Wisdom Vital To Evolution

[Shin'Ar]

We come here with open minds in search of truth we could not find elsewhere. The spiritual teachings of some of the great prophets and teachers throughout history sometimes seem to meet with the aspects of creation that we deem logical to our way of thinking. But as seemingly truthful as any teaching may seem to be, we must always discern them with an open mind, to be sure that we are not becoming complacent to applying logic in our discerning of the truth from deception or mistake. Intellect and wisdom promote open mindedness that evades the confining nature of delusion and traditional deceits. The eye of the mind must always be open, never tiring and becoming lazy, to allow the light of truth in to overwhelm the darkness of blindness. To have an open mind one must always be receptive to external thought other than one's own, even to criticism of things one has already learned. For if one has been misled, misguided or misinformed, than how would one ever correct that mistake. To have an open mind one must be willing to be proven wrong, which means that one must almost never attain a certainty of anything. For should one be wrong, and the truth professed to him afterward, his certainty becomes the closed mind that blinds him once again. We must always be receptive, and then discerning.

Many intelligent people are settled in religious persuasion, and even when they doubt, they continue to remain tolerant for the sake of comfortability. Others become unsettled with vague answers to their questions, and become motivated by their urges to seek other answers, being unsatisfied with what they hear. But even they usually just go from one religious persuasion to another. In reality, even the traditional inheritors had to have ancestors that initially adopted that families' traditional beliefs from scratch. Religion always becomes rooted in man's desire to seek the truth about who and what we are, and where we come from. When that curiosity is subdued by comfort, and the mind becomes lazy, people will settle into their beliefs. Religion is nothing more than laziness of mind, where man settles on what he chooses to believe, and closes his mind to any criticism or difference of thought.

Religious scholars around the globe study through volumes of information to confirm what they believe to be truth. And believe that the knowledge they have acquired has become an intelligence that cannot be denied. And yet, their so- called intelligence has only closed their mind. Volumes of untruth cannot even begin to compare with the wisdom in even one phrase of truth. Therefore the scientist should never become frustrated with the student who cannot keep up with him intellectually, because as soon as he does, he has stopped learning himself.

The wise scientist should always be a student himself, otherwise he only becomes religious, in that, religion is actually the end of learning. For one has not learned anything, no matter how many volumes of information he has stored, if that information is not the truth.

Knowledge only comes from truth, and truth only comes from being open to it when it is presented to you. Seeking the truth means always being ready to dismiss it when you discover it is a mistake. Without the openness to correct mistakes that you had adopted as truth, you are also void of the openness to acquire further truth when it does come before you. That openness of mind must work both ways in order to be effective, otherwise we become religious about what we have adopted. So whether religion is inherited, or we are lured into its promises, the key to all wisdom will never be in the messages, the true key will be in the determined openmindedess to reject what we have adopted for new ideas that could be corrections to our mistakes. I would rather live life correcting mistakes than to settle on one untruth and remain there.