Strategies for Getting to Now Tomorrow
Estrategias para llegar al ahora mañana
A student describes diving headfirst into spiritual development, only to discover a subtler program of seeking that had been hidden all along.
Strategies for Getting to Now Tomorrow
A student describes diving headfirst into spiritual development, only to discover a subtler program of seeking that had been hidden all along.
It's so interesting, because I've been going headfirst into all this spiritual stuff, all this personal development. Obviously pain is hard, but I can take it. Give it to me. I want to just get this over with and face it. But it wasn't until I actually started flirting with this idea of stopping the search that this other program appeared. It was so subtle that I hadn't noticed it before.
The hidden program of seeking
Yes, but you're walking the path. You're following the proper map of awakening. This is how it goes. We first hear of this and think, "Great, I want that. Enlightenment, peace, amazing. That's me, that's what I want." And then we ask, "How am I going to get that?" We start following teachers, reading books, thinking, "Tomorrow I will get it." There was a phrase someone used recently: all these strategies for how to get to now, tomorrow.
Right, all these strategies for how to get to now tomorrow.
A friend of hers once said she's sick of the teachers who promise to teach you how to get to now tomorrow.
Well, soon "now" is going to come.