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Key To Spiritual Growth

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Hi, welcome back to your Daily Mindfulness. In today's session, I want to talk about spiritual growth. Now the word spirituality can be a provocative word, but when I use it, I'm primarily referring to how we find inner freedom within the human condition. And when it comes to this kind of growth, often the thing we most need to look at is the part of us that is looking. The thing we most need to look at is the part of us that is looking.

And that is the part of us that is thinking, oh, that's the thing that will lead to my peace and my freedom. Let me go do that now. Until you're able to become aware of this part of you that is thinking and orienting toward freedom being somewhere out there, you can easily end up like a dog chasing its tail. Going from practice to book to seminar to guru, thinking that the next thing will be your ladder to some sort of refuge, some sort of freedom. And it's not that these things can't be very useful for pointing the way.

I mean, Mindfulness.com is essentially that for you as well. But we have to be careful not to overly attach to these things being the ladder that we need to climb. And once we do, then we're going to end up with some sort of goodie. Because the heart of this work is not about creating another ladder. It's about recognizing that you're already on a never-ending ladder.

And what keeps you caught in cycles of suffering is this addiction to the idea that the next rung will make this life less unpredictable than it inherently is. Real inner freedom doesn't come from stability. It comes from relaxing into instability. So when you notice yourself caught in that idea of once I get there, take a moment to pause and say to yourself, can I just relax into the spaciousness of myself right here, right now? Can I allow myself to feel my inherent okayness in this moment? This is our practice at its core, and it can be done in each moment. Thank you for your practice.

Let's settle in for today's meditation.

Cory Muscara

4.8

Key To Spiritual Growth

Personalized support for learning how to integrate mindfulness into your life. Delivered fresh everyday by our world renowned experts. Choose meditation duration:

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Hi, welcome back to your Daily Mindfulness. In today's session, I want to talk about spiritual growth. Now the word spirituality can be a provocative word, but when I use it, I'm primarily referring to how we find inner freedom within the human condition. And when it comes to this kind of growth, often the thing we most need to look at is the part of us that is looking. The thing we most need to look at is the part of us that is looking.

And that is the part of us that is thinking, oh, that's the thing that will lead to my peace and my freedom. Let me go do that now. Until you're able to become aware of this part of you that is thinking and orienting toward freedom being somewhere out there, you can easily end up like a dog chasing its tail. Going from practice to book to seminar to guru, thinking that the next thing will be your ladder to some sort of refuge, some sort of freedom. And it's not that these things can't be very useful for pointing the way.

I mean, Mindfulness.com is essentially that for you as well. But we have to be careful not to overly attach to these things being the ladder that we need to climb. And once we do, then we're going to end up with some sort of goodie. Because the heart of this work is not about creating another ladder. It's about recognizing that you're already on a never-ending ladder.

And what keeps you caught in cycles of suffering is this addiction to the idea that the next rung will make this life less unpredictable than it inherently is. Real inner freedom doesn't come from stability. It comes from relaxing into instability. So when you notice yourself caught in that idea of once I get there, take a moment to pause and say to yourself, can I just relax into the spaciousness of myself right here, right now? Can I allow myself to feel my inherent okayness in this moment? This is our practice at its core, and it can be done in each moment. Thank you for your practice.

Let's settle in for today's meditation.

Cory Muscara

Cory Muscara

4.8

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Cory Muscara

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