12-15-2016, 12:00 AM
I can only speak from my own personal experience. For me, spiritual malnutrition stems from the mind and it's derivative preoccupation with anything other than the reality of the moment, which is the sole source of spiritual nutrition.
When my dialog is stopped and the relaxed, open awareness of silence is sustained, then this feeling of nourishment and well-being, felt as an energetic thrumming vibration, rises and the whole notion of lack...of being hungry, thirsty and desperate...simply dissolves. And then, ofc, when my dialog is triggered and is off to the races, that hunger, thirst, desperation resumes.
I am in the fortunate position of seeing this interplay play out literally 100's of times a day....all day long. I no longer need convincing. I know exactly what the problem is....and where the solution lies. The Fountain.....is here-and-now....and has been here-and-now all along and always will be.
I remember meditating underneath a Canary Island palm tree, years ago. I felt that incredible feeling of energy of presence rise up and gush out from the center of my chest. I heard a voice, at its crescendo, saying...just as clear as day...."There is nowhere else you need to go for knowledge....I will always be with you"
And it's true
When my dialog is stopped and the relaxed, open awareness of silence is sustained, then this feeling of nourishment and well-being, felt as an energetic thrumming vibration, rises and the whole notion of lack...of being hungry, thirsty and desperate...simply dissolves. And then, ofc, when my dialog is triggered and is off to the races, that hunger, thirst, desperation resumes.
I am in the fortunate position of seeing this interplay play out literally 100's of times a day....all day long. I no longer need convincing. I know exactly what the problem is....and where the solution lies. The Fountain.....is here-and-now....and has been here-and-now all along and always will be.
I remember meditating underneath a Canary Island palm tree, years ago. I felt that incredible feeling of energy of presence rise up and gush out from the center of my chest. I heard a voice, at its crescendo, saying...just as clear as day...."There is nowhere else you need to go for knowledge....I will always be with you"
And it's true