Seduction of Spirit

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This is my second blog and in this blog I will be sharing some spiritual knowledge as well as talk about life in general. I believe all life is spiritual and part of the One Reality. Therefor any subject is ultimately a spiritual one. I look forward to sharing my experience with you and I hope I can enrich some lives in the process. Namaste.

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Being Positive vs Being Natural

Posted By on December 22, 2009

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This is something I have been pondering for a while now. As so many times in my life before I am experiencing a bit of a personal crises right now, and this after everything has been going well for me of late. I found the job where I fit in and things were really improving. In fact things had been going too well for me. When things go too well for me I tend to self destruct. I know, it’s a bummer. It’s just conditioning from the past. When your whole life has been mostly miserable it’s kind of hard to accept any good fortune that comes your way. This happens to a lot of people though, not just the ones with miserable pasts.

Many of us are afraid of being truly happy. Because it has been eluding us for so long, we can’t accept it all when it comes along. So we mess it up. This has been very much the case for me, I won’t lie. Whenever the slightest bit of happiness comes my way I tend to find a way to make it all undone. That is just what I did when I recently made a car accident. It was all my fault and now I don’t have transport to my job. Back to square one. I have really been struggling with this of late, asking myself whether I will ever break this pattern of falling back. I was trying to think positively to make it go away, but what I realized is that my positive thinking was just a way of running away from the problem.

Being positive when you really don’t feel like being positive is a self defeating exercise I believe. That is because it is not natural. It is the ego at it’s cunning best. It takes a lot of self reflection to realize this, but it’s very important to do so. Being positive when things are really bad for you won’t take away the problem. Being positive is just another way for the ego to try and control things when it is really powerless to do so. The ego is powerless, the universe is infinitely powerful. After having struggled with this problem for several days in my head, I realized that I was getting in the way of a solution.

Struggle and strain is from the ego, which is fear based. Trust and surrender is from spirit, and it is based in love. I realized that all this plotting and planning is really futile. Now I just trust that the universe in it’s infinite intelligence will bring about a solution, while I wait in expectation. So for me this is an issue of trust. Trust that the universe takes care of me and that it has a plan for me in all of this. I am not alone in this and I take comfort in that. That goes for any situation no matter how big or how small. It’s a good feeling because there is no more fear and resistance. No more negativity or positivity. Just simple trust.


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Homer Simpson Knows Best

Posted By on December 16, 2009

Personally I’m a huge Simpsons fan and my favorite character is Homer. He is utterly stupid, yet you can’t help but love him. For all his mistakes Homer has a great attitude towards life. No matter how badly he screws up, he always finds a way to triumph. In fact there are many things we can learn from Homer. Homer does not think much, that much is clear. If only we could think as little as Homer does, life would be much less complicated for us. Too much thinking is like a sickness. Most people identify with their thoughts, but in truth we are not our thoughts. We are spirit, or higher self. This spirit or higher self is the part of us that is one with God. It is who we really are. It contains all knowledge and wisdom. It is infinitely intelligent.

By thinking too much and not cultivating stillness in consciousness, we don’t tap into spirit and infinite intelligence. Instead we are constantly thinking. We are always plotting, analyzing, judging, etc. As long as our heads are filled with noise, we shut out our higher selves, and therefor don’t tap into it’s infinite wisdom. So how do we remedy this ’sickness’, this constant noise that is going on inside or heads? There are many ways, but the best one I know of is meditation. Also it helps to practice non-judgement. By constantly judging we also create inner noise. So stop analyzing, interpreting and judging for a few hours a day, and see what happens. Meditation should be done for 15-20 minutes twice a day. Just sit still with your eyes closed and focus on your breathing, or find someone to teach you if that is what you’d like.


To come back to Homer Simpson, he actually says a very important thing. If we only rely on our devices and ‘try our best’, we ultimately fail. By surrendering to your higher self you allow an intelligence infinitely greater than your intellect to take over. In Zen tradition there is a a principle called ‘do less and accomplish more’. This is no different from living in a state of surrender. It means that the less you rely on your ego and intellect, and the more you surrender to infinite intelligence, the easier life becomes. This is also called the law of least effort. Too often we try to control things and have it all our way, when in fact the universe always knows best and all we need to do is go with the flow. Of course this doesn’t mean thought is useless. Lets just say it’s overrated…

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The Enlightened Master

Posted By on October 20, 2009

Enlightenment is the ultimate achievement in spiritual terms, and therefor also the ultimate achievement, ultimately speaking. There are many definitions for enlightenment, but it is also hard to define. This is because enlightenment doesn’t point to any ‘thing’. It’s really beyond description and can’t be understood by the intellect. It can only be ‘felt’. It’s a state of being. I can’t say for sure what it is, because I’m not enlightened. Yet anyway. The ancient wisdom traditions described enlightenment by what it is not, for instance unmanifest, unborn, undying etc. It is that field of all possibilities where creation came from.

Being in state of enlightenment is sufficient in itself. It is the knowing that you are the Source of all things, that you are the observer, the observed and the process of observation itself. Knowing that you are all these things must be awesome, and I can imagine that it must be a state of nirvana. How does one become an enlightened master? Again I can’t say for sure because I am not one myself, but I have an idea. First of all I think eventually everyone reaches enlightenment. There is no failure when it comes to enlightenment. How can there be when you were created in the image of God?

In truth you are already enlightened, but you have yet to experience it. You chose to get lost in this illusion of time in space so that you could find yourself again and experience your divinity. So ultimately there is nothing more to do than to become enlightened. It is really all there is to do. You can either go about it consciously or you can do it unconsciously, in which case it will take much longer. If achieving enlightenment is all there is to do, then why not make it your goal? If you goal is making money, gaining power, having sex or whatever, it will lead you to enlightenment anyway. But that is like taking the long road instead of a much shorter one.


Making enlightenment your primary goal is thus the first step, because it is your primary goal. Once you intend to become enlightened the circumstances and events that are necessary will start falling into place. There is no specific way to find enlightenment. Therefor I can’t tell you exactly how to get there. I can only give you some broad outlines and then you must find your own way. But you will be supported along the way and find the necessary guidance if you ask for it. Ultimately everyone must find their own way because enlightenment means being 100% independent. It is the ultimate prize.

It is realizing your oneness with the Source, and therefor you wouldn’t need anything outside of yourself to be happy. That’s smething that is hard for us to imagine, because we are in a constant state of need. Once we satisfy one desire we move onto the next in what seems to be an unending search for fulfillment. Can you imagine being 100% fulfilled just by being? Not needing anything or anyone to be happy? Finally being at peace? That is what enlightenment is and that is where you are heading. whether you know it or not. Isn’t it cool? :)

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