21st century spiritual chit chat

To look at the self is possibly the biggest obstacle on a person journey into spiritual matters. 

Sure, there is much complexity in regards to the idea of thought/prayer/desire/letting go etc.

But it all comes down to the self and how a person either does 1 of 2 things:

1-Continues the journey into the unknown

2-Stops the journey and continues past energies as a result

When a person makes the effort to look at themselves, lots of stuff will indeed pop up. There may be times you feel all "holy and self righteous" because of good deeds you have done, other days, well, as in my cartoon above, you may remember times you were indeed a prick.

To look behind BOTH elements is to pursue the greatest adventure of all, the journey of your consciousness during your lifespan. A lifespan is indeed short and the learning curve is constantly underway in one shape or form as we mature.  Spiritual pursuits however, can be absolutely frustrating at times as it seems that challenge is the only result of said pursuits. 

This occurs most of the time because people ( despite being dedicated to spiritual matters) also get influenced by past sages and lose their own personal pursuit for understanding and follow vs leading....themselves. The get caught up in sacrifice or spend countless hours to discover what cant be discovered and then wind up just being a cliche phrase sayer vs actually progressing spiritually.

Expansion of thought and expansion of the soul is based entirely on the time frame that the human life is evolving in. You cannot have the same reality as someone in 1945, they would look at you as a spaceman or spacewoman if you said at the time " I will just video chat with my friend to find out where the best place to eat is, or let me just check my gps"….. But yet spiritual pursuits still seem to be stuck in time.....

The same exact thing has to happen with human consciousness ( like the advancing of technology), we can appreciate the information that was given before to us by spiritual pioneers, but we have to now embrace ourselves in the 21st spiritual century.  We have to look at spiritual matters as global matters, we have to look at our “inner time” (meditation/prayer, etc) and see how it can directly alter our “outer time” ( reality). 

No longer can we think we are not part of the power that we desire, our souls desire change, we all feel it.

It is time.

The Rabid Monk