Get Serious

Get Serious

There is a type of spiritual seeker who can not be effectively aided.

He or she is looking for a quick and easy solution to life’s quandaries—the least amount of investment or taxation, the better.

Any teacher is able to tell whether a person has done their homework or not. But there are, as in any endeavor, those who expect to get the benefit of the teaching while spending the least amount of time considering the subject matter. Anyone who has anything to teach, prepared themselves to teach it. Their discoveries, in the subject, did not likely come without an expenditure of effort and resources. A student can benefit only by asking the right questions, informed questions, questions which have a well-grounded premise. “Tell me, in a few sentences, how to live in bliss”— or words to that effect—is not the kind of question which signifies that the questioner is prepared to seriously engage the instructions that will be given.