Every thought a prayer,
every action a devotion,
every stillness a communion.
Every thought a prayer,
every action a devotion,
every stillness a communion.
The spiritual path is pretty simple really. It hinges on the fact that resting as awareness invariably feels better than being caught up in the mind. So once you discover the knack of it you’ll tend to naturally gravitate to it more and more until at some point you just never leave it, you live…
Nothing lasts for ever, but many things persist for a long time. So if your answer to unwanted experiences is to wait them out, then you could be enduring something for a long time, and that holding-out itself becomes a source of suffering. You must find the acceptance of each moment, every moment in itself.
If you have to live (with something), if it’s inevitable and inescapable, you’d best learn to love it. I’m talking about life itself, all of it. You gotta go all the way.
I’m musing on the idea that in principle, religion offers the appropriate instruction, practice, and experience for every level of spiritual development. The thought is that even at the most basic level of understanding and spiritual development, it offers an appropriate message to meet the person where they are. And at the highest levels of…
Allow for the possibility that you might still struggle after awakening. That you might have to process difficult emotions and feelings and adapt to a new kind of lived experience.