The two most important Spiritual Practices

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The two most important Spiritual Practices. These two practices are actually one in the same, you could compare them to the Yin and the Yang because they are both different but also the same. To do one is to do the other and vice versa.

1. The first Spiritual Practice is this: Observe yourself. This can be brought to the highest level of perspective to the lowest. Everything is you. So observe yourself is to observe the body but also all of life. To Observe what is both within and what is both without, because the truth they are both one and the same.

But for simplicity's sake we will keep this simple. Observe your thoughts, observe your emotions, and observe your reactions. Do it without judgment, but with acknowledgment. This is the foundation of all Spiritual Practice, if you are not doing this then you are asleep. Asleep is to be unconscious, observation is conscious. 

When you allow yourself to drown in emotion and thought, you are like the person in the boat who is swept away in the waves and overcome. Not realizing, that the waves are them as well. You can surf the waves if you are able to observe them, and if you release attachment to them be undisturbed. When you release attachment you become as the bird that soars above the waves but watches them lash about in all their splendid glory.

So watch yourself, observe, without judgment, this is what meditation is. Its not a practice you do for a couple of hours, it is a state, the state of being.

2. The second Spiritual Practice is this: Face your Fears. This Practice is founded on the first, to face your fear is to observe your fear. But the purpose of facing fear is to expand your awareness. Your awareness is limited by fear. Fear is just self-imposed limits. You cannot expand without facing your fear. The dissolution of fear is expansion, the belief in fear is separation. All fear is illusion, your life is living proof. You have made it here today because you have constantly faced your fear. Each fear you have faced has always turned out to be an illusion and it will always be so. If the highest truth is everything is one, and you have a fear you are just fearing yourself. This means you are not facing, not observing which is a violation of the first Spiritual Practice. To face a fear is to face yourself, and to face yourself is to observe yourself, to observe yourself is to raise in awareness. So face your fears, face yourself, until all the illusions are laid bare and can see and observe clearly. Then you will have clarity of vision. Clarity of Vision is Wisdom.

The path of Wisdom is to face your fear, to face your fear is to love that which you despise. The Path of Wisdom and Love meet together through these two Practices. So ask yourself, are you doing them? This is what it means to walk the Spiritual Path. 

Edited June 25, 2022 by Razard86