Written by Mathew Naismith
I think it’s important to be personally aware of the way we
use spirituality either it be passive, active or both, why is this so important
to become aware of this? Confusion for
starters, you can’t use passive and active intention at the same exact time and
when we do, it causes all sorts of confusion. You can however use passive intentions
immediately after using active intentions or visa-versa. The bellow information
will help with this confusion in regard to the difference between active and
passive spirituality.
Extract: While some
people continue to experience spiritual awareness passively, it makes more
sense to actively pursue spiritual growth.
Meditation, Prayer, Visualization, Stretching, Yoga, Dreamwork
is supposed to be about active intentions where passive intentions is more about
just letting our spirituality just flow brought
about by our daily experiences with few intentions. It’s not quite correct that these practices only
denote active intentions, visualising for example can come to anyone at any
time, I’ve experienced this many times myself. Within this we have no intentions there for it’s
not an active intention; it’s not about active spirituality but passive spirituality.
Active spirituality has more to do with forcing an experience
rather than going along with the experiences in our daily lives. Another thing
to consider is, what experiences we have in our daily lives is more to do with
a need rather than a desire, living for a need is all about passive spirituality,
this is saying that active spirituality is more to do with desire than a need.
I don’t think we experience anything by chance, everything that
happens within our lives happens for a purpose, forcing such experiences to occur
only goes along with what man has done right throughout history, forcing our
intentions on all around us which has only created a lot of chaos and destruction.
Man’s intentions have always been about
desire, is that the way we want to continue?
Let’s look at sages, shamans and Buddha and Jesus, did and
do they not use active spirituality to become aware and well connected to their
inner selves? There is one fundamental difference
between sages, shamans and Buddha, Jesus; yes they all allowed their daily experiences
to determine their intentions, this denotes passive intentions, but sages and shamans and alike also induce these
experiences through various practices, Jesus and Buddha had no such intentions
I feel.
Buddha and Jesus, especially Buddha who we know often
meditated, to us obviously used active spirituality by using such practices
like mediation, this is a clear indication of active spiritualty but that isn’t
so.
I and many other people like me can go into a daydream state
at any time and at times this can lead to a deep mediative state, this is accomplished
without any intentions what so ever, some people can just go straight into a
deep meditative state by just going with the flow of their environment. This
can eventually be accomplished through active intentions but what I am saying
is, Buddha and Jesus didn’t have to use active intentions and I don’t think
they needed too from the very start. What they did is allow their environment, without
being in judgement of, to determine their states of consciousness quite
automatically.
It’s not just about being one with yourself but one with all
that is around you no matter what it is without judgement. A lot of people have a hard enough time
becoming one with themselves, becoming one with our entire environment that we ourselves
are experiencing seems utterly daunting and unachievable but it’s not, Jesus
and Buddha are good example of this.
Everything that you experience in your life has the capacity
to teach you to become aware through passive spirituality like it did for Jesus
and Buddha, yes active intentions can and do work but active intentions have a down side to it, it’s not going with
the flow of life and it’s about a desire not a need. Ask yourself, did Buddha and Jesus live their
lives on desires? You could say they
desired to help others but it was more of a need than a desire, the need of the
collective.
I’m not sure to this day why we are not listening to the greatest
spiritual teachers of all times, is it primarily to do with the ego, seen as to desire is of the ego, or is it we
relate these great teachers to a religion? It would seem our disdain for religion
and our egos are holding us back big time; to be anything like Jesus or Buddha,
we need to go beyond our own personal desires as did Jesus and Buddha.
If you dropped your intentions and judgement, you will find
you will automatically go into meditative states without any intentions, this
is our natural state, believe it or not I feel it’s not natural for us to have intentions,
yes it seems natural for our human selves to have intentions but it’s not for
our inner selves, our Jesus and Buddha selves.
To accomplish our desires and even our needs we need intentions
or do we??? We have lived under
intentions for so long we have no idea how to exist without intentions; I think
this is quite amusing.
Do I live without intentions? No, I’m actually going with the
flow but I am aware of what our intentions have created and keep on creating. I
have actually stopped myself from going into deep meditative states, this was
my intention brought on by my present environment which is all about intentions.
My intentions is to not go into deep meditative
states which other people have the intention to go into, it’s still intentions either
way. So in all that is what most of us
are doing, we are going with the flow, however, this flow is becoming increasingly
destructive only because we are now unaware of how to exist without intentions.
We are not living within our environment
but have intentions of what our environment should be, this isn’t going with
the flow of our natural environment but against it.
How do we stop being so much about intentions? This is
simple, just be, in every moment you get think of just being, yes this is still
expressing passive intentions but it’s not about desire but a need. Just being within the present moment without
intentions and judgement is quite uplifting and a very passive way to become
one with all of what is, eventually you will just automatically be within the
present moment at any time. Yes humanly you will still be expressive of intentions
but within yourself, in your own space, you will have lost your intentions, you
would have found out how to exist without intentions.
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