how can a man on a spiritual path reconcile the desire for attachments in the physical realm?
a better way to ask this question could be, how can he not honour this aspect of himself?
are we not of the material ourselves?
one aspect of us is rooted firmly in the physical. stub your toe on the bed end and feel for yourself.
the animal aspect of us cries out for recognition, yet the desire in some is to ignore this........i wonder why.
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It's a really good question. Poverty, chastity and obedience have long been principles of those seriously on a spiritual quest. Material conditions of life meant in those days that being a householder with a family would absorb a great deal of a person's energy, so the chioce had to be made.
Today things are not quite the same, but we have inherited the word "spiritual" which implies an opposition to the material.
I'd take a radical view here and say that "spiritual path" is a misleading term. Alternatively I would say that everyone without exception is on the same path, because I think spiritual elitism is false and corrosive to those who practise it. I often pass the place in my town where drunks congregate and pass their day. I'm on the same path as they. It leads from birth to death.
i tend to agree. we share the same physical and spiritual space with drunks, beggars,politicians, actresses and thieves. they have to do the same.
i guess that i am on a human path then, one of both animal and spiritual experiences. i have had no choice in either by the way.
spiritual elitism.....that`s funny, but so true. a friend of mine has a son who is a some sort of catholic monk, i`m not entirely sure of his position but he comes into starbucks with his long grey dress on and priest`s collar and people avoid him.
poverty, chastity and obedience sound to me like religious rules more than a way to spiritual anything. those who offer these rules, do they promise anything in return?
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