Doorway to the Sacred

Doorway into a 300 year old monastery in the mountains of Ladakh. The smoke of incense floating in, and I follow its path to attend 5 am prayer session with the...
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Doorway into a 300 year old monastery in the mountains of Ladakh. The smoke of incense floating in, and I follow its path to attend 5 am prayer session with the monk who has unlocked this monastery, high in the lonely mountains, just for me..." Unless we understand the mutual relationship between faith and spiritual forces we shall regard the healing powers of a saint either as miraculous or as self-deception. But what we call miraculous is nothing but a short-cut in the interaction of natural forces, i.e. a direct action from mind to mind, without the usual roundabout way via the senses and material agents. Faith merely acts as a conductor, which makes this short-cut possible. Just as electricity - which is potentially present everywhere - becomes effective only in the presence of a conductor, so spiritual power becomes effective only in the presence of faith, be it faith in a divine power, or a human Guru, or faith in an ideal or in one's own inner reality...." ~ lama Anagorika Govinda, The Way of the White Couds.
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