Andrew Cohen, Spiritual Teacher:
The sexual/romantic experience is one of the most confusing areas of human life- especially for those who seek spiritual liberation. This is because it almost always creates profound emotional and psychological attachment. It is not a free ride, unfortunately. And therefore, unless we get our priorities clear, it is almost inevitable that that attachment will quickly become more important to us than our own potential for liberation in this life.
From the perspective of enlightenment, to be free means to be free from attachment. Attachment means, “I have something.” To be free means, “I have nothing.” When you hold on to absolutely nothing, you are free- automatically. And the truth that liberates is the profound recognition of just that fact- that your own natural state is already free. The only thing that keeps us in bondage is the unquestioned belief that there is something fundamental that is missing from our own self. Out of ignorance of our own natural state, we bind ourselves to people and things, convinced that through creating attachment we will find happiness and contentment. But it never works that way, because where there is attachment, there is always fear of loss. And where there is fear, there can never be real happiness or deep contentment.
It is the revelation of enlightenment itself that shows us this directly—the perennial truth that real happiness and contentment lie within us as our own True Self, our own natural state, already full and complete as it is. But in this unenlightened world, we are deeply conditioned to believe that happiness and contentment lie somewhere outside our own self. So if we truly want to be free, we need to give up that way of thinking, in order to know that lasting contentment that will only be ours when we finally stop looking for it anywhere outside of ourselves.
The sexual/romantic experience is one of the most confusing areas of human life- especially for those who seek spiritual liberation. This is because it almost always creates profound emotional and psychological attachment. It is not a free ride, unfortunately. And therefore, unless we get our priorities clear, it is almost inevitable that that attachment will quickly become more important to us than our own potential for liberation in this life.
From the perspective of enlightenment, to be free means to be free from attachment. Attachment means, “I have something.” To be free means, “I have nothing.” When you hold on to absolutely nothing, you are free- automatically. And the truth that liberates is the profound recognition of just that fact- that your own natural state is already free. The only thing that keeps us in bondage is the unquestioned belief that there is something fundamental that is missing from our own self. Out of ignorance of our own natural state, we bind ourselves to people and things, convinced that through creating attachment we will find happiness and contentment. But it never works that way, because where there is attachment, there is always fear of loss. And where there is fear, there can never be real happiness or deep contentment.
It is the revelation of enlightenment itself that shows us this directly—the perennial truth that real happiness and contentment lie within us as our own True Self, our own natural state, already full and complete as it is. But in this unenlightened world, we are deeply conditioned to believe that happiness and contentment lie somewhere outside our own self. So if we truly want to be free, we need to give up that way of thinking, in order to know that lasting contentment that will only be ours when we finally stop looking for it anywhere outside of ourselves.
Autors: EarthMentor - David Nelson
Maslova vajadzību piramīdas 3.līmenis gan labāk izvēlētos "I have something".
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Sava patiesība' sava ticība' savs acu gaišums.,,brīvajā un nenotveramajā.,
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