…Indeed, you know that ignorance is not cured by leafing through books, but by the synthesis of containment. ~New Era Community, 193.
We’re probably all familiar with the phrases “discussed to death” and “death by committee.” Is it possible, within a spiritual community, to over-study and over-discuss the teachings and our personal interpretations of them and over-think problematic situations and possible solutions? Definitely. Especially when non-action is the result.
The exposure of ignorance in any of its various manifestations within a spiritual community requires immediate and right action in order to stop it from spreading. How can this be accomplished? One way available to all is to make the call to Gautama Buddha for the dispelling of all that is false, so that people can “receive the Truth when they hear it” (1) or when they read it or gaze upon it.
According to Gautama Buddha, truth is paramount:
And I say, bring the gentleness, the compassion, but bring the sudden thrust of Truth. For sometimes when Truth is least expected it makes its mark and drives deep into the psyche and remains there for many days and many miles until it can no longer be denied.
Do you know, beloved ones, that when you plant Truth in the heart and the being of an individual, at that moment it becomes a focus for more of the momentum of Truth to gather? It becomes as a lodestone. And therefore everywhere he goes, that one who has heard the Truth spoken by you does bump into that Truth in another form, in another manifestation, in odd places and from unusual people.
So it is, beloved, that a great truth is confirmed. It is confirmed by all elemental life and all of the stars and all of the great beings of Light. But most of all it is confirmed by the soul who is listening, who is listening to the Holy Christ Self. (2)
Notes Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 35 No. 41, Beloved Gautama Buddha. October 7, 1992. Copyright © 1992, 2002 Church Universal and Triumphant. All rights reserved.
