The Gardener….

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Every tradition uses the gardener as an analogy for spiritual work. The garden is a place where everything grows within a prescribed area. We are gardens where everything grows, both beautiful and ugly things. And many times in a garden a beautiful plant begins to be seen as a weed because it has been allowed to grow to the detriment …

Secretly competitive….

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Secretly competitive                                                   Openly competitive     Cagey                                                         …

Sadhana Is Uncomfortable….

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We have been looking at how we repackage things to suit our small selves, and seeing that it is so sad. If we do not restrain our small selves, we only repackage. Repackaging is just another word for twisted love. We are unwilling to love openly and honestly, so we twist and repackage and then present that to the world. …

Obstinate….

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Obstinate                                                 Receptive   Principled                                                 Impressionable

Stop Repackaging the Practice….

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Be with your experience. This does not mean “in it”. This means “let it happen”. Always did. When I first wrote down the practice Baba taught me in A Spiritual Survival Kit, it was 1992. The truth is the truth and it has not changed. Be with your experience, whatever it is. This is so important. We are not to …

Guilty….

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Guilty                                                                          Okay     Aware                                       …