We all know when you point a finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at yourself.
I find that people often forget how to have fun (including me). I notice this frequently happens as people begin to pass middle age. But it can happen to young people too. If you take your job, spiritual life, education, or even your diet or fitness routine too seriously, life becomes dull, boring and monotonous. And eventually â" if this continues long enough, you can become a frozen sculpture with a placard dedicated to the proposition that anyone who is having fun is somehow evil. I think a good thing we can all benefit from is to look at whatever set pattern of living we have created for ourselves and purposely break a self-imposed rule. Drink a glass of wine, eat a hotdog (with kraut), sing frantically at karaoke club, dance naked in the moonlight. I think anything at all (including being a âwild animalâ) is better than spending oneâs life as a dried-out, old, long-faced meditator whose face would crack if they ever smiled. I really doubt thatâs what a âspiritual pathâ is supposed to look like --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My experience over the years is that as my consciousness rises if I > spend any amount of time at all around non-meditators the majority of > them start to seem like wild animals. I guess this is because they are > at the mercy of superficial influences which are like "lines drawn on > water or lines drawn on air" for many of us. I'm not saying that all > non-meditators are like that as there are some people who just come into > life at a higher level of evolution than others. Nor am I positing some > superiority thing. It's just that if you spend any time with them > beyond some casual contact they seem to go completely blindly off on > tangents that I evolved out of years ago as so can be a little annoying > (especially if they are trying to drag you along with them). > > My relatives who out of all of them only my oldest nephew learned > meditation are always "so busy" and I think "no you just aren't able to > handle life so well any more being blown about by an increasing amount > of chaotic influences in our noisier world." We as meditators tend to > have a stable base of consciousness and the chaos of the world has less > and less influence as our consciousness evolves. > > I would like to hear other's *experience* on this and not theory. >
