The Search
Jul 18, 2022 23:32:54 GMT -7
Post by Darth Draconis on Jul 18, 2022 23:32:54 GMT -7
By Ternezia
Dark Council Rep.
1st Dynasty
Rank Unknown
(?/?/??)
Upon reaching a decision for a spiritual training, it seems most people actually don’t realize what it is exactly they seek and want. A spiritual search by no means points out that one should not look for other paths or study them before finally deciding, but the level of maturity with which a spiritual training is approached does not mean that you should have pledged allegiance to a dozen of paths, later abandoning them, only to finally come to conclusion that *this* exactly is for you, which is a conclusion not known to last long. The initial approach towards a spiritual path is something quite sacred; it is an experience that comes from much deeper parts of one’s self. A spiritual training is not “trying.” The amount of responsibility here is greater even than that to your children (if any), because kids go on their own, regardless, and a spiritual path is not something that is standing outside you allowing you to peer in and out without any consequences, like opening a door to glance in the room, then closing it, then open a little again, and again close. The seeker and the Path: you’re both dependent on each other and interact with each other, with the possibility to change or modify both.
I observe most people and their approach towards the spiritual path, especially the kind of “Yes, I’ve found it,” after two months, “Hmm, no, now I heard the true voice of my heart which said this is not for me,” after two months more “I now know. I am ‘not’ ‘this’ or ‘that,’” etc, etc.
The question, Who am I?—it is not something which we are able to answer with 100% accuracy. Simply because what we are, is made of thousand layers, thousands of lives, thousands of dimensions. And in the same time, the answer is both simple and complicated. It is constant and changing as our universe is both constant and changing in the same time. It takes time to reach this understanding, but it’s not impossible. But what to say to those people who seek but do not find because of their inability even to just calm down, sit, and delve deeper into their own inner universe and allow it to direct their choice?
And even so, do we make the Choice with our senses, thoughts, mind, or maybe feelings? What is that which, embedded deep inside us, will recognize the right moment and will point out to the right choice? To point out to that which we are?
But sometimes the more we search, the less we’re finding. We’re used to discovering what is right for us by making comparisons. The search itself may prevent us from finding the truth, because we’re used to searching with our logic and reason, and it takes an immense effort just to stop and hear the voice of our heart. To manage to start swimming in this river it doesn’t demand us to know how to swim. We already know it.
We already are.
Some say that not always are the seeker and the Path one; it is both true and false. Before consciously making the Choice, one has a Calling deep inside him. Something, which will bring him back to the source, which is both that which he seeks and himself. There *must* be something from the beginning, no matter whether hidden or conscious; we have to have that calling of our heart. And especially when it comes to certain spiritual Paths, either one recognizes the call, or he doesn’t. There’s no middle way. In the future you’ll be advancing further, but to become — you will have to already be. That which is, is now.
You recognize the Call.
Or you don’t.
Either you are, or you aren’t.
Dark Council Rep.
1st Dynasty
Rank Unknown
(?/?/??)
Upon reaching a decision for a spiritual training, it seems most people actually don’t realize what it is exactly they seek and want. A spiritual search by no means points out that one should not look for other paths or study them before finally deciding, but the level of maturity with which a spiritual training is approached does not mean that you should have pledged allegiance to a dozen of paths, later abandoning them, only to finally come to conclusion that *this* exactly is for you, which is a conclusion not known to last long. The initial approach towards a spiritual path is something quite sacred; it is an experience that comes from much deeper parts of one’s self. A spiritual training is not “trying.” The amount of responsibility here is greater even than that to your children (if any), because kids go on their own, regardless, and a spiritual path is not something that is standing outside you allowing you to peer in and out without any consequences, like opening a door to glance in the room, then closing it, then open a little again, and again close. The seeker and the Path: you’re both dependent on each other and interact with each other, with the possibility to change or modify both.
I observe most people and their approach towards the spiritual path, especially the kind of “Yes, I’ve found it,” after two months, “Hmm, no, now I heard the true voice of my heart which said this is not for me,” after two months more “I now know. I am ‘not’ ‘this’ or ‘that,’” etc, etc.
The question, Who am I?—it is not something which we are able to answer with 100% accuracy. Simply because what we are, is made of thousand layers, thousands of lives, thousands of dimensions. And in the same time, the answer is both simple and complicated. It is constant and changing as our universe is both constant and changing in the same time. It takes time to reach this understanding, but it’s not impossible. But what to say to those people who seek but do not find because of their inability even to just calm down, sit, and delve deeper into their own inner universe and allow it to direct their choice?
And even so, do we make the Choice with our senses, thoughts, mind, or maybe feelings? What is that which, embedded deep inside us, will recognize the right moment and will point out to the right choice? To point out to that which we are?
But sometimes the more we search, the less we’re finding. We’re used to discovering what is right for us by making comparisons. The search itself may prevent us from finding the truth, because we’re used to searching with our logic and reason, and it takes an immense effort just to stop and hear the voice of our heart. To manage to start swimming in this river it doesn’t demand us to know how to swim. We already know it.
We already are.
Some say that not always are the seeker and the Path one; it is both true and false. Before consciously making the Choice, one has a Calling deep inside him. Something, which will bring him back to the source, which is both that which he seeks and himself. There *must* be something from the beginning, no matter whether hidden or conscious; we have to have that calling of our heart. And especially when it comes to certain spiritual Paths, either one recognizes the call, or he doesn’t. There’s no middle way. In the future you’ll be advancing further, but to become — you will have to already be. That which is, is now.
You recognize the Call.
Or you don’t.
Either you are, or you aren’t.