How Much? Have We Been Led Astray?
As there are many levels of perception,
there are also many levels of deception.
It’s interesting that the celebration of Christ’s birth is now a prolonged period of
buying and selling:
“Then Jesus went into the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. And he declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.”
Matthew 21:12
How did that happen?
The answer to this can also apply to Buddhism, where the attraction to what’s inside the box is more compelling than escaping the box itself.
I came across this earlier today~The 14th Dalai Lama said, “The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.”