Little Add-ups in Spiritual Life

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 3 years before Nov 22, 2016

MiBeloved 3 years ago

Spiritual life is all about little add-ups and also big-jumps, those little events which have little sensational impact and those big events which cause the student to really want to strive more.

If however you are hung up on big events only, then you will not move very far in spiritual life. You have to train yourself to keep going for months or years if necessarily without any sensational features happening. It is really the little add-ups which sustain an advanced person.

You will keep going if you pay attention to and give significance to the little events which are very slight movements in progress. Students who only marvel at the big features, the jumps, have difficulty and become discouraged when those big features do not happen regularly.

Train yourself to put along no matter what, to keep practicing even if there is no sensational progress to be in glee about.

Alfredo 3 years ago

Very true, and many thanks for reminding us.