Grounding practice: so what?
I have been listening this evening to a podcast (.mp3) by Buddhist teacher James Foster on the single most important question in any spiritual path: so what?
That’s it. That is the question. It is neither a trivial question nor one that is completley cavalier. In fact it is a profoundly important question in very many realms and it is the utter foundation of the grounding practices that take facilitation, leadership and work from the esoteric to the real.
So heading into a week of teaching, I think I will anchor a lot of what I am doing around this question and play with the way in which the energy of this simple inquiry grounds everything.
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That’s a good question especially in tough times, when things are going wrong. You gotta ask it in the right spirit though, or it becomes wholesale denial of any attempt to care about anything.
I have my own version: When things are going badly, I ask myself:
1: Can I bear it? Sometimes I know I can, and that’s fine. Other times I’m not sure. That leads to question two:
2: Can the world bear it? The answer is always yes :o) This helps put my troubles in perspective. The question three:
3: Can the world bear that I can’t bear it? Sure it can. This puts my feelings about my troubles into perspective.
Result: The situation I’m in is not that bad. The fact that I’m feeling bad about ain’t that bad either. So what?
so what? now what?