The effort to keep watching the I am sense and ignoring thoughts while watching is required but this effort arises spontaneously. The mind, at some point discovers by itself that it feels better while watching itself aka slowing itself down. Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone
-----Original Message----- From: fearlessinquirer <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:28:08 To: Advaita-Zen<[email protected]> Subject: Re: The biggest 'spiritual' effort As your heart beats effortlessly, so is the spiritual path. Spirituality is the whole dissolution of effort. Effort implies conflict. (You are here now but mind says this is meaningless; meaning is in that, not this, and so one employs the vehicle of effort to shift from this to that …and from that one shifts again ….endless shifting and never arriving) In the physical world effort is necessary but spiritually, effort is not necessary or maybe necessary until you’ve come to realize that it is unnecessary. There’s spirituality only when will/desire/effort is not. On Sep 6, 7:32 am, [email protected] wrote: > is not to get hooked by thoughts. If you achieve that you've done your job. > Your present situation as well as your goals are made of thoughts. > I, for example, have to detach myself from this thoughts I've just written. > Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone
