There are two levels to spirituality, the knowing and the living. We might know what righteous living is, i.e., choose love over hate, drop your ego, be mindful of your thoughts and be aware of what feelings bubble in the depth of your being to the surface, but are still unable to act accordingly because our drives, aversions, or inner pain bodies are just too overwhelming to override them.
We live in a matrix-like virtual reality game that leads us unrelentingly to freedom. I am asking you—not rhetorically but actually—if a spiritual teacher spends 30 years advertising the virtue of sexual restraint, but lapses late in life to his so-perceived temptation, did he really get anywhere? We drift like an iceberg, 30% in conscious control, with 70% subconscious drifting, and have to make the best of it.
There are only two dharma (righteous living) practices, knowing what is right and wrong for our soul evolution and observing what we do, feel, think and how the world reacts to our intentions and actions. There is no “wrong” or “right” if life’s play gets us an insight or helps us let go of a self-imposed interference. That’s the magnificence of life’s play, it leads the iceberg called self into warm waters until it melts.
Do the “right” thing mate and discover being in the doing.
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