Comments on: What’s the goal of the spiritual path?

By: Katinka - Spirituality

Katinka - Spirituality — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:59:13 +0000

That’s really not my area of expertise. I do think that with a good therapist and the wish to heal, even people who have gone through things like that can heal.

By: spiritual warrior

spiritual warrior — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:28:45 +0000

what about victims of sexual abuse broken hearts and split egos.Can they be healed?

By: Katinka - Spirituality

Katinka - Spirituality — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:12:58 +0000

I just don’t believe that anybody is fundamentally flawed enough to make it impossible to become better than they are. Enlightenment, as I understand it, isn’t about perfection – it’s about compassion.

By: Hermit

Hermit — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:14:00 +0000

So we keep improving ourselves through our lifetimes until we reach perfection?

Tell me, what about the problem of evil? What if we can’t improve ourselves, because we are fundamentally flawed, and we cannot change that?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:11:12 +0000

If there be any meaning to this all, and I think you are presuming there is, then one must wonder why we would be in this environment if our goal is to enlighten ourselves or other or to bless others.
Did we really need to be in this earthly environment to do that?
If the answer is no, and I think it is, then the goal must be a function of this temporary environment.
Being enlightened, awake or loving is our natural state, not something we need to achieve. Most “spiritual seekers” can agree to this. So, that being the case one can be moved to ask, why are we temporarily not experiencing that in its fullness. What benefit comes, from this other experience?
That, for me, is the clue.

By: RayIan

RayIan — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:10:10 +0000

The truth will set you free.

By: richard

richard — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:43:07 +0000

I don’t get it. How did so many people become so sure of their understanding of ‘soul’ and ‘spirit?’ To me they have little meaning or so much meaning as to make them meaningless.

I seems that I remember people interested in Theosophy or in the ageless wisdom saying that referents were important.

By: richard

richard — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:32:31 +0000

motive is tough
and it doesn’t sit still

By: richard

richard — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:29:57 +0000

What’s liberate? Is it what the ex-preses wife say we did to Iraq and Afghanistan?
Is it free, like what the little boy did when he let the lizard go?

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:40:16 +0000

Hi Katinka…..When I first strted to read this ,i thought that you were ,perhaps experiencing the same thing that I have been recently : the discovery that all this ‘spiritual’ activity no longer has any meaning for me . I would be foolish to consider this as neccessarily permanent ,but ,now that I’ve accepted it ,it does seem more settled , accepting (more or less ) ,daily life ,and ,surprisingly ,finding a subtle joy here.