The Second Sacred Key
Transcript:
Hi there and welcome back to this important short series on the fundamental and key elements required for a meaningful and effective spiritual practice and thus finding true purpose in your life!
In this short series I share with you three key requirements you must have in place if you want your spiritual life and path to enlightenment to be successful and have a spiritual practice that actually works. These are what all true spiritual leaders, such as the likes of Buddha, Ghandi and Christ have in common!
Without these three elements – in other words if one is missing – you will find it impossible to attain a peaceful state of mind and find purposeful direction to your life. Without just one of these three elements your spiritual practice will never result in true inner transformation. I can say that from over twenty years of my own practical experience.
If you haven’t watched the first one, make sure you do so first or straight after this video, so you don’t miss the valuable lesson and undermine your own spiritual growth. I want you to succeed and find inner peace, purpose and happiness in your life.
Now let us move to the second key requirement:
Love what is true.
Addressing the head – you need the understanding to change and so engage in mindful discernment. In other words, you need wisdom!
For this we may study the Word through the Sacred Scriptures, like the Gita, Bible or Koran.
You need to unpack your beliefs through rationality and logic, and carefully consider the things that are objectively so – not because we want them to be true. We need to minimise our false thinking.
We must have the humility too to accept that knowledge and wisdom originates outside of ourselves, that we do not have all the answers within us. We must again accept that there is such a thing as truth – objective reality.
The reason for us to support this, first and foremost, because we do not wish to delude ourselves and live in a fantasy world. At some point, we will be confronted with the consequences of our actions and beliefs and thus the sooner we comply with reality, the better. In other words, we cannot deny reality nor its effects.
Reality is greater than ourselves. By accepting what is true, we support something bigger than us. We submit to it and accept our place in it. The opposite is to fight it, seek to control it and delude ourselves to be the only reality that matters. That is not the road to peace and enlightenment.
Truth is light and accepting the truth, to the best of our ability, is to enlighten our minds. This is a continuous process of improvement. As our understanding grows, we must be willing to re-prioritise, reorder and restructure our thinking. We must reconsider the consequences and our fundamentals based on newfound knowledge and understanding.
Scripture tells us not to lean on our own understanding. It tells us that the Divine is the Way and the Light. In other words, objective reality itself and Wisdom itself. That is what we must accept and it is with this humility and open mind that we find what we seek on our spiritual quest.
If we don’t prioritise what is true in our lives, we are effectively lying to ourselves and denying ourselves a life in harmony with reality.