Is spirituality best learned through books and the intellect or through your skin, flesh, bones and marrow?

Question

See with your own eyes.
Hear with your own ears.
Taste with your own mouth. : )
Feel with your own senses.
Hunger with your own hunger.
Stay hungry until your hunger is satisfied.
"A picture of a rice cake is not worth eating".

Aum. We must be related. : )

Purity: Let me whisper to you Angel, {claiming inside only you are missing a great deal, what about the desert, water and the ground you walk on, can you deny what is in front of your face}?

Aum.: Be careful, you may cause me to break out into song and, well.....there are better things to hear with your own ears. : )

OM TAT SAT: Very well said {bows} but the hunger is mine. : )

OM TAT SAT: YES! YES! Claps paws together and grins. : )

Aum.: Of Course! Dancing as the desert blooms in the fall, the fall of things once thought important. : )

Such *wonderful* answers! We are truly on a path with Heart. I am beginning to see that *Love is all there is* than you.

Answer 1

Only by experience.
Books can only provide a direction but not the end.
You need to feel the spirit inside of you.
What can a book tell you? Only words.
Often words misguide.
Translated words totally misguide.

Answer 2

No, spirituality can never be learnt from books.When we go deep into our being no language exsists it is the place where words cannot be reached .Books and all discourses are just jugglery of words but THAT exsists beyond everything.When all the intellectual efforts come to an end and mind is still THAT IS.You know this Mr coyote.

Answer 3

As always, I speak from my own experience.......... and will say to you cosmiccoyote, that I brought in my own experience in this life time at my soul's insistence. I have been fortunate, for this life has provided me many wonders that flow through me and become manifest by my hand through forms known as art and writing. Waking visions have described my soul's way, and much of my former paths have been disclosed. As each moment is given, I am provided for abundantly well. Therefore, I have learned my spirituality by doing one thing, and one thing alone: I have an open heart. I chose to accept only loving energies to entreat me, spiritually. I censor nothing whatsoever....meaning that I am utterly open to my own existence and what I am shown. I have no fear. I have not been disappointed. I am manifest on this earth plane in a human body, therefore I am a vehicle that earths what I see and hear in manifest forms as mentioned. I would love to share them with you, and someday soon I shall publish images and words that will melt your heart and awaken your soul. Energy of a high order is contained within. For me, love is all there is........love is the One....as are we all.

Answer 4

I agree that spirituality can not be learn`ed by books.

But surprisingly those books taught me what is spirituality.

Real Buddha is inaccessible now.
But Books told me about him.

Books and Teachers are lamp-posts.
They hold the light to show the path of Enlightenment. Other wise we will be confused.

They purify our logic and understanding.
Without them it will be nothing but chaos.

Can a great scientist negate the primary schools? Alphabets?

Can we refuse the `words` and `sentences` filled with our own `logic`?

If it is OK .......then why we are here in Yahoo Answers?

Answer 5

Ha ha .. books and spirituality ?

Spirituality is already hidden inside us.. .it unfolds slowly like a sunflower.... when the Sun of Truth rises

Can you blossom a bud into flower by reading books..

if we try we would destroy the flower inside..

Becoming spiritual is a natural evolution of mind and soul... books prophets, religions can be a base to become spiritual but certainly can not bring it alone....

When a coyote howlllllll (or aummms) in the night seeing the full moon... he is spiritual

Edit: yes we are related beyond this physical world... I am you

Edit: What else we are doing if not singing ?? we are singing the eternal song of the Unknown.... people may listen what they deserve....

come on let us dance and sing..in the cold desert night Aummmmmmmmmmmmmm

Answer 6

Do you really think I can attain something the way Jesus, Buddha, or some other person wrote or described, I don't think so.

Let me have my own Pursuit, my search.


Edit: So go and chase and catch your food as a coyote. The pain of hunger is more satisfying than the eating the food.

Answer 7

Those that have gone before us can sometimes light the way in person or book, but in the end some one telling me or my reading about it, no matter how true it may be, is not enough. I must experience, I must know, I must remember I Am.

Answer 8

It's a totality of learning devices that we are blessed to have in this life, a combination of facilities, great facilities granted to us, the blessed ones, to seek, experience, to read, to converse and debate, to contemplate ourselves in the quiet and peace of our own company of the self within....it's all given to us, the 'panchendriya's, the 'jnanendriya's, the learned around us, the 'guru's, the god-men, god-women etc.!

Answer 9

Both...if the knowledge is lacking and there is none, then a book is a good place to start. From there you go and experience. Without your own experience you have no real knowledge.

Answer 10

Even if i was lost out in the desert, or better still a beautiful island with no books my spirituality and my relationship with God would still grow and i would still learn.
It's very inward with me.