True spirituality

Spirituality or philosophy has been misunderstood by most of us, the first thing comes to our mind is renunciation, detachment from all the worldly things. A person who is looking for renunciation has to question himself why he wants renunciation is it to attain something else like enlightenment, or he understood the matter of attachment, and the burdens attached to it. Please observe that if you want detachment to attain something it’s a business, because out of your detachment you are expecting something, this kind of action is painful and breeds conflict. Where as if you start learning what is involved in attachment, not for some goal or attain something else, but out of attention. That learning turns into action, and then you are not acting but that very learning brings change in you, and that is the beauty in the process of true learning.

That’s the reason people like Bhudha, Jiddu Krishnamurti or any other true guru acts like a mirror, in which you can see yourself and understand yourself as you are. So they say be a light to yourself. So true spirituality is all about learning, questioning and doubting in a healthy way, there is no place for belief in spirituality, there is no place for following or worshipping somebody. So be aware of the ugly guru’s who are coining money, and who tells you follow me.

The benefits of learning about yourself are extraordinary, one can not even imagine I feel. But as I said if you study keeping benefits in mind you will be left with ashes. The strength it gives you is beyond or can not be compared with the strength that you get with confidence and will power. If you see clearly will is nothing but a strengthened desire, so you are driven by your desire, it has been used by Hitler and the so called developed countries to create wars and get benefited by them. You may say this will power can be used for helping others, but my question is if you are expecting nothing out of your help, help them and die to whatever you have done to others, why do you need will power?

Recently I got a mail from one of my friend who is working in social organization and this mail states that they planted so and so number of trees for the upcoming rainy season, and also below he has given statistics which are there to prove that they have started first and they planted more no. of plants than others, and also some news articles about their organization from a popular news magazine. I really appreciated their effort to plant trees but I didn’t understood
Why he is competing with other organizations who are also there to do good things for the society?
This competition is creating havoc in the world, no one is in love with their work or life, when you are loving something there is no place for competition or comparison. The best social work might be love what you are doing and make your life effortless.