The Unabashed Believer

How can I be asked to deny my experience? With my 72nd B'day on Aug 24, 2013, and having fasted the Holy and Blessed month of Ramadan for 44 years, having been in the Sufi way for equally as long and had the honor, pleasure and enlightenment of knowing, sitting with and studying for lengthy periods of time under several of the great contemporary Sufi masters of the time, How am I not going to explain the quick and easy benefits of a simple yet accurate belief?

So the topic of this discourse is "Understanding Salvation and Living your Life in Heaven".

It is incomprehensible how many veils can be ripped aside by true dedication to a well guided practice. I've written elsewhere that the practice becomes simpler and clearer to explain as one continues with dedication on the path of practicing it.

The reality is that it is right in front of us and soooo close as to make it invisible to the naked eye. Scientific observation, which is what the ego/temporary self believes to be the reality, can't touch it. But the scientific mind in its highest manifestation, can conceive it, and this is where science and true spirituality converge.

It is our purpose to align our belief with Truth, which should be teachable as "The True Faith". (Refer to the section of Surrenderworks.com called "Tannisho", to see how the Buddhist Sect of Shinran handles this form of definition. [It's really quite stunning.])

Belief is an action. Sincerity is its power, and practice is its manifestation. This is for the student, and we all are. Faith is an object, a teaching. Accuracy is its only hallmark, for the teaching must come from and lead to the desired result, and that can only be determined and guaranteed by the results of it as seen on the teacher (who must, by default, be the result of its practice.)

Yes, there can be and are many false 'faiths'. But not throwing the b... you know - the possibility, nay, the certainty exists that there can and must be a true one. Now I'm not talking about or referring to any dogma at all - not Christian, not Muslim, not Buddhist. Want that? Go anywhere else. But I AM talking about an experiential reality, acclaimed in and by ALL religions and spiritual teachings as being the ultimate goal and destiny of all sincere practice in the search for truth - an experience from which one can understand the simplicity of the practice after having worked through all the complexities and having resolved all the confusion. That's where I'd like to come from in my explanation of the simplicity of Salvation (understanding its concept, practice and reality), and Living the Heavenly Life.