...and turned CYNICAL? (saracastic, ridiculing).
I contacted a monestary once. Asked if I could take a spiritul retreat. Said I
believed in fasting, meditation, and prayer, and maybe seeing visions.
One of the monks wrote me back. He said,
"We don't believe in all that! We just make BREAD!"
2006-11-09 09:02:10 · 5 answers · asked by zenbuddhamaster 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
maybe you sent it to a bread company essaayyy
2006-11-09 09:06:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sort of. But these people, if they realize their errors, can be used by God for his good purposes.
Let me start over. A person can pridefully go to God and ask for or demand all sorts of spiritual gifts. God makes it plain, in one way or the other, that the person is ill-prepared to handle such gifts. If the person is asking out of pride, which he or she normally is, then that pride, if not eradicated, would "cancel out" the gifts, in that the person would use God's gifts in service of God's enemy.
And yet if the person successfully hears the message that he or she is not in any way prepared to handle such responsibility, and comes to ask God if he may prepare him or her, then great things can come to pass in that person's life, via the gifts and mercy of God the creator.
It is another one of those beautiful and sublime spiritual principles: you get what you ask for only when you are willing to not get what you're asking for, and instead seek God's will, and God's will alone.
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The student asked the master, "What did you do before you became enlightened?" The master replied, "Chopped wood, carried water." The student asked the master, "What do you do now that you are enlightened?" The master replied, "Chop wood, carry water."
2006-11-09 17:11:13 · answer #2 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't need a monestary to do all the things you wanted to do. I think he was right to write you back that way. He had his reason for doing it just like the "Wax on, and Wax off " bit.
2006-11-09 17:16:57 · answer #3 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL. I wonder what kind of 'bread' he meant by that.
Besides you don't need to find sanctuary elsewhere to perform what you believe in. Seek within yourself to begin your own journey now...
If you are to take the Nazarite's vow, you are supposed to separate yourself from everyone and let no one know that you are fasting.
Peace be with you.
2006-11-09 17:12:53 · answer #4 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a bunch of cranky (and dull) monks...
"Yeah.. praise God.. EAT YOUR BREAD!"
2006-11-09 17:10:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋