Throughout theological history we have been assured by religious leaders
that if we perform certain rituals, repeat certain prayers or mantras,
conform to certain patterns, suppress our desires, control our thoughts,
sublimate our passions, limit our appetites and refrain from sexual
indulgence, we shall, after sufficient torture of the mind and body,
find something beyond this little life.
And that is what millions of
so-called religious people have done through the ages, either in
isolation, going off into the desert or into the mountains or a cave or
wandering from village to village with a begging bowl, or, in a group,
joining a monastery, forcing their minds to conform to an established
pattern.
But a tortured mind, a broken mind, a mind which wants to
escape from all turmoil, which has denied the outer world and been made
dull through discipline and conformity - such a mind, however long it
seeks, will find only according to its own distortion.
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