Seekers Unite!

[allfoak]

Is there a difference between being a seeker and being religious?

I would like to add that being a member of a religious group does not exclude one from being a seeker.
So what is a seeker?

 

[buddhist]

IMO a seeker is one who is open to constantly revising his worldview based on additional wisdom gained from personal experience, whereas one who is religious has a worldview that is largely stuck in dogma.

 

[BSM1]

Being a 'seeker' usually entails going out and looking for something on you own, not simply accepting what others may or may not have found. Everyone has to find their own truth.

 

[Iti oj]

Is there a difference between being a seeker and being religious?

I would like to add that being a member of a religious group does not exclude one from being a seeker.
So what is a seeker?

I'm an irreligious, non theistic seeker. Not all who wander are lost

 

[allfoak]

IMO a seeker is one who is open to constantly revising his worldview based on additional wisdom gained from personal experience, whereas one who is religious has a worldview that is largely stuck in dogma.

I was one of those people stuck in dogma.
It takes a lot of work to put it behind you.

 

[allfoak]

I'm an irreligious, non theistic seeker. Not all who wander are lost

It seems that as i learn more about myself, i too have become more irreligious and a more non theistic seeker.
And strangely enough, i have always wandered but have never been lost.

 

[buddhist]

I was one of those people stuck in dogma.
It takes a lot of work to put it behind you.

I understand that, having gone through it myself!

 

[allfoak]

Being a 'seeker' usually entails going out and looking for something on you own, not simply accepting what others may or may not have found. Everyone has to find their own truth.

I like that idea of going out and doing it on your own.
I have been down the other path.
It is the only way.

 

[Iti oj]

It seems that as i learn more about myself, i too have become more irreligious and a more non theistic seeker.
And strangely enough, i have always wandered but have never been lost.

I think the experience and the scenery are What was found. Knowledge of self and others is the trail mix of seekers

 

[YmirGF]

It seems that as i learn more about myself, i too have become more irreligious and a more non theistic seeker.
And strangely enough, i have always wandered but have never been lost.

Hehehe.... I'm not looking for answers, the damned things just keep turning up on my path to stumble over.
Though I do not see myself as a seeker that does not mean I have not found more than most could possibly imagine.

 

[allfoak]

I think the experience and the scenery are What was found. Knowledge of self and others is the trail mix of seekers

Good stuff!
Love the imagery.
Worked on an organic farm and worked with a lot of hikers from the Appalachian Trail this past summer.
It was perfect!

 

[allfoak]

Hehehe.... I'm not looking for answers, the damned things just keep turning up on my path to stumble over.
Though I do not see myself as a seeker that does not mean I have not found more than most could possibly imagine.

I understand how that works.
Answers turn up for me in the strangest places and at the strangest times.
I can't even say anything about it sometimes cause it disturbs some people.
I can't tell people how it happens it just does.
I had a conversation with a friends 6 month old boy years ago and those people thought i was a god or something, it freaked them out.
So i don't talk about these things much anymore for the sake of others.
Perhaps that is how i end up on a message board.
It is an outlet.

 

[Vinayaka]

There are two basic kinds of seekers, (at least. maybe more) IMHO
- Those that are seeking a path, a way. a comfortable spot.
- Those that are seeking truth within themselves, Self-Realisation, Enlightenment, etc.

For this embodied jiva seeking is 100% of the second variety. The first one was over long long ago.

 

[allfoak]

There are two basic kinds of seekers, (at least. maybe more) IMHO
- Those that are seeking a path, a way. a comfortable spot.
- Those that are seeking truth within themselves, Self-Realisation, Enlightenment, etc.

For this embodied jiva seeking is 100% of the second variety. The first one was over long long ago.

It seems the comfortable spot is illusory.

 

[Vinayaka]

It seems the comfortable spot is illusory.

No idea what you mean. The Vedantin perspective that it's all illusion? Really, I have no idea.

 

[allfoak]

No idea what you mean. The Vedantin perspective that it's all illusion? Really, I have no idea.

It seems the misunderstanding is mine.
I apologize.
I will, in the future, make an effort to say something relevant to the posts i quote.

 

[Iti oj]

Good stuff!
Love the imagery.
Worked on an organic farm and worked with a lot of hikers from the Appalachian Trail this past summer.
It was perfect!

I spent the last year living in an off the grid micro cabin on the west coast

 

[allfoak]

I was a seeker who got stuck in the mire of religion in the beginning out of ignorance of what i was seeking and where to find the answers.
It all seemed so ironic when I came upon the realization that what it was i was seeking was knowledge of myself.

 

[allfoak]

I spent the last year living in an off the grid micro cabin on the west coast

Wow! cool!

 

[allfoak]

I spent the last year living in an off the grid micro cabin on the west coast

Now you got me thinking that i should hike the Appalachian trail this year.