SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What does taking each footstep as an act of devotion toward something holy mean to you? How do we develop ourselves to be selfless climbers and not ego-climbers? Can you share a personal story where the difference between the two became clear to you?
Climb not to get to the top, but to feel your existence and experience something greater! Intentionally turn back and train your spiritual body!
I Feel that Ego is just a vibration or facet or part of Soul/Spirit. and the 2 are only separate by degrees. Who is it that seeks the spiritual path? who is it that seeks the material path? Who is it that wants to save the world, or reach out and help someone else, Who is it that wants to please the self? Isn't it all Spirit? Isn't every breath we Breathe every step we take Inspiried? Who is it that gets frustrated when things are difficult? or overjoyed because things are wonderful? Ego is our motivation, it is the personality/character of the Spirit, we Need Ego to manifest and experience creation, even if through ego we choose negativity or selfishness or lack of gratitude,They are all experiences that Allow Spirit to know Who He/She really IS.
Giving a hand to get something in return, name, fame and the like is ego-climbing.Giving a hand expecting nothing in return is selfless climbing. When we do such actions in our everyday for people we know or do not know is a spiritual way of living. I experience such simple acts of selfless and kindness everyday which makes my day. Such actions do not have to be big or heroic. Such actions are holy actions. I see such actions in the school where I teach, in Trader Joes where I shop, and places I am not familiar.They are not pre planed and pre meditated. They are natural and spontaneous. These acts come from the heart, not the calculating mind. The more we get "schooled", the more we lose the natural ways of living.
Jagdish P Dave
For the last 30 years or so I have lived without a destination, physically and metaphorically.. I have lived moment to moment, taken life as it happened and responded to it intuitively. This has allowed me to experiment and to experience deeply. A lot of physical and intellectual baggage has fallen by the way. I can now feel and express myself much more easily, sometimes even gracefully. I can now play many roles and switch easily from one to the other.
I smile and life more often. I often cry like a child. .Almost nothing shocks me. My senses, particularly the sense of touch have really come alive. There are no strangers any more. The whole universe appears like a symphony.
I have no need to visit the so called holy places. All is holy, sacred and auspicious.