One Spirit - Volume 3: Who Seeks Spirituality?/Maya/I Janus/The Eternal Now
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"Who seeks spirituality - Examining spiritual issues" This lecture is about spirituality and pseudo-spirituality. One difficulty about this idea of spirituality is that it remains an idea. The question we have to ask is: can spirituality be an idea? Ideas are movements away from direct experience. There is a fundamental difference between thinking about spirituality and being spiritual. Ideas, connected with thoughts are the beginning of the problem. Thoughts are very useful in abstraction. But could it be, that thoughts about anything are in fact the basis of many of our problems?
"Maya - Dynamics and consciousness of illusion"
Maya is spiritual illusion.
Could the ideas, wishes and hopes for peace and love be major illusions?
The only reality is what is permanent and cannot change.
Is the "I" or "relationship" real in this sense?
We need a deeper spiritual intelligence and a training to go with this process.
"I Janus - Limits and resources of the ego"
How does the ego represent the personality?
Is it possible to use the ego for the spiritual path?
Can the body be used as a spiritual ashram?
How can the ego be a tremendous resource?
Is there another way to appreciate the ego instead of killing it?
How does the physical world show us our level of spiritual development?
"The eternal now - the dynamics of past, present and future" Consider that many of us have had experiences from the past and that often we hang on to these past events. We come to identify ourselves with that past. What I call myself now in the present is very much connected with and attached to these previous experiences. It's clear that these events effect who I'm today. But if we are honest, we should ask: what are these past experiences, which effect my life today, and what am I holding on to about this past. In many kinds of therapies we try to work out these situations. It's a long process. A part of this problem is that we don't want to accept the facts of the past as past. Who is the person that has had these experiences, is still attached to them and is using these experiences not to be present today?
