August 25, 2025
Story # 37
Written by Bill Pautler
3 Steps to Becoming
a Spiritual Master
“All that is virtuous and good, and
right is that which comes from the soul to the mind and from the mind into the
body.” Hazrat Inayat Kahn
To begin
with let's do an exercise. I want you to hold your
hand out in front of you, palm facing you and make a fist. Then slowly open
your hand, finger by finger, starting with your thumb. Now slowly close your
hand finger by finger in the reverse order.
Easy right? Now
I want you to do the same thing again, but while you are doing this, I want you
to think about who is opening and closing your hand. Go ahead, do it.
Step 1 –
Awareness of Spirit, Mind, Body Programming
In that
exercise, who was opening your hand? It was your spirit. From the moment you
entered this world, your spirit has been using your mind to train your body. You
‘potty trained’ yourself between 18 months and 3
years of age. That is when your spirit, learned how to train your mind, to
control the voluntary anal sphincter muscle. We have taught our minds to crawl, walk, ride a
bike, climb stairs, catch a ball, drive a car and thousands of other body
movements. Increasingly more complex movements.
We have also trained our mind to manage
symbols: our alphabet, numbers, time, distance, money. Road
signs, painted lines on the road, billboards, books are all just symbols we
have all agreed on. When you read a book, you are reading symbols. Those
symbols, grouped together, are what we call words. And those words have agreed
upon meanings. Those meanings allow us to share ideas. Our smart phones and
computers display symbols. When we check our bank accounts, those are just
agreed upon symbols. If we all went to the bank at the same time and asked for
our money in cash, a bank does not have that much money. We even agree that a
piece of green paper is worth so many dollars. This page you are reading is
just agreed upon symbols to convey ideas and concepts.
Even the word God, is an agreed upon concept.
And we all have varying concepts of what the meaning of the word God conveys. To
some it is a king on a throne and to others it is some huge energetic force.
The overall point here is that our Spirits
train our minds, and our minds train our bodies.
How our Spirit trains our mind, is how we
perceive and interact with our reality.
Some simple examples would be: 1. have you
trained your mind to think of this world as a place that is difficult to
survive in or as a space to create and have fun in? 2. A place that is safe or
a place that is dangerous? Or 3: a place where I always have what I need or a
place where I am always lacking?
Step 1 is an awareness and acceptance that
Spirit trains mind and mind trains body and how your spirit programs your mind
is the reality you live in.
Step 2 –
Alignment with Soul
You came
into this world with a soul plan. A plan that would allow your soul to advance
in knowledge and wisdom, so you could perfect your ability to create in
wholeness and holiness (wholeness and holiness are the same words, anything
that is whole is holy, anything that is holy is whole, not lacking in
anything).
Or as Thomas
Aquinas said in the Summa Theologica, his “Summary of Theology”, a 1.8-million-word
tome published in 1485, “The reason man’s soul needs a body is because it is
only potentially intelligent, not knowing everything innately, but needing to
acquire knowledge through bodily experience of the sensible world”.
One thought
might be, what better way to explore love than on this planet? True love
requires a balanced interdependency and these bodies we are in, force
interdependency just to live.
So, our
Spirits come into this world with a soul plan and that plan leads us to advance
in our ability to be aligned with God.
Alignment is
Step 2. To stay aligned while on this planet, our individualized spirit here in
this body must communicate with our larger spirit, our soul, which is the
container of all of our multi-lifetime experiences and the container of our
soul plan. The pineal gland is the biological antenna in our brain which
connects us to our soul. But our antenna’s reception is weakened by static. The
static is the noise of this world. The static is false beliefs and bad programming.
Beliefs that judge people by skin color, religion, or nationality are static. A
statement like ‘money can buy us happiness’ is static. Fear is static. Thinking
we are better than others is static.
The static
keeps our minds swimming in worldly false thoughts and dulls the reception of
our soul plan. The language we use about ourselves and others, either helps
reception or impedes reception of our connection to our higher spirit.
Once we
acknowledge the need for alignment, we move to Step 3.
Step 3 – The
Practice of DeCluttering
The practice
of decluttering our mind, is an easy practice. We look at our false beliefs,
our static, that we picked up in this world and we release it. I love this
bible verse, “Do not conform yourselves to this world, but be transformed by
the renewal of your mind, that you may know the perfect and pleasing will of
God”.
We come into
this world, and we conform ourselves to it. We forget we are spirits in bodies,
and we start treating this place like it is our forever home. We hoard, we
cheat, we are disrespectful of our planet and our fellow spirits. But, if we
began to look at our lives from a higher perspective, a perspective where we
realize this world is for our growth and that our inherent nature’s, are the nature
of God. Then with awareness we can begin transforming our minds and making them
new again. Then the static begins to dissipate, and we can hear our soul plan signal
clearly and stay in alignment with the perfect and pleasing will of God.
The two
reasons decluttering is hard; first, we must recognize the cluttering we have
allowed ourselves to believe and secondly, we have emotionally attached ourselves
to the cluttering and therefore is can be hard to release.
But
remember, Spirit trumps mind. So, as our spirits with awareness identify the
false beliefs that are contradictory to our inherent godliness, our static will
just fall away. And every time we identify a false programming and with
awareness watch it, it will dissolve on its own because our spirit senses the
falseness. And every time we do this, the process gets easier and easier. And
our refinement gets finer and finer, and our purity
exudes.
As we become
highly refined, our inherently powerful and loving spirits shine forth and
allow us to move through the world with peace and grace.
Liberation is our true inheritance,
claimed through daily decisions to love and release.
Live a SageLife. Be a SAGE!
SAGE --- Spiritual Awareness Growth & Enlightenment
Hope this helps! I love you all!
Namaste Bill
PS – Yeshua said, “The Father and I are one”. The
religious leaders at that time wanted to stone Yeshua for this because they
considered it blasphemy. But Yeshua could say this, because he knew all Spirit
is one Spirit. And when we bring ourselves into alignment, we our operating out
of our individuation, but also in perfect alignment with the All. And when we
operate in perfect alignment with the All, we our trusted with power that can
be used for the betterment of the All. But spiritual power is not given to
those who are not trustworthy. That is the reason for an incarnation on this
planet, to learn to use our powers to create in wholeness and holiness.
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