After
initiation, we still have to renew our connection with God again
and again, or else we’ll suffer from the illusion of being
less than children of God. So we each have to be reminded again
because every day we spend about eighteen to twenty hours in the
world, where everyone else in society, even our friends and relatives,
remind us that we’re mere mortals, that we’re weak,
we’re physical, we’re nothing. So we have to spend at
least two-and-a-half hours, one tenth of our time, reminding ourselves,
“No, no: I’m God’s child. I’m a spiritual
being; I’m great.” That’s the time we spend reminding
ourselves, counteracting the world’s pressure so that we don’t
let people convince us that we’re merely weak human beings;
that’s why we have to meditate each day. Otherwise once you
get initiated, that would be enough; you’d be Buddha: finished,
final. |