Truth
and its disciples.
The
goal and the seekers.
Today
I am inspired by the leader of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther, and
an analysis of his beliefs and actions by Vishal Mangalwadi, India’s
philosopher and social reformer.
Luther
posed the concept of the “priesthood of all believers.” His thesis was that in
order to know the truth, everyone needs to study, and to know God.
Both
Luther and Mangalwadi called themselves reformers. They chose to live lives
of commitment to truth in its bare form, and to preach to seekers everywhere
that such raw truth can only be found through re-forming our mindset.
Our
time in solitude and silence is a spiritual seeking unto itself: an inner
journey toward an examination of conscience which clarifies our conceptual
beliefs and fires them in the forge of action.
“It is only by making
our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality
that is signified by our concepts.”
-Thomas
Merton
How
do you seek to come through this journey?
Who
is the “you” whom you hope to encounter when the Potter is finished with His
work?
What
is the truth you seek in order to be re-formed, or transformed?
I used to have a message in my classroom,
ReplyDelete“In what ways do you seek the truth?”
I also had a variety of pairs of shoes hanging on fishing line from my classroom ceiling, representing perspective. Who is telling the story? No quite reform or transformation, but how do we know what we learn is true? Women see the world differently than men. Children with totally different views. The story of the American Revolution is a vastly opposite story in Durham, NH than it is in Durham, England. How we perceive information forms and transforms us.