Trust

The real question here is: are they ready for your path to enlightenment? Or maybe, it would be better stated: are they interested in your version of the path?

There is a certain underlying assumption going on here, I suspect, that the path to awakening must follow the criteria that we are familiar with. And because we are following the “approved” ways, that our way will work and their ways will not work for them.

If the truth does not have any boundaries then all-knowing-oneness must be speaking to them through their paths as well. And like us, they may be less or more successful with their paths in reaching the great truths of their being.

But I would not condemn their activities as being those that lead away from the truth. But instead, see them as leading to their own understanding and acknowledgement of the greatest truth that they will be able to realize. Isn’t that enough?

I like to let other people have the space in which to live and explore their side of things, to know from their own vantage point and direction and through that which is most meaningful to them, the ultimate nature of the terrain of all beingness.

On their own course, is where the truth lies for them. As a Buddhist, I practice with compassion, to understand those others pathways and to help them when I can, to see the light that shines for them too on their way.

Thanks for listening