When the journey resembles the edge of a razor, it is wise to adhere to guidance. If you’re engaging with this content, it’s likely you possess ample positivity in your existence (commonly referred to as karmic merit) to relax spiritually. For life! There’s no need to flee to the Himalayas and dwell in seclusion, yearning to unveil your latent potential.
You will experience a fairly comfortable existence. You’re intelligent, compassionate, and personable. (You likely wouldn’t even have an interest in reading this if it were otherwise). Therefore, spirituality is probably just an enhancement for your mental well-being. It’s the remedy that calms your spirit when nothing else suffices.
A catalyst indicating there is more within a modernity that asserts ‘this is all there is.’
And this is simply insufficient. The world’s suffering must awaken you. You need to inspire your essence before, during, and after each spiritual practice session with a distinct kind of drive. To flourish for others. To become such a formidable source of positivity that you can guide their path away from the tides of despair.
Virtue comes at a price. Positive karma is viewed as a chain forged of gold. By compelling you to concentrate on your karmic outcomes, it still binds you to yourself, which is the source of all enslavement to illusion. It is golden because you have genuinely earned it — whether in this life or a previous one — to relish such rewards.
However, awakening isn’t meant for your minuscule illusory self. Nor is it about finding contentment in a world filled with limitations. Its purpose is boundlessness: to transcend all notions, into a state of perfect knowledge, pure love, and immense power.
So why engage in meditation? You might find motivation for a healthier mindset. Perhaps you’ll even attain one of the stages of awakening, such as stream entry to nirvana. But you probably lack the intense yearning to reach ultimate reality, in order to carry out its mission (which is to bless and uplift all that exists, for all eternity, and beyond the confines of time and space).
Lately, an instruction from one of my Tibetan mentors jolted me awake to this harsh truth. I’m involved in spiritual practice for purposes that won’t genuinely bring me to the destination of that journey! From now on, I’ll commit to nurturing the most exalted state of awakening I am capable of.
A heart that awakens like mist, always embracing all that is, in the most beneficial manner possible. Because this life isn’t for me to live for my own sake (that would merely amplify all the illusions that have caused me misery for so long).
Life is shared, in every conceivable manner. We merely forget this when we succumb to our illusions. So if you wish to enrich your life with spirituality, at the very least, have a reason aligned with how things truly are!