Stop Believing These 3 Myths | Myths About Spiritual Development

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SpiritSpiritual development and the spiritual pathMeditation practice and techniqueMeditationF/Friend / friendsAnxiety, stress, and inner calm

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00What this video is about
• 01:13Myth #1: Separating spiritual life from other areas of life
• 06:40Myth #2: Spiritual development is always positive
• 11:31A 5-minute practice for growth and greater awareness
• 11:54Myth #3: Spiritual development has a final point B
• 18:11What myths about spiritual development have you heard?

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• 01:04

  Be sure to watch the video to the end, because some of these misconceptions are things you definitely need to uproot in yourself.

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• 02:10

  Or someone says, “I've sat in meditation for twenty thousand hours, so I'm developing spiritually.”

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  So if I go to the gym, that's part of human life, part of my life, and of course part of my spiritual life.

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  It's an enormous mistake to assume you can go on a retreat once a year and everything will be wonderful in terms of spiritual development.

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• 06:28

  People are sure that a human being is a physical body, yet they say that when someone dies, they become an angel.

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  We understand perfectly well that if spiritual development is human development, human life, then obviously all sorts of events happen in a person's life, both positive and negative.

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  At this point you may want to say, “Look, when it comes to my spiritual development, I've spent all that time in meditation and practices and gone on retreats every year.”

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  But assessing people's spiritual development by how many socially recognized spiritual actions they've taken—what the social world considers spiritual—is a complete illusion. Masha may indeed not know any impressive terminology, may not know what…

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  But because I've been told about it, I have the opportunity to observe and study it.

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• 18:31

  Of course, genuine human growth and development is spiritual development—true spiritual development.

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