Spiritual Values
Bringing Spirituality to the People: Go Where Nobody Goes.
It is essential that our spirituality evolves as our human and natural environment constantly transforms. This is why we are proposing important foundations for a New Spirituality. This millennium needs a new spirituality. This is the foundation of it.
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Spirituality must go to the people and not the people to spirituality. Spirituality must be where it is not. In the past, we have asked people to go to religious and spiritual organizations. Now is the time to go to the street and offer everyone every possible spiritual instrument and aid.
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Spirituality must go to the people and not the people to spirituality. Spirituality must be where it is not. In the past, we have asked people to go to religious and spiritual organizations. Now is the time to go to the street and offer everyone every possible spiritual instrument and aid.
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Spirituality is rooted into the genetic codes of each and every human being, into the genetic code of nature, all living and sentient beings, and into the genetic code of the spirit — i.e., your mission on this planet. It is through spirituality that we inter-connect with all those genetic codes simultaneously. To separate or segment those three codes leads to suffering, illnesses, and decreasing levels of human welfare. All is one and one is all.
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Spirituality heightens our interdependence at all levels of our existence. Individualistic stances are not part of this new spirituality. Ignoring our inter-dependence is leading many people to loneliness, depression and despair.
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Spirituality is simple. The most accelerated form of spiritual transformation takes place in our space of total innocence. This is the space of no judgments. This is the space where the non-discriminating mind dominates our existence. This is the state of purest being. Complexity ruins our relationship with the inner-self.
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Spirituality and all spiritual practices are exact. Many people confuse flexibility with randomness in the path towards spiritual growth. As shown in the many spiritual disciplines at our disposal in this day and age, every aspect of them is definable and clearly exact. Exactitude must not be confused with rigidity or dogma. This is not what is meant here.
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Spirituality is all about the other. The spirituality of me, me, me, has ceased to exist. This is to say, for example, that the concepts of salvation or enlightenment, and many other concepts embedded in religion and spiritual traditions, are always connected to the other.
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Spirituality is to exalt the law of infinite balances. In the end everything is to be in balance. This is also known as the law of karma. This is the law of causes and effects.
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Spirituality is to be free of costs. There should be no charges — financial or otherwise — to share spiritual knowledge and practices. Spirituality is not a business and should not be conducted as such.
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Spirituality is effortless. Many people make great efforts to become spiritual. This attitude tires them out and, in the end, they move away from the path. It is essential to practice the spirituality of non-action. To be in a state of non-action is NOT passive.
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Spirituality is not a material possession. It should not involve attachment to material reality. This does not mean that we reject or diminish the importance of our material reality. We live in a material world and therefore we must operate well and effectively.
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Spirituality is all about being. Thus, knowing, doing or having, are not the total essences of spiritual transformation. However, in the past, there was too much emphasis on knowing and little on being and becoming. This has now radically shifted and we need to create the conditions for people to experience the states of being they are advocating.
Spirituality, mainstreamed
- Spirituality must be mainstreamed everywhere, including business, economics, finance, government, human rights, and into all our professions.
- Spirituality must not remain separate or become a residual of our lives and concerted actions. It is not possible to be spiritual only during the weekends and then during the weekday ignore our spirituality.
- Spirituality must be free flowing everywhere and in everyone. No material constraints must dominate spiritual reality.
- Spirituality must be conceived as spirituality in action. We are all spiritual. Spirituality is not the prerogative of gurus, lamas, priests, rabbis, imams or any other hierarchical notion of established institutions.
- Spirituality must dominate our lives today. Most of the environmental and material crises we observe today are the mirror image of our spiritual crises. Global warming is the result of our inner warming.
- Spirituality must drive the architecture of our destiny. Human destiny, individual and collective, is to be drawn from our spiritual missions on this planet.
- Spirituality must conquer outcomes as it must conquer processes. It is equally important to know where we are going as well as the vehicle that is going to take us there.
- Spirituality must be the glue that anchors us into the natural environment and Natural Law.
- Spirituality must be action that promotes simultaneously our material and spiritual evolution and growth. We must stop development models that portray materially rich societies which are in fact spiritually poor.
- Spirituality must be practiced. It has been made abstract and thus detached from the normal human being on this planet. In action we must recover true spirituality.
- Spirituality must become the guiding principle of human engagement, as the wise elders have already spoken: “never get involved in something that has no spirit”.
- Spirituality must be hosted in the hearts and souls of all living beings, sentient beings, holy beings and human beings. It is all encompassing and all pervading.
- Spirituality must speak to everyone and everywhere. Exclusion is not the principle guiding action in the spiritual realm.
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