What is the Truth?
The Research Into the Truth
Many years later, there was another. He was intrigued by the story of the great teacher that founded three different schools of the truth. He looked at the square, the circle and the triangle. Confused, he even looked at the other shapes that had 'been revealed' over the years.
He wondered how there could possible be so many views of the truth, and all be so different. It just didn't make sense. Everything he had read about the One Great Teacher made sense, except for this part.
As he researched, he was declared outcast. Since he approached each group with the possibility that they had truth, he was initially accepted. But when they learned he believed that they didn't have the whole truth, they withdrew from helping him. Well, almost all of them. He still had some in each group that helped him.
This made it tougher. The One Great Teacher was very, very commendable. Yet His followers were not. Many of them were self-righteous, either in themselves or in those that agreed with them. There was quite the lack of acceptance of those that didn't agree with them, despite their Master's teachings. The hardness of their hearts made him question whether or not the One Great Teacher knew what He claimed.
Yet, in his heart He knew he was on the right path, and he persisted. After much lonely and heart-wrenching research and review, he declared an end to his research. He had started out respecting the Great One, and had gone through much spiritual mud slinging (at the receiving end). He almost lost his energy, until he had a startling revelation. In his humanity, it was amusing to him that he did not figure this out by his own logic, but by an accident when he dropped his research papers.
To help you review what has gone on so far, I repeat all the shapes here. Look at them. Study them. Decipher the research and tell yourself what this teacher found. Then click here to continue.
