Spiritual Company

 Genuine spiritual friends are important as a support for our practices. Hopefully, they act as an inspiration to help maintain discipline, through which trust will grow. There will always be a bit of doubt in our minds: my teacher – my spiritual friend – said that 75% is provable, 20% is infered and 5% is trust. This is especially important when engaged in devotional practice.

From another point of view, our spiritual friends, can be a little annoying – but on a spiritual path, they act as a mirror to our own mind and so work as a catalyst to refining our behaviour while challenging our ideas of compassion. We also have to remember that we may be a little annoying to them…I speak from experience 😉

It’s good to find a group to sit with: as well as them supporting you, you will support them.

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