What do you consider spiritual?

[windwalker099]

Some thoughts

Sadhana – The Spiritual Way
by Swami Krishnananda

"Master, I have no peace of mind."

"Let me hear what you know already. After hearing from you an answer to this query, I shall tell you what I can."

Narada opened his book of knowledge and narrated a list of the sciences and the arts in which he was proficient. "Master, I know every science and every art in the world: metaphysics, theory of knowledge, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, psycho-analysis, aesthetics, ethics, sociology, political science, culture, religion, philosophy.

There is nothing that I do not know, but I have no peace of mind. I do not know myself."

The great master replied, "All this that you have learned is a bundle of words, with no content inside. You have smeared your personality with a veneer of apparent knowledge, but you are quite different from that which you have gathered on your personality.

The shirt is not the person and, therefore, your learning is not what you are."

 

[Gyakuto]

The shirt is not the person and, therefore, your learning is not what you are."

If you’ve spent even a few minutes with a relative or a friend who is suffering from advanced dementia and has had all their ‘learning’ (memories and knowledge) cruelly stripped away, you’ll realise our learning is exactly what we are.

 

[windwalker099]

If you’ve spent even a few minutes with a relative or a friend who is suffering from advanced dementia and has had all their ‘learning’ (memories and knowledge) cruelly stripped away, you’ll realise our learning is exactly what we are.

guess it depends who the "you" is..

 

[Gyakuto]

guess it depends who the "you" is..

Other than our memories and life-long learning, what do you think ‘you’ is?

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Every day you need to sit on the beach, look at the sky, and ask yourself the following questions.

- Who am I?
- Where did I come from?
- How can I save this world?

You will then become a spiritual person.