How do you Define Spirituality??

[Frisky]

If someone asked you to define spirituality, how would you answer them??

[ButterflyWoman]

Generally speaking, I don't. I no longer see things as "spiritual" or "not spiritual". It's impossible for me to even begin to define it. But people generally don't ask me things like that.

[Frisky]

Originally Posted by ButterflyWoman

It's impossible for me to even begin to define it

Yeah me too, good luck trying to define it and put it into words

[Weaver]

I usually say that spirituality is all about balance.

The balance of all things. hot and cold, masculine and feminine, night and day, summer and winter, selfishness and altruism. everything and everyone is to be at an equal in some way...

I do not feel like explaining this in detail but i think you will get what i mean.

[raykilleen]

Spirituality = The science of absolute Truth

[Prinie]

lol I'm a lot like Frisky and BUtterflywoman but whatever nourishes my spirit is what I define as spiritual for me.

[Apopohis Reject]

Originally Posted by ButterflyWoman

Generally speaking, I don't. I no longer see things as "spiritual" or "not spiritual". It's impossible for me to even begin to define it. But people generally don't ask me things like that.

Quite right. The word has lost it's original meaning, being that part of us that is NOT physical. We have the body (physical), yet ARE the inner consciousness, which is NOT physical (so is spiritual).

All other definitions of the term (thousands of such) are mere imagination.

[RonSouther]

Originally Posted by Frisky

If someone asked you to define spirituality, how would you answer them??

The process of eliminating the power of the false in your mind

[Frisky]

Originally Posted by RonSouther

The process of eliminating the power of the false in your mind

An excellent definition indeed.

Best way I can define spirituality is to gain knowledge, wisdom, truth, understanding of the universe, happiness, wealth (yes, cold hard cash!), good health.....etc

[Frisky]

Originally Posted by raykilleen

Spirituality = The science of absolute Truth

Also very good

[nothuman]

I am with Butterfly Woman. It is only the mind that wants to separate a so called spiritual experience from the so called human experience..from my vantage point there is no space between the two.

[Maguru]

Originally Posted by Frisky

If someone asked you to define spirituality, how would you answer them??

I believe 'spirituality' is the 'evolution of the human spirit'.

[Maguru]

Originally Posted by Frisky

An excellent definition indeed.

Best way I can define spirituality is to gain knowledge, wisdom, truth, understanding of the universe, happiness, wealth (yes, cold hard cash!), good health.....etc

Aren't you describing Life?

[Frisky]

Originally Posted by Frisky

An excellent definition indeed.

Best way I can define spirituality is to gain knowledge, wisdom, truth, understanding of the universe, happiness, wealth (yes, cold hard cash!), good health.....etc

Originally Posted by Maguru

Aren't you describing Life?

My life yes, but not life for most people. Very few combine all, most people just try and become wealthy, try to stay healthy and perhaps gain a bit of knowledge.

Few people care about wisdom, truth or how the universe operates.
And lets be honest, how many people can say they are truly happy??

[ChrisGinsburg]

Originally Posted by RonSouther

The process of eliminating the power of the false in your mind

Originally Posted by Frisky

An excellent definition indeed.

Best way I can define spirituality is to gain knowledge

Ironically, the mind is all about gaining knowledge but it is actually in the emptying of knowledge that falsities of the mind are eliminated.

I would say that spirituality is the journey or learning to surrender. Making space within to allow room for the truth. The journey of consciousness moving through its own dream only to awaken time and again to the a timeless freedom.

[RonSouther]

Originally Posted by ChrisGinsburg

Ironically, the mind is all about gaining knowledge but it is actually in the emptying of knowledge that falsities of the mind are eliminated.
I would say that spirituality is the journey or learning to surrender. Making space within to allow room for the truth. The journey of consciousness moving through its own dream only to awaken time and again to the a timeless freedom.

But the knowledge doesn't leave your mind. The power of it is taken away with awareness.

I know longer live to please Santa Claus but I remember all that I ever believed about him or did to please him as the beliefs had strings attached...ACT nice, not naughty. The knowledge is still there.

Awakening = awareness of that which artificially controls you = no more control because you see how foolish you've been.

[ChrisGinsburg]

Originally Posted by RonSouther

But the knowledge doesn't leave your mind. The power of it is taken away with awareness.

I know longer live to please Santa Claus but I remember all that I ever believed about him or did to please him as the beliefs had strings attached...ACT nice, not naughty. The knowledge is still there.

I'm not actually saying it is a return to ignorance where you can't even remember how to leave your house or who Santa Clause was. I'm saying the paradigm is reversed and it is in the not knowing, in the making space within that clarity may occur. The thoughts lose their power as you say when one becomes aware that they are not true and a spaciousness begins to grow. The capacity to recall memories doesn't vanish but it becomes progressively less important until it is noticed that one had been living almost exclusively from memory.

Originally Posted by RonSouther

Awakening = awareness of that which artificially controls you = no more control because you see how foolish you've been.

Are you saying awakening is the regaining of personal control?

[RonSouther]

Originally Posted by ChrisGinsburg

I'm not actually saying it is a return to ignorance where you can't even remember how to leave your house or who Santa Clause was. I'm saying the paradigm is reversed and it is in the not knowing, in the making space within that clarity may occur. The thoughts lose their power as you say when one becomes aware that they are not true and a spaciousness begins to grow. The capacity to recall memories doesn't vanish but it becomes progressively less important until it is noticed that one had been living almost exclusively from memory.

Si amigo...

Are you saying awakening is the regaining of personal control?

No, there is no personal control. "Awakening" is to see that. Repression and willpower is to think we are in control.

[ChrisGinsburg]

Originally Posted by RonSouther

No, there is no personal control. "Awakening" is to see that. Repression and willpower is to think we are in control.

Okay. Wasn't clear what you meant.

[ChristsLight]

Spirituality is Love in action.

[Apopohis Reject]

Originally Posted by ChristsLight

Spirituality is Love in action.

Well I can't deny that statement one bit, but it does suggest a requirement for answers to couple of hermeneutic questions, such;

A. Please define what you mean in this context by 'love'?

B. Please define what you mean in this context by 'action'?

C. Does your statement infer that someone who has much love but doesn't put this into action for some reason, is devoid of spirituality?

[inconditus]

Spirituality is not something that can truly be defined by words, at least not in my understanding of the english language.

It simply is.

It is a journey, it is this present moment. It is surrender it is empowerment. It is wisdom. It is grace.

[bodi]

To me, spirituality is about the relationship between the individual and the Ultimate, the one and the All. (whatever that may prove to be).

If you are trying to understand what the Ultimate is, and what your place in it All is, that's spiritual.

If you are practicing techniques to align with the Ultimate, that's spirituality.

Some people see the Ultimate as "God", so they define their spirituality in those terms.

Some people see the Ultimate as Nature, and so define their spirituality in those terms.

and so on.

[raykilleen]

Originally Posted by inconditus

Spirituality is not something that can truly be defined by words, at least not in my understanding of the english language.

It simply is.

It is a journey, it is this present moment. It is surrender it is empowerment. It is wisdom. It is grace.

towards liberation of soul, finding out what’s not true.

[Frisky]

Originally Posted by bodi

Some people see the Ultimate as "God", so they define their spirituality in those terms.

Some people see the Ultimate as Nature, and so define their spirituality in those terms

They really are the same thing, arent they?

[ChristsLight]

Originally Posted by Apopohis Reject

Well I can't deny that statement one bit, but it does suggest a requirement for answers to couple of hermeneutic questions, such;

A. Please define what you mean in this context by 'love'?

B. Please define what you mean in this context by 'action'?

C. Does your statement infer that someone who has much love but doesn't put this into action for some reason, is devoid of spirituality?

I'm not particularly interested in getting caught up in your intellectual games, but I'll just say this to your third point:

It is impossible for someone to have Love and not to act on it. The nature of Love itself is to act.

[bodi]

Originally Posted by Frisky

They really are the same thing, arent they?

The Ultimate is whatever the Ultimate is, whether we know what it is or not.

From one point of view, I must answer yes. From another, no.

[ChrisGinsburg]

Originally Posted by Apopohis Reject

Well I can't deny that statement one bit, but it does suggest a requirement for answers to couple of hermeneutic questions, such;

A. Please define what you mean in this context by 'love'?

B. Please define what you mean in this context by 'action'?

C. Does your statement infer that someone who has much love but doesn't put this into action for some reason, is devoid of spirituality?

Ah Reject, this is how I read this:

I totally get what you're saying but my mind needs something more concrete to grab onto.

[Arcanum]

Spirituality is learning how to stop banging your head against the wall.

[JagJ]

Originally Posted by ButterflyWoman

Generally speaking, I don't. I no longer see things as "spiritual" or "not spiritual". It's impossible for me to even begin to define it. But people generally don't ask me things like that.

It's more like an expanded view of reality. But if you do not have that view, then it is wither spiritual or some kind of majic.