Misunderstanding Our Path

Our path isn’t a joint effort. Joining a ‘spiritual’ tradition doesn’t mean we are on our path. A path is about transforming and eliminating our personal fixations, obsessions and confusions – while others’ paths encourage fixations, obsessions, and confusions. 🙂

We have to have purpose,
otherwise we’re just being entertained in futile effort,
without making any real progress.

The purpose of the right path is to realise the cause of our dissatisfaction, which means we recognise that we’re suffering enough to want to change. We need a constant reminder of the essence of our path, rather than the form (the display), which becomes a distraction.

The right path isn’t the right words. The right path is the experience beyond words. We don’t react to what someone says – that is our right path as we have to train our mind to step back and listen more.

Others’ paths are like sitting at a dinner table when people are only talking about the menu … and nobody is eating. For many, the menu itself becomes the destination. People will talk for hours about the menu without the experience of eating and being satisfied. We need to practise patience, generosity, morality, discipline and concentration which lead to wisdom – knowingness through experience.

The right path is the transformation
from material understanding to ethereal clarity.

Then we have found our path.