The great purpose of life
is internal evolution. All are born to this, but most quickly forget why they are here
Once enmeshed in the physical world, life serves merely the body's survival.Society's physical and social edifices, intended as forms within which humanity may evolve, become prisons.
Many dream of escape but few find the practical path to freedom.
Birth Potential
Individual conscious perfection exists in potential as a spark within every human being.Spirit expresses itself through energy, on its lowest level perceived as matter. Essential Being evolves within this system.
Birth on the Earth creates the possibility for growth of this individual Essential Being.
Veiled Choice
Humans accept certain limits while on the Earth in order to provide conditions for development.We are restricted to the body. The inner levels are veiled. Past and present are obscured. All conscious memory of the pre-life condition is removed.
It is not till a person begins to function freely within the Higher Energy levels that this memory is clearly regained - although vague and unreliable traces of it are sometimes discovered by those who are psychically sensitive in the Lower Energy levels.
Choice is created by this veiling of the Spirit from the superficial consciousness. Attachment to the senses is the result.
These lead to identification of the self with the body, which is 'spiritual ignorance'.
Consequently, Mind must then make the choice to respond either to internal influences from above, or to external influences from below.
Potential Realised or Lost
The forces maintaining the universe are complex and the reasons for many things in life unclear.Why do some struggle to realise their inner potential while others dissipate it through a life of ignorance, weakness and neglect?
There is a pressure from within and without to develop this potential. In response, each life may spiral up, circle, or spiral down run out of energy and fade away.
For those who sadly allow this spark to fade there is little individual hope.
For those who actively choose inner growth, the question appears of the 'Path' or 'Way'.
worldwideway
The worldwideway is the path that leads within, back to our essential being.An intelligent synthesis of Daoist, Sufi & Yogi methods – Energy Cultivation, Self Refinement, Meditation
For those who wish to retrace their steps guidance is available, without which there is little chance of finding the way.
Spirit
Spirit exists in the Ever Present Here and Eternal Now. Eternal Now includes past, present and future which exist equally and simultaneously.The Divine Presence is at all places, on all levels, at all times.
Only the focus of expression changes from one world to another, either physically distant, internally distant or distant in time.
Rumi –
"Monks, nuns and priests, cut themselves off from life, because they feel life cuts them off from the Divine. If they were to see the Divine in all things, then they would not choose to cut themselves off from the very thing for which they seek."Non-attachment in Life
Non-attachment to the good and the bad that surrounds you means more when practised in life than when practised in sheltered circumstances.The Divine has an inner and an outer expression, spiritual and worldly. Our purpose is to integrate the two.
All great teachers advocate students developing themselves while living a normal life. 'In life but not of life' say the Sufis while the ideal of the Daoists is to achieve a balanced harmony with the subtle natural processes of the Earth, solar system and universe including all its forms of life.
Life on the Earth, with all its seemingly contradictory processes, is an exactly appropriate expression of the Divine in this particular time and place. The Earth is a training ground and the conditions are perfect for the lessons we need to learn.
The struggles you make to improve your present situation are the ones that will best help your inner-being. Wherever you are is the best place from which to refine yourself.
Sufi Sheikhs, Daoist Sages and the most balanced Yogis, are free to live a caring sharing family life. They are also free to earn their own living, not depending on charity and the labour of others.
Using the difficulties of an un-sheltered life, they work psychologically on emotional energies, replacing unconscious negative emotions with the conscious practice of love and its aspects.
Their work on the body is either denying by withholding food, sleep, sex, and comfort, or a more balanced approach following the natural principles of the Earth, working positively on the body and its energies, replacing unconscious tensions and actions with the conscious practice of relaxation, responsiveness, awareness and control.
Using the intellect to administer the process, creates balance where the 3 aspects are harmonised (intellect, emotions, and body).
Omar Khayyam:
"'Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days,Where destiny with men for pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the closet lays.
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
He knows about it all - HE knows - HE knows!"