REMEDIES FOR THE 3 DEADLY SINS OF KARMA #3

Last week we talked about the measure of one's spiritual practice which included:
GRATITUDE
JOY
SURRENDER & TRUST
MEANING

NON ATTACHMENT 

ATTENDING TO NEEDS NOT WANTS

CONGRUENCE WITH SELF

BEING TRUE TO ONE'S CONSCIENCE AND MAKING CORRECTIONS 

FORGIVENESS

HAVING A SENSE OF HUMOR

AWE FOR THE MAGIC AROUND US

However, first and foremost, to achieve these we require a regular, enjoyable, sustainable way of going inward done for its own sake e.g. if its yoga the practice is not done to achieve  perfect postures but to connect within. This is the path to the Middle Way described by Buddha i.e. to balance the opposites and as the Ancestors teach...

In addition they recommend that just as we all have a  unique destiny, so too do we have to find the practice best for us. We should not persevere with a meditation unless it is causing equanimity and balance.

And a lack of time is no excuse

and also

  

“Do not say: "When I have leisure I shall

study  (pray or meditate) - perhaps you will

 never have leisure.”  Hillel

Most of us are familiar with Eastern, Passive  forms of meditation which have become popular in the West but there is also an Active form of meditation which the Ancestors endorse. Next week we will talk about those. Whatever the form and technique we will not be able to subordinate Ego/Monkey/Narrow Mind to Big/Spacious mind (intellectual sheath of Patanjali) without some method of going inward to reach our higher Self. Intellectual pursuits may help guide as to what suits us best but at the end of the day it has to be experiential.

One cannot think it - to be so. We have to practice.

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Hishtavut means Equanimity

Hishtauut.mp3