Question for a newborn :-)

[donq]

Hi Alena,

In Buddhism, there is a tradition that one monk asks the question and another monk answers. They do this in front of many monks who might benefit from listening to it.
Though both of us are not monks, but it’s good to try this anyway.

So, these are my questions for you:

1. Why have you been interested in spirituality? And when? What inspired you?
2. How could you find this forum? (If you used Google search engine, what words did you use to search?)
3. After you have started practicing spirituality, how do you feel differently?
4. Are there any other friends of yours (around your age) interested in spirituality? If not, how do they feel about you and how you feel about them?
5. How do you manage to combine your spiritual practice with your daily life?

Ok, thanks for your answers in advance.

[gruntal]

It's funny how the world works and it seems there is some time and place where a definitive thing stopped and started. If you knew ahead of time you could call the news crew and assemble the cameras and use your stop watch to start timing the event as it unfolded.

It rarely works that way except in a catastrophe but there is often a time when our minds did realize something only moments before it did not.

This reminds me sometime around 1985 I was listening to the radio and randomly turning the tuner knob and accidently stumbled on a lecture on the Great Pyramid of Giza. I had point blank NEVER heard anything even remotely like this ever before in my life time. The very idea, the very concept, of something that existed in real time with no many amazing unexplained coincidences that could only be explained by a life time of research belied the concept anything and everything in life was just superficial.

If a simple rock monument could have such hidden meanings then what else out there was begging for understanding? And how much was there beneft the surface?!

[donq]

Hi Gruntal,

Yes, hahaha. I’m kind of feel the same way, about that ripe time, the “rock moment.” Very well put!

I still recall (with shame) that when I was a very young man I saw my friend reading a religious book (on Buddhism) and I laughed at him (because of my arrogance.) It turned out that a few years later I had to read the same book, too. Shame on me, indeed!

[donq]

Hi Alena,

Thank so much for your trust & answer. You expressed yourself so well and clear. Great!
Rome wasn't built in a day, indeed!

Though the ripe time or the “rock moment is needed to “click” but it still has taken a time before someone would really embrace spiritual side. It will not just change overnight. She/he has been working on this for a very long time with or without knowing about it.

I recall some book I used to read long time ago. It was about the therapeutic touch (or Reiki). A nurse was watching her patient suffering with pain. That time no doctor or drug could help him. In that desperate moment, she decided to help by trying something very new (to her), the hand on healing. It turned out that it worked like a miracle. This affected both patient and her. She asked herself after that so many times, “How could it work?” Yes, that really “clicked” the spiritual side in her even she still didn’t know how it worked.

P.S. You will become a good doctor or a healer. Why will change your career to be a fashion designer?

[donq]

Hahaha, ok, you were very honest.

Yes,it's ok to chose any good career you love and make you happy.

Anyway, it would be a bit sad that the world would lacks a (going to be) good doctor.