You
may think I am in conflict with you; I am not. You
may think I am in agreement with you; I am not. Higher contact with more advanced people
cannot happen for you as long as you want to drag them down to
your level where you see them as conforming or failing to conform
to your own sense of spiritual authority where you imagine you
possess the best opinion possible of all leading spiritual figures. There
is simply nothing real nor important
about agreement or conflict with you.
You
are presently motivated in a secondary way about your need for
social influence, to have more money or to acquire exciting new
sex-partners. These secondary drives are perfectly natural
for you, but you should not disguise them as aspiration for higher
contact or supernormal development. For
a moment, let’s discuss your sex problem. You
should have learned by now that to have sex where there is no
real and intelligent intimacy or heartfelt affection is nothing
but a preliminary life-experiment rather than an actual fulfillment. People
often have to make a lot of such experiments in order to learn
that they deeply want something more meaningful and vibrant in
their sex life. Therefore,
superficial contradictory standards of “loyal monogamy” on
the one hand or “free sex” on the other hand are
equally superficial. For
you to learn a deeply real, intimate
and spiritually dynamic approach to just sex alone does not require
your superficial urge to have conflict with spiritual leaders
nor will your hidden urge to throw yourself at someone’s
feet and get relieved of your responsibilities and frustrations
do anything real. How
are you going to really understand higher development and Self-realization
when you do not even know what sex is really about?
A limited
mental attitude cannot grasp unlimited things. You have become doubting and argumentative
toward spiritual subjects because you have entrusted your spiritual
potential to your outer physical brain with which you read books
on occult, spiritual, Divine and cosmic subjects and make interpretations. On the basis of what is in your brain,
coupled with your background social, financial and sexual failures
or frustrations, you want me or other spiritual beings to cooperate with you. What you really need is to take a leap
in consciousness beyond your usual motives and opinions, thus
shifting into an internal position where you can be taught. No
teacher can help you until you are in a position of learning.
Think
now what learning is really about. It
is not about you becoming a leading spiritual influencer who is
gaining money and sex from it. Learning is about
making more real and meaningful use of your personal time. You need to develop higher energies and
vibrations in your body and mind, for instance. This
will require more serious application of Mantra and Yoga concentration,
meditation and Samadhi than anything you have done so far. In spite of your lofty ideas, your personal
existence is rather crude and undeveloped. Why
is this? Because
you waste so much of your time in false and meaningless things
of the outer social world of empty talk and entertainment.
Arguing
with your insane mind on a directly personal level would itself
be an act of insanity. That is why no truly real and developed
teacher would give you access to them. In
fact, that is how you can know that a “spiritual guide” is
false, for anyone who would give you direct personal relationship would
by definition be false, a mere charlatan. Your task at this time is therefore to
cure yourself of your present insanity you have formed in and
around your imaginary spirituality. This
insanity is the mental condition of your present proud and argumentative
ego, which ego is founded on your stupid belief that labels,
habits, money, possessions, book-learning and fleeting experiences
all add-up to a real and permanent self.
Spiritual
development, you need to learn, is not the outcome of winning
some philosophical debate with this or that popular spiritual
leader. Spiritual development is not a competition between
spiritual authorities, schools and traditions. This is the core of your present problem. You
want to find an answer, a teaching, that will hit you so hard
and give you so much faith that you will not need better answers
or teachings, which means you want an end to
the Learning Process rather than a beginning. When you can feel that learning is over,
that you reached the Ultimate Teaching or Way, you can be totally
authoritative and dogmatic. To
make a real beginning in
learning, stop trying to reach a final answer, a final teaching,
a final conclusion. Learn
how to keep learning, growing and maturing as a solid, down-to-Earth,
natural and real human being. Be
a cosmic explorer of anonymous freedom. Start
looking far beyond your present limits.
I am not your problem; you are
your problem.
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