Spirituality and Sci-fi
I recently had a breakthrough in the way I relate to my spiritual path.
For a long time (14 years) I’ve treated my practice like I treat a buffet breakfast - I take what I want and leave the rest. Basically, I do what I don’t wanna do… I remember proudly saying this to an old friend and having this quite voice in the back of my mind saying “is that really a good philosophy?”
You can treat your spiritual life like a buffet breakfast if you like but there will be a different result.
The wise have explained that one result is derived from the culture of knowledge and that a different result is obtained from the culture of nescience. - Sri Isopanisad
You know what you get when you mix nescience with knowledge? Sci-fi. Basically Sci-fi is an interesting mix of fact and fiction and it’s entertaining but it’s just science fiction - it’s some nerds brain fart turned into a book and if it gets read enough it becomes a film and if that gets popular enough people will nerd out to it and treat it like gospel.
Don’t get me wrong. I like Star Wars. Did you know George Lucas openly shared that Star Wars is his way of recreating the Vedic epics like Ramayana in a new way?
One of my favorite quotes from Yoda is “there is no try” - this is basically my point - that spiritual life is serious and if you’re practicing it you have to be authentic about what you’re doing and not doing. You have to know where you’re at and stop kidding yourself that you’re trying to control your senses.
If you eat something without offering, it to Krishna you didn’t try to offer it… You do what you do and don’t do what you don’t do. Own it all and notice the difference this self-honesty makes.
Here’s a video I love that shows how monks live. Notice how they don’t try to be “spiritual”. They serve Krishna and their spiritual master and they’re happy.
Interested in becoming a jedi? Check out dailyguidance.org and consider reading a verse of the Bhagavad Gita every day. This book inspires most of what I do.