What we seek in spiritual enlightenment is one of full vision, full hearing and responsibility.
Sometimes it is very hard to chug along a spiritual journey, I mean what the hell is a spiritual journey anyway? When you set a location in your mind, you then make plans on how to reach it and after time passes, you then arrive at your destination.
A spiritual journey however, has no actual end but it does imply a connotation that you are heading towards a destination.
The confusing thing for many is the journey itself and the actual destination. Each response to trials along the way is indeed the "end" of the journey each time. But each "end" then has a new beginning as the seeker unfolds new chapters in the self with every response and action and thus the journey continues onward ( if one chooses it to).
Pretty deep, huh? Well, it can be very irritating as well ( Will this crap ever end)
But that challenge to let go and to hold on is just one of many along the way. A person will be tempted to end the quest by whatever emotion, evil, thought, pink elephant (whatever you believe in) pulls them away from forward momentum. Feelings of "just quit" and "why" will pop up over and over again.
To the untrained, these statements may seem quite valid and they will indeed stop their pursuits ( ah screw it, why bother), but for those who see past the deception, they will see that a lifetime of spiritual study finally quells the internal struggle for truth, one that has been going on for eons of time. A seeker will see that the state of consciousness is and will always governed by the energy of choice.
What comes after this world and all this spiritual mumbo jumbo work? Who really knows, I am just getting the work done, right here, right now.
The Rabid Monk
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