Saturday, October 2, 2010

Spiritual Materialism in Our Time

We are living in a time when great Masters are seldom heard, while all manner of people bearing the 'spiritual look' are venerated.  Just as in all the other arenas of life, we worship appearances and fancy titles, rather than the simplicity of the Truth within the Heart.  We read books and hear stories about these beings who walk on water and dress in robes, or have special powers and we think somehow that truth is found there...
Without knowing ourselves or our own mind we want to follow the next exciting opportunity---maybe this one will lead somewhere, but after so many empty promises...after relying on Buddha's word, or Jesus' word, or Ramana's word we must finally discover for our self what is actually true.
That is the beginning of real spirituality, and the end of our materialistic relationship with life.

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