From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 08:19:15 BST
Or the spiritual path is how you remove the distractions IN ORDER THAT you live simply in the
present, and become fully present....
Sam
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From: "james marshall" <edgarj@shaw.ca>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: MD Joseph Cambell
> DMB said:
>
> "He (Campbell) makes it apparent how necessary it is for each of us to take
> the hero's
> journey, to walk a spirtual path even in this scientific culture."
>
> All these people on "journeys and paths" - few it seem are contented with
> here and now" which afterall, is all a man ever has. A man who follows a
> path is seeking something other than reality which is always here and now.
> Deal with the now. Deal with what is. Spiritual paths are avoidances! A
> spiritual path is an "away from" which is fear. There is nothing wrong with
> now.
>
> A man who is seeking something "better than" here and now never looks me in
> the eye. His eye and attention are beyond this time and place where he
> encounters me who is him. A man following a "spiritual path" therefore
> hateful of me and himself. I discern nothing heroic in that.
>
> Jim
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