Most
of my generation came to age at a time when Eastern philosophies no longer held
for us an exotic mystique: i.e., Sun-Tsu’s Art of War is a classic encouraged by many
MBA courses (as it was the foundation for the movie, Wall Street,) the martial
arts of Japan/China along with Tibetan meditation practices have filtered into
the board-rooms of major corporations. As a result, most of this Higher Power
business doesn’t carry with it the stigma of the “Old Time Religion” of the
past. Even the scientific community is no longer as rigidly atheist as it
needed to be for inquiry (what with the cosmology of “dark matter” and
sub-atomic physics unraveling articles of scientific faith). Opening the doors
of perception into a transcendent reality was approached open-minded and I
became willing to run with what I found. It is as simple as that. Even the mystery of that revelation has become
common-place among many of us in the Fellowship… we simply had to have our egos
crushed to get it. Western submission to a Higher Power is easily translated
and incorporated into Eastern practices. What is almost unique to the West is that we
have experienced through our excesses, without much spiritual rigor, the grace
of God revealed through the Heart of Compassion. The trick is to not confound
the simplicity of that revelation.
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