The idea of change is the key to all spiritual process. We started looking for a change for a foreign model, someone I admire, a teacher, a famous therapist or follow the exemplary behavior of a monk or one that suggests the traditional religions, sacred texts.Then we start to change as we are, as models based on a self ideal, which we would be, what should be.
If we will change our spiritual path, we need a new direction, because the confusion is what leads us to paths of others. And not because the paths of others are better in themselves, but because from our comparison we see us in a inferior position.It is easier to place trust in others, trust that the teacher knows, that the tradition for some unrevealed reason is like that, or thinking about that thousands evolved in those roads shown.
When listening to a teacher, it's easy to think that his words teach a lot and therefore I do everything as he follows ... but often in practice we noticed that for some reason not everything is going so well, some do, but another says that the course is not precisely that, at least for ourselves.
In general, each teacher teaches a practice which must continue to progress spiritually.
The spiritual exercises are useful to exit or escape structures or ingrained habits that limit us, repressed or distracted.
Followed by a period of time during a retreat, is worthless if they achieve tangible progress, otherwise it is not because the person is not enough evolved that not alloy to progress, but these exercises are not suitable for him.
Curiously, our focus is always placed on the world that our eyes see, or the world around us, the reality that for each individual is different, as we interpret it within ourselves. Spiritual growth comes to be reflected in the ability to change the way of interpreting reality that our senses show, and especially in our internal communication.
The spiritual path does not lead to a sky up there, we carry inside us where our soul. Therefore we will open doors, inward to achieve an advance then we think differently.
The difficulty is given in daily walk in that the inner journey we are accompanied only by ourselves, in a dialogue between mind and spirit.
The spiritual path then leads to a paradoxical situation where we move to different sides, the sky, to a contact with the world and with others hikers who we are spiritual way to, but also to our inner search. We can’t enter higher planes of spiritual path, I mean to higher levels, if at the same time we do not move toward a more intimate contact each time with our essence.
It’s a very winding way and in practical effects seem to have many doors, which each have to find the key.
In fact the door does not exist as such, but for each individual is like there, every time we say move a substantial distance is because we find the key that unlocks that door. In our daily walk can change direction many times, and distract us from that path, but spiritually once we reach a certain level, once you open a door, the next time will not need to get the key directly under our will cross.
Inner silence is what allows a intimate dialogue where from it we understand because we are where we are. One approach is to express this internal dialogue in a personal prayer.
It’s not always possible to express in words our inner turmoil, because the language is limited for the simple reason that all language was created to communicate with the mundane and hardly suited to express the spiritual.
It is said that meditation is the gateway to a feeling of emptiness, is the happiness of the extinction of that unlimited for being in the gap in total peace.
Our personal prayer is a reflection of our progress, wherever we are in the course of the spiritual path, we have a state of spiritual evolution and therefore a vision of reality, the world we live in, our projection to where we think we are or we can go.
Therefore, pray, pray or express for ourselves, our internal conversation about what we want, want or need, which is what we expect to happen ...
It is not that we pray because we are from a religious point, because for my, spirituality is not religion ...
Personal prayer is a very useful tool for understanding the inner truth, is a practical meditative state used to arrive at a deeper meditative state.
To escape our connection to the everyday is very handy to use the personal prayer to begin the path to inner silence; from there we connect with the spiritual. In the silence we enter within us, we look in a honest mirror, at that time our lives become filled with silence, realizing there the reality of our identity, and entered, with silence, the illuminated door that connects us to eternity .
I think it is vastly more useful to construct our own prayer or pray, adapted to our state of evolution, a sentence that reflects all our wants and desires. To repeat a traditional prayer of any religion, often is meaningless or makes no sense to us, or no makes a connection with our spiritual path.
We pray to our spirit, so that through prayer that we get in touch with our soul. Our soul is our great eternal energy center, we are learning along the spiritual path, a way to communicate with our soul or spirit to guide us on how to move forward, then our prayer is the repetition of our request for guidance.
Then as we reiterate our daily personal prayer, it happens that our repetition marks our need and therefore it is becoming clear to us, in what we must work within, and on the other hand our spirit takes that statement and helps us achieve this goal.
As we move away from illusory needs and worldly goals, our prayer began to be increasingly an expression of spiritual development, then, we see how our internal energy grows.
Meditation is the gateway to our individual freedom, and she will show us that there is not a marked trail that shows us today step by step how we will do to reach the longed personal enlightenment. But each small goal achieved will be just that, another door that we opened. From there we think, generate a new sentence for this new search process to where we walk now, that something must change within ourselves ...
Meditation is to shed the burden of the Ego, inner prayer retouched each day, free of ties with the material world, frees us enough to understand the next step to take.
To advance you must be free enough from prejudice, rooted customs and traditions, free from attachment to things and people. Because the spiritual path is free and unique to each individual. And there are no fences or gates that prevent reaching our higher state of existence, but we must have the persistence in wanting to go and honesty to accept that we must change.
