Got Hit By A Car ( questioning my path)

[Shakazulu]

@Aaron p

This actually hits a lot. I’ve definitely been looking at all this like it meant I’d somehow fallen off the path or that my spiritual drive was fake. Hearing you say this is the path, and that you’ve been through similar scams and fuck-ups at 27, puts it in perspective.

I’m starting to accept the disillusionment instead of using it as an excuse to quit. Realignment + adaptability instead of fantasy – that’s exactly what I need right now. Appreciate you

 

[Shakazulu]

@cetus yea I do, I’m like a hybrid between a song writer, sound engineer and music marketer & yup, I’m sure it will subconsciously 

[Shakazulu]

@cetus just listened to it, I feel healed

[cetus]

1 minute ago, Shakazulu said:

@cetus just listened to it, I feel healed

[Leo Gura]

Yeah, nothing will rob you of your spiritual fantasies faster than loss of health.

You can do everything right and then a brick falls on your head as you're walking down the street and all your spirituality is wiped to zero.

Edited 3 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Majed]

@Leo Gura Yeah i realized over the years, that i do not need spirituality to be happy. If i have my health at 80, even without doing any spiritual work, i'll be fine. And if my health is bad and i am about to die, then be it. Basically a lesson in acceptance. 

[AION]

Real wealth is health aka youthfulness. The rich want to be young and the young want to be rich. 

[Shakazulu]

@Leo Gura

Yeah, I’m definitely feeling that. Getting injured stripped away a lot of my spiritual fantasy and left me face to face with basic fragility and fear. I’m trying to rebuild from there more honestly now.

 

[Shakazulu]

@AION

Facts. This whole accident really drove that home. I was so focused on money/success that I kind of took my health and youth for granted. Now I’m seeing how much everything depends on having a working body first.

 

[Daniel Balan]

@Shakazulu Much love bro! From what I read you are ok. Thankfully your health wasn't too damaged from being hit by that car. That is a really good thing that you will recover back to your normal self with almost no life long impairments from the accident that is really good and you should look at the part of the glass that is full. Actually I'd say that because you will be basically at full peak health in a few months that is an amazing blessing. 

Other than that, I say that you are overthinking and you expect survival to be much easier that it could possibly be.

I personally feel extremely successful just by the fact that I don't beg anyone for food and that I am healthy. All that success and fame thing is illusion, even if you get it eventually, you will still be as depressed as you are right now. No material or spiritual pursuit can influence your happiness. All you gotta do is love yourself and feel like a winner and an ultimate champion if you can have a roof where to sleep, food on your plate and a healthy functional body. 

[AION]

12 minutes ago, Shakazulu said:

@AION

Facts. This whole accident really drove that home. I was so focused on money/success that I kind of took my health and youth for granted. Now I’m seeing how much everything depends on having a working body first.

 

That is why that whole “you are not your body” is toxic. Every spiritual teacher who says that is crippled or feeble. Mind and body is one. Body is mind. And mind is body. 

[Shakazulu]

@Daniel Balan

Much love bro, I appreciate this. You’re right — I’ve been so focused on the “big win” that I haven’t really sat with how blessed I am to still have a working body and a roof over my head. This accident definitely showed me how valuable basic health is. I’m using this time to simplify my idea of success and actually love myself at that basic level first.

 

At the same time, a lot of my drive for success comes from where I come from. My parents moved from Angola to Toronto for a “better life”, and growing up there was always this pressure that we had to prove something and be successful here. I started music at 14 and it ended up intertwined with my awakening and my dharma. I’m not attached to being a “superstar” anymore, but I also don’t want to go against the flow of what life is pulling me toward with music.

 

[Leo Gura]

@Shakazulu Wishing you a full recovery.

[Shakazulu]

@AION

I realized that people identify with spirituality from three different paths.

 

1. Psychedelics 

2. Non-duality/enlightenment

3. Manifestation 

 

often times teachers who teach meditation & enlightenment work shit on teachers who teach only manifestation. It’s not very common but I’ve heard manifestation teachers shit on teachers who only teach ego death & non-duality. Their logic is what good is god consciousness, telepathy & ego death if you can’t pay your bills.