It's been a while since I have posted something on this site so I thought I would incite some debate using the teachings of wise men from other regions.
Wisdom can come from many avenues, some the most unlikely, I have found inspiration in books at the dentist, pop songs, heavy metal, even an episode of South Park, actually, South Park is amazingly good at inspiring common sense.
Pabloji, a simple google of your quote confirms that the inspiration comes from that famous work ' Barbie girl', but that is ok, because even in this song there are jewels of information !
"Imagination, life is your creation" is the key to spiritual enlightenment.
Although your post is tongue in cheek, you have actually hit upon a real gem here, We are all Creators, we all have the capacity to create, and also destroy. So what fuels our destructive or creative facets, well, I guess it is our imagination, our thoughts, our fantasies, our goals, our aspirations. From all these, We then go out into the world and create, or destroy. So the key here, the teaching from this most wonderful line from this most wonderful song is clear. We make our own fate, We create our own destiny, it is in our hands as to whether we are creators or destroyers.
I want to know what your thoughts are on how this fundamental statement ties in with the basis of Sikhism...ie, this statement would suggest the author feels that your life is bound by ones own actions.
absolutely, there are only two ways to do anything, the way that is true, or the way of pleasure and convenience, there is nothing to say that the true way cannot also be pleasurable or convenient, but on the whole, as people we tend to follow the latter. The former is the way of Hukam, which I find is constantly mistaken for some sort of fate concept. Hukam is very simple, it is the path of the eternal truth, not the convenient truth, or the truth at that time, but the truth, the ultimate truth.
This may have been covered before as its essentially a "destiny" point - if so I apologise. I would say that my own stance is such that there is not such thing as as a pre determined destiny and that life is indeed our own creation.
I find your stance completely in line with my own, so what makes me a Sikh, and you not? I think it is because your perception of Sikhism is of a religion mired in tradition and ritual. I expect outsiders to have this perception, but it is sad that a lot of ex-Sikhs who made the decision to 'leave it all behind', had no real idea about Sikhism at all. Your rejecting something you have no knowledge about! It is not about praying, mumbling, carrying out pointless tasks, it is all about an attitude, a way of thinking, and a desire to be at one with the world.
