Thank you for your comment. There is still so much for me to learn, so I am not really in a position to 'guide' anyone, but perhaps I can share some of my experiences.
About five years aso, I started on a daily practise of stilling my mind through meditation, and entering into this beautiful space of peace and vastness inside the heart, where I begain discovering who I really am. When I meditate, I begin to feel an unmistakeable connecteness with the universe and the deepest truth that holds it all together - when I discover more about myself, I feel I am discovering more about God. I don't really have a readymade definition of God -in fact, if you asked me what I thought God was, I would be very hard pressed to give you an answer! It is only in those moments when I move beyond the confines of my mind in meditation that the concept of God makes sense - it becomes a direct experience rather than a theory.
And when you have this experience of the heart, the last thing you want to do is criticize someone (or do even worse things to them) just because they approach the truth in a different way that you do. Quite the opposite in fact. Inside our hearts is this beautiful quality of empathy and identification, and the more we enter the heart the more we learn to see the beauty everyone has in their hearts - in fact, often I have had the experience of looking at someone else searching for truth, and feeling that their search and my search are one, even if we employ outwardly different means.
I definitely spent quite a few years as an agnostic before beginning to meditate, and I certainly don't consider myself a 'bad' person then for being so; I still had the same yearning for truth then as I have now.
Thank you Vinay
Thank you for your comment. There is still so much for me to learn, so I am not really in a position to 'guide' anyone, but perhaps I can share some of my experiences.
About five years aso, I started on a daily practise of stilling my mind through meditation, and entering into this beautiful space of peace and vastness inside the heart, where I begain discovering who I really am. When I meditate, I begin to feel an unmistakeable connecteness with the universe and the deepest truth that holds it all together - when I discover more about myself, I feel I am discovering more about God. I don't really have a readymade definition of God -in fact, if you asked me what I thought God was, I would be very hard pressed to give you an answer! It is only in those moments when I move beyond the confines of my mind in meditation that the concept of God makes sense - it becomes a direct experience rather than a theory.
And when you have this experience of the heart, the last thing you want to do is criticize someone (or do even worse things to them) just because they approach the truth in a different way that you do. Quite the opposite in fact. Inside our hearts is this beautiful quality of empathy and identification, and the more we enter the heart the more we learn to see the beauty everyone has in their hearts - in fact, often I have had the experience of looking at someone else searching for truth, and feeling that their search and my search are one, even if we employ outwardly different means.
I definitely spent quite a few years as an agnostic before beginning to meditate, and I certainly don't consider myself a 'bad' person then for being so; I still had the same yearning for truth then as I have now.
Shane