Thoughts From A Mystic

. "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." Oogway, from the animated feature film, "Kung Fu Panda"

. Does your heart guide you to- 'get what you want', or 'want what you get'? The first leads to death, the other to Truth and life. Matthew

. As an animator I keep abreast of developments in that industry. Today I read a post in 'Mayerson on Animation' about the upcoming transition of computer animated movies to stereoscopic 3D versions. To properly see the stereoscopic effect people will need to look through special circular polarized lenses, which will filter images in such a way that their brains will be able to create a 3D effect. What motivated me to post this on a religious/spiritual blog is the clarity with which it makes the 'man-made' world, in contrast with Reality. Most people don't realize that how they see reality, and the agreement they seem to have with others in viewing it this way, is really FALSE. This 'disconnection' is the correct meaning of the Christian word 'sin'. Sin is not something you do, such as hitting someone in anger, but about not living as the real you, or 'missing the mark' (being a real person within Reality). IGNORANCE is probably the cl...

. Thoughts are not problematic, 'have' as many as you like. They are to a mind, what breathing is to a physical body. Believing in them is where problems may arise. In Buddhism we speak of IGNORANCE. A person is ignorant when (s)he mistakes a false thought to be true, or vice versa. A person doesn't need to think (rationally) to know the 'Truth'. Truth is not a mental construct. Unfortunately, most Westerners don't realize how distracting thoughts and belief can be to realizing truth. Thoughts are thoughts...that's enough. Matthew