The Road to Hell ...
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:58 pm
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." I'm sure most have heard the phrase.
I was watching a program the other night. "I didn't want anyone to get hurt"...was his intention, which played out entirely different. Everyone got hurt.
His intention was simple, foolishly simple. Yet instead of no-one hurt, all suffered. What happened, what went wrong. Fortunately, nothing went wrong. Externally, it all went right.
We've all experienced this, so you know what I mean. (I intentionally avoid explaining what is obvious from our common experience, or by simple deduction) His mindset was the problem. For whatever reason, he didn't want anyone to get hurt, but reality doesn't work that way. Everyone got hurt.
Which brings up a realization. I'm a carpenter, I've built thousands of buildings, most of them houses. Residential was my first 15 yrs of 30. If you happened by the job site and asked me what I was doing I would never say" building a house". I'd say something like "I'm building footings, or I'm building walls, or installing windows, or building a roof. When I think about my activities, it's exactly that. I'm never building a house I'm always building something else. It becomes a house when I'm done but that's incidental to my actual activities.
Hold on a minute...Did I just said incidental to my actual activities? That sounds like a, potential, principle. Could that be the case in other things in my life, in our life's. I know it is. I know this to be sound, there's been too many years. Too many years where I've seen this both at work and play. It leaves me wondering, however.
It leaves me wondering about spirituality and paths to enlightenment. These too seem like incidentals.(upon reflection I recognize the incidental path as a path, the "is" in the "isn't" if you will) Secondly, with all the violence associated with mainstream religion, I'm reminded me of the program. Everyone got hurt. That's seems like a tell tale. (tell tale=reality telling us something)
Anyways...I'll make an assumption, gaining enlightenment/spirituality is incidental. If that's the case, then how? How can the principle of incidentals be applied?
Applied
Gary
I was watching a program the other night. "I didn't want anyone to get hurt"...was his intention, which played out entirely different. Everyone got hurt.
His intention was simple, foolishly simple. Yet instead of no-one hurt, all suffered. What happened, what went wrong. Fortunately, nothing went wrong. Externally, it all went right.
We've all experienced this, so you know what I mean. (I intentionally avoid explaining what is obvious from our common experience, or by simple deduction) His mindset was the problem. For whatever reason, he didn't want anyone to get hurt, but reality doesn't work that way. Everyone got hurt.
Which brings up a realization. I'm a carpenter, I've built thousands of buildings, most of them houses. Residential was my first 15 yrs of 30. If you happened by the job site and asked me what I was doing I would never say" building a house". I'd say something like "I'm building footings, or I'm building walls, or installing windows, or building a roof. When I think about my activities, it's exactly that. I'm never building a house I'm always building something else. It becomes a house when I'm done but that's incidental to my actual activities.
Hold on a minute...Did I just said incidental to my actual activities? That sounds like a, potential, principle. Could that be the case in other things in my life, in our life's. I know it is. I know this to be sound, there's been too many years. Too many years where I've seen this both at work and play. It leaves me wondering, however.
It leaves me wondering about spirituality and paths to enlightenment. These too seem like incidentals.(upon reflection I recognize the incidental path as a path, the "is" in the "isn't" if you will) Secondly, with all the violence associated with mainstream religion, I'm reminded me of the program. Everyone got hurt. That's seems like a tell tale. (tell tale=reality telling us something)
Anyways...I'll make an assumption, gaining enlightenment/spirituality is incidental. If that's the case, then how? How can the principle of incidentals be applied?
Applied
Gary