A shaman is a God, who learns! - A God, who resists the temptation to freeze-frame his insight and enlightenment. A God, who has the capacity of a human, that is the capacity of imperfection. In my world such a God is the only one deserving the title "God". All the other infallible -ISMS are just static apparitions, freeze-frames of spiritual ego. I believe it is important and valid to seek spiritual solutions to the world's problems... we see so many problems in the material world and are unable to identify the spiritual causes that have created the mess. We experience that we are not perfect, but we hate it.
A challenge for all Enlightened ones: Have you forgotten that you were fallible? Have you succumbed to the illusion that after your enlightenment you have become different from before? - Before enlightenment you made mistakes and after enlightenment you also make mistakes. Afterwards you not just chop wood and carry water as before, but make mistakes also. Let us not forget the very fundamental requirement for transcendence: accepting reality AS IT IS. The state of consciousness, that can say on the 7th day "IT IS GOOD". There is no difference between "before" and "after", there must not be. If it seems that way the "Enlightenment" is not real, but a creation powered by illusion, powerful illusion, but illusion nonetheless. If you were prone to error once, you will always be prone to error. To pretend otherwise is dangerous. It will create a terrible mess. Oh, wait a minute, it has created a terrible mess. Look around and see.
We have a multitude of infallible doctrines, be it Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, Free-Market-Economists... and we have a terrible mess.
The best description I could come up with for a Shaman is: A God, who learns. A Shaman is not an ordinary person, who learns. There are many ordinary people, nice people, who learn, but they are not Shamans. However, a person who has reached inside his own consciousness a transcendental level and keeps on learning, aware of being prone to error, that is a Shaman, a God who learns.
I love him.
A challenge for all Enlightened ones: Have you forgotten that you were fallible? Have you succumbed to the illusion that after your enlightenment you have become different from before? - Before enlightenment you made mistakes and after enlightenment you also make mistakes. Afterwards you not just chop wood and carry water as before, but make mistakes also. Let us not forget the very fundamental requirement for transcendence: accepting reality AS IT IS. The state of consciousness, that can say on the 7th day "IT IS GOOD". There is no difference between "before" and "after", there must not be. If it seems that way the "Enlightenment" is not real, but a creation powered by illusion, powerful illusion, but illusion nonetheless. If you were prone to error once, you will always be prone to error. To pretend otherwise is dangerous. It will create a terrible mess. Oh, wait a minute, it has created a terrible mess. Look around and see.
We have a multitude of infallible doctrines, be it Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, Free-Market-Economists... and we have a terrible mess.
The best description I could come up with for a Shaman is: A God, who learns. A Shaman is not an ordinary person, who learns. There are many ordinary people, nice people, who learn, but they are not Shamans. However, a person who has reached inside his own consciousness a transcendental level and keeps on learning, aware of being prone to error, that is a Shaman, a God who learns.
I love him.
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