The Trap Of Being A “Spiritual” Person

Many seekers fall into the trap of becoming spiritual performers — acting in ways they think look spiritual, imitating monks, gurus, or even their teachers. But true spirituality is not performance. It’s authenticity.

When you perform, you hide your shadows and mask your emotions. But when you’re authentic, everything comes to light. Awareness grows, distortions balance, and your unique divine expression flows through.

In this talk, I share: Why performing spirituality blocks real growth. How to stop imitating and start expressing your authentic self. The power of embracing both light and shadow. Why authenticity leads to balance, healing, and divine flow. How to live dynamically, moment to moment, as God flows through you.

Drop the mask. Stop performing. Let yourself be.

Transcript

Today I would like to talk about a very important subject as we are living our lives and putting all this pressure of being a good person and growing spiritually is to not fall into the trap of being a spiritual performer meaning like you try to act in the best ways you try to be more spiritual and it becomes more of a performance rather than authentic expression of you and maybe you try to imitate others as well in some subtle or unconscious or subconscious ways that you think spirituality looks like this maybe like a monk like a guru so you act like that you basically become an actor more rather than your true expression of God of the universe authentic true and free not bound or limited or acted upon by some idea of spirituality so this is actually when we lose ourselves more like the authentic expression we lose that over the ideas of spirituality and this is not many times conscious it is coming from the programming just like any other programming because this is how the brain or the mind gets its clarity on how to be what to do and what to think and to some degree it wants some patterns it wants some habits it wants some structures control over you so that you can feel relaxed in a way that you don't have to think too much so which can be okay but if it's not conscious if we are not actively looking for our authentic expression then we fall into the trap of as I said acting and imitating or doing things which are not true to us but we are doing it because they are quote-unquote good or spiritual or what your teacher said or your teacher does so I would like you to look into that today how much performance happens in the name of spirituality also acting in a way that you want to be perceived this is also a big one we want to be perceived as good people in front of other people's eyes we want to be seen as hero as light not as dark not as shadow not as a villain but nevertheless you are everything and you know what no matter how much you try you will be perceived as bad as dark as shadow as villain in some people's lives and you can't avoid it no matter how much you try so if you then care too much about other people's perception then you will try to act in certain ways and not let the true expression flow through you because you are made of those shadows as well and if those shadows are not consciously used as the force of light then those shadows also become hidden in your acting so then you try to act as a good person but those shadows are acting through you so instead what I'm proposing is that you completely become aware of you as everything you're not just light in fact everything is light ultimately but from a very relative point of view you're not just light you are also those shadows so instead of letting those shadows use you you use your shadows to do what God wants to do through you to do what is appropriate rather than what looks the best in the eyes of others even in your own eyes don't fall into the trap of movies that you want to be perceived as a hero or you want to be perceived as a good person because ultimately if you let yourself be if you let yourself follow God then don't worry about being a good person you will do what is being asked of you you will do what is the best for all without you even trying and sometimes the best for all is not so good for some people not in a cruel way I'm just saying that some people may get hurt some people may be triggered some people may perceive you as a villain some people may not like you and all of that is part of the game of being the creator letting God flow through you so do not think of yourself as somebody who is this or that let go of yourself let God flow through you and people will receive you as they will you just do your best not to act don't act anything don't try anything don't try to do the right thing don't be anything trust God trust yourself enough that the thing that is most appropriate will happen God's will will happen through you if you allow it if you trust it enough then you don't have to hold on to some values or moral compass because that's not needed moral compass is for people who are actors who don't know God within them who care about how they are perceived rather than actually caring about others you don't want to be that actor you don't want to be that quote-unquote hero you just want to be you authentic true raw human and divine at the same time and dynamic appropriate to the moment to moment and you don't know what's going to happen next because you're living in the moment that is flowing with God if you're not living in the moment if you're already planning ahead how you will act how you will react then that is just acting and you can act and people may perceive you as very controlled calm person but that's not you inside you're still feeling those emotions inside you're still going through these things and you are actually dying inside because the authentic expression didn't come through you actually didn't you actually didn't balance yourself because balancing and healing requires distortions to flow through too and just becoming aware of them so awareness is really the key that even if distortions are flowing through you even if you're emotional i would prefer authenticity over acting because authenticity leads to balance authenticity leads to awareness whereas acting can hide yourself and then true balance doesn't happen you become the actor and you never get truly balanced because the soul is still hiding you just put a mask of acting and then let go of all concepts of what you should be like you don't have to copy your teacher or you don't have to act like a monk or you don't have to actually follow anyone truly not even me you can just get inspiration from it and be you do you that's my message you are God and so is everyone and i encourage everyone to have their unique expression the appropriate expression not the best expression i don't want the best expression i want the appropriate true raw expression best expression is too boring because i know it's just acting and then you will be surprised to find your true self as a human how you actually feel true because everything else is a facade drop the facade drop the masks drop the acting drop everything and just be let yourself be and through that allowance through that trust in being you will notice that you're doing your words your emotions balance themselves as they go because that's the whole process of authenticity like when you're authentic then you're aware of your distortions as well because you're not hiding anything everything is in the light everything is in front of you so there's nowhere to hide there's nothing to mask it's just in clear in front of you and you will learn from it if there's any heavy distortion that you notice in your authentic expression oh it will just be clear to you wow okay that was quite clear to me and now i learned from it that's it don't be afraid to make quote-unquote mistakes as well because through the mistakes you will become that channel or instrument of divine so keep learning as you stay authentic keep staying aware that's all i recommend don't try to copy anyone just be you in the present moment don't betray yourself prioritize you your unique authentic expression and don't care about rejection don't care about who stays who goes and people will find you who are resonating with you just be you and that's it

Reviews

Perfect reminder that regardless, other people will perceive as they will.