The Reasons Why

Hello Everyone,

I have received some questions and I would like to answer them all for you in this page. Without ceremony and much circumstance here are your answers:

1.       Why Do I call myself a seeker2008

a.       I have spent most of my known life trying to fulfill and answer a spiritual calling. I have gone to and been a part of many organizations, and yet I find myself still seeking for my home, my final way. I have reach a point in my life where I feel I am at the right time, place and state of mind to take my yearning past the stage of learning about myself, and my short comings and truly begin to walk the path to higher attainment.

2.      Why do I blog?

a.       I blog because I love stories and I love sharing my own and my own thoughts and hearing from people all over the world. I have come to value greatly everyday people and the things of daily existence; through them I can feel more the touch of the divine than through anything else. Because of my jobs and being busy so much at this point in my life I don’t get much of an opportunity to converse with and share with my fellow citizens of earth so this is why I am here blogging.

3.      What if any religion I follow?

a.       I don’t follow any in particular. I was born a Roman Catholic and the life of Jesus has always had a deeper powerful correspondence in me. However in my travels, talks with people, and in my own studies of Hinduism ancient societies, mystery schools, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism and Sufism I have really gained a deeper intuitive feeling for religion and the deeper spiritual life all religion guide the  follower. In my experience all religions are the same at their core but rather different in their external manifestations.

4.      What have been your experiences with the Sufism?

a.       In college I read people of the secret, or rather I should say the book found me. I just saw it on my table and my father said “Read this!” I asked him did he read it and he answered : “ Only a few pages”. And I read this and eventually was blown away. I felt so many things in that book. I then discovered Idries Shah from the catalogue I got from Octagon Press. I have read and ruminated a lot on Sufism for the last 7-8 years. One day I feel I was at the particle time and place for things to go beyond reading and I was able to contact a Sufi group and I feel at home somewhere for the first time.

5.      What are the most important people in your life, in terms of spirituality

a.       My father first and foremost for putting my heart early on in life in line with the northern star of existence (God), in a non dogmatic way. Solitude has been a big teacher. I would have to studying Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism – a habit I got form my father also filled my mind with the right kind of inspiration. Life has been my biggest teacher I have been inspired by some many people and events and things its hard to say or isolate any one in particular.

6.      Do you really not care about politics

a.       I care about people, when politics really and genuinely concerns themselves with everyone’s agenda equally I will take more of a concerted interest. I think someone who is empowered to change or help his fellow man is more important than someone who courts political power. Like I have said the politicians come in after the battles have been done to assign holidays and publically recognize something which is by that time common knowledge.

7.      What are your views on religion?

a.       I think religion is a beautiful thing. Religion is a tool like anything else, because it may have been used incorrectly doesn’t mean it useless. It is an intermediary that prepares the perceiver to receive the greater mysteries. The issue is the people who use religion as a means to control and manipulate other people. All religions are a way to the same end.