The path of the Buddha
Mystical vs spiritual: a quest for the Truth
How do we tell the difference between illusion and reality ?
There are at least two very different types of spiritual quest, heading in very different directions
The best thing would to be able to start off by drawing a clear distinction between two very different types of religious quest, and explaining from there. Black on this side, white on the other. But one of the two items we are looking at is so radically different from the other, and so unfamiliar as well, that most people will have no idea where the contrast lies, and it will look as if something is being compared with nothing at all. Black on this side, and no identifiable colour on the other ? What kind of a comparison is that ? This is the essential difficulty with trying to characterise the ‘spiritual path’: it sounds like nothing anyone can relate to, so it might as well not exist. We might as well not bother talking about it at all.
But then again, why not have a go ?
A genuine spiritual path is never going to attract a mass following; it is always going to be of interest only to a tiny minority, if it can manage to generate any…
