Propulsion on the Spiritual Path

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Propulsion on the Spiritual Path
Ibrahim Ansari

Sometimes certain realizations or experiences propel us towards a spiritual path:
 You realize you know nothing,
 What you do know is so infinitesimal it will take just a minute to list them,
 you have no power - everything comes from somewhere else. And when you do try to do something…
 Your personal will gets in the way,\ You understand that this place is a school. You’ve learned a lot, now it is time to articulate the lessons and figure out what and if you have learned,
You are prideful - you think you are the center of the universe and you that’s not right,
You judge everyone - you think you are better than others and that’s not right,
You think you know better and wish that would stop,
Life is not as fair as you wished or expected,
You have heard that humility and sincerity are important, whatever they are,
Everything is a paradox,
Teachers don’t know everything,
You don’t know who you are, and finally,
Crisis! Physical, mental, or emotional.

So here you are desperate enough or courageous enough, curious enough or confused enough, to listen to this podcast by some fool who won’t give you straightforward advice.

That’s because the next steps you take are your own. There are lots of shops and shopkeepers just waiting for you to wander through. Self-help books and guru-talkers will be more than happy to take your money and point out ways for you to:

 Buy their special advanced spiritual methods,
Be special in a special group,
 Learn to channel and
 Talk to the dead,
 Read aura’s, or
Learn to manifest wealth.

Any of those are a path. Just not the one you were expecting. If they tell you that they know the path to make you rich and famous - well, that is not a spiritual path.That is the opposite of what any of the great prophets taught. There is no perfection in this life. There is practice, there is getting better, there is learning how to learn from failure. But there is no perfect being in this world. Everyone makes mistakes. There is no learning without mistakes and failure. Being human means to grow and learn. Learning means that it is important and vital that you make mistakes and fail.

The point is that you must learn how to learn, how to go deep inside and reflect on what has happened to you these past years. What have you learned? How do you know what you know? In this case, I mean that gnosis of experience and knowledge that cannot be removed from your being. Unconditional love, a deep understanding about someone or something… Not facts or opinions. The knowing that is part of you.

Whether it was the answer to an important question, an experience, a person, love, a crisis - you were taken to the underground spring of unity and drank of the sacred water. Once that  touches your tongue, once that divine wine enters you, there is no going back. You can only want more. No substitution will do. 

There are knowledgeable guides, but you should be aware that you are like a child. You are naive. You may think you know what’s what, but that is the dead part of you trying to

Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners,

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