The Noble Eightfold Path
Someone said to me today regarding about the Noble Eightfold Path:
“I am a little bit skeptic about any path. They enforce the ego.”After writing my response to the person, I decided I should post it here too, just in case someone way may feel the same way.
“The ego wants to be in the center of everyone’s life.
When ever a Spiritual Path is followed with determination, the ego becomes threatened, because now it feels like it is losing grip of our life (body and mind).
The word “enforce” is the perfect way to describe what ego is saying. Ego says “I do not want to be compelled or forced into behaving in a certain way.” Ego doesn’t like rules. Ego likes to live the way it wants to, think whatever way it wants to, and act whatever way it wants to.
But in Reality, the way of the ego is illusory, it doesn’t fulfill, it leaves the heart wanting for more and it will never become satisfied. The way of the ego is like a dog chasing its own tail again and again, going no where, in terms of not living in full potential, and attracting the abundance emotionally, spiritually and materially one so deserves.
Imagine a country without Laws. That country would experience confusion and chaos. That is the same way in any Spiritual Path. The Law is like the staff that a Shepherd uses to guide his sheep. If the Shepherd doesn’t guide his sheep they can walk into harms way and get hurt or killed. Ultimately we have a Divine guidance within us, its like a inner compass, but we cannot see it if ego is present.
Enforcing ego is basically discovering who you are not and who you really are. Think about it….try to go back as far as to when you were a child….with simple thinking….without beliefs….without concepts or ideas….you were just living life, always happy for no reason….that is our True Nature, but its like we cannot see it anymore, its like we lost frequency, due to the things we pick up along the way of this path called adulthood. Those things we picked up are habits and perceptions, which forms this ego.
The Eightfold Path is a Spiritual Path that uses practical instructions of how to discover your True Nature all over again and live in complete fullness and bliss.
~Namaste~
