Spirituality voor het Leven

Als u hier nieuw bent, zoek en u zult… vinden en zult aan mijn voer RSS intekenen. Dank voor het bezoeken! ? het onderwerp is hartstocht met inbegrip van veel reviled „hartstochten“. Zij spreken gewoonlijk van hen in rechtse en linkerwegen. Één school van gedachte is dat zij slechts het struikelen blokken die vrede verhinderen zijn. Het onderwijs van rechtse [...]

We do have a duty and the motive is love. Interestingly, love is not a passion, it transcends those dynamics. It is a principle that cannot be confined to the inner vortex of passions.
?Duty?. If you understand the word, ?dharma? is closer. It is a way, not a single force, but the encompassing rule of [...]

Thinking gets you where you are and often gets you stuck and keeps you there. Do your passions arise from thinking?
Can you be angry and out of control and be aware that you are angry and out of control? If you are truly aware, then are you out of control? We are alive first, thinking [...]

In many schools of thinking?being excited about life is frowned upon. It is seen as somehow irresponsible. It is supposedly better to become dead inside and tractable and to pursue only “sensible” things. What in life is sensible? What of our wants and need are rational? Take humour. What is practical about humour? But I [...]

We often dilute the bodies wisdom and thus natures wisdom, by deluding ourselves that thought is superior to instinct. That wisdom is something we achieve. That we can gain it by being educated, “smart”. All mysticism and wisdom traditions contradict this. It arises from the dominance of scientism today, and modern scientists are weak substitutes [...]

Certainty, as most people espouse it is fear based, but clarity is not paranoia and we cannot create clarity. We can only see clearly, and that is possible?partially in those moments of surrender. We are not the way of the world, the way of the world is in us. When we see that unity, that [...]

How does a demon go about being spiritual? Demons are spiritual. Darkness is merely the mirror image of light, and much is declared dark from prejudice only. Bad is debatable. The spirit that challenges you to know the truth of yourself is bad? The spirit that reminds you of the value of life, or what [...]

The monk is passionate,?passionate in ascetic seeking. The zealot is also passionate, passionate in persecution. Some believe the monk is trained to forget his physical humanity, and to focus on the mind and that is not passion but doctrine.?I would disagree. There are surfaces and there are depths. Monks live in their own “chosen” world [...]

Action stems from passion. You may passionately believe I am mistaken, and feel powerfully moved to tell me so. The world moves and we move in it. There is a reason they say ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
I am not advocating a stance that in any way obfuscates personal [...]