All the religions and spiritual groups place a lot of importance on the
virtue of *discipline*. Without discipline you do not manage to transform
negative habits and you do not create a new state of awareness where the
self is nourished through the experience of spirituality. Every day you eat,
you brush your teeth, bathe, drink water and breathe, and all of this you do
not consider a discipline; you have adopted them as something natural in
order for your body to continue working. On a spiritual level you also need
to nourish yourself and to have a discipline that, with practice, a time
comes when it becomes natural because you incorporate it into your life.* In
the process of change you need to discipline yourself in order not to let
old habits come to the forefront.* Until you have 'burnt' them and they have
'died', you should keep the* 'watchman of attention'* alert in order to
maintain your self-control, given that each time you use a negative habit in
action, you strengthen it. When you do not use it, you allow it to die.
The path of the spiritual traveler is therefore one of waking (awareness of
self as soul) and sleeping (under the illusion that we are our body), waking
and sleeping. We tend to fluctuate between the two (like dawn and dusk)
until we find stability in soul-consciousness. This is why it is important
to awaken and stay awake, and why it's important to give our mind and
intellect good *spiritual food (knowledge)* and* exercise
(meditation)*every day to keep them fresh and alert. Being conscious
of the soul, acting
from that consciousness, the scars (habits and tendencies) left by past
actions based on illusions of bodily awareness are healed. Discipline is
necessary for growth and personal transformation if you want to obtain
satisfying and permanent results. If not, the old habits continue to rule in
your life. *The evidence that our discipline in the practice of meditation
is working is mental lightness and an increasing easiness in our
interactions with others.*
virtue of *discipline*. Without discipline you do not manage to transform
negative habits and you do not create a new state of awareness where the
self is nourished through the experience of spirituality. Every day you eat,
you brush your teeth, bathe, drink water and breathe, and all of this you do
not consider a discipline; you have adopted them as something natural in
order for your body to continue working. On a spiritual level you also need
to nourish yourself and to have a discipline that, with practice, a time
comes when it becomes natural because you incorporate it into your life.* In
the process of change you need to discipline yourself in order not to let
old habits come to the forefront.* Until you have 'burnt' them and they have
'died', you should keep the* 'watchman of attention'* alert in order to
maintain your self-control, given that each time you use a negative habit in
action, you strengthen it. When you do not use it, you allow it to die.
The path of the spiritual traveler is therefore one of waking (awareness of
self as soul) and sleeping (under the illusion that we are our body), waking
and sleeping. We tend to fluctuate between the two (like dawn and dusk)
until we find stability in soul-consciousness. This is why it is important
to awaken and stay awake, and why it's important to give our mind and
intellect good *spiritual food (knowledge)* and* exercise
(meditation)*every day to keep them fresh and alert. Being conscious
of the soul, acting
from that consciousness, the scars (habits and tendencies) left by past
actions based on illusions of bodily awareness are healed. Discipline is
necessary for growth and personal transformation if you want to obtain
satisfying and permanent results. If not, the old habits continue to rule in
your life. *The evidence that our discipline in the practice of meditation
is working is mental lightness and an increasing easiness in our
interactions with others.*
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