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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (5288)	4/14/2020 9:14:58 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13832

A professional is a professional. It goes with the job.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (5288)	4/14/2020 9:40:13 PM
From: Joseph Silent	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13832

This is a sad situation. It is even sadder when you consider that this man preaches to people who follow his example. People simply do not understand how to approach God through religion, and it has turned into this ridiculous business of a clergy spouting rubbish they do not care to comprehend. If one really wants to understand religion and God, one has to do it oneself, or one has to find a practicing monk sitting in a cave or a desert someplace --- someone who knows first hand what they are talking about, from experience, and not from a book with words they can barely pronounce ..... because they read all metaphor as (historical) fact. The fundamental error. If you accept the idea of God, then you also accept that God is everywhere. So what does it mean to say that "God is Everywhere" (omnipresent) ? There is an illustrative story. Simple, but it needs understanding. I'll try to make it brief. A holy man in the forest (India) had many disciples. He taught them that God is everywhere --- in rocks, stars, animals and even in themselves. He said that is why we bow before all things, to show the one God that resides in all things the ultimate respect. Indeed, if you know deeply spiritual people, you will see this is how they live. In essence, the holy man taught his pupils something that all spiritual people understand deep inside somewhere --- that we are all manifestations of God. [As an aside ..... when someone says "namaste" they are supposed to be paying respect to the God in you, even though most people do it without having any clue what it all means, and think it is like shaking hands.] The holy man's star pupil was waddling along a forest path one day and saw an elephant quickly lumbering towards him, with the mahout sitting on the elephant looking very concerned. The mahout yelled to him to get out of the way. But being a devout pupil who just learned an important teaching, he figured that he was God, and the elephant was God, and so he would as God bow to God, and the God in the elephant would stop and do likewise. He truly expected this to happen because the teaching struck a deep chord in him. Needless to say, the elephant did no such thing. It picked him up and tossed him in a heap to the side and continued on its way. Bruised and in pain, confused, he crawls back to his teacher and explains that the teaching did not work as expected. He was God, the elephant was God but the expression of God in the elephant did not recognize the God in him and ran him over. The holy man asked him what the mahout's part in all this was. Well, he replied, the mahout kept shouting "get out of the way! get out of the way!". The holy man laughed and asked "So why did you not listen to the expression of God in the mahout asking you to get out of the way?". So it is sad that the pastor did not recognize that, if God is everywhere, then God must also be in a virus. No matter what your religion is, it has a teaching that tells you to get out of the way. I do not know anyone who goes to church for lessons from a pastor who would consider taking swimming lectures from a Professor who does not know how to swim. So then .... why on earth do they go to the clergy for lessons? My teachers Campbell and Merton both taught me that it is better to go to a solitary practicing monk in the woods or in a mountain cave to learn religion than to go to the clergy. A big lesson. Oddly enough, Merton was a Catholic priest. The Tibetan monks considered him to be so spiritually advanced that they called him a Bodhisattva (one on the verge of becoming a Buddha). If you read his life, you'll see that he was a highly unusual priest. :)