There was a man who felt he looked good in glasses. He refused to take them off. What he didn’t know was that at this time glasses weren’t as perfect as they are today, so unbeknown to him, they distorted his vision. A smart glass maker couldn’t make him change his glasses, but he encouraged him to put compensating lenses over his distorting glasses, so the man could see better but his vision was still not perfect.
How easy everything would be if the man could just take off the glasses and enjoy his perfect vision instead. Religion works like these compensating lenses. Somehow, we feel that by appealing to an authority like Christ, Buddha or Krishna, we can appeal to the love and wisdom that we know we have in us. Why the circumvention? The realization is that without the self in the Way, love and serenity is.
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