What Is Spirituality?
What is spirituality? Spirituality is when self-esteem is based only on your being made in the image of God. False spirituality seeks pride as thoughts.
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“When man’s attachments are deep, then divine endowments are shallow.” —Chung Tzu
What Is Spirituality?
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What Is Spirituality?
Spirituality is when you seek to enjoy God, not self.
- Conversely, worldliness is when you seek to enjoy yourself and others.
- Spirituality is when your hedonism is focused only on God.
- Spirituality is when your self-esteem is based only on your being made in the image of God.
- Spirituality is when you are just a vessel for God to use as He sees fit.
- Spirituality is when you identify with the spiritual container and never with the spiritual contents hosted by that container.
Spirituality is the greatest danger.
- Mistakes in spirituality are harder to come back from than mistakes in materialism.
- Spirituality can either be the greatest ego trip of all or the experience of true humility based on your nature as a vessel.
- False spirituality is self-esteem based on images of God, gods, universe, energy, nature, religion, church, believers, etc.
- Just as parents can identify with their images of their children to boost their self-esteem, so too can people identify with their spiritual images to boost their self-esteem.
- The worst spirituality is when you identify with your images of Jesus Christ.
- Such is not only idolatry; it is also ego gratification based on a lie, as Christ is not an image but a living Spirit.
- Spirituality has nothing to do with sentimentality or emotionalism.
Spiritual is defined by what it is concerned with:
The workings and relations of the spirit.
- To be spiritual is to be primarily concerned with what your spirit is, how your spirit works, and the relations your spirit has with other spirits.
- In contrast, being materialistic means being primarily concerned with one’s self-esteem, how it works, and how one’s self-esteem is related to other materialistic persons.
- If spirituality is not based on the inner senses, on inner empiricism, then it is just idolatry.
- Empiricism has two forms: internal and external.
- There are also two forms of fool: those who have faith only in internal empiricism (mystic) or those who have faith only in external empiricism (atheist).
- Spirituality and materialism are opposite in that in materialism, you seek to please yourself and other people, and in spiritualism, you seek to please only God.
- Spiritual ego-mania occurs when one identifies with the universe, the spirit, life, nature, etc., as if such a grandiose ego is better than the simple material ego one had before.
What Is Spirituality?
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“A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words point at the truth, but the truth is not in words.” —Huineng
“A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.” —Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu)
“A man is always responsible, whether his act is intentional or inadvertent, whether he is awake or asleep.” —Bava Qamma 2:6
“A man ought to be seen by the gods neither dissatisfied with anything nor complaining.” —Marcus Aurelius
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” —George Moore
“Acceptance is the very essence of the Tao.” —Huahujing
“All that matters is having single-minded purpose (ichinen), in the here and now. Life is an ongoing succession of ‘one will’ at a time, each and every moment. A man who realizes this truth need not hurry to do, or seek, anything else anymore. Just live in the present with single-minded purpose. People forget this important truth, and keep seeking other things to accomplish.” ―Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” —Romans 13:11
“Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.” —Zen proverb
“Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.” ―Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“Be your own light. Be your own refuge. Confide in nothing outside of yourself. Hold fast to truth that it may be your guide. Hold fast to truth that it may be your protector.” —Mahaparinibbana Sutta
“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.” —Zen saying
“Believe nothing, no matter when you read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason.” —Buddha
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.” —Buddha
“Buddha said that life is suffering. However, life is not suffering; ego is suffering.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Buddhism teaches that desire is the cause of suffering. However, desire is not the cause; expectations are the cause of suffering.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.” —Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
“But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.” —Ephesians 5:13
“By letting go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try, the world is beyond the winning.” —Lao Tzu
“By what path will you reach the Buddha, who is free from all desire, all attachment and all social conditioning?” —Dhammapada: The Buddha, verse 180
“The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.” —J. Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living, First Series, p. 86
“When man’s attachments are deep, then divine endowments are shallow.” —Chung Tzu
“With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.1
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