A Lot of Talk About Spirituality - The Little Prince Series
Continuing Insight fromThe Little Prince
Continuing Insight fromThe Little Prince
Have you found that there aren't too many people you can talk meaningfully with about the deep issues of life?
This was the experience of the little boy, now grown into a man whose career is that of a pilot. Occasionally he would come across a person who appeared to be fairly "clear-sighted," as he put it. He's referring to someone who seems to be somewhatawarewe might sayconscious.
The pilot would show this seemingly conscious person his Drawing Number One. Did the person havereal understanding?
If the individual concluded that the drawing was of a hat, then the pilot didn't go any deeper into conversation with this individual but talked about surface issues such as bridge, sports, politics, and fashionthe things the average person talks about.
The grown boy who had at age six drawn a boa constrictor from the outside and the inside to represent what society was doing to his true self had enough sense to realize that most people are locked in the grip of social constriction and know nothing of realconsciousness. So he would talk only about the kinds of things that interest unconscious people.
I come across a great many whoappear to be "clear-sighted." Theytalk about being awake spiritually. They say they are pursuing consciousness and becoming enlightened.
They read books on spirituality, listen to CDs and watch DVDs about personal growth, pray or meditate, go to talks by spiritual teachers, and attend retreats.
Yet I find that the pilot got it right: few whoseem to be on a spiritual path really are.
That's why, I suggest, so many millions have resonated with the book (and now the movie)Eat, Pray, Love, whichhas all the trappings of beinga spiritual journey. But does it really lead us into the awareness and stillness of consciousness, so that we arepresent in every aspect of our life?
Peoplelove this sort of thing.
As I commented in The Compassionate Eye a few days ago, it gives them an "aha!" sensation because the story reflects what they are feeling insidethemselves. They too see themselves as "seekers."
But let's not confuse this with becomingpresent.
I have listened to all kinds of "spiritual teachers" over the years, each of them promising some form of enriched life, whether achieved through meditation or through following "laws of attraction."
None of this has to do with presencewith consciousness.
As the story of The Little Prince shows, most people are stuck in the constriction of the boa mentality. And I am including the vast majority who are involved in a religion of some sort, whether Western or Easternyes, and just about everyone who is "seeking."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wroteThe Little Prince back in 1944, got it right. What passes for "enlightenment" in most cases isn't enlightenment at all. What goes under the label of "spirituality" much of the time has nothing to do with a true understanding of what it is to be spiritual.
I am just dumbfounded by the number of people I meet who go around and around on the same issues year after year, still seeking instead of findingand who are actually proud to wear the badge of a "seeker."
I listen to all of the talk about channeling, about prosperity teaching and abundance, about laws of attraction, and I watch how rarely people who pursue these teachings appear to simply be fully present, right here, in thenow.
As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount concerning the conscious path, "Few there be who find it." The vast majority who seem as though they are "awake" really just talk about it, not live it.
Consciousness is about being our natural self, unaffected, without pretense, authentic in every waythe very thing most spiritual "paths" (read "circular") are designed to help usavoid.
Whenever I ponder this amazing bookThe Little Prince, simply sitting with its insightful statements, I am just stunned by how accurately it depicts the journey of life. If any book was ever "channeled," it was surely this book!
A Lot of Talk About Spirituality - The Little Prince Series
By: David Robert Ord
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