Your spiritual development

[wil]

Originally Posted by Ciel

Would anyone here willingly give the keys of their car [ka] to a child?
Isn't it better to take responsibility for one's own actions as mature people with wide open eyes. Maturity is not without wonder. It has a lifetimes experience behind it, with incredible guidance if we open our eyes to see.

- c -

I wouldn't even give my keys to my children, the last thing I wanted to do was have to look for them. But I did talk to my children about how things worked;
-why they needed to be in the kids seat,
-how old and tall they had to be before they could be in the front seat,
-why I watch cars that are entering the road, or changing lanes
-how to use all three mirrors and be lookng ahead,
-why you let your foot off the gas rather than just hit the breaks
-how it is easier and safer to let someone in when they try to move in front of me
-why traffic lights and speed limits are there....and on and on and on.

So that when they do go to driving school or drive or when they ride with others they have some working knowledge.

Just as when they step out on their own spiritually, they learn to look ahead, and examine the terrain...and one day I'll be letting them go, and when they come back tell me about thier trip...

[Ciel]

Originally Posted by InLove

Hi Ciel--

No, I don't think anyone would willingly give their car keys to a child, except to look at them. A baby may examine them, but thankfully, the child doesn't drive.

InPeace,
InLove

Hi InLove,

Metaphorically reassuring.

- c -

[Ciel]

Originally Posted by wil

I wouldn't even give my keys to my children, the last thing I wanted to do was have to look for them. But I did talk to my children about how things worked;
-why they needed to be in the kids seat,
-how old and tall they had to be before they could be in the front seat,
-why I watch cars that are entering the road, or changing lanes
-how to use all three mirrors and be lookng ahead,
-why you let your foot off the gas rather than just hit the breaks
-how it is easier and safer to let someone in when they try to move in front of me
-why traffic lights and speed limits are there....and on and on and on.

So that when they do go to driving school or drive or when they ride with others they have some working knowledge.

Just as when they step out on their own spiritually, they learn to look ahead, and examine the terrain...and one day I'll be letting them go, and when they come back tell me about thier trip...

Wil, I don't see any metaphores here, just plain common sense. And someone who talks to their kids as intelligent human beings, as they are.
I also see wonderful spiritual guidance.........

- c -