Spiritual Teachers

Is the house your house, the house that you are, are you living on the surface? Is your house built on sand? Or are you able to dig and find the foundation within yourself that frees you from fear?


Now, when things are going well, it’s unlikely that most humans can be bothered with going deeper. What for? Things are going okay. I’m looking forward to my next vacation. Weekend is coming up, and whatever it is, a nice meal is waiting for me. Everything is its comfort zone. You’re in your comfort zone. I’ve never heard of anybody who awakens in their comfort zone. There’s nothing wrong with comfort zone. Enjoy them when they’re there. They last for a while, and then some form of adversity arises either on a personal level or on a collective level. Minor forms of adversity and, occasionally, huge forms of adversity, potential calamities, whether it’s you’re suddenly confronted with the fact of mortality, some great loss, serious illness on a personal level or collective level, war, civil, strife, civil war, financial collapse, invasion of your country, all kinds of things can happen. At the present time, we are experiencing the so-called pandemic collective adversity, not affecting just one person, but now affecting millions at the same time.

This is an invitation to go deeper because if you don’t, you suffer unnecessarily. Millions are in a state of fear and anxiety, but to use this as an opportunity to either awaken out of the mind-identified state of consciousness that continuously projects itself into the future that you have no control over. It is never present. This mind-identified state of consciousness, that’s the house built on the sand. Well, it’s an opportunity to come to this realization that you are much deeper that you had known before. You’re forced to go deeper because you can’t stand the suffering anymore, the unhappiness, or whatever you want to call it, the anxiety.

So the most vital thing in any situation is the state of consciousness with which you meet the situation. You should pay more attention to that than to the newscasts and whatever it is that you listen to and watch. Yes, you can do that also, but what is your state of consciousness? That’s something you can do something about. It’s not very much that you can do about the external situation. You can take precautions. You can help other people to the extent to which it is possible. All that’s good. You do all the things that you need to do. Perhaps many people are now forced to stay at home, and suddenly you’re on a private retreat at home. Well, that’s an opportunity, too.

....So this is a time of great opportunity. Use it. Don’t waste it. There’s a saying that goes, “When the ego weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.” So what looks bad on the surface has an essential function.