2012.06.18 _ 69

I was pondering about the way so much of spiritual life seems to depend upon acceptance. An active acceptance, not passivity nor resignation. I read somewhere that we actually cannot move forward and change anything until we have accepted a situation. Until that point we are in denial and can't or won't do anything to change the situation.

Am thinking about 'spiritual life' and what that means. I think that it means, really... "collective". I think that what we are trying to describe with words like spiritual, is the difference between thinking 'on our own' and the insight that arises in an open way, that is quite different and light and powerful, and relieved of individual ego. Interconnectedness as being more than a fuzzy idea of 'lets all get along' but rather what we are. So spiritual life is about acceptance and surrender in that way. Continually seeing/acknowledging, we are not alone.

Listened to someone say that in kabbalistic thought, there are two paths ... one of effort and one of light. The path of effort entails suffering and all along there is this other path/no path that is open and available too, right alongside. One could struggle and wrestle with the effort side, or simply switch over, in a sense. Sounded quite wu wei to me... edited 01:01, 19 Jun 2012