THEY THINK THEY UNDERSTAND

29. July 2010 by admin.

People around you will affect the mental environment for you. Because of this, you must become selective about who to be with and what to say. Do not see this as a constraint on your freedom, for this is protecting an emerging awareness that needs protection in a world where it is not valued or honored. Life will teach you this over and over again in difficult situations where you will find yourself recoiling from other people and from situations where you don’t belong or where you have committed an indiscretion.

Remember, you are learning spiritual wisdom as well as spiritual knowledge. Wisdom has to do with how you carry knowledge in life — how you express knowledge, where you share it and how you hold it in regard to yourself and other people.

People are eager to share because they want self-validation. They want somebody else to tell them that they are wonderful and that they are doing the right thing. Avoid this and avoid idle conversation. Avoid talking about spiritual ideas and great things with people who cannot receive them and avoid someone else’s spiritual journey.

Do not dabble in different religions because you will only be a dabbler. You can only know a religion if you immerse yourself within it. And if you immerse yourself in it, how can you be studying everything else?

There are many people who take a very eclectic approach, who try to gather a little of this and a little of that. They have postcards from all over the spiritual universe, but they have never been anywhere. They think they understand what Christianity or Buddhism or Islam or any other religion means, but they have never immersed themselves in any of them. They have never lived them fully. They have lots of big ideas and no Wisdom. Avoid this. Avoid trying to tie in what you are doing with what someone else has done in the past or in the present.

Do not make your way spiritual by saying that it is in keeping with Christianity or Buddhism or any other religion, for you don’t really know. You have not yet gone far enough.

Power is concentration. If your power, your concentration, is spread out over many things, you will not have enough power for anything. Become focused on a few people, a few things and a few ideas. Don’t try to collect all the spiritual information. Don’t try to gather anything that is unnecessary. Let spiritual enlightenment move you to choose the things that you need rather than filling yourself with ideas, with books, with people, with experiences, with places to go and with things to do. In other words, don’t clutter yourself with things that just have to be given up.

Live simple. Let your life be unexplainable. Let your life be inexplicable, for it will be inexplicable to those who cannot share it with you. You are being governed and guided by a greater power within you now, a greater power that you are coming to know through experience, a greater power that you are choosing by making wise decisions. Let there be big gaps in your understanding. Then you will be honest with yourself and honest with others, and you will be a refreshing presence in the world. Do not join with others in their odes to themselves, in singing their songs of self-assurance and self-validation. Remain silent and move on.

Prepare, then, with the right curriculum, the right attitude, the right instructor, the right companions and the right evaluative skills. The correct attitude is based upon your feeling your deeper need, which is necessary even at the outset. You need to discern, and your discerning will take you beyond the conventions of human education, which are limited and specific.

You need to become conscious of something greater in life, and this requires a different kind of preparation. This consciousness lives within you. It is the very essence of your spirituality. It represents the greater part of you that is bonded intrinsically with all life. You do not seek this. It is within you already, but only will you be able to gain access to it in the present moment, never in the future.

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