The 95% Knowledge vs 5% Practice TAKES US FAR FROM TRUE SPIRITUALITY
The internet, especially YouTube, is loaded with information about spirituality, signs that you’re getting enlightened, chakras, aura, and all this kind of stuff. This can give you a fast and easy illusion that you know what a True Spirituality is. And knowing this, you can get the illusion that, “Oh, now I’m enlightened.” This is BS.
From Dogma to Discovery: My Personal Search for Truth
I grew up in an orthodox family, and my grandma used to take me to church. As a small kid, I had so many questions, like why do we need to be standing in an Orthodox Christian church while I would see people sitting on the benches in a Catholic church on TV. Or I would ask my grandma, “Why is God punishing us for the sin if he is the source of unconditional love and forgiveness?” “Why do we need to fear God?”
Her answers were orthodox and religious, but they were not enough for me.
When I was 16, I went to university in a different city. At the railway station, there was a small bookstore, and I intuitively saw the shelf which said esoterics. It was a weird word, and I started opening books until I was intuitively drawn to Osho. This is the author that introduced me to esoterics.
My first meditation techniques were from the orange book of Osho, including both passive and active meditations, where you are also dancing or doing active stuff. I went on a number of retreats and thought I was becoming spiritual because I knew all the concepts and had read how spiritual people would explain what spirituality is and is not.
The 95% Knowledge vs. 5% Practice Trap
It took me between 18 and 20 years to realize that I had 95% of information and only 5% or less was practice of looking inward into myself and observing how I think, act, and react in my everyday life. This is in order to actually get acquainted with the true self —not what I think about myself, but who I really am in my everyday life.
It’s so unimportant what phase of spiritual path you are on.
Spirituality is a Path of Personal Evolution
The main thing is how you feel. Spirituality for me is about making your dreams and desires happen (K: Bold this phrase, use as a key takeaway).
The bigger the dream or your goal or desire is, the more you need to change in order to get there. When you dare to desire and set goals, and then you start moving towards it, you see obstacles on the way. Those obstacles are given to you by yourself, from within, in order for you to get new qualities.
Spirituality is a path of personal evolution of qualities, competences.
It’s just about the path itself, moving forward.
The reaching of that goal doesn’t matter because you’ve done the path and you were sincere with yourself, you have evolved already.
A very thin and gentle point to look into is when you’re about to change your goal: you need to first do everything possible and impossible and give yourself time, and only after all this doesn’t work, yes, you can change the goal. One way or another, you’re going to get there or you’re going to get to a little different place.
Overcoming the Inner Conflict
Spiritual people don’t run away from challenges. They don’t run away from what’s blocking them inside. They do everything possible in order to grow and develop and evolve.
If you are filled with anger, you don’t have love and kindness to share with other people because you first need to look inwards and find what’s standing behind it. This is often being mad at parents for treating or mistreating you, or other situations from the past. We need instruments to find the root cause of those mental programs that are blocking you.
Spirituality is about:
1. Trying to understand what I want.
2. Then trying to figure out how to get it.
3. And it’s about going and getting it.
No one else will tell you what you need to do exactly, but you can get help with information on: What’s the essence of my inner conflict that stands between where I am and what I want?
I recently spoke with a friend, a sales manager, who works hard and makes good money, but sees other people making “crazy money” and thinks, “I just won’t get there. It’s impossible for me.”
I suggested he take the word Big Money and write down what emotions and memories come up that have to do with it. Our culture, coming from a Ukrainian/USSR background, has harmful quotes like: “Big money is bad” or “Big money spoils people”. These are called false beliefs.
We took it as truth when we were small kids, and now we act and react based on those so-called truths that are actually false beliefs that keep you where you are. Looking at this list will show you your inner conflict that is keeping you from what you’d like to have, and what you’re afraid to have or don’t believe you’re worth.
Your Head Has Outdated Software
Remember this: everything you don’t have, you blocked out of your life. To get it back, you need to allow yourself to do that and find what keeps your goals from materializing by looking inwards.
You need to sense with your body, not thinking in your head. Your head has outdated software. If you don’t write down regularly what I feel, how I behave, how I react, you don’t know yourself. You are acting from the point of those programs that were given to you by other people.
Before you see it inside of you, no instrument is going to help you move forward. When you set that big goal, you need to start moving right away and look inward:
1. How do I feel about this movement?
2. What I fear in this process?
3. What qualities I need to get?
4. Am I working hard enough in order to learn this new thing?
Life is showing you what you’re not seeing inside of yourself. Everything inside and out is just you.
If you’re stuck in a certain sphere of your life and you just can’t figure out how to get out of that situation—maybe you tried psychology or therapy and it doesn’t work—it may be a sign that the root cause is further than the childhood of this life.
I have a toolkit of instruments and practices that I can share with you in the form of individual consultation or healing practices. We can work on certain destructive mental programs that are keeping you from what you’d like to achieve in your life. It just works much faster and much more effectively than traditional methods that you’ve heard of.
See you soon.
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AB
