Chat said:
“We’re looking for the common teaching beneath the different traditions and formulations—the principles that remain when the particular language, personalities, and sources are stripped away.” (1)
Here is one of the values of. working with such an intelligent colleague-in-inquiry: He triggers me.
Hearing this comment from him, I immediately said to myself, “There is only One.” That is the highest teaching for me.
A teaching for me is different than a truth. A truth states a fact. A teaching offers a way to realizing higher and higher truths.
“There is only One” cannot be contemplated for long without at least intellectually realizing, “then I must be that One, as must you.”
When we wonder how we are all one, well, heavens, what else can we be but the One if God is to be One? The One without a second?
It’s a no-brainer unless ideology intervenes.
No, I don’t submit my writing to Chat. I want to learn and that bypasses a large part of the learning curve for me. But I do engage with Chat and that I can see immediately will speed up my spiritual and literary education and emergence.
And so we begin….