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How to be a
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The origin of the word ‘pilgrimage’ Coming home, the initial phase of pilgrimage Going home, the end phase of pilgrimage Making a home real, i.e. self-realization The pilgrim’s actual goal Primary and secondary pilgrimage External, internal, inner and core pilgrimages |
Understanding pilgrimage Going on
pilgrimage, i.e. undertaking a journey (or process) from A to B, is basic to life.
Getting from A, an initial (unstable)
state, to B, an (stable) end state,
is fundamentally involuntary. A particular pilgrimage, i.e. getting from a
particular A to a particular B can be voluntary. For B read: home (relig.: sanctuary). A pilgrim is
someone not at B. The reason
for wanting to understand the principles of pilgrimage is no different from wanting
to understand the principles of golf or poker, of cooking, gardening or
driving your car, or making love. If you want to perform a particular
function to perfection it helps if you understand clearly what it is you are
trying to do. Clear understanding lets you avoid mishaps and anticipate and
develop the required techniques (i.e. means-as-skills) and strategies for
completing your personal application of that function perfectly (i.e. @ 100%,
hence @1). Perfect accomplishment (read: perfection) rewards with rapturous
joy. Perfect accomplishment also gives whole (hence absolute) meaning to that
function. Basically, every function, since it creates a particular outcome, is
a pilgrimage.
And every sub-function is a sub-pilgrimage (ad infinitum). The function
of pilgrimage is either to upgrade or restore the pilgrim to full
functionality (read: perfection). A religious pilgrimage is intended to
upgrade or restore the pilgrim (to wit: the sinner, i.e. the imperfect,
elsewhere called unrighteous) to full religious functionality (hence to
perfection or righteousness). However, there is a bit of a snag, for: “The right way is the un-trodden. It becomes the wrong way When you’ve stepped on it.” Victor Langheld A to B The Split Man The Nirvana Man Incomplete
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