Spiritual Text In The Common Language

The common language is that of the people’s everyday usage. There is no reason not to use it.

Throughout history, the common people have had to have intercessors, teachers, gurus to comment – and elaborate – on spiritual texts. This means that people have to be dependent on a mediator, and believe in the teachers’ words, and thus something other worldly. 🙂

Of course, someone who has gone through the process is part of our process of learning, but the Buddha warned, “Do not take my word for truth; test it for yourself.” In your own way.

The Dharma is concerned with what we already are – pure and simple. We don’t need a special language to know what we are. All spiritual text is about our origin; it’s not a history lesson about others’ realisation. If the teaching is made ‘impressive’, we’ll have artificial expectations, and never think we’re good enough to realise it.

This is such an important subject, and it’s what this blog is all about.
Wherever ‘I am’, pure consciousness is.

(I once said to a Tibetan lama, “I feel a million miles away from all this.” He just looked at me. Much later, I realised that the teaching is within all of us, right now.)