Adyashanti says something along the lines of: Every moment of our lives is part of the spiritual path.

Somteimtes I think about things in my past that I might want to change, but nothing ever jumps out at me. Sure I've made mistakes and been embarassed, but They made me who I am now, they revealed things about myself that I was afraid to show, or uncomfortable with, and allowed me to overcome them.

And hitting on the part about past cultures using plant medicine tfor spiritual growth: that's exactly how I had my first taste of awakening. I was pretty apathetic in regards to life before that, but aftwerwards it spurred me to seek out and discover truth for myself. It showed me that we really don't have as much of a handle on how things are working and why.

We claim to know almost everything there is to know about things like nature, physics, the human body, etc, but all that is is knowledge, there is no intimate knowing like you can find when you open yourself up to the reality of the present moment. Everything else is just imaginings and dreamings in the mind, even memories.

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