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Programmed for Enlightenment?
Dave Oshana wrote this article as an opening description for his upcoming London Teaching Intensive. The rib-cracking humour hits you full force when Dave discourses on home soil.
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time for renewing the search. "What!" say the members of neo-advaitist
school of non-enlightenment "You must call off the search!"
" Calling off the search" - de rigueur among the virginal happy clappy bums-on-seats
tea-and-biscuits crowd is now just so passé. The new battle cry for spiritual
questers at the cutting-edge of Nothingness is "Real seekers never quit" and
the wearing of t-shirts stating "Non-neo-advaitists do it longer".
Joking aside (as if humour could ever be divorced from irrational human
behaviours such as tantric sex or even spiritual devotion), the truth
is that the search has never been over. Not at least for bona-fide seekers.
If it was over then it was never really on, bit like a Church of England
vicar who signed up for the job not for the love of Jesus but just so
he could live in a stone building that smells of old books and wood.
More sherry, vicar? If not then I shall carry on: not everyone who professes
an interest in spirituality is a seeker. And that's okay, it really is.
Some pseudo-seekers just have a fetish, for Jesus-on-the-Cross or the
Virigin Mary (and why not?) Some having just read Dan Brown are just
looking for the Priory of Sion or some such silly secret brotherhood.
Oh dear maybe I should not have said the word "silly"?
How ever you came to the spiritual path you probably had to cut through
your own juvenile spiritual materialism of romantic fantasy whether your
spiritual super-hero was Lopsang Tuesday Rampa or whoever (no names so
as to protect the living). For instance many people daily read their
stars, that is, in newspapers designed for the masses - even though no
two person's horoscope are the same. Also, have we not forgotten that
the stars and planets are fixed in their movements - change is not an
option.
"So what" you say. "None of the above applies to me. And anyway I am not attached
to anything. Well maybe sex but that was attached when I first came into this
world" Hopefully none of the above does apply to you, and if it does it then
it really is okay, OK?
Spiritual groups, books, exercises, icons, movements and leaders all
have something for someone somewhere some of the time. Spirituality is
like an endless wellspring that just keeps giving and giving. It's a
bit like Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" - painted once, reproduced everywhere
(she even makes a cameo appearance on the cover of a Dan Brown book).
So everyone can rightfully consider themselves spiritual. And that's
okay - it really is. I am only interested in one type of spirituality,
however - real spirituality. Real because it is real and not subjective
fantasy. Not that subjective fantasy is not really it's just not really-really-real
if you know what I mean (and if you don't then that's okay too).
Real spirituality is so mind-numbingly drop-dead gorgeous that it leaves
you gob-smacked, unable to speak but it all makes perfect sense. Some
might call it full-on hard-core no-mind.
Well, if I have caught your attention or lost it (which means that if
you are still reading then you are really attentive) you can catch this
style of spiritual enlightenment teaching next time I over in London
on 22 April for "Programmed
for Enlightenment?" Think of lab-rats or supermarket shoppers. Are
you going up the right aisle? Will you get the cheese? And if you don't
get it then it really is okay. More tea and biscuits?
So are you going to hear spiritual teacher Dave Oshana explaining what works and what does not work on the spiritual path? You can catch him at a rare UK teaching event on April 22, 2006. For further details visit our meetings site web-page "Programmed for Enlightenment?"
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