Day 356, Thursday, December 26, 2024
Reflections
Inspiration
What is spirituality? It is the most elevated part of your psychic life. In this state of mind, you contemplate things that are beyond your grasp: birth, death, and the unknown. You remain open to everything and anything.
In your daily life, you navigate all that is known, logical, acceptable, and predictable. You do not mind exposing yourself to them. Accepting things that are beyond your control and unknown, however – and yet not running away from them – makes you spiritual.
In spirituality you seriously delve into things that are beyond your grasp. You exert all your effort to understand them. Your goal is nothing but to comprehend what Hindus call samsara. Then at a certain point you let it all go. You shed your baggage. By becoming detached, you contemplate how to make sense of contradictions.
Such contemplation requires authenticity and purity of heart. No self-judging, no self-criticism, no interpretation of thoughts. This state leads to stillness in meditation and eventually, at a more mature stage, to the sweetness that rises. This experience transforms you. You no longer want to transform what is around you. You begin to savor your own life more fully. You continue to make choices and pursue your goals. But you no longer cling to victories or defeats. They become merely experiences that have enriched your life.
Journal Prompt
Journal about what “spirituality” means to you. How does what you believe in enhance your day-to-day life and help you answer the primordial questions?
Lorraine
Spirituality – it’s confusion, power, grace, presence, mystery, controversy – are all part of me and my thoughts. My hope is for something more glorious beyond this earthly experience. But what? Where?and for how long? Time will tell… Namaste!
Jenn Diamond
Good afternoon, Madhu! Thank you for this inspiration! These words convey what I’m (hopefully) cultivating; “But you no longer cling to victories or defeats. They become merely experiences that have enriched your life.” Namaste
Madhu B. Wangu
Namaste Lorraine and Jenn!
Believe me, with your daily practice of the five disciplines you are following a spiritual way that is both your path and your destination.