Comparing teachings to identify Divine Truth and Love?
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:19 am
I'm wondering if there could be a good use for a board where it's possible to compare what other public teachers share about love and truth, to what we learn (more and more) about God's truths?
Like Byron Katie, she is widely recognized for her teachings where she (by being overcloaked?) has discovered how it's our thoughts about the reality that is causing us to feel the pain about it. For a few years I was aware of her 4 questions, I used them at times and noticed that it was a good relief to find that "Oh, it's my thoughts about this that makes me feel bad about it". Now, however, I fully realize that this was not the truth about what is going on in our souls - we can surely change our attititude towards things, but to dodge pain by changing our point of view is just not making us progress at all.
It feels as if such a "comparison board" could make it easier for anyone who has not yet heard many enough of the nuances and "gotten to the core idea" of God's love and truth, to discern what it is and what it's not? We often find these other teachers when searching for the actual truth, and it's easy to not be able to fully separate the truths from the false, when we haven't yet begun or come so far in releasing our emotional injuries.
What do you feel about it?
Like Byron Katie, she is widely recognized for her teachings where she (by being overcloaked?) has discovered how it's our thoughts about the reality that is causing us to feel the pain about it. For a few years I was aware of her 4 questions, I used them at times and noticed that it was a good relief to find that "Oh, it's my thoughts about this that makes me feel bad about it". Now, however, I fully realize that this was not the truth about what is going on in our souls - we can surely change our attititude towards things, but to dodge pain by changing our point of view is just not making us progress at all.
It feels as if such a "comparison board" could make it easier for anyone who has not yet heard many enough of the nuances and "gotten to the core idea" of God's love and truth, to discern what it is and what it's not? We often find these other teachers when searching for the actual truth, and it's easy to not be able to fully separate the truths from the false, when we haven't yet begun or come so far in releasing our emotional injuries.
What do you feel about it?