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I hope my lack of correct English writing does not clutter the meaning of my post here, if it is difficult to understand the meaning of my OP, please ask me to explain more.
I been wondering for some time.
When we study or follow a spiritual teaching, and we begin to put our own interpretation of the actual words that are in the text. means we say or think, the teacher(s) must have been thinking this. and we ad our own words into the texts of for example the Bible, Buddhist scripture, Quran, and so on, or even worse, we change the wording of the teaching to fit our own life. Instead of trying to understand what the teaching actual text that is the teaching.
Does it harm the future of spiritual teaching for a future generation when we as human beings change the scripture from its original meaning to what we as unenlightened beings "think" it should mean?
When in discussion with others it is in my understanding good if we say or write, "in my understanding, it could mean this..." instead of saying it does mean this and maybe we did not understand the teaching fully our self. then we destroy spiritual teaching, are we not?
I don't have the full answer my self, but I worry if we keep changing the original texts of spiritual teaching it will become teaching that can not save us.
I been wondering for some time.
When we study or follow a spiritual teaching, and we begin to put our own interpretation of the actual words that are in the text. means we say or think, the teacher(s) must have been thinking this. and we ad our own words into the texts of for example the Bible, Buddhist scripture, Quran, and so on, or even worse, we change the wording of the teaching to fit our own life. Instead of trying to understand what the teaching actual text that is the teaching.
Does it harm the future of spiritual teaching for a future generation when we as human beings change the scripture from its original meaning to what we as unenlightened beings "think" it should mean?
When in discussion with others it is in my understanding good if we say or write, "in my understanding, it could mean this..." instead of saying it does mean this and maybe we did not understand the teaching fully our self. then we destroy spiritual teaching, are we not?
I don't have the full answer my self, but I worry if we keep changing the original texts of spiritual teaching it will become teaching that can not save us.