Beyond the Koan – Adi Da Samraj – Beezone Library

To say “You must follow your own inclinations” is just a truism because that is what everybody does anyway. And so it is with those who first begin to consider this teaching or this way of life. At first they’re basically doing whatever they like. And there’s no point in my telling them to not do so or to try and give them one thing to do or tell them to get spiritual. Instead of moving by inclination as they ordinarily do, they should consider the teaching and reflect on it and observe themselves in that context. A person will follow his or her own inclinations, and ‘this person’ is the ego, the self-delusion that is motivating all of these motions or inclinations. It’s the ego then that must be found out. If you basically do what you like and if it turns out that spiritual possibility is one of the things that you like doing then that becomes part of your inclination. But if you study the teaching and reflect on it while following your inclination the teaching will lead you, step by

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