A spiritual compass is a way of recognizing what is important and what isn’t
What is sacred and what isn’t
What if that spiritual compass leads me to the recognition
That all is sacred. It’s the other side of the coin of scientific materialism, that nothing is sacred.
It’s where the two meet.
Morals come from spirituality.
Morals come from a lived sense of what is important.
You don’t have real morals without spirituality.
You just have performative morals
What would society let me get away with?
What would allow me to live without displeasing my parents?
It leads to a wasteland where the only functional people are the scared, shackled ones,
And Freedom looks like a heroin addiction or impulsive behavior.
In a world where everything is sacred,
And nothing is more important than anything else
How do you build morals?
The acceptance of all that is
leads to the paradox—
Everything is perfect
And yet I must still act in the world.
If everything really is perfect.
There is no more need to breathe, to act.
This is where the Bhagavad Gita came in:
That’s why I was reading it, searching for the answer:
After enlightenment, what to do?
After a spiritual awakening, how to act in the world?
Buddhists have an answer to this:
In fact, it’s what makes Buddha Buddha.
The indivisibility of seeing the nothingness in all things
And yet having compassion;
That’s the message of the Buddha.
It’s the relation of Shunyata (void) to Karuna (compassion)
The 5 stage trauma model calls this the transition from Thriver to Healer.
This isn’t a small breakthrough.
This is a massive reorganizing of what I think is right to do in the world
That’s now how I view right and wrong.
Morals come from a spiritual foundation, or else it’s just performative.
Beyond Mountains, More Mountains 