The Sorcerer's Explanation
by Dr. Frederick Lenz, RamaInsight
“The way we see life is there so that we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them. Banish them — that’s what a dictator does. A dictator comes on and says, “Any other way that you think but the way I think doesn’t exist anymore.” That’s what the island of the tonal does.
In other words, we have many parts within ourselves. But there’s one part of ourselves that has asserted itself — the need for order, logic and reason, the empirical sciences-and it’s become so strong that it will deny the obvious, which is God. God is the unexplainable mystery. Always has been, always will be.”
Considerations
“The middle path means not to become too obsessed with your physical life and reason — to have a good life, live well, be reasonable and prudent, but not to go overboard and let reason rule everything, or to go too far and become obsessed with your experiences.”
These are direct quotes from the talk The Sorcerer’s Explanation by Rama Dr. Frederick Lenz.
All quotes are reprinted or included here with permission from The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism