Spiritual Let's make a pause to talk about the concept of spirituality.
As I write this book,
I imagine that it will be labeled as some self-help book or within the spiritual category.
So I think I owe you an explanation so as to be able to share what I refer to when I speak about spirituality.
When I speak about a book on spirituality or a spiritual path.
My concept of spirituality with respect to this earthly experience is totally related to matter.
Spirituality cannot be separated from it because it is the substance which molds it,
At least at different levels.
In spirituality,
It is not a question of being dressed in white,
Chanting mantras or visualizing things,
Although all this is part of it and it is valid.
Spirituality for me implies in the most abrogated sense of its definition the sheer existence here and now on earth.
And it involves the people around us,
The money we handle,
What we build with our hands,
The emotional states we are in and even our own physical emotional health.
Therefore,
Finding yourself on a spiritual road is no more and no less than experiencing the act of living.
And there is no such thing as something more or less spiritual,
Nor people more or less spiritual than others.
But degrees of consciousness related to the understanding of why we do what we do.
All these concepts which seem to differentiate one being from another or one reality from another,
It's just projected perceptions according to the level of consciousness of the being projecting them.
When do you start to feel cold?
When do I start to feel cold?
When is a coffee cold for you?
When is it cold for me?
When is somebody good for you?
And when is somebody good for me?
Spirituality is a temperature and the awareness I have that spirituality exists in multiple manifestations will be determined by the level of consciousness.
This generates a scenario with some specific circumstances which today are affecting my being who is looking for its balance somewhere in that temperature.
So,
Which benefits does spirituality bring us?
We may suppose that one of the most significant benefits is the fact that we can enhance our level of consciousness.
A higher degree of consciousness implies acknowledging a pattern in all its manifestations.
Regarding health and sickness as manifestations of the same thing.
But when we see them,
We can choose where our life is more harmonious or peaceful.
The highest degree of consciousness has nothing to do with a magic or unique technique.
It also depends on each individual,
But in short,
It will be the capacity to enhance the vision we have of the whole.
It will be like choosing an outfit with being color blind and suddenly being able to see a whole prism of colors.
Does reality change?
Does matter change?
Or is it only the way we regard things?
The way we regard things will give shape to the reality we want to live.
What kind of reality do we want to live?
So,
Then,
What is in fact what we call spirituality?
Spirituality is everything from the moment I recognize myself as the sole owner of a spirit.
If I have a body,
I have a soul.
And if I have a soul,
I have a spirit.
Therefore,
I will ask you once again,
Which benefits do we find in this so-called spirituality?
And the answer could be to get to know ourselves.
Finally,
In this post we have made to address the complex subject of spirituality,
I would like to go deeper in this concept.
It would be my egoic way to do justice to those concepts I consider to be inaccurate regarding modern spirituality.
Yet,
Knowing that said concepts don't exist,
And as a human being,
I still reproduce.
Everything you have read up to now,
And everything that contradicts what I may say,
Together with everything we find on the way,
Will eventually respond to programs.
But I think that there is a body-applied version of spirituality which results in a cruel program for the human being.
We have constantly been selling ourselves the search for harmony and peace.
The promise of being able to live without any problems.
Any kind of problem that you can think of.
Movies have shown us perfect families and shown those defeating a worldwide system.
This has settled the bar so high in our existence that the same spirituality has led us to un-unleash self-demand.
We rush through life seeking to become good people.
We seek to fill ourselves with good deeds through the never-ending help we give our peers who may never ask for our help.
We keep on repeating in a systematic way that everything is perfect.
That if I am sick,
This is the best thing that can be happening.
That if that person suffers,
This is the best thing that can ever happen to him.
And when we are robbed,
We say that we must be paying back some past debts.
You now must be thinking that I have become mad and that I am contradicting what I have said before and what I am going to say next.
Where is that,
That everything in the universe is perfect and karma gives you exactly what you have created?
Yes,
All those acts contain love.
But when you are going through a dark moment,
Darkness feels horrible.
And you have to know that,
As you should also know that you have been created to go through darkness.
Losing a child is horrible,
Getting sick is horrible,
And being broke is horrible too.
In this moment,
We have to allow ourselves to feel horrible,
To allow ourselves to cry,
To feel pain,
And also,
Why not feel lost or even question God?
This is also spirituality.
There are moments where you don't have to understand,
But only live this real spirituality as it comes right in your face.
When you have acknowledged this and have acknowledged yourself as a human being,
You will remember that no state is permanent.
And not as a consolation prize,
But as a means to learn.
And therefore,
You will resume your way to your brightest side.
Darkness is condition of life.
In order to recognize your light,
It is necessary to have a place where to protect it.
And to illuminate yourself more,
It is necessary to go through the dark.
I believe that the role of applied spirituality is to give you tools which enable you to stay the necessary amount of time in each of the two places.
Enough time for both places to be less opposed.
Otherwise,
I believe that frustration is guaranteed,
Because by trying to see only a word of light and peace,
Acts that are not geo-liking will always be creations of the outside,
On which you won't be able to exert any power.
In turn,
Your energy will also be repressed by refusing to observe and correct yourself,
Losing the possibility of holding yourself accountable by bearing deep inside your own being all the problems.
As if by doing so,
All your problems may disappear.
Yes,
I think you have to hear this paragraph a couple of times.
The way I found to reflect on this was through the analysis of the two typical situations of life on Earth,
From which I won't be able to escape,
Sleep and wakefulness.
And the question I asked myself was,
Have I come to Earth to sleep or to be awake?
And the answer was immediate.
I have come to experience both.
When I sleep,
I charge all my batteries,
I charge myself,
And all the potential things I am able to do while I am awake is generated.
And when I wake up,
I use all that potential to experiment.
And at this point is when everything becomes even more clear.
If I have slept for 12 hours and I want to continue doing so,
I won't be able to do it,
As I have reached the maximum reservement of energy,
And my being has to spend it all to be able to go back to sleep.
The same happens with pain and happiness.
There are forces of the same coin which nourish each other.
What I can choose now is whether to push myself to stay awake for two whole days,
To finally end up falling asleep in bed,
Or to take little naps and be awake in a more productive way.
Both ways and all their intermediate states are perfect.
It is here when I reinforce my message.
I think that one of the pursuits of a spiritual man is coherence.
But don't desperate,
Because you have been created to be incoherent.
Precisely because you don't know the next truth,
And when you find it out,
You will realize that what has happened before doesn't apply in your life.
You cannot be coherent with what you don't know.
It is not my intention either that you polarize and unleash incoherence,
Because if you choose to believe in something,
Practice at something.
You only have to be aware that that coherence bar that you set for yourself should be at a level that allows you to stretch yourself little by little,
To finally reach that truth that you didn't know.
Thus,
Little by little,
You will conquer yourself even more.
So,
What did I try to say with so many words?
That the path of spirituality is rose with thorns.
