The middle way and the will to truth (part 2)
questions and answers
(From the book: Encounters with the true dragon, forthcoming)
It is difficult for me to understand the meaning of the middle way as a target. Can you explain how the middle way as a guideline for practical Action can work?
In the ancient Buddhist scriptures, mostly similes and metaphors used to make the lessons easier to understand. Perhaps such an approach would also be useful to make the middle way of course. We can compare life to a road or highway:
Our road leads to a destination, but the location of our starting point, this destination is not normally see. The landscape on either side of the road is visible and this is often very exciting and seductive. There are wonderful views of mountains, forests and rivers that our attention from the road . Distract There are also fascinating roadside advertising for all kinds of wonderful things. Some advertise their products as the highest quality of life and vitality. Others offer instant fame and success, and others promise us the way to the omniscient enlightenment and spiritual bliss.
Without that we are aware of this guide, we the wheel of the car after the seductive advertising either right or left. But the road of life off the actual road is impassable! At the roadside, only potholes and dangerous precipices. If we drive the car into the ditch, it will probably take a long time, to get back on the paved road and get to continue on.
It is the goal of life, simply to stay on the road, otherwise it is not progressing. We should not be too much to worry about the final destination and the future destination. The problem is our safety while driving, here and now. If we are to have the feeling by too fantastic to ideals or materialistic incentives right or left moved away, we should correct our course as soon as possible and return to the middle of the road.
This is the meaning of the middle way as a goal of life. The middle way is not by fantastic or seductive dream goal but a very practical measure to assess the balance of ideas and actions correctly and to achieve. It is a measure that keeps us in motion and puts us in the right direction. With such a scale we can take pleasure in our journey through life, without fear of side tracks illusory and dangerous precipices on both sides. If we follow the middle path, we can achieve the goal of true Buddhism faster than in any other way.
If the idealism is always the first manifestation of the will to truth?
No, I do not think so. The will to truth reveals itself very simple and direct in childhood. If a child finds a strange insect, it asks, for example, his name. If it encounters in the nature of a snake, it would incite them with a stick. It is therefore trying to figure out what this is really up. Such a simple curiosity has been the clear revelation of the will to truth. As you get older, the same impulse moves us to bookstores, with interesting people or maybe to Buddhist seminars.
Not all revelations of the will to truth are idealistic. In the course of life, the will to truth often emerges in the form of idealistic questions and answers, if we begin to study philosophy or religion and think about life. The will to Truth is a fundamental trait of man, our fundamental nature. Therefore, we should not lose the will to truth in the course of life and not throw away, but on the contrary, maintain and preserve.
You stated that the will to truth is quite natural and in principle, and many of our efforts are directed in the life of the will to truth. Why is it necessary to bring him to maintain and preserve, if this is so?
The stirring so that the original will to truth that is shared by all people depends, in fact, to various destinations. So there is the will to fame, the will to riches, the will to power, etc. Such desires and ambitions are not necessarily such a bad or unnatural, but they tend to obscure the will to truth itself, or to displace all.
We are then captured by our worldly activities and exercises, so that the true goal of our life we can not see clearly. At some point we will probably see the emptiness and futility of our blind greed for power, fame, money, pleasure superficial or apparent security. We then have the feeling that all our efforts in life were wrong and have led to nothing. It then seems as if there were nothing, for which it is worthwhile to live and nothing to which we could build our life.
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In such times of despair to report the will to truth again ignored. This is meant to awaken the will to truth. to awaken the will to truth means to discover the illusions of our thoughts and our desires and expose. We explore the fact that we have here and now nothing which we can rely on and support - except the will to truth.
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