When people travel in open spaces without direction other than natural positioning devices like the sun in the day or the north star at night, they tend to have a drift that makes them walk in circles. Using this simile for our spiritual quest, our conditioned mind is that drift even if the voice we hear in our head is a spiritual one. The minder of our thoughts is also a thought. Conditioned mind corrupts even if our intentions are good. As the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, just like the drift in the prairie.
We can occasionally feel the moment of truth and can sometimes even sort through the voice in our head, like the knowledge that the sunrise is in the east and the sunset is in the west in our simile, but all other sun locations are a bit opaque. What do do? How to become the perfect scout in a spiritual sense? It’s silence! Acting from silence, minding our thoughts and feelings in silence, and advancing on our journey in silence. Knowing when the chatter of our mind overwhelms and a pain body is activated is in our power too.
The perfect scout knows when to ride and when to rest. The perfect spiritual traveler knows how to embrace the silence and how to be mindful of the noise. Enjoy the ride!
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