The Most Effective Spiritual Practices
Question: What would you say in hindsight were the most effective practices or techniques that you used as a seeker?
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The most effective spiritual practice is the easiest. And the easiest is to be in the presence of an enlightened Master. To be in their company, just to be with them, just hang around with them, eat with them, joke with them, work with them, walk with them, swim with them. Always just be with them.
That is ultimately the best, because of their vibration, or their presence, or in the modern world it’s sometimes called ‘the Buddha field’. You can’t see it with these eyes, but this vibration literally alchemizes your vibration. It just changes your negative vibration, without you doing anything. Just being in their presence that happens.
I think that is the best. But really from that, the Master teaches techniques so you can actually practise yourself as well, which speeds it up more. And of course, if you live with them, there’s less burden on your mind. And if you are disturbed, they will kind of snap you out of it very quickly, so you don’t waste energy in days and weeks of that negativity. They snap you out of it, so you have more energy to practise.
You see, there are so many benefits. And when you hit a brick wall or a plateau or confusion, they’re experienced, so they help you get out of it from their experience. Otherwise you’ll be stuck there, you could be stuck there for decades.
All these things help but it starts off being in the presence of the Master, in the presence of the Guru. That is, really, the starting point, the key starting point. Everything happens from that.
