Originally posted by Bosse de NageYou seem to confuse perspective with truth. It is perspective that is relative.
I took a photograph of the Absolute Truth, but when I tried to compare it to the original, the scene had changed. What a shattering experience! However, I still have my picture as a model and I'm confident that with vision, determination and inflexible will, I can make the scene conform to it.
He used parables because he wanted to promote the stopping of the spontaneous activity of the mind of the people to whom he was addressing. This continuous activity was like the rippling of the water in a jacuzzi, and he wanted to give the people a chance to turn this jacuzzi-like mind of theirs into a part of the Fountain from which all the Water sprung.
But his parables could not force on their own the mind stuff within the heads of the believers to cease operating like a jacuzzi. They couldn’t, because on the surface of them pools a strong wind was blowing eternally, causing waves that they were emerging constantly one after the other. At the surface of them pools the teacher could monitor countless reflections and many broken forms, all far from being perfect, none of them complete; so he knew that the best his followers could do was to grasp broken images.
If he could only stop that wind! If he could stop that wind, the Water within them pools would become perfectly still and clear like the surface of the most precious mirror. Then the people could probably even feel deep in their hearts that the most a Human can do is just to monitor the reflections of the seemingly real world round about. Some people could be that lucky that they could even spot a goldfish here and there in the Lake.
So he kept up using parables because the deeper reality was beyond description, it could solely be experienced by bringing the thoughts of the people to a stop; he knew that the understanding goes past everything that can be understood. By offering his parables he was trying to show that all the human beings are in essence one. And he knew that the essence that holds all in one is Love.
He loved the children and he wanted them to afraid not. Why should they be afraid? Miscellaneous forms are born and then they cease to exist, but the essence inside the sentient beings could never die for it is in all things and it is their pure self. The Human is too a wave on the surface of the Fountain, and when the wave is gone the Fountain remains, therefore nothing has happened, nothing happens, it’s just an eternal dance.
He was teaching the children to fear not, and suddenly he understood he had to fear not too. He was aware of the fact that he was a story just like everybody else, and he knew he had to turn himself into reality; so he had to become genuine and to offer an act of his real self.
The technique he used to link the Human with the mystery of being was Death out of Love. He had no problem monitoring the people killing him at his attempt to show that Love alone, no matter what things may look like, is the key that leads a spirit towards the great unknown.
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Originally posted by black beetleyes, that it is able to transcend, even death! very beautiful post beetle!
He used parables because he wanted to promote the stopping of the spontaneous activity of the mind of the people to whom he was addressing. This continuous activity was like the rippling of the water in a jacuzzi, and he wanted to give the people a chance to turn this jacuzzi-like mind of theirs into a part of the Fountain from which all the Water sprun ...[text shortened]... matter what things may look like, is the key that leads a spirit towards the great unknown.
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