I derive strength from concentrating on a symbol. Is this an illusion?

May I respectfully point out: Don't belong to anything.
See the reason of this.

First we invent the symbols, see how our mind works, the image of a church, or a temple, or the letters in a mosque, and after creating those, we worship those, and in worshiping that which we have created out of our thought we derive strength... ! See what it is happening. Now, the symbol is not the actual. The actual may never exists, but the symbol satisfies us. And the symbol gives us vitality, energy by looking, thinking, observing, being with it. Surely, that which has been created by tought must be illusion. You create me, I hope you won't, into a guru. I refuse to be a guru, it's too absurd, because I see how the followers destroy the guru, and the guru destroys the followers, do you understand this? I see that, to me the whole thing it's an abomination. You create an image about me, about the speaker, and the whole business begins. So, if I may point out, thought is the mystic maker in this. All the things in the church, in the temple, and in the mosque are not true, are not actual, they have been invented by the priests, by thought, by us out of our fear, out of our anxiety, uncertainty of the future... you follow... all that. We have created the symbol, and we are caught in that.
So first, to realize that thought will always create the things which give us satisfaction, psychologically, pleasure, give comfort. Therefore reassuring image is great comfort. It may totally be an illusion, and it is, but it gives me comfort. Therefore, I would never look beyond the illusion, right?



Thank you K

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