This short post is an excerpt from a recent skype conversation.
Do not blame anyone else or any outside situation for your perceived lack of progress on your spiritual path. There is no assignment of fault, other than your wish to find the right words that will someday set you free.
Try not to feel so bad, though. There is certainly no lack of trying on your part. But what has your conformity and adherence to the words of others done for you? If you are in a frustrated state of mind, how did you arrive there? Is it due to your hope for liberation through conformity?
Everything coming into your life, whether helpful or harmful, teaches. And this teaching is unique and personal to where you stand at any given moment. It can never happen again, to anyone else, at any time, in the way it is happening to you now.
Your teaching is constantly with you, but why can’t you see it?
What is with you when your mother dies, when your spouse leaves you for another, when your child has to undergo surgery, or when lose your job? The only thing consistently present is you, and how you come up against the world around you. That is the greatest teacher of all, and the only spiritual teaching you’ll ever need.
Your own salvation will not come through acceptance of hand-me-downs and conformity. It is far more simple than any of that…
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Everything in life, indeed, teaches. Things come and go, only I present.
Yes, this is the heart of every spiritual practice.
A wise post to share. Thank you.
Thank you, Rizal.
It is unadulterated, if we can put it that way. It is a place where you do not have to carry the words of others.
You may well carry those words as memories, or as a tightly held prescription for relief, but that may block out the purity of the thing…
It is probably best to sit with what you have, and leave the luggage at home.
> … The only thing consistently present is you …
I am the cause of what (will) happens/ed to me.
Thank you, Takuin, for the pointer.
Thank you, Tokumei.
Yes, you could put it that way…also, if we are speaking of self-activity or the constructs of the self we might also say, You are the result of the conclusions you’ve built from the apparent cause.
It is a wonderful thing to explore…
you must pray to god everyday for forgiveness from your sins and ask whole heartedly to be given another chance. Thats the only way to get closer to god
Thank you, Adam.
If I move an inch to bring me closer to god, I’ve gone too far…
Hey Takuin,
for salvation, is it that we discard the false and be content with the true. Isn’t it that easy because from where I see the only sin is maintaining the false (some call this false self) although there is no such thing. The ideas, concepts and beliefs, are meaningless (even this one) but allowing truth to shine through is letting go in itself.
I mean who is the controller in the first place? Who is the me, it cannot be pointed to or proven and reality in waking state cannot be proven either aside from the fact of the deep inside feeling of I am without a doubt, but even this has no reflection as to the reality that the human mechanic may “see” or “hear”
still a rambling fool I am Takuin, cut off my head!
Thanks, liberatedself.
Salvation is only for those convinced by others they need to be saved, and the sinner, in a similar sense, is someone convinced by others of their incompleteness. It is the same thing…
Luckily, no one has ever convinced me of any of this, and I am able to destroy myself in my own way.
theres no point in trying to progress down the spiritual path if you cannot ask for forgiveness for your sins. Truth is no more real then savation or false self. Its all a load of bs.. i cant see the point in filling yourself with more bs, get with god now!
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