Stoicism isn’t worth much in spirituality unless you like to be celebrated by like-minded people for having the greatest willpower to accomplish something you consider worthwhile. The will to succeed is also ego. Anorexic people celebrate their weight-loss as a misplaced beauty ideal, whereas stoic people celebrate their willpower as a spiritual accomplishment.
Staying power is what’s needed. When you truly observe, the ego always has one last stand where it feels its fortress is impenetrable. We like to avoid the void and it is always hiding in one area that is meaningful to you. Have the staying power to remain with that tension when the time comes and the ego desperately looks for the escape.
It’s a few moments of intense tensions and then the battle is won. See how the ego cries murder. Observe how it offers strange logic and resurfaces well-chosen memories to guide you into a different direction. Stay with the pain, the escape, the restlessness, the impatience for a few moments longer than the ego seems willing to tolerate and the void disappears into nothingness.
No comments:
Post a Comment