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The Ethics of Manifestation

Client: Dear Shomit,

I have a question that might seem a bit odd but it’s been bugging me this week.

I listened to a lecture the other day that criticised people who ‘use their spiritual powers to make their lives nicer’. The lecturer spoke about a freedom beyond all the world has to offer.

If you have a minute sometime I would appreciate your perspective. I’m wondering if those guys who relinquish everything to go and live in Nepalese monasteries know something I don’t.

Shomit: The key to all spiritual endeavour is to realise that you are really a God, just playing at being a human being.

If you are God the Creator, then there is nothing wrong with claiming your freedom to “make your life nicer”. God created everything, even nice things!

Those who go off to monasteries are of 2 types: the ignorant, who simply make a fetish of suffering; and those who consciously decide to experience the “No-Thing” place that is one of the attributes of the world-beyond-the-world.

There is no particular virtue that attaches to that choice. Just as there is no particular virtue that attaches to the decision to play tennis. It’s what tennis players do: they enjoy it.

Do what you want to do. Enjoy. Perhaps your lecturer needs to let go of letting go!

 

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