For different ways, life itself takes every person to move from one stage to another ... one day comes when the challenges to the worldly life do not have satisfactory answers.
It is common for spiritual seekers come into maturity, because once they reach certain achievements, there will be a time of life when you do not get more achievements to bring relief, buy a new TV, a shirt or car, is very fleeting joy, and so any object large or small, valuable or not... relationships with people are too shallow...
Everything seems to lead to a gap that threatens to swallow everything ...
So sooner or later everyone wonders, this life... is everything? Is there anything else that awaits me after her?
Without going into a level of existential beliefs, I raise this point of view ... the apparent injustice: some are born surrounded by good conditions, aids and benefits ... and others across many limitations ... seems to be very bad. Can a
God be so unfair?
The answer I found is in the perspective that every being has an eternal soul and to live lives in which to learn a set of lessons ... and the objective or goal to achieve is to overcome these lessons, that can take 25 lives in this world,
100 or 900.
If a person spends a useless life, selfish or whatever it is, it is likely that it does not exceed any of the remaining lessons, and as a student of a school or high school, can say... one year is lost, a life vain.
These lessons can we regard them as spiritual steps to climb.
On the other hand, inevitably at some point in life every person think about the chance to walk a spiritual path, unfortunately many leave these concerns because they can't find a proper teacher.
If someone with very difficult self-conviction reach to decide to give some spiritual way and comes across a to teacher who asks him a series of very difficult lessons or exercises... it is quite likely that person to leave in the first
attempt.
Others with strong believe they will try, but teacher can not discourage the novice, a student of 1st year of school is impossible to solve an equation of 2nd grade.
For that reason I wrote few days before "Each one must choose the direction or exercise that suits your current place in your spiritual path".
For a person who is just beginning, it's fine for starters, is raising a very basic goal, say a mantra repeated 20 times per day, perhaps in the first month never got it, but it is not so difficult, then some days will succeed and maybe on Sundays just want to have fun.
But one day that simple goal can be achieved without difficulty and then you must choose your next goal, but never get boxed. For example, the mantras are not the only spiritual tool, it is just one of many.
I suggest that somewhere along the way a person tries, consider a day of self-inspection, a day away to see themselves with enough peace and honesty, and from there to consider that part of his nature is the most difficult and stops your spiritual progress .
If you become confused that involves changing at an early stage of spiritual growth, I can list a series of habits and customs that are negative and of course, the opposite is desirable:
Should be changed: laziness by effort, monotony by creativity, generosity for selfishness, bad character for stability and resilience, insulation by communication, critical for tolerance, you can continue the list but I think the example is sufficient.
Do not expect a beginner a goal of becoming an apostle of Christ, nor a teacher surrounded by hundreds of students, I suggest not raise any goal beyond something as simple and important as being a better person.
It is common that at one point someone raised the way ... even though I have tried never got to be even close to the goal I wanted to achieve, I have spent 3 years and I'am still so far away that I would never get there.
If anyone has happened something like that, even without knowing him, I have the answer: first, the goal that was drawn was wrong, too demanding; but on the other side and this is very important, that person at that moment have to reflect and remember how it was 3 years ago and ¿how he is today?, surely it is so great the progress that only with that ... should smile a whole week.
I've written days before, "never traces very high goal as the next achievement, because you don't know what you can wish once you climbed three steps of the 20 needed for that goal, is likely when you be 3 steps above, your wishes are new ones".
The important thing is to walk on your spiritual path but at the pace you can sustain.
A hug, Paul Barbé
