Still here

I should say something so people know I am still alive.

I have been writing a number of spiritual / religious entries lately. (The difference between the two is less than most people like to pretend these days, and this in fact was the topic of one of them.) But even if the teaching is healthy, as I believe it is, I am still not worthy to teach it. And there is also the whole “iceberg” thing, the proportion between what is above and below the surface. That is already pretty bad as is.

I wish someone else would write all those things in a way that is easy to understand, so I could just link to them. You may know that one motto for this blog is “We must say all the words that should be spoken, before they are lost forever.” But I really wish someone else would do it on topics such as these.

The other things in my life seem almost (or even not almost) embarrassing in comparison. I’ll see what I can do, though. After all, I do spend my time on all kinds of things, not mainly spiritual books and prayer (and definitely not fasting)!

4 thoughts on “Still here

  1. Magnus, dear, I think I speak for most of society when I say that if we could, we would! You are just better at it than the average bear! You manage to articulate much of what most humans aren’t even able to organize into anything more than nebulous almost-thoughts! And I, for one, am very happy that you do so.

  2. Well, I do have a way with words, but they can get no sharper than the thoughts behind them. Someone who sees more clearly than I and has more experience should, at the very least, be at hand to correct me. Then I would have more confidence that I don’t destroy people’s eternal lives with words that can be easily misunderstood (or worse, if I am the one who has misunderstood).

  3. It is related, yes. I guess it was pretty cryptic. I read a passage by a Buddhist thinker, who tried to explain what ignorance was:
    *There is a parable of a man eating a bag of chili peppers one by one, weeping at their fiery taste as he does so. When asked why he continues to eat the peppers, he replies, “I’m looking for the sweet one.” This is ignorance.*

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