12-08-2012, 06:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-08-2012, 06:33 PM by MattSaldana.)
(12-08-2012, 05:52 PM)Horuseus Wrote: Does joining a 'Monastery' excite you? Or are you doing it because you believe it is the route to attaining a higher level of awareness? In the case of the later, you may unknowingly restrict the ways in which direction can come to you.
I would first and foremost advise that the greatest guidance comes the Self, within. You also have your Higher Self and a multitude of Source & Spirit guides which you have empoyed prior to incarnation. Use them! They are literally begging for you to ask them.
If you haven't already done so I would focus on attaining an awareness, and then a connection with your (H)Self/Guides. Meditate, placing your thought in the Matrix and listen. Your greatest teacher is yourself.
Joining a monastery does not particularly excite me. The idea of having someone who sees things in me that I am missing and can help point them out to me, is what one might say "excites" me. So the answer to the second questions is more or less this: I am considering joining a monastery to help facilitate and hasten my growth. As well, I appreciate your advice. I work daily on attaining more and more awareness and connecting with my higher self. What I really seek now is a teacher, to help me learn from lessons I may be overlooking. An enlightened master will always see more of the bigger picture than I do, and that's exactly what I'm looking for. Before I can help others towards enlightenment, which is the ultimate goal, I must first enlighten myself. I really don't see any sense in putting it off any longer. I'm ready to commit fully to it now.
(12-08-2012, 02:40 PM)Spaced Wrote: When I was first out of school and had all kinds of weird philosophical ideas that made it hard for me to integrate into the capitalist workforce so me mum would always say that I should join a monastery. What she doesn't realize is that I am pretty sure already spent my last lifetime in a monastery. I think my job in this life is to take the serenity I learned there and translate it into a typical western life. Not super easy, to be sure.
Sorry, that didn't even address your question OP, I'm just all about talking about myself today hehe
May I ask what makes you pretty sure you were in a monastery in a past life?