[wrewsTear]

What is spiritual awareness?

Any ideas on how I can gain it, in order to accept it?

There are two seperate questions here.

1. What is Spirituality? I think this is like life. Easy to recognise and impossible to define.

2. How can you get it? If you have the urge to ask; don't worry. You already have it.

Enjoy.

[Karpattaisp]

What is spiritual awareness?

Any ideas on how I can gain it, in order to accept it?

[pKgGpUlF]

What is spiritual awareness?

Any ideas on how I can gain it, in order to accept it?

I can't help you with that one very much. I am still working on awareness of the manifest world.

However, spiritual awareness, IMO, is understanding that we all are of the same stuff - stardust. We all are interconnected in that way.

The question is, "How far do we want to take this interconnectedness and make it a part of our life?"

Our primal belief system will define most of the answers to this question.

A non-religious person, IMO, has a harder time finding the answers. A religious person is told the 'truth' and they openly accept this truth.

For me, Native American spirituality is closer to my Taoist beliefs than any other. No, I have not spent much time in deep thought regarding this issue. Perhaps on day.

[Faungarne]

What is spiritual awareness?

Any ideas on how I can gain it, in order to accept it?

I wish I could say that there is an easy way of doing it. Many of us have been asking this questions for ages. Some of us turn to a question: "Who am I?" Apparently the question has no verbal answer, but it has been a wonderful tool in my spiritual search.

In the first stanza of the Kena Upanishad, the student asks:

"Who makes my mind think?
Who fills my body with vitality?
Who causes my tongue to speak?
Who is that invisible one who sees through my eyes, an hears through my ears?"

Similar questions to these were the foundation of the meditational practice of the great Zen Master Bassui Tokusho (1327–1387). It is said that he found profound spiritual awareness or enlightenment.

In truth nobody can tell you how to gain it nor can anyone tell you how to accept it. I hope that your search is fruitful.

Hermano Luis

[MattJargin]

The best way I have found is to physically listen to another with my heart...especially those that I don't really want to listen to, and live as a compassionate life as I can possibly live. It just sorta follows and makes sense then.

[bensabath]

"Healthy living. We see the term everywhere. But what does it really mean? Bean sprouts for breakfast? Grueling, pre-dawn jogs? Lettuce-leaf lunches? Zen Master training? Hardly. Healthy living isn't about starving yourself or testing your limits. It's all about achieving balance between the physical, emotional, nutritional, and spiritual elements in your life," from Jenny Craig website.

Again with the "spiritual elements" of life. I'm so not a spiritual person. Can someone tell me why it is so important to be "spiritual?" Or at least tell me how I can find it (when I don't necesarily believe in it), if it is so important to living a healthy life?

[derisgun]

Again with the "spiritual elements" of life. I'm so not a spiritual person. Can someone tell me why it is so important to be "spiritual?" Or at least tell me how I can find it (when I don't necesarily believe in it), if it is so important to living a healthy life?

Well, I can say something here.

Do you consider yourself a good person? Do you help others when you can? Do you relate with other people without taking advantage of them? If you answer "Yes" to these three questions I think you don't need spend too much time worrying about your spirituality.