How to Distinguish Truth from Fiction

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

2022. 01. 23

🔹Question : Thank you for giving me this rare opportunity to ask a question in person, Sunim. I’m an Australian citizen who were born and completed most of the education in Korea.At the age around 30, I migrated over here in Sydney about 15 years ago. I have been through many of my personal challenges in terms of jobs, relationships and so forth, in this new territory. While going through this process, I got interested in raising my consciousness to perceive the things around myself more clearly. So, I can face the various challenges in my life with more positive attitudes and minimize the sufferings in the process. And by readingvarious books, I’ve been seeking advice from so called enlightened people for a while. And currently, I am focusing on a way to liberate myself from my ego. Recently, I came across a scholar who passed away a while ago. His name is David Hawkins. While reading one of books, he exemplified Mother Teresa as a person who demonstrated the unconditional love that have healed many people both in a physical and mental way. Then, I had to close the book right away after reading this part. The reason is that ever since I watched the documentarycalled “Hell’s Angel” which might have revealed hidden truths of her life and so called her legacy. I was quite shocked when I watched the documentary realizing that the fact that even the very common belief image about the people that we think we know well could be completely deceiving. I understand thatthere can’t be a perfect human but as a person who seeks the truth and right away to live life, even so called enlightened people, often obviously reproduce, common understanding of falsified images of the public figures. Then, what would be the good approach to weed out false or truth and seeks the rightinformation among the people who claim to be enlightened?

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