Literary Discussions

Someone once asked me if there is a certain style of praying which is more effective. 

There are many styles of praying and also many styles of "not- 
praying." 

For some, their way of life is their prayer. 

Western prayer, has many types: praise, supplication, 
intercession, etc.

In the East  there are many kinds of mantra repetition 
with many different purposes and understandings of what the mantra is. 

Krishnamurthi said, examine your thoughts, look between 
the thoughts, the spaces between, the silence, the void, that God is 
in that silence and void. 

Most of western Abrahamic religion is quid-pro-quo.... 
something in exchange for something else.... something is expected 
in return. 

This is the nature of the West.

The bee, the cow, and the viper snake, all thirst, and 
come to drink the same water from the same pond and
from that same water, the bee makes honey, the cow makes 
milk, and the viper makes poisonous venom.

There is an old saying... no atheists in foxholes (where soldiers 
take shelter during battle)... yet my father was in world war II, and 
read this in a pamphlet,... (finding God in a foxhole), yet the first 
night he spent in a foxhole, he waited, and found nothing, felt 
nothing. 

Thoughts and ideas are like radio/TV waves and we are 
like radios/televisions. Thoughts come from outside of us, from 
somewhere else and we receive them (at least some of us do) if we are 
receptive and give them voice and expression 

Back to "style of praying", Krishnamurthi said, "Truth is 
a Pathless Land".... you must blaze your own path, someone else's 
path is not your own, most religions have only followers (i.e. those 
who follow someone else's path.) 

I have forged my own path in this pathless land of truth, 
and I have become Sitaram, but should you follow my path, you will 
only be a follower. You must become your own guru and avatar, your 
own Sitaram.