Spiritual Change Of The World
Question: What is your purpose of spiritual teaching when in fact most people do not listen?
Adonis: I have no control of another's understanding of how they take the spiritual Sayings. They will be affected according to their own openness. So I just point and that pointing does the untangling. I have no measure of how spirituality brings about the change in another. Someone's actions may seem to be going backwards when in fact it may be a necessary thing in their transformation. Like some alcoholics may need to reach rock bottom before they begin to see their folly. Out of compassion, I must point, anyway. In spite of what another thinks. Like the midday sun, it shines on all irrespectively of what they are. There is no distinction. Love just flows, regardless. For their own good, you have to give them what they need, not what they want. It is that very mentality that we are trying to dissolve. Most of us have our hands out begging for love. But to discover love, one must die. Not wanting to end, what you seek evades you. This means we want the menu and not the living food within. I have to take people as they are. They are in the throes of ignorance and darkness. And what they want is the continuity of that darkness in a different form. The mind wants to be stimulated. It wants to be pleasured. Always looking for more or different stimulations. As human beings we want to escape! I am fully aware of this! The darkness wants to keep going in one way or another. So all I do is point to the self until it dissolves, intelligently. If they want to be entertained they would have to go to Disney World. I am only concerned with pointing into the facts of life to see beyond this life.
Spiritually, no one can awaken you. You must go into this for one self. No one wants to do it! Then they want to complain because they are slaves following foolish things. Supposedly, Moses led the Hebrews out of the harsh slavery of Egypt. They complained! He told them the words of god. They complained! So what am I to do! All I can do is sacrifice my time for others until they awaken themselves. In the midst of all this, I love them anyway. You simply love. And you do not try to control even in guiding another. Your duty can be summoned in relation to others in one word: point! That is all! We must simply point. We can not jump into another’s skin and make them do things according to how we see or feel. What I think you should or should not do may not be the best thing for you and your life. That is why I give guidance in the form of pointing and not in the form of control. It is ones own insecurities that make us feel we must control others. See this clearly so that you may be free of it. All I can do is point and not force anything. I point, not pressure. I simply plant the seed and leave it at that. Let nature take its course. I plant the sayings into them as fertile soil with living water. That is all my part. Not dig up the seed everyday to see if it's growing! Why should I kick the dirt and curse at the earth for not producing when and how I want it too? You have to just let people be. The awakening comes of its own accord. Only then will they see what I am saying. I don’t take it personally.
Daily it may be a good thing to just sit for a few minutes or lay down while watching ones thoughts, emotions and desires. Listen fully without any desire to direct what is taking place within consciousness. Let all within and around you flow freely without the slightest desire of changing that. Like watching a river flowing. Let go and let it all move by itself without any interest or intent to guide it to ones own liking. Let the thoughts and emotions bubble up within you, effortlessly.
The full transformation of your perception, within yourself, must affect others. Not the mere altering of the ego but ones whole being. In the total disillusion of oneself, the fullness of perception awakens. And that perception within has the power to transform all and everyone in your presence. It must affect them! But, it can not come if you, the ego, with all its desires are there trying to direct, censor and control life. When you are, that is not. The ego, the self, always desires to control and push it own will. Is this will the very destructive element in our lives that has us blind? You must not forsaken going into all this. Only then will you be free.
Now, can you act out of kindness, patience and compassion in spite of their shortcomings or faults or vices? Of course, the other may see you according to the past and the image he may have of you. What I am asking is, can you observe, listen and be completely opened to how the other is? Not with any desire of changing or converting them for whatever reason. Even for their own good. Can you do that so that the other lives, grows and develops according to their own temperament? Not according to how you think they should or shouldn't be. I think that is where love comes into being. Letting the other be themselves without any desire of altering them. If I truly love you, am I interested in making you or molding you into something you are not? Perhaps that is the problem within most of us. We desire to make another into something that you agree upon or desire to be. Perhaps, the love, the compassion within me will awaken you to your fullest potential. Not according to what I wish, long for or desire you to become. Perhaps, my love and compassion will in itself, affect you deeply. Anything else I feel would be coercion. So I wonder, and please forgive me for using this word, I wonder if the use of force to try to change or alter another according to my whims, is evil. That is the question I have been pondering. Is force, on any level, evil? Is that the very movement of the world? If one does not comply with my views, ideas or interests, I go in and use force. On a global level one calls this war. On a personal level one may call this a lack of love.
So in the midst of understanding this, we may see that a relationship that is grounded on the desire to use persuasive and or coercive tactics is not a relationship at all. How can I relate to another when in fact I want to change the very object of my affection to something they are not? Why do I want to change them? With all this, one must question deeply within ones whole heart. Then perhaps we will see any desire to manipulate or control another is utterly futile and barbaric. Spiritually, when there is this compassion, love alone brings about its own complete change within you.
SPIRITUAL TEACHER ADONIS ALEXANDER
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