Faith..............................................................................................
I have seen this so many times. It is a watershed in
one's spiritual development, when one grows tired of
the unending search in various spiritual biographies,
differing teachers and traditions. One feels fed up
tasting a little Middle Eastern religion, New Age energy
work, Zen koans, Tibetan Mudras and mantras, healing
affirmations and positive thinking, ‘I-am’ meditations
and meditation on the breath, reading about Ramana
Maharshi, then Ramakrishna, then Nietzsche and Kant,
transcendental meditation, noumena and phenomena.
One feels so polluted by 1000 different judgments and
concepts about spirituality, gurus, spiritual teachers,
spiritual friends, etc., that one feels utterly poisoned:
and one dare not take another bite.
One sees that one has been following a dozen
different teachers for five or 10 years, with no real
progress. One has been treading the offshore shallows
and not gone deep at all into anything, especially into
oneself.
You see our path is about Self-Realization, even
though the Self is eventually transcended. The Self is
the juice of the universe, the potentiating agent that
makes the universe appear. Objects change; the Self is
always the same in one sense as the subject, the