A Spiritual Faux Pas
by Richard Harvey on 09/19/15
Until you are firmly
one in the Spirit there is a path, a semblance of duality and methodology. Sadhana itself is no more than the
"practice" of oneness, of being one with Consciousness. In such
sadhana the individual entity, the identification of a separate individual is
no more. You are "found", you
are merged with the deity Reality.
This Reality has no form or it has all forms. It is indescribable, just the same way as you cannot speak of yourself without being yourself, cannot observe yourself without being what you are seeing, you cannot arrive at your destination without experiencing and accepting everything you encounter along the way.
From the fact that Reality has no form or all forms it follows that all or any way is appropriate. In a sense all roads really do lead to Rome, just some more directly than others. When you have committed to a road your continuing commitment is all important. Thus you do not deviate any more than you may do anyway.
Along the way you forget yourself and your journey altogether. It is essential. You become immersed in the moment, in the experience. Only through this immerse-ment in the present experience can you be taken out of experience altogether. You must experience fully to go beyond, to transcend experiencing.
Thus there is no "right" way to the spiritual divine domain, to the end of illumination, to the state of enlightenment. One thing is certain: you will not attain any of these condition-less conditions. You will not be present at your ultimate liberation. You yourself in your temporal state are necessarily sacrificed. Your are the dispensable, the throwaway, the merely temporary arising form. Your way to freedom is blessed and inherent in your humanity, in your temporality. All things find their fulfilment in their demise; all things are tending toward death. You however are not a thing, you are consciousness. You are consciousness and you have forgotten it. This is the spiritual faux pas. Simply the need— the necessity—to remember who you really are.
As Consciousness, everything that arises, arises within you and, rather than be enticed by these many and varied arisings, remember you are that Consciousness in which the apparent events of the world take place.
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