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Why the 'Spiritual Journey' WILL NOT Reduce Your Suffering
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Will a spiritual journey take your suffering away? No. Chasing one nearly made mine worse.
I was forty and I was in Boots in town, and I broke. Bawling my eyes out in a busy shop. A stranger put a hand on my shoulder, held it, and asked how he could help. Later I read James Allen and I found meditation, and then I got attached to the whole thing. I wanted enlightenment, and I was unhappy because I did not have it. That is just a new attachment wearing better clothes. Aim lower and truer. Reduce the suffering a little each day.
One thing to try: Draw a line across a page. That is your mundane. Mark what is under it today, and pull one thing back up to the line.
In this episode
- (2:56) Forty years old, in Boots, in town
- (4:07) Crying in a shop full of people
- (5:16) A stranger's hand on my shoulder
- (6:30) It was not one thing. It was everything at once
- (9:08) Dyslexia in the late seventies, and Mrs Hoban
- (11:39) I got attached to the spiritual journey itself
- (13:04) I wanted enlightenment, so I was unhappy
- (16:23) The mundane line across the page
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