I too realised that it is the difficult and devastating events that bring growth and understanding of the underlying principles that govern the life and times of a mendicant. In your post, you too admit as much. So if growth and understanding is the goal, w...
Greetings Das,We should embrace our lapses of focus. However, we should not embrace our lapses of focus to the point of becoming one with them and loosing our focus of Divine reality. We can not camp in the valley and climb to the mountain top at the same time. Identifyin...
Thank you Sir, In my life, the more the lapses which brought growth and understanding I experienced, the more remote became the danger of my losing focus of the Divine Reality.
Hello SpiritWalker, I really enjoyed this post. (And the others I read as well) I understand what you mean about how losing focus allows one to find one's way into diffculties. I am very spiritually capable, even when in a valley, once I become...
Greetings Sacred Woman,We are all just like you, having difficulty focusing is something that we all experience. What happens with many is we try to start out meditating for long periods of time and that is to much for us, and because of that we are not successful. Just a...
My Beloved SiStar Alyson,Any person who feels that they are above another, is having an experience with his or her lower human nature. They are having an experience with their personally created deceptive ego. The ego is just what it is defined as being, an exaggerated se...
Thank you, Baba Kundi. Your message on meditation was very helpful. As was your reminder that "spiritual leaders" or "teachers" can sometimes be as much or more deluded as we are. My name here, Illusionsaregran...