I was moved to write because I came across the local New Age bookstore's email newsletter mentioning Catherine Ingram's talk. I looked her up and checked out one of her books. What struck me was one of the Amazon's comments on how she did not mention anything about spirituality or such New Agey concepts in one of her books. I have been pondering how to live spiritually without needing to point to that concept for I believe that is a label that screws things up and creates a certain expectation.
The more I read and the more I ponder such readings (Spiritual Bypassing: What Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters by Robert Augustus Masters) leads me back to my Self. What I mean is that once I strip away all the "Shoulds" in my life, from my parents', society's, and spiritual guru's admonitions then the better approach and mindset for me right now is to relax into my current state of mind and emotion and place of life. I believe it is the process of acceptance is the key of that "spiritual" state.
I can be angry and that's OK. The thing is to be angry and be able to sit and embrace that emotion. I do not need to judge whether I feel angry or to judge why I should or should not be angry or judge whether I am expressing it well or not (in my case I tend to NOT express it but to surpress it and judge it). I can just FEEL it, accept it and know once I do then it is easier to let it go. I can express it. In fact, I think that is part of the process of letting it go but I think the expression will come out more "cleanly" if I take that step of embracing my anger first THEN expressing it.
Well that's my story and I am sticking to it.
As I told someone that it is called a Spiritual PRACTICE for a reason for it is practicing.
Metta,
Mark
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