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spyrichuwel

spyrichuwel

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I'm just trying to be spyrichuwel. Its hard tryina be spyrichuwel. I envy those who are born into a religious bubble, have elders and masters to teach them and lead them, go to some committee where they pretend that they are spyrichuwel, talk to other people about reallyjuz matters, sit with aunts and cousins and friends and think that they God's elect. How easy must it all be?
 
Jedster

Jedster

Flying through space
spyrichuwel said:
I'm just trying to be spyrichuwel. Its hard tryina be spyrichuwel. I envy those who are born into a religious bubble, have elders and masters to teach them and lead them, go to some committee where they pretend that they are spyrichuwel, talk to other people about reallyjuz matters, sit with aunts and cousins and friends and think that they God's elect. How easy must it all be?
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Hello and welcome to RF.
Seems to me that being born outside 'the spiritual bubble' enables you you not be influenced by the concepts of your parents/ community' religion/beliefs.
 
spyrichuwel

spyrichuwel

Member
Jedster said:
Hello and welcome to RF.
Seems to me that being born outside 'the spiritual bubble' enables you you not be influenced by the concepts of your parents/ community' religion/beliefs.
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Fine observation. I've thought about that before also.

However it comes with downsides too. Sure it overemphasizes on your own personal journey spiritually. But really it is just so much easier to emulate something when you are surrounded by it.

The final question of course is, do the advantages of solitary spiritual searching overweigh the former.

Hypothetically, if you are born into a "true and good" religion and religious culture. What harm can there be in that?

If your parents are physicists, and your parents' friends are physicists, and their children are high flyers and you get to group study with them. And because of all these conducive factors scores higher in tests than some other individual who has none of these aforementioned things but strives hard on his own. Well that's just the way it is. And the latter is simply unfortunate!
 
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Mindmaster

Mindmaster

Well-Known Member
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spyrichuwel said:
I'm just trying to be spyrichuwel. Its hard tryina be spyrichuwel. I envy those who are born into a religious bubble, have elders and masters to teach them and lead them, go to some committee where they pretend that they are spyrichuwel, talk to other people about reallyjuz matters, sit with aunts and cousins and friends and think that they God's elect. How easy must it all be?
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As easy as you want to make it, any real spiritual development starts from within.

I hate to say it that way, as I really feel you already have the full capacity of such experience but maybe have not realized it yet. ('realized' being such an Advaitan word) It's generally our past conditioning from life experiences and our desires or wants that cause the problem in that they make us feel that we aren't already at the destination. Of course this is an illusion, one cannot give us what could never be taken away - only we can deny it to ourselves.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
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Greetings!
Hey, I was born in a religious bubble too....completely surrounded by it.

Coincidentally, the RF cafeteria is serving free bubble tea.
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