Simply Attempting to Share Thinking about a Better Way of Being

It is the clash of thought, the differentiation of thought, that awakes thought.

Vivekananda 

I am by no means a spiritual teacher. I see myself as a "thinker" who simply  shares her thinking. To confuse us all, that "thinking" is often about the need to get beyond the "thinker".  Some would call this sharing of thought-teaching. 

If I 'teach' anything here it is not a philosophy or a religious or spiritual practice...I am not purposefully  teaching 'esoterism'.  I am not intending to teach about "transcendence" or "tramsmutation of energy". I am not intending to teach about consciousness, presence, spirit, or even "God". I do not have the knowledge or expertise to do that.

 My conscious purpose is not even to 'teach' about mindfulness and meditation or  about yoga, though I have pieces of paper to say I can teach about these things to some degree and I refer to both practices often. I am not teaching. I am simply thinking out loud through my learning. All I am trying to learn and then share is the most practical thing there is...a better and healthier way of being. Sigh!

Enlightenment or awakening, I strongly believe,  really isn't "complicated woo-woo" meant only for the 'spiritual seeker', no matter how it sounds.   It is the most simple and practical thing there is...meant for all of us. If we strip all the conceptualization or preconceived notions about "awakening" away we can see it in its simple, unpretentious form.

 All of us come from both an individual and also a collective background.  We all have a unique way of thinking and understanding because of this. 

...we are all looking at truth from different standpoints, which vary according to our birth, education, surroundings, and so on. We are viewing truth, getting as much of it as these circumstances will permit, colouring the truth with our own heart, understanding it with our own intellect, and grasping it with our mind. We can only know as much of truth as is relate dto us, as much of it as we are able to receive. This makes teh difference between man and man, and occassions sometimes even contradictory ideas; yet we all belong to the same great universal truth.

This thinking and attempting to understand truth, to me, is spirituality. (If I had to define spirituality). It isn't woo-woo. I see more psychology, philosophy, science, and practical wisdom in what I am learning, practicing, and sharing than I do anything "woo-woo".  Through my speaking and writing (that I do not refer to as 'teaching')...I am simply sharing how I, and at the same time gently encouraging you, to examine the  mind to learn what works in making humans feel unconditionally peaceful no matter what is happening to them and around them. I am sharing what I have discovered doesn't work.  That's it! If that is "woo-woo" to the majority, I guess I am "woo-woo". 

I am not a teacher! I am definitely not a spiritual leader or guru. I am not trying to "lure" you in.  I am not trying to convince you to believe what I am sharing. There is little to no ego motivation on my part for being here. (At least, I am hoping there isn't. I truly see now that the route to truth exists without the ego.). I don't think my way ( if I dare  attach a 'my' to it) is the only way to truth. I know that:

...any attempt to bring all humanity to one method of thinking in spiritual things has been a failure and always will be a failure.

If anything, I want you to strongly question everything I have to say and discover for yourself what I am discovering. I am not asking you to come into my laboratory (of 'soul research' as Yoganada referred to it) to trust the validity of my experiment findings...I am asking you to go into your own and experiment for yourself.

Anyway. after watching yet another cult show I felt the need to write that lol. (What is up with this fascination I have with cults? Cra-cra! lol) I fear that any sharing of my learning I do may be misconstrued as having an ulterior purpose.

Please know that I am not saying that I have discovered "the" way, only that I am discovering "a" way. I share it because I naturally feel compelled to. But what do I know??

All is well. 

Vivekananda (2.6.5 The Way to the Realization of a Universal Religion/ Practical Vedanta and other Lectures/ Complete Works/Kindle)