"Spiritualization"   All action...that seems to be performed by any entity or person is necessarily a form of this contraction. All action, realizes the sense and condition of inherent contradiction or dilemma. And all action is necessarily separative in the ultimate, even if relational in intention. For this reason, all action is, in itself, binding, limiting, an expression and an agent of suffering. Manifest life, then, under any conditions-gross, subtle, or causal - is suffering This realization is profoundly disorienting and disturbing, since it convicts the being of suffering, disease, and hopelessness, and it is also profoundly liberating, since it brings an end to the distraction by any kind of action and experience and allows the Consciousness to rest in the intuition of its true, real, or prior Condition No Remedy - Epilogue Even while still maturing in the first three stages of life, many people devote themselves to religious practices, submitting to an ordered life of discipline and devotion. This is the beginning of establishing the disposition of the fourth stage of life, but it is only the beginning. The real leap involved in transitioning to the fourth stage of life is one that very few ever make. It is the transition we associate with saints: nothing less the breakthrough to a Spiritually-illumined life of Divine contemplation and selfless service. The Seven Stages of Life - Spiritualization The possibility of true spiritual life... begins only when there is conviction in the functions of life and intelligence of the inherent suffering of manifest existence and the fruitlessness of all destiny... When the conviction of suffering and hopelessness matures to the point of profound psychic and psychological disorientation from the conventional theatre of experience, ordinary or extraordinary, so that there is heightened sensitivity to the intuition and influence of the Divine Reality, then the individual becomes circumstantially related to the stream of true Teaching and, at last, to the direct influence of the manifest Guru (either in his personal form-gross, subtle, or causal - or in the form of his servant-agents and his incarnate Community) No Remedy - Epilogue "Master Da's whole early life had been a paradoxical struggle.." A Tribute - Editors of the Laughing Man Magazine Purification "there must be passage through that ordinary condition which motivates the whole pattern and ritual of life, the path of Narcissus. That must be known. That intelligence must be the foundation of life, and it requires a purifying confrontation with the life of tendencies. The intelligence for bearing it, for allowing it to become a truly transforming event." Crisis and Heat "Periodically, every individual passes through a time of crisis, of great resistance and fear." Soliders on the March Death in Life - a Critical Essay Laughing Man Magazine What is dissolved in the way of radical understanding, the way of dissolution rather than of experiential or progressive return, is not "a self' (a static, object, entity), nor is "a Self' or "the Self" acquired, attained, realized, or intuited. Rather, what is dissolved is a process. The "ego" is not an object or an entity, but an activity. It is fixed reflexive contraction...at the gross, subtle, and causal levels." Paradox of Instruction Chapter 8 The Study of The Knee of Listening - Table of Contents

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