What Is Spiritual?

Thinking that some things are spiritual while others are not is to totally misunderstand what ‘spiritual’ is. We may think being spiritual is “pie in the sky”—something unlikely to happen, or something that we hope will happen. This is living in ignorance of actual reality.

That which is called ‘spiritual’ is non-material consciousness; it is life itself, and it’s what we are. We don’t have to become; we are. What we think and do is down to our level of understanding—or misunderstanding.

Going to a monastery or going to the toilet makes no difference. Anyway, monasteries have toilets, don’t they? 🙂 These are both of one taste, of being and experiencing before identifying. Is there a demarkation line? Spiritual … not spiritual … that’s as daft as there being ‘holy’ places.

Identifying is what materialists do, binding themselves to an idea, whether religious or secular. We can be also be bound as an atheist or an agnostic, and we can equally be bound by power, wealth, fame…

Someone with an exotic spiritual name isn’t any more spiritual than our cat or neighbour. They may be more advanced in knowledge (although our cat is cunning in getting its own way) but not in being.

We do not have to be clever or intelligent to realise what we are. If we’re looking for something ‘higher’, we are misunderstanding our ultimate reality of that which is looking. 🙂

Once we get the gist of this, we can start to meditate to realise that pure consciousness or empty cognisance is our pure state of being.

‘Spiritual’ is plain and unsophisticated.
All creatures are, in essence, spiritual.
We are deceived to think otherwise.