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Spiritual education is an odd thing. Many people believe without proper education people will be 'worse'. Without knowing 'the right way to think', or believe, we are no better than animals. Unfortunately it's education that creates angry, alienated people (most would call it 'bad' education, but it's education, nonetheless.)
Education, as we normally find it, tends towards a dead-end path. It starts from a desire to get an end result, and ends with frustrated failings, and desperate searches for 'better' ways to get what you want out of life. Tools and technologies develop out of this path and they make the process of finding one's true nature more difficult, by adding complexity and diversions to the process.
It's not education that 'makes' someone loving, or more spiritual (good). Education can help one learn tolerance, but tolerance isn't love. Jesus would say 'stop judging', which is what a tolerant person still does. What is needed is a way to help people discover WHO THEY ARE; to see Reality as it is. It's more a matter of 'breaking' people of their long held beliefs (habits) that 'they can make it so'. 'Faith, not works' is the correct pointer; but the word 'faith' has a bad taste in many people's mouths, so they spit it out.
'Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened.' Mt. 7.7-8
If you seek or knock in the wrong place you won't find what's truly valuable. Jesus comments often about giving up everything you have to get what is truly valuable. Concern yourself more with finding that you are loved, and ARE loving, and less with details about education and beliefs.
Education could be likened to paint applied to a sagging wall. It attempts to make the overall item more sound (through superficial appearance). First find what is making the wall sag, and once the structure is sound, then add paint. If education is about making something 'better', instead of finding WHAT IS, it's not addressing the integrity of the structure.
Matthew
Spiritual education is an odd thing. Many people believe without proper education people will be 'worse'. Without knowing 'the right way to think', or believe, we are no better than animals. Unfortunately it's education that creates angry, alienated people (most would call it 'bad' education, but it's education, nonetheless.)
Education, as we normally find it, tends towards a dead-end path. It starts from a desire to get an end result, and ends with frustrated failings, and desperate searches for 'better' ways to get what you want out of life. Tools and technologies develop out of this path and they make the process of finding one's true nature more difficult, by adding complexity and diversions to the process.
It's not education that 'makes' someone loving, or more spiritual (good). Education can help one learn tolerance, but tolerance isn't love. Jesus would say 'stop judging', which is what a tolerant person still does. What is needed is a way to help people discover WHO THEY ARE; to see Reality as it is. It's more a matter of 'breaking' people of their long held beliefs (habits) that 'they can make it so'. 'Faith, not works' is the correct pointer; but the word 'faith' has a bad taste in many people's mouths, so they spit it out.
'Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened.' Mt. 7.7-8
If you seek or knock in the wrong place you won't find what's truly valuable. Jesus comments often about giving up everything you have to get what is truly valuable. Concern yourself more with finding that you are loved, and ARE loving, and less with details about education and beliefs.
Education could be likened to paint applied to a sagging wall. It attempts to make the overall item more sound (through superficial appearance). First find what is making the wall sag, and once the structure is sound, then add paint. If education is about making something 'better', instead of finding WHAT IS, it's not addressing the integrity of the structure.
Matthew
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