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Spiritual Explorations
This group is focused at exploring the nature of consciousness, alternative spiritualities, philosophy and the nature of Reality. We are open to non-traditional issues and points of view of all kinds. . Most people are raised within a single religious paradigm. As a result, we don't find within our environment clear expressions of other religious understandings or perspectives. This group provides a place to ask fresh questions, to examine our spiritual beliefs and non-beliefs, to look at our spiritual and life needs from new perspectives, to question old beliefs that have not fulfilled our highest spiritual needs, or to discuss the deeper questions of life with others who are seeking better understandings to age-old questions.
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wolfthinker said:
on November 2, 2009 03:51 PM ET

COME DOWN TO EARTH

The disciplined technique of practicing meditation amounts to putting yourself into an inconceivable situation in which the analytical mind doesn't function anymore. So I would say that the disciplines of the Buddhist teachings are largely a way of freeing oneself from analytical mind, which has a dream quality. Analytical mind is close to the clouds, while the instinctual level is much closer to the earth. So in order to come down to earth, you have to use the earth as a means of bringing you down.

From "An Approach to Meditation: A Talk to Psychologists" in The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology, page 53.

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