Adyashanti speaks of this most eloquently in Emptiness
Dancing,” Chapter 13, Spiritual Addiction.
“A spiritual person can become addicted to spiritual highs
and miss the experience of Truth.”
“The spiritual person is very certain there is no problem,
that his or her inebriation is unlike the other forms…”
“You’re not a junkie.
You’re a spiritual seeker.”
“… I still believe I
can pin the pendulum swing up to a high spiritual state and stay there.”
“At the moment when the seeker starts to dissolve and there
is just peace, then the pendulum might swing to into a high spiritual state or
into a very ordinary state, or even to an unpleasant state, and the peace
itself remains completely independent of those states.”
“The nature of experience is that it changes or undulates
like the wave on the ocean.”
“As soon as the center is seen to be empty, and you know
there is nobody there looking for it to be other than it actually is, this is
much better than the highest of the high spiritual states.”
“Without this me in the center, there is nobody to judge whether
a given spiritual experience is the right experience or if it is spiritual.”
Seems to be a central problem for many of us spiritual
seekers.
Whether we seek this peace through meditation, yoga,
entheogens…
I see this all around me…
And within me…
This little me.
I want to be happy!
I don’t want this unhappiness…
This dissatisfaction…
Yet, to be human is to be dissatisfied.
This pushes us to create, to build, to seek…
Yet
In the end…
We have to let go…
Let go of trying to get anywhere…
To let go of being happy all the time.
Clouds come…
Clouds go…
Namaste
