Tigmonk, this teaching seems to be essentially a rehashing of hackneyed vedantic faux non-dual spiritual philosophy. Good for a cave, perhaps, but not in the real world, unless one can live in a bubble, forget their past (which lives in our bodies and directs our actions and choices subconsciously, until we go into our bodies and heal it) and be content with that. FYI, our pasts are present, so our now is a largely a product of what we have been, including our choice (reaction?) to choose a path of only light and imaginary, transcendent perfection. This denies our humanness and does not acknowledge embodied divinity that can happen via the dark and difficult, which renders us truly integrated, emotionally rich, connected to the Earth, embracing of our fierceness, our wholehearted love, which happens via broken-heartedness more than through an elevated preciousness. I always ask one thing of a spiritual teacher to determine their worth to me: What do you do with pain? If they negate it, they are nothing new and intriguing to me. If they embrace it in order to be delivered into a more robust wholeness, I pull up a seat. Why? Because so many spiritual paths exist to find a way out of pain, and in doing so, they negate the body and everything temporal. The courageous path, the integral path, the path to choose if you love art and deeply functional relationship and fighting for justice, and value ordinary health and sanity is to find light from the darkness, and this is what I want to offer our community....because it creates real people, deeply compassionate people capable of navigating reality with richness, passion, deep relationships, authentic expression, creative fervor, deep joy, grounded love, and rich humanness. Tell me, do you brush your teeth at night? That is presumably to fight cavities, yes? Why do people go to doctors? Because they are already healed? No. Would telling them they are already healed, heal them? No. We need wholehearted, grounded, warriors here in Puna capable of inconvenient acts of love, not space cadets divorced from the body and emotion. How can we find divinity and wholeness and sacredness by embracing what is, what comes up in us without moving away from it, but by welcoming it and becoming one with it? This is the heros path. This is to not resist what is. But your path resists the difficult and painful, though you claim otherwise. HAve you ever tried going deeply into pain and grief and remorse and found your way out its back door by being mentored by these states? Avoiding pain is to avoid the secret gems it has hidden for us. But if we just look at pain superficially, we want to avoid it, of course. This is to live literally not paradoxically. And paradox always holds more wholeness than literalism because it involves transformation from dark to light. It takes a lot more courage and heart and creativity to embrace pain and let it transform us than it does to rise above it into some fairy-tale land of perfection. But the journey into pain is the path to its radical healing and our own transformation. Jack Adam Weber
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:04:29 +0000
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