Orthodoxy Transforming Spirituality

Orthodoxy Transforming #8. Spiritual thinking is seeing things as they really are. In this podcast, we see that nothing is as it seems. Why? One, even though something looks permanent, it is not. Two, there is nothing that exists as an independent entity. Consider a table. The table is made up of non-table parts. Trees are not tables; varnish is not a table; carved wooden feet are not tables; glass that may be on top is not a table (in fact the glass is not glass but is made up of non-glass parts: sand!) and the screws and nails are not a table. However, when we assemble all of the non-table parts, we suddenly proclaim we have a table! Absurd! There can be no independent table. Although many may think these distinctions are simply semantic, they are not. Understanding that everything we see is made up of non-everything we see parts teaches us a spiritual truth worth gold: everything depends on everything else and nothing exists by itself. Everything is connected although everything appears to be separate and disconnected. We have been trained to skip over the connections and embrace the illusion of the separateness. In this podcast, we begin to examine the truth that nothing is as it seems. Once we can see this truth, we are well on the way to spiritual thinking that will ultimately culminate in understanding our own connectedness with everything else and our entire perspective will change. Ready for the next step?

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