Patience In Spiritual Discipline

There must be a deep element of Patience in Spiritual Discipline. Regardless of what religion you follow, or what your chosen spiritual practices are, these are the types of things that require us to detach ourselves from the outcome.

The Effects of Meditation are accumulate. The physical effects of the Asana postures within the system of Yoga — increasing strength, flexibility, and hormonal changes through posture and breath — are also accumulate.

Developments take time, and too much emphasis on them detracts from our engagement in the process.

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#The Waiting In Spiritual Discipline
#Wait And Want Nothing
#Let Go Of Your Expectations

The Waiting In Spiritual Discipline

People engage in Spiritual Discipline for any number of reasons. Some for power, understanding, insight, spiritual connection, guidance, mystical experience, or supernatural powers. But other people just want peace.

The preoccupation with results only inhibits growth. Those who are fully engaged in the work do not spend nearly as much time concerned with tracking their results, as they are with doing — and perfecting — the actions that get those results.

In the realm of Spiritual Development, when we preoccupy ourselves with when we will grow, experience higher consciousness, have a spiritual experience or a mystical experience, resolve our internal battles, remember our past lives, or gain some sort of psychic powers — all that this does is get in the way of the true Purpose of Spiritual Development.

All of that gets in the way. Some things may never happen. Moreover, most are not the fundamental point of the practice in the first place. So there is no use in dwelling on these matters. Do the work every day, and the results will be made known to you in time.

Wait and Want Nothing

We must wait and want nothing, so that everything we receive is a bountiful gift. Engage in Spiritual Practice because you know that it will result in you growing into the person that you desire to become. And expect nothing, just act.

Don’t think about what might happen. Think critically about your actions of course, which approaches or practices work and which ones don’t; which ones you are unaccountably interested in, curious about and animated by; which practices you resonate with; which you feel good about.

Let Go Of Your Expectations

Let go of your expectations, because expectations are preconceptions — one of the things we are trying to change.

Act, and wait patiently while you act, without expecting anything.