lorenzop wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:01 pmThe enjoyment of a cup of coffee or a sunset is as easy as falling off a log, and apparently, so did Jesus think of his path.Federica wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:30 pmLorenzo, I am afraid you are under the influence of - as Steiner would say - "the demon who loves the easy path".
You will admit it, it's quite convenient to rest on that old adage. Then it's fine to live from day to day and let life flow through us. Then we don't need to think too hard.
Don't you sometimes have the sense that we might have been given this opportunity of life on Earth in order to work with effort to discover the truth, rather than to be happy with few evocative words and call it a good life?
To make any kind of spiritual progress, or to understand spiritual progress, should not require rigorous philosophical thinking, or intuitions outside of one's daily experience. It should be explainable to a child.
Steiner, Cleric and Ashwin use flowery fancy phrases to create the false impression that spiritual progress has a steep entry, and that spiritual progress requires skills beyond the authentic inclinations of the mind and heart. As I've suggested in earlier threads - Steiner (PoF) is about creating a perceived need for High Priests.
I get your position, Lorenzo. Yes, Steiner, Cleric and Ashvin use elaborate language, and it may be said that the look of those written pages is "flowery". But when you say that the message enclosed in those words is for an elite, that it is exclusive, that’s not true. It is a steep entry, yes, it's not easy, this is true.
However, it is accessible to every normal person on this Earth - if they put in the effort. This is the only differentiator. You are right, it is a steep entry. But it’s steep in the same way that the entry in adult life is steep, very often. Nonetheless adulthood it’s accessible to everyone, right?
Man has evolved beyond childhood now, and so, spiritual awakening is not anymore explainable to a child. Because if it were possible to explain the highest goal of human existence to a child, then what would be the purpose of becoming an adult?