Articles on Spiritual Practice
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Personal |
Impersonal |
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Entangled / involved / invasive / busybody |
Nonattached / minds own business |
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All-pervasive Universal Guru |
Guru functioning through human vehicles |
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Does not focus/aid one individual |
Guides/directs individuals to their fulfillment in God |
i am a tool
respect my
tools
when a nail
goes into
wood
i respect
the hammer
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Cosmic Guru |
Mundane material individual |
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Unrelatable / no personal response / impersonal / removed |
Human / personal / connected / compassionate |
Rohini explains how what we do in the world, we do when we turn inward in meditation. If we try to control or “run” our meditation, we are not meditating. In meditation, we have to surrender as we go inward, and not attach ourselves to anything we experience along the way.
Rohini explains how what we bring to the table is how we approach our lives. We approach spiritual practice the way we approach the rest of what we do. People often try to make spiritual practice into drudgery, and then use euphemisms to let themselves off the hook for being unconscious. If we practice as we should, it will bring …
two birds
meet
at the window
their souls
stunned
different degrees
patience
will stirred
with shakti
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Defensive |
Receptive / eager to learn |
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Committed |
Easily manipulated / impressionable |