Spirituality

A lot of people engage in activities that are deemed "spiritual". But in order to fully understand what it means to be spiritual, a person should look carefully with awareness, directly at the self and ones motivations for seeking such a state. Many individuals may be "damaged" psychologically by events and circumstances and so they seek solace in something that allows them to escape the reality of what is. Others may use "spirituality" to create authority and develop for themselves a lifestyle of followers that seek out their spiritual advice and other "mystical and or psychic" talents. But can the truly spiritual be the result of something that is sought out of need or desire. Is not the result of our desire always the illusion of the self created? The mind creates its own world out of the content of its conditioned consciousness. It is a world of conceptual reality, the activity of knowing, the projected illusion of a self that knows. Can that which is truly spiritual be "known"? To be known means that it is a defined certainty of individual effort. Surely it is beyond thoughts ability to reason it out, to be mere concept. Yet that is what happens when mind develops an organization of effort to seek and find. The bottom line is that their is no such thing as the spiritual in terms of human thought. Their is only the illusion of ones attempt at trying to become spiritual. Whatever one thinks about the self in terms of spirituality is illusion.

The truly spiritual do not "know" that they are spiritual. They are free of the defined notion of spirituality as an accomplishment of the self that "knows". All the so called spiritual pursuits that you may be involved in are merely a form of entertainment, a distraction from the reality and truth of what is. Change is in the moment, not in the activity of a mind that is seeking the "spiritual". It is the outcome of a mind that is quiet not seeking. The chatter of a mind that wants and needs blocks the truth of the absolute moment. It sends you down a path that has no end and only creates a reliance on the illusion of conceptual spirituality. One does not find what is sought only the need for further seeking. A person is caught in the perpetual desire for peace of mind that never comes.