SECTION:
The
challenge of spiritual organizations
The following discourses
explain the challenges faced by spiritual organizations in this day
and age. Many people have observed that churches tend to become rigid
with age and that this rigidity prevents them from adapting to the changing
needs of their members. How can churches avoid becoming stagnant so
that they can change with the times? |
| Creating
a spiritual community in which all are accepted for who they are |
| The
foundation for building the community of those who follow the Way of
Christ |
| Both
Jesus and the Buddha sought to establish a community in which the ego
could not take control. Yet this can happen only when people are willing
to rise above their personal dramas instead of allowing their own or
each others egos to hide behind those dramas. |
|
For the most spiritual people, demonstrating the path to personal Christhood
is the overall goal. Thus, you need to consider what is CONSEQUENTIAL
for the fulfillment of your divine plan, for the demonstration of the
path to Christhood, for the manifestation of the Golden Age. |
| A
new look at differences in spiritual movements |
| Many
spiritual people have a dream or vision of an ideal community, but it
cannot come about without the willingness to confront your own ego |
| Understanding
how the inferiority-superiority dynamic distorts religious and spiritual
movements by creating a state of co-dependency that prevents all members
from growing |
| What
has been missing in spiritual communities is the willingness to expose
your egos |
| In
the Aquarian age, spiritual movements cannot allow themselves to be
ruled by the judgmental mindset seen in so many religions in the Age
of Pisces |
| Overcome
the illusion you were brought up to accept, namely that the individual
cannot make a difference in society. Recognize that millions of people
are ready to be awakened and that all together they will indeed make
a difference on a world-wide scale. |
| Any
spiritual teaching or any spiritual organization can become a trap,
used by your ego and the false teachers to keep you in a predefined
mental box instead of transcending yourself and moving into Christhood.
The first person who is put in the mental box created by your ego is
yourself. |
| The
Sangha of the Buddha, the community, we desire to see manifest, is one
where the foremost quality is honesty, where the ego cannot hide. |
| What
shall it profit a man that he gains the whole world and loses the Dharma?
What shall it profit a person that you gain some sense of understanding
of spiritual teachings and concepts, but you loose the Dharma, the Omega
aspect of going out, sharing it with others, with the sole intent of
setting them free? |
| Understanding
the true purpose behind spiritual communities |
| The
only way for a spiritual movement to survive is to remain true to a
vision that is beyond duality |
| Many
westerners interested in Buddhism are not fulfilling their highest potential
because they ignore Christhood |
|
It doesn't matter where you come from on Earth; ony where you come
from in heaven |
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