We cannot solve the problems of the mind with the mind. -- The Buddha
Whenever I come across that quote, I know it for true...then I spend the next ten minutes pondering how it is true, why it is true....
Our reasoning mind will retire neither quickly nor quietly. It is interestingly pathetic, or pathetically interesting, how long we will cling to the belief that reason is our safety net...that "victory can be ours for the thinking." All the while we have had it proved to us...even proved by our own self...that it is detachment from reliance on our reasoning mind that sets us on the path to real freedom, the freedom from self.
Reason is essential to us as we walk the the rough and rutted road toward still more spiritual growth. It is our thinking that opens us to recognize reason as another tool of God's but not our safety net and not our security.
Reason, if used properly (probably meaning overused), clears the channel for God's thoughts to pour through. Reason is God's Roto-Rooter, if you will.
Our mistake is putting our trust in the Roto-Rooter instead of in God.
Thank you.
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