When I meditate, and when I live my life, for that matter, I feel many emotions and think many thoughts. Althought words are imperfect in nature, I assign words to each emotions to better recognize them. I name them love, pleasure, sadness, anger, etc, etc. However, in this process, I have found that I never use the word «spirituality». Either I do not feel what others feel when they use the word «spirituality», or I feel the same thing but use other words to describe the experience. In any case, I ask the question : What the hell does it mean, to be spiritual? Is there a consensus? Or just like the word «God», everybody has it's own definition?
You could have ten people in a room, and each definition or experience of spirituality would be different. Just like your experience of meditation will be different to the next persons.
I agree, there are lots of variations. However, if lots and lots of people use this word ''spirituality'', and continue using it, surely it must describe something common, an emotion, an idea, a need that is common to the people who use it. Otherwise, why use this word?
That is so, however the root of all considerations of this term and it's variants is to breath, spirit from a root spiritus or breath. Consequently I would describe us as spirit reaching toward spirit in all things.
Well, mental illness is a big umbrella , psychosis itself covers about ten different illnesses. Religion can be seen as a big umbrella.
taking into account all the different aspects of every religion, how would you simplify it to a point where they share the same aspect that is a persons spirituality
Please define the word LOVE Sprituality is that part of our being that exists beyond the mind and body.
Love is an emotion. Something that put's the body in motion. It is probably the emotion with the widest variety of manifestations. It would take more than a lifetime to experience them all. However we can say that it one of human beings' favorite emotion. And it transforms them in a pretty significant way. Human beings who feel this feeling are generally put in motion in an optimal way - such a way that promotes the well being of the greater number of people. Here are a few examples that come to my mind. Human relationships, of course, but also relationships with nature, work, recreation, meditation, travelling, physical activities, etc., and even, perhaps!, economics and politics. All these activities benifit from love. I don't quite understand. By ''beyond the mind and body'' do you mean things like nature, culture, planets, our universe, etc.? Or do you mean things that exists beyond ''our physical realm'', if that makes any sense? ''I'' could not exist without the rest of the physical universe, and it is not an independant entity. But we still make categories, we still name ourselves ''I'' because ''I'' only have a limited point of view on the world. My point of view.
Love is without condition and therefore beyond what can be taught. Spirit is breath. We take one and immediately desire another, we are spirit reaching toward spirit in all things.
Yoga is often defined as the "union of mind, body and spirit" I was simply suggesting that from this we have the mind and the body and spirit comprises the third part of the 'union'. Nothing deeper. I would never attempt to define love (except in context). It could be defined as 'sex' or 'shakespeare romance" soldiers dedication, emotion, hedonism....far too complex!!!
