are, not what religion tells you who you are. 

Most people want to be taught what to do, instead of learning from experience and thinking for themselves. 

Life is not a step by step system, it is free flowing, it is like water. What you should do is learn from your experience in life and drop those beliefs that does not work and adapt those that work. 

Experience has taught me that separation, hate, fear, criticism, condemnation, gossip, being right, selfishness, and competition has created more misunderstandings in my life and hurt. Not only to me, by most especially to the people that is around me. 

But if you look closely and sensitive enough, most religions would rather create separation, hate, fear, criticism, condemnation, gossip, being right, selfishness, and competition. They would follow blindly what is written in Holy Scriptures even if it doesn't feel right. Even if it would cause pain to another individual. Even if it will make them hurt another person gay, lesbian, sinners or whatnot.

 

"We think too much and feel too little." -Charlie Chaplin

Useless and unnecessary misunderstandings, fights, wars, murders in families, society and nations have been done in the name on what is written, than be sensitive and love one another.

Sad truth is, people will do and follow what is written and follow it blindly that to truly listen to their hearts and be compassionate with people. .


Most people don't live their lives fully aware. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts- generally somebody else's mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. (more info read: THE MYTH)

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's misery. 

Most people put too much emphasis on what they learn or read about Life. So, when what they've experienced is different from what they've read or been taught in religion, they disregard what they've experienced and follow what religion says, and which by the way results to more misunderstanding and hate.

Experience will tell you that putting your finger in the flame of the candle will burn you, not books. Experience will tell you that the food taste bad, not books. Experience is the best teacher not religion or holy books.

You can lie to other people but you can never lie to yourself. That is how your conscience works. You know in your heart what is right and what is not. It is not found in religious books or any book. What you know and feel is right is found within you.

When you see somebody sick and dying you feel compassion, and what you feel could not be explained in books. When you see your mom crying you feel sympathy for her and you reach out your arms and embrace her, you want her to feel your love, and that is not found in holy scriptures. You only learn that through experience.

The only way to change is by changing your understanding.

If you center your attention and start to feel your heart, you will begin to realize that you would rather be in harmony with another individual than say or do something negative to them. Nobody wants to hurt another individual you are by nature loving just like how your father above is. 

In the ancient temple of Luxor; the outer temple where the beginning initiates are allowed to come, and the inner Temple where one can enter only after proven worthy and ready to acquire the higher knowledge and insights. One of the proverbs in the Outer Temple is "The body is the house of God." That is why it is said, "Man know thyself." In the Inner Temple, one of the many proverbs is "Man, know thyself ... and thou shalt know the gods. This understanding is one of the keys in truly understanding who you really are. 

One of my favorite author said that: "As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”



Enlightenment really means you become who you really are and not what other people, religion or media tells you what to do. What you want to do is to creates more love than of the opposite it.  You want to focus on the constructive side of life regardless of what the scriptures says. You want to forget and drop what is written and listen to what your heart tells you is right.

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I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible- Jew, Gentile, black men, white…

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery ,we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.”

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder!

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men—machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a loveof humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate!

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.

Let us all unite.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance!

Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

"Waste no time talking what a good man should be, be one."

-Marcus Aurelious