It is difficult for a
spiritual seeker to 'manage' in a dog-eat-dog world!
....
Objectivist philosophy
comes at least half way! It allows healthy competition!
Spiritual path defies
logic, even in this arena!
Somewhere, the healthy
discussions on a spiritual forum tends to end up deploying that
'dog-eat-dog' concept, be-fooling even the most well-meaning-minds,
inadvertently, unconsciously, egoistically, etc... etc...
I was wondering.. A dog symbolizes loyalty(!), Faithfulness(!), and such noble attributes...
and then why this dog-eat-dog?
Does not matter... if it
seems good that way.... let us not have a dog-fight over it... be
it so!
How to now manage... this
spiritual business and the survival within dog-eat-dog world?
Only brilliant people can
give logically-convincing solutions!
I just got absorbed into
spirituality so much that ..... when I see that competition is now
inevitable, and it is only doggedness that is going to dominate, I
wag my tail a little, wrap up the tail now and quietly leave! It is
sheer 'grace' that I managed survival this far even! (Incidentally
here, on spiritual path ... converse theorem works too well! I even
came across a wonderful Teacher who said, to the class... “Those
who are seeking comfort-oriented-blessings, please go elsewhere...
the world is now full of such 'Gurus' who give guaranteed results for
a small fee even! My blessings would be... 'Let everything that can
ever happen to a human being, also happen to THIS disciple of
mine!'... In spite of it, if you are alive, you have won! Richer by
experience! If you are gone... then it is again won... no more
problems, with material life!”
....
Even at material aspect of
life.... only human beings can see... out of their sense of
discretion, that it makes 'sense' to let sensible people live a bit
more comfortably! That is how, Kings used to patronize artists,
craftsmen, teachers and above all spiritually oriented people as
teachers!!! It is the intrinsic value for something precious in a
human being, which, when we recognize persuades us to leave
competition out of their way, paving way for only humility... and
through humility, our own receptivity!
Receptively yours,
psn (7th July,
2013)
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