How can someone KEEP GOING ?

[Mr Interesting]

People!

That's my answer... people. People are just really interesting and you follow, in yourself and outside, where the smiles happen.

My stuff, as in the great big pile of whatever is kind of my bank account of excuses. Each day there'll be things I might want to know about my pile of stuff and how the big mess might just become a little bit tidier so I go out there in the world and bump into all these old friends I didn't know I had... so it all becomes quite miraculous and entirely entertaining.

So you kinda end up glancing off walls of self importance. sliding and slipping around imposing defences of silliness, and finding all these lovely oasis of relevance and fun.

Roof over your head and food on the table? Becomes like breathing... just happens and you don't even think about it. Car goes... car doesn't, oh, I wonder what fantastic people I might meet as I figure out how to make gas powered thing go again.

[Floatsy]

Originally Posted by Jyotir

Hi ZonSun,


This is one of the key issues in a conscious spiritual practice.

How does one supplant or displace a vital personality ambition and various long habituated ego fueled desires with a genuinely spiritual aspiration that has enduring force behind it - not motivated by personal greed or gain, desire, pleasure - but for God's sake, for the fulfillment of God's Will in and through one's life?

Quite often, when the vital (ego) desire is challenged it can rebel vehemently, reactively, and assert even more forcefully than 'normal' - or - also common, when the usual motives for personal gain, etc., are questioned/challenged, transcended somewhat, the vital doesn't rebel in reactive opposition, but simply withdraws (the passive form of ego rebellion), and this is when spiritual seekers get depressed, e.g., no motive life-force, because not engaged in the 'normal' habituated ego modality.

It is therefore an important part of an active spiritual life to re-orient energy towards dynamism, but spiritually justified, spiritually directed, spiritually focused, spiritually dynamised, spiritually purified - all aspects of life have to be consecrated and converted to the new orientation so that the life energy is not quiescent or withdrawn, not actively opposed - but active in and for the 'right' purpose.

This takes time and numerous persistent attempts for years and even decades to effect this change. Patience and perseverance - not giving in to depression and despair, but re-focusing orientation of life-energy. Regularity of work and/or exercise & cheerful attitude helps with this, especially with the conscious attitude that it is being done by God, for God, with and through God's Grace.


~ J

Almost every time I read Jyotir:



Thank you.