One Path to Awakening

We have a million different religions, each teaching a different path to God or the absolute truth ("awakening"). Yet, if there is only one absolute, how can there be a million different paths to it?

"There are many paths, all leading to one destination."


Ha! Sounds like something an ego would say!

Sure, according to your ego, that makes sense. The ego-self perceives a million relative truths and therefore, feels compelled to convince itself that they all lead to absolute truth. In this way, the ego gets to compromise with the "reality" it perceives by making truth conform to relative sense impressions, rather than sense impressions conforming to truth.

Therefore, it fails to know absolute truth but runs haphazardly back and forth between different paths, each leading to relative approximations of "truth."

hmmm....I have a path in the woods behind my house that leads only to town and nowhere else. Now that's an absolute path! However, there are several other paths too, but they don't lead to town. They all lead somewhere else.

There is only one path to absolute truth and no other path will take you there.

However, there are a million paths that can lead us to ourselves and religious-spiritual paths have the potential to bring us together, as opposed to tear us apart through their relative beliefs of an absolute.

If they'd only do what they're supposed to do, rather than seek what they're not set up to find.

We may need to get our priorities in order.

God second, People first.

This is the only path to "awakening"! (but I'll bet your ego has problems with that, huh?)

The long and winding road
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me here
Lead me to your door.
(Beatles)

Peace Angels,
mikeS