Turning the Juggernaut Around

Whether or not you believe that the emotional power of religion truly emanates from the divine, the power itself is real.

The Evolution of God,

Gods of the Ancient States,

Robert Wright

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I am a consummate “Doubting Thomas” and I have trained my mind in the school of hard knocks over the decades to be doubtful, distrustful of all good intentions, argumentative, jealous, anxious, depressed, grasping and selfish. How do I get out of this prison of thought before I am completely overwhelmed by it? 

   It makes sense that it would take a little effort to turn a lifetime of training around by subtly changing course. Or, in the words of Sogyal Rinpoche, “Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we are honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, the mind will begin to unknot itself and know itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.”

   I don’t necessarily have to believe in meditation, any God, any guru, or any approach to God at all to do this; but it does take faith to just sit and allow the mind to arise from the primordial stew. Knowing that others did so (and became at peace with them selves) encourages me in the knowledge that I can turn this juggernaut around. We do this together because we have found that we can’t do it alone.

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