Tuesday, September 01, 2009

What Spiritual Practice Is Not

-from Charlotte Joko Beck

I perceive Spirituality as not a goal but a journey,
It is a practice,it is living,it is lifestyle , below words are from Joko Beck what practice is not! - Venkat

Practice is not about intellecutally knowing the physical nature of reality, what the universe consists of, or how ot works.

Practicie is not about achieving some blissful state. It's not about having vision.
Pracitice is not about having or cultivating special powers.

Practice is not about having nice feelings, happy feelings.
It's not about feeling good as opposed to feeling bad.

Practice is not about some bodily state in which we are never ill, never hurt, one in which we have no bothersome ailments.

Practice is not about achieving an omniscient state in which a person knows all about everything, a state in which a person is an authority on any and all worldly problems.

Practice is not about highlighting all sorts of "good" qualities and getting rid of the so-called "bad" ones.

If our boat full of hope, illusions, and ambition (to get somewhere, to be spiritual, to be perfect, to be enlightened) is capsized, what is the empty boat?
Who are we?
What, in terms of our lives, can we realize? and what is practice?

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Life is like a bridge, don't make your house on it


One of the maxims I liked:
"Life is like a bridge, don't make your house on it"

Do we know our origin, where did we come from?
I am not convinced with answer saying it is "a pure biological phenomenon"

Where do we go after life?
We die?, what does it mean, what is happening when my biological system stops responding?
Will I still be able sense myself?

From what we see in the world; lives coming and going on the planet,
this maxim makes sense:
"Life is like a bridge, don't make your house on it"

Why do we get attached to things/people here?
None of the relationships, bonds and happiness are permanent, so as this life.

Because life is that way, why do we worry about it?
Let's not get attached, not get carried away with thoughts,
This whole process of life is a journey from one location to another.

Therfore, Life is like a brdige, let us not make our home on it.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Effort!

Make effort to know!
Analysis, reasoning, serious thinking, and everything else keeps your ego satisfied some or otherway.
Stop thinking-pause mind; trught reveals by itself in absolute silence.

Let me stop writing more and start meditating.