Why Having too many Opinions is Bad for Spiritual Growth!

[Ishanga]

Opinions mean Mind has made up a Conclusion,,

When You make a Conclusion about something, You limit Yourself, Your essentially Blind to other sorts of Conclusions or Ways to Observe/Understand Reality!

If You make too many Conclusions about a variety of things concerning Reality, then Your Really Blind because Mind can never see Reality Clearly!

Its same with Your Liked/Dislikes, the larger Your list of Likes/Dislikes is, the more Unavailable, UnResponsive to Life You Are! Life is Reality, Reality is all about No Boundaries, unlimited Potentials and Possibilities, if You limit Your ability to Respond to it all (by creating fine tuned likes/dislikes), then this leads to not being able to Experience Reality Wholly.. Liking, Disliking is drawing line and creating Boundaries, but Reality is Boundless, so this process limits Your ability to Perceive and Accept Reality as it is, which is step one in Realization terms!

Its like only Loving Yourself, or only Loving close family and friends, if you do this, then Your limiting Your Responsiveness to Life and Reality, but if You Love Everyone, then Responsiveness opens up to an Unlimited Capacity..  By Love I mean You are in Experience of Love, and via that Your Expression shows Lovingness to everything that it Touches!

We will always have limited Understanding of Reality, that is just the limitations of Mind and Understanding, but we can have unlimited Experience of Reality so that You feel totally Complete, what would Life be like if You felt Complete within daily??? 

So yes, you may understand something in an limited way, this is okay, be open to the many other possible way to Understand something as it only enhances Life in the End!

[Human Mint]

4 hours ago, Ishanga said:

but if You Love Everyone, then Responsiveness opens up to an Unlimited Capacity.

How do you know this? There are going to be people that will hate you and hurt you, and I don't think you're going to love everyone so easily as you say.

[Ishanga]

1 hour ago, Human Mint said:

How do you know this? There are going to be people that will hate you and hurt you, and I don't think you're going to love everyone so easily as you say.

Hate is poison for us, is it not? Love, as I said in my post, Love in this context is an Intense Sweet Emotional experience for You within Yourself, its not about the "Other". Our society says love is about the other, but that is more of an exchange or agreement/contract, I do this for You, You do this for Me and all is well.. This is not love really, is about procreation and sex/pleasure and extracting from the Other...

If Your Loving within Yourself and someone attacks You on whatever level, how would you respond you think?  I would leave the scene, and not let it try to wound me anymore, but with no suffering it.. Enlightened ppl still feel pain, but suffering is not possible for them imo!

Edited Saturday at 05:55 PM by Ishanga

[r0ckyreed]

What about Buddhism? Buddhism is filled with opinions, traditions, and conclusions. If you put Buddhism in a different category than opinion, then that is your opinion. You can’t be a Buddhist if you doubt the Buddha’s enlightenment in the same way you can’t be a Christian if you doubt Jesus is your Savior. 

[Ishanga]

6 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:

What about Buddhism? Buddhism is filled with opinions, traditions, and conclusions. If you put Buddhism in a different category than opinion, then that is your opinion. You can’t be a Buddhist if you doubt the Buddha’s enlightenment in the same way you can’t be a Christian if you doubt Jesus is your Savior. 

When You had Your psychedelic experience and then said here "I am God", that is all that matters okay in the end, I may not agree with how You came to that experience, at least You had it for real... After the fact, all the sharing and back and forth (same with Buddha,  Jesus, whomever enlightened being) with this and that being said and shared and opinions stated, it really means nothing, tomorrow it is forgotten, if not forgotten the most it does is inspire maybe, but You have the memory of being GOD, go with that alone, imbibe it and make so its a natural experience for You each day, and forget about the sharing and opinions afterward, that is the most important aspect! 

[Hojo]

This topic is an opinion. If you are blind to that how many other opinions are you blind to? And if you dont hold this as an opinion then say its not true and having opinions is a good thing for spiritual growth.

Edited 18 hours ago by Hojo

[Terell Kirby]

14 minutes ago, Hojo said:

This topic is an opinion. 

yup- paradoxically so

an opinion about the opinions of others

less about having opinions, more about how serious you take them

but hey..thats even an opinion

Edited 17 hours ago by Terell Kirby

[Ishanga]

I didn't say don't have Opinions, I said too many of them, too much diversity of opinion is eventually not so good for You on the Spiritual Path, because as can be seen here daily on this forum, You eventually have to argue the opinion which is a conclusion about something, which therefore enhances Ego and Identification which is the opposite of what we want to be doing on the Spiritual Path..

As well, sharing methods, time proven methods is not opinion, its sharing of methods and experience with methods, different things altogether..

If Your on here everyday, all day, for many many hours, this is no good, why are You on here so much, look at it, and why when the site is down it bothers You!!

[enchanted]

Yes in a way spirituality should make you know less and less, make you less sure, less confident, quieter, etc.

 

Tao Te Ching – Verse 48

In pursuit of knowledge,
every day something is added.
In the practice of the Way,
every day something is dropped.

 

 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Perhaps the core problem is us being dissagreeable, conflict oriented, argumentative and whatnot. You might say that opinions and our interpretations of reality are the core to these problems since any time we perceive a different interpretation we feel conflicted and therefore we sometimes have the need to defend and fight for our perspective and opinion in order to validate our faith in this perspective, however futile this lashing out may be. Practicalities of life will always make you develop opinions, you can't just sleep walk throught life not knowing

[Ishanga]

1 hour ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

Perhaps the core problem is us being dissagreeable, conflict oriented, argumentative and whatnot. You might say that opinions and our interpretations of reality are the core to these problems since any time we perceive a different interpretation we feel conflicted and therefore we sometimes have the need to defend and fight for our perspective and opinion in order to validate our faith in this perspective, however futile this lashing out may be. Practicalities of life will always make you develop opinions, you can't just sleep walk throught life not knowing

Yes for sure, this is what the Mind and Intellect do, they form opinions, but opinions are not reality, and when we debate then argue opinions it changes things, we identify with it more strongly, which is no good.. 

This is the main problem with forums, I've been a participant in a few of them for other subject matters and it all ends up the same, ppl disagree and argue, even to the point of physical altercations happening, not saying that is what happens here but it does...

Spirituality is paradoxes wrapped within one another on the Intellectual level, it won't make sense most of it, but ppl want it too make sense, avoiding this game is key on the Spiritual Path!