Name 1-2 MUSTS for a seeker that without all his spiritual endevours are useless

Submitted by doo on Tue, 12/08/2009 - 17:54.
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Name one or two MUSTS that you think are essential for a seeker, one or two MUSTS that without all his spiritual endevours are useless.

Please focus on the subject, 1-2 lines of your 1-2 selected musts without speculations, without theories.

My picks:

(1) Sincerity with himself

(2) Earnestness

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my pick

Sincerity with himself - self deception by definition is the main barrier to truth.

Seeking genuine love, not seeking truth or knowledge - the mind is the greatest barrier to the beyond, the heart is the only gateway to the beyond.

kulchnaui | Tue, 12/08/2009 - 19:13

ditto

Sincerity with oneself and seeking genuine love.

The main traps most of us tend to fall in over and over again are usually concerned with these factors.

kalgo | Sun, 12/13/2009 - 09:38

TO DO WHAT?

What is YOUR Seeker trying to do ???
What is he/she seeking?

forget the seeker: NOBODY needs anything to realize that there is NOTHING to find/seek:

this "Nothing to find/seek"
defines the limits of so called Spirituality, alias Death, Self - Samadhi.

genep | Wed, 12/09/2009 - 00:43

My choices

He specifically asked "without speculations, without theories". Why there should always be some wise guy with slogans. I'm starting to think that there are people who are addicted to their theories.

My choices: honesty (otherwise he will surely deceive himself) and sufficient peacefulness (so that he will be able to start meditating devoid of his restlessness and life addictions to desires).

solomon | Wed, 12/09/2009 - 07:54

I would say...

(1) Genuine willingness to surrender completely.

(2) Genuine willingness to abandon the reliance on rational thinking.

johnd | Wed, 12/09/2009 - 23:05

Connecting with others

Willingness to connect with and learn from other humans

Explanation: many spiritual people are introversive in nature. Instead of coping with this aspect of them, they find all sorts of justifications and convenient interpretations of spiritual theories why they do not need others in order to progress on the spiritual path (oneness, all is illusion, the guru is within, etc.). This approach also serves their ego. Sometimes, they will be willing to be assisted and instructed in any other field of life except in the most important one for them: spirituality, and they will not see the irony in that. This is a proven formula for stagnation. Opening to others, understanding that without the assistance and ready-made wisdom of more experienced ones, progressing in the spiritual path is impossible.

sisi | Thu, 12/10/2009 - 10:46

my 2 musts

(1) Enough intelligence.

(2) Not too much intelligence.

joy | Thu, 12/10/2009 - 17:44

Self love and love for others

1. Self love or intention to work towards it (do not confuse self love with ego which is actually the opposite).

2. Love for others or intention to work towards it (do not confuse love for others with lust which is actually the opposite).

silencio | Sat, 12/12/2009 - 13:51

Indifference and concern in the same time!

(1) Indifference

(2) Concern

Who said spirituality is not paradoxical.

shishmanidov35 | Sat, 12/12/2009 - 23:19

not too serious and not too light

Doesn't take anything too seriously. In other words, not attached.

Doesn't take anything too lightly. In other words, not careless.

angel76 | Sun, 12/13/2009 - 22:45

Breathing and luck

1. Breathing
2. Luck

avi | Fri, 12/18/2009 - 10:44

LOL :-)

I liked the breathing :-) LOL

I conclude from these that you think that it is not up to the seeker at all. I like this too.

anderlaus | Fri, 12/18/2009 - 22:19

SURRENDER

1. self-surrender to mother kundalini and establishing of chitta at saharara.
2. To be detached witness in thoughtless awareness.

www.sahajayoga.org
www.sahajayoga.org.in

NIDHI PARKASH | Fri, 12/18/2009 - 17:39

The whim and ability to surrender

I think the crucial factors change in different parts of the path as the aspirant walks on it but I feel that throughout and especially in the beginning the following are most essential:

1. The whim (as Meher Baba terms it) - a pull, an unexplainable caprice to pursue spiritual matters and self development (most people on earth have no interest in that)

2. Ability to surrender completely (even for a short time).

anderlaus | Fri, 12/18/2009 - 22:17

Sincerity

Sincerity. All the rest can be cultivated or compensated. But in order to know what should be cultivated or/and compensated you must first be sincere inwards and outwards (which are not seperate as our experience teaches us).

sharonk | Sat, 12/19/2009 - 00:38

1)Nirmamo2)Nir ahankaraha sa

1)Nirmamo2)Nir ahankaraha sa shantim adhi gachati gita(2-71)
One should get ridof myness and I ness to attain peace

mbnarayana | Sat, 12/19/2009 - 10:21

I'm not sure I understand

But these are the results, not the traits one should have/acquire to achieve these results.

It's like I ask what should one do in order to enter the cinema and you will say: sit in his designated seat and watch the movie :-)

solo | Sat, 12/19/2009 - 13:14

Trust and skepticism

Trust - otherwise he/she will quit upon the first hardship on the path.

Skepticism - otherwise he/she will fall in the first pitfall on the path.

nelo | Sat, 12/19/2009 - 22:16

ditto - trust & skepticism

I would say: enough trust and not too much skepticism.

seeker | Sun, 12/20/2009 - 07:34

Humility & balance

Humility & balance.

Humility because otherwise one cannot accept the authority of someone else and without that there is no chance for progress. Those who say that you need no one to evolve spiritually are deceiving themselves out of ego or introversion.

Balance - balance is the name of the game: not too much and not too little - in everything - the middle path is the path, all the extremes are tricks of the mind.

dabka | Sun, 12/20/2009 - 12:32