Quest, Seeking the Spiritual Path...

My first blog post described my modern day stresses with the phases of spiritual consciousness and the debates I go through often crossing boundaries with my own spirituality.  BUT Really, what do we all seek when it comes to our own true spiritual path? To be deeply known from the heart? For real? 

I have found that most of my thoughts, because of this idea of destiny, I seek to know my true self through prophecies, visions. I found myself circling back, hitting up the basics to re-learn the mental "tools" again to sort this out again. This is my quest...to be known, to know thyself and if I was to make a obvious confession, to know ALL I can the universe as to offer! 

To humble myself, I know I want to know other's views on the topic of spirituality, their roots, where they are coming from, what they have found inside, including doing my reflecting deeply on my own as I listen to their stories.. So, what we seek we find in others, what is in ourselves is mirrored by another...a truth perhaps that explains the mystery between us, in the ultimate sense, that what I so desire to find in my own being is somehow resting behind the face of another.  I look to the human family, in my sister or brother's eyes and hear their tales of happiness and sorrow. Through this interplay of thought and emotions, between us, in that very existential moment we are both inquiring the question which remains; Who is making sense? Who is right or wrong? Our dialogue and conversation don't settle, the topic being our spiritual "beliefs", how could we ever come to a common dialogue? Even a silent agreement with what hinders us???

 

We can! Religion or philosophy with another always introduces the question, AM I UNDERSTOOD? and to be honest this is the root. The question revolves around this and the doubt can remain for many considering the ramifications of our personal inventory and the causation of our actions including the effects this has had for others. Karma. What can we do to redeem ourselves? It seems, though, if we we were heard for once, finally our truth revealed that which had once encapsulated this very moment once trapping us, will conveniently escape us and just for a moment we could reveal who we truly are! Coming full circle, we would be heard, out quest complete to the one who finally listens. It all seems to good to be true.... 

However, finding ourselves on the listening path, we see it was there all along, the path because as I found on my quest for knowledge and for the right spiritual path that the point actually is just listening to other's truth makes one wiser, if you can hear it. It makes me look deeper than I ever have before now that I have attained some mastery of it. I look to places most dare not see and I've been to places inside my mind I rather not say, but the truth remains my quest has taken me far and into the arms of humanity. If I am understood, well, as I feel we all should be, I find it is no longer my desire to always circle around my own inner world but to see others in the light of who they are, and in the event that they may in fact change for themselves. I can ease off. I am helpful in that way and I give what I can to help others reveal these truths to themselves in any way.  Why? Because it is our birthright to rise above and be heard!!!

Truly, open ears.  So, a very BIG part of my path is the bring my experiences into play when listening to another's story about their own spiritual path so I can make their voices heard, there stories important and their pasts simply available to be forgiven and  in essence "let go". 

Namaste'

 

Spiritual Consciousness

All along I have known I'm meant to master what I came here to do, to find my reason, purpose, to follow the Way and like so many others I have sought after an answer only to find my mind going in circles with all I have come to know. I am an eclectic. I seek to find a way to stay present and my thoughts drive me toward finding my stillness, calming an irritated mind and relaxing with what is in the Here & Now. So, as far out as it may seem, to begin my journey as a blogger, here are the thoughts and ideas that have come from my seeking. 

....Of course, I seek an enlightened nature, my enlightened nature, where the void of my being is empty as I see it, and in Buddhist thought confirmed, for this very reason is because we are actually light, light within, consciousness as light "beings", and we ARE the transparent. What this means to me is that we are vessels for this light, divinely graced beings and in fact, the human personality is a simple reflection of the divine that resides within and around all of us, almost channeling truth through a screen door behind our eyes. Just swing it open! 

However, I see this understanding found by keen eyes of wisdom looking through the veil that seemingly for most appears as a separation of one's own consciousness. The "reality" of this light we see on the outside of us instead of within us. It is withering away the perception of our inner world leaving us wrought with confusion about who we really are, blinding us to truth and all we should know about who we really are. We are mostly all in this predicament, knowingly or not, and it is the coming wise one's, the next generation that will lead our generation to this formidable thought once again, retaining our values. Eventually, the "right" people will be attracted into your life if you accept this one feat. As Osho says, it isn't an attainment, we are ALREADY spiritual. So, nothing to worry about?! It's knowing this, its being OK with this, and the hindrance really only lies in the belief that fill us with complex idiosyncratic insecurities that we carry as a burden and can be religious and non-religious dogma. It's an opening of mind! Simple....

I only wish to understand this because my heart-mind is full of a deep passion for seeking Wisdom in my life and accepting it as the primal force for our survival on this planet. Without it we are filling this void with misunderstanding, materialism and hatred where the transparency becomes unclear and our lives are busy with an unstable mind, that, in our current time is considered normal which is outrageous if we think and see what it has done on so many levels, not just in societies ideals, but in the reality of how we treat and interact with one another....war, famine, unneeded deaths and decay, anger, is a war of mind and a battle of spirit blindly seeking some way "out" of what we know we must face in order to overcome it. What is already present with a resolution if we open our eyes. It becomes obvious this is nonsense, yet we seek the outrageous! Hmmmm....?

And, I believe we will not survive without inheriting the wisdom of the ages. Throughout all time thus so far in our in our aging and cyclical universe, even in the past gone or eons of evolution, the soon to be future and in this very moment, exists only for us to learn, including animals and ALL life. As Osho puts it, of how he explains a "how to", he simple states that the "seed" in the here & now is always present in us and with the flowering into our beings, as it is, always happening now, is meant to be ever-present, thought in action, and an eternal movement through time. In essence, our true "Enlightenment". This seeing, as the moment of truth, is what we would call in spirituality, an awakening of consciousness, or just an awakening where we finally see we never left this place of truth but only forget the way inward to the path that flows out into the world and into infinite possibility. Sound cool? 

So, as my first blog, I thought this would come in handy for anyone looking for another viewpoint.

Personally, I am understanding all I have come to know as a challenge presents itself. That is, putting my mouth into ACTION, creating a deed, growing a seed of thought to put into translation, saying it out loud and voicing this to everyone in my life.  This sometimes doesn't always get across ;-)

My current perspective is that the act of enlightened seeking is getting masked by forces that label us, the seekers, with stigmas of illness which isn't very fair is it?  I believe we are all in time, meant for divine union with ourselves, God/ess, The One, a true harmonious reunion with all we are, are WHOLE soul, not pieces, but the vast beings of light we actually are. No need for a fractured spirit. I'm seeing this now, witnessing and putting a little faith in the idea because it is not just a concept, it is a reality and most of us have gone into dark periods, dark nights of spirituality, madness past or present where the "coming" out was a fresh new light! This can all change. 

Only an opened mind can really see all this in thier own special way and to those who have closed down and settled to believe it to be the only one fraction of truth as I see in our world, then universal truths have closed to you BUT always a door, a single door, unlocked and ready to be opened has always been present for your thoughts to manifest through. 

My spiritual inquiry has led me into a much broader way of developing my own spirituality and knowing that a path (or paths) extends even the greatest insights I thought were IT! But more possibilities into the unknown world of the spiritual exist and without this pondering we might still be lost in translation! :-) I know I am but for darn sure I'm creating a map!!!