Spiritual Growth

As part of our teachings we point out that whatever is taking place in your life is 100% your responsibility. Whatever adverse circumstances are taking place in your life, you yourself created them, even though you may be clueless as to how you did it. Therefore, if you wish to change those circumstances; the responsibility is yours. If you wish to generate genuine spiritual growth in your life, the work is yours and it may be connected with some very sincere effort and the need to generate discipline in your life. If you want change, you yourself are the one to turn to.

We point out that whatever unconscious work you have done to create your misery, has to be matched by at least the same degree of conscious work to undo it. That is just cleaning up the garden of your life. Then you have to condition the soil, plant seeds and then nourish that growth meticulously every single day.

I noticed that saying this has quite the sobering effect on people at times. It is so much easier to just sit around and wait for the second coming of Christ or the Buddha in the form of Maitreya. Or to go to a 21-day program that promises enlightenment or teaches you to live on light. Such programs represent metaphysical fraud and the immense shortcuts they suggest will always attract the insincere, the gullible and the downright stupid. P.T. Barnum used to say that A Sucker is Born Every Minute. Let us keep in mind that he said that a very long time ago. Adjusting for the tremendous growth in population, we must update this statement for the year 2006 by saying that today A Sucker Is Born Every 10 seconds.

My own learning consists of stepping back and watching suckers go and have their experiences, after all they have their rights to them if they insist.