LIFE IN THE RAW “Everything is just a thought. Life is an illusion. Suffering is a dream. There is no self, no person anywhere to be found. There is only Oneness...” Easy spiritual clichés to memorise and regurgitate, and argue over. Harder to remember when your partner has just left you and it all FEELS so personal, or your precious kids have just been given a few days to live and your heart has shattered into a million pieces, or you are in extreme physical agony with little hope of recovery. What then? Is spirituality merely a word game for you, a convenient, detached philosophy, a way to avoid, transcend, numb or deny your pain, and the pain of loved ones? Is spirituality about pretending that everythings okay, when deep down you are hurting? Or is spirituality a moment-by-moment exploration for you? A letting-go of the assumed and the known, including everything assumed and known about spirituality? Friends, lets come out of spiritual clichés, lets drop the easy answers and the pretence, and meet life, raw, first-hand, unprotected. Suffering is not a mistake, an enemy, a punishment, or a sign that you are not enlightened enough - it is a call for ruthless exploration. We are all beginners here. - Jeff Foster
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:10:32 +0000
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