Walking 2

What is the difference between a walk and a pilgrimage? 

Is it what we reach or what we are?

A traditional pilgrimage is to a holy place of some sort. These places are special. You do not find them on your ordinary itinerary. 

Why are these places special? They might be a certain quality there, a certain atmosphere.

If we see external reality as a projection, the visit to a holy place is a projection of the holy in the person. It is an important projection of something quite rare. The holiness is maybe not prominent in all of us.

If we know it is a projection, we can project it on anything. Also on the trivial things in our ordinary life.

When it comes to material things it is obvious we have to get then from the material reality. So we might assume we have to get spiritual things from the outside as well. 

And the spiritual environment we live in is very important. It is invading us so we have to deal with it. On the holy place we might feel we are among friends.

Normally we can not choose projections just after will. The persons we meet "are" attractive or frightening. That means that they are activating different projections, positive or negative. It is a fact that these projections take place. For us as individuals it is annoying that this happens out of our own control. We might fall in love with the wrong person and start to hate our benefactor.

While waking our mind processes the knowledge and experiences it has. It is partly an automatic process and partly aware. If we supervise the processes in mind we can see which are based on knowledge, which are based on good will and which are based on bad will.

These processes have an immediate effect and along term effect.

The immediate effect is our present experience. Are we fine or sad?

The long term effect is a result of learning. While our thoughts run around as it seems on their own, we are learning the things they are occupied with. If we think about anger or negative actions, we are learning this negativity. It will return later in a stronger form. We will that feel these reactions are caused by external factors, bur in reality they are the content in our own mind surfacing and being projected.