( Spiritual Dangers We Don’t Seehttps://glorian.org/learn/video/spiritual-danger-you-do-not-see ) The lecture in question
As predicted in the beginning of the passage, my ego didn’t like this one. I will continue to meditate on this passage to develop an objective understanding, however I do have a few questions.
“But if you want to be a spiritual practitioner, a serious one, you need your personality to be passive.
In practical terms, that means it's necessary to let go of your attachment to your name, language, culture, education, your tastes in things, and go deeper.”
1. I am confused on how to make the personality “passive” If we have a career, isn’t it necessary to develop the personality to some extent even though it is inevitable that it will die? Would the goal be then not to neglect the personality but to not be attached to it?
2. And as far as making it passive, would meditating on death be a sound method to do so ?
“Start by studying your own spiritual organization.
Your personality will destroy it. So make your personality passive.
When you make your personality passive, you protect your inner spiritual organization.”
3. When you say study our own spiritual organization, do you mean studying our own perception of spiritual ideas? Or perhaps studying the aspects of spirituality that the ego uses to define and personify itself by?
“Furthermore, in the case of those groups who do have genuine spiritual light, it is the personalities of the people that are the interface between the inner and outer worlds. And so the asuras, the devils, use those personalities to destroy those groups. How? Simple. By manipulating appearances, pointing out contradictions, spreading gossip. They can even use a person's terrestrial name, even a photo of them, as a way to attack them with black magic. Once they have something to concentrate on, they can use it as a weapon. It is very easy for someone who is awakened negatively.”
4. Does this mean that individuals like the Dalai Lama are constantly some form of spiritual attack? Could this be why he recently had his controversy not to long ago ?
When someone is fascinated by having more followers, more cliques, a bigger group, a bigger temple, this is all personality. And the Black Lodge will use those desires to take control of that kingdom. It is that simple.
This is especially true when someone depends upon clicks or followers for their income. They will be incentivized to get more clicks or followers, and the way to do that, appeal to the personality. This is a very quick path to becoming a Black magician.
The ego and the personality always want more and more.
The Black magician always wants more and more.
The one who wants to be a White magician seeks to become less and less.
So we have to be extremely cautious.
To become a White magician, one must learn how to be silent, how to abstain, how to suffer, and how to die.
I am not saying that you have to be totally isolated from the world, unemployed, friendless, impoverished, alone, destitute. All of that is just your intellect playing with contraries.
5. I currently make the majority of my income on social media. I make art and drawing tutorials and things of that nature. Occasionally I may bring up meditation, but when I do I will link an external resource as I don’t consider myself a teacher. In my case, would making the personality passive mean giving up my career? I am still young, so if there would be a time to do it it would be now.
As predicted in the beginning of the passage, my ego didn’t like this one. I will continue to meditate on this passage to develop an objective understanding, however I do have a few questions.
“But if you want to be a spiritual practitioner, a serious one, you need your personality to be passive.
In practical terms, that means it's necessary to let go of your attachment to your name, language, culture, education, your tastes in things, and go deeper.”
1. I am confused on how to make the personality “passive” If we have a career, isn’t it necessary to develop the personality to some extent even though it is inevitable that it will die? Would the goal be then not to neglect the personality but to not be attached to it?
2. And as far as making it passive, would meditating on death be a sound method to do so ?
“Start by studying your own spiritual organization.
Your personality will destroy it. So make your personality passive.
When you make your personality passive, you protect your inner spiritual organization.”
3. When you say study our own spiritual organization, do you mean studying our own perception of spiritual ideas? Or perhaps studying the aspects of spirituality that the ego uses to define and personify itself by?
“Furthermore, in the case of those groups who do have genuine spiritual light, it is the personalities of the people that are the interface between the inner and outer worlds. And so the asuras, the devils, use those personalities to destroy those groups. How? Simple. By manipulating appearances, pointing out contradictions, spreading gossip. They can even use a person's terrestrial name, even a photo of them, as a way to attack them with black magic. Once they have something to concentrate on, they can use it as a weapon. It is very easy for someone who is awakened negatively.”
4. Does this mean that individuals like the Dalai Lama are constantly some form of spiritual attack? Could this be why he recently had his controversy not to long ago ?
When someone is fascinated by having more followers, more cliques, a bigger group, a bigger temple, this is all personality. And the Black Lodge will use those desires to take control of that kingdom. It is that simple.
This is especially true when someone depends upon clicks or followers for their income. They will be incentivized to get more clicks or followers, and the way to do that, appeal to the personality. This is a very quick path to becoming a Black magician.
The ego and the personality always want more and more.
The Black magician always wants more and more.
The one who wants to be a White magician seeks to become less and less.
So we have to be extremely cautious.
To become a White magician, one must learn how to be silent, how to abstain, how to suffer, and how to die.
I am not saying that you have to be totally isolated from the world, unemployed, friendless, impoverished, alone, destitute. All of that is just your intellect playing with contraries.
5. I currently make the majority of my income on social media. I make art and drawing tutorials and things of that nature. Occasionally I may bring up meditation, but when I do I will link an external resource as I don’t consider myself a teacher. In my case, would making the personality passive mean giving up my career? I am still young, so if there would be a time to do it it would be now.