Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Staying on the spiritual path

Time teaches, along my path it was not been possible to maintain an equal effort to advance spiritually for a long time.
I learned that spirituality is not dogma, it is not mandatory because bend to a method does not
work, the spiritual for me is connected to freedom, the desire to continue or progress, but to do certain exercises because i'm alone and it is time to do, doens't work.
When the exercise is just methodical performance, I finished  thinking... how many prayers I
needed to finish?, instead of being cast upon it, vibrate with a deep prayer, to put all my heart and soul into it ...
Then, are you spiritual because yo repeat a prayer 33 times daily at bedtime?, if that day we
just want to sleep, or mourn, is it wrong?
What matter is to stay on track, not to leave, so you can be good, at least for me it has
been easy to propose a routine to perform for a short period, say a week, at the end of it evaluate whether to follow another week or perform other routine.
There seemed to be a paradox between method and freedom from routine, I think that the output
passes through this side, the method is good, if not crush freedom, provided it is not oppressive, that's where it ceases to be useful.
Nor is it good to close the window to the world in which we walk, the iterative method also
should not be forever ... bored or else at some point it ceases to be effective, it ceases to help.
It's very good look for new ideas, see comments from others who pass their own spiritual path,
of course each person will transition its single path, but without trying to copy the way for others, which will not work if its good to learn that they can provide inspiration ....

That's all for now, hugs, Paul Barbe