Yes good stuff.

Rod

On 17 June 2016 at 16:30, Frank Youakim <[address removed]> wrote:

Beautifully and clearly stated. Thanks for sharing it Estelle. The more people realize this, the more people see that we are all in the same boat. Even if some are more spiritually evolved than others, which is of course possible, it does not mean that they are better, or smarter, or prettier. Just like a person in 10th grade knows more than the person in 2nd grade and has more experience in life and possibly more mature. It does not make him better.

On 17/06/[masked]:04 pm, "Estelle" <[address removed]> wrote:

 

The Spiritual Ego Thought just wants something to hold onto. It is seeking to understand conceptually the unnamable truth to which the words consciousness, enlightenment, non-duality, God, Allah, presence, Buddha, nirvana, 'This,' and spirit are pointing. There is nothing wrong with any of those words. But they belong to the realm of form and are merely signs pointing to the formless spirit that animates life in every form. When formless awareness is recognized, attachment to form releases. By simply noticing attachment to spiritual ideas, those ideas lose their grip and a natural surrender happens. It is realized that form is formlessness and vice versa, something thought cannot grasp. That does not mean that the words are no longer used. It means that there is no attachment to them. It is realized that form is an expression of formlessness. The separate self is attachment to form (to ideas). The self makes its idea (e.g., God, non-duality, Brahman, Buddha) more important than the others’ ideas in an attempt to keep the story of a "separate me" alive. This is the spiritual ego. The spiritual ego seeks to have its conception of truth prevail in the world of ideas. The spiritual ego is just as false as any other story of "me." It is bringing conflict to the world under the guise of "spirituality." ~ From: Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby www.kiloby.com/

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