Greetings of peace, welcome.
context
Building upon the theme of understanding the relationship between wisdom, technology and spiritual productivity to help my readers understand how they can benefit from their own spiritual productivity as a processive result of attaining wisdom and technical expertise in their chosen fields; in this blogpost-essay I will discuss the theme of patience that serves the object under discussion.
We established five facts in the previous essay, and I remind:
- Human beings are spiritual beings.
- Wisdom attainment flows through time for each of us.
- Time is cyclical in nature.
- Productive people respect time’s cyclical nature.
- Hence, their growth never stunts.
Now, to the theme of patience:
Inna Allaha Ma’as-Sabirin
benefit of this essay
Sometimes it is difficult to carry out your mission daily. To know your mission requires a detailed expository essay, that’s kept for another time. However, this essay shall be beneficial for those who know their mission and feel resistance in carrying it out – living it – at the mindset level.
“In the practice of every way of life and every kind of work, there is a state of mind called that of the deviant. Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you think you are on a good path, from the point of view of the straight and true, this is not a genuine path. If you do not pursue a genuine path to its consummation, then a little bit of crookedness in the mind will later turn into a major Warp.”
– Miyamoto Musashi, Spiritually Productive Master of the Way from Classical Japanese Era
Patience is one of the warriors against the Deviant state in the spiritually productive person.
Musashi’s saying is helpful in driving home one point essential to the purpose of this essay: do not pursue anything in life but what you are genuinely sent to pursue by the One Spirit.
Here are ways to make sure you have patience in this pursuit of genuinity.
- After intending to appreciate history you experience a paradigm shift. You start seeing yourself in the context of history. You begin to understand that you are not the center of the world. You are only revolving around a deeper center of the world. You are revolving around the One Spirit that powers the world and knows everything there is. You become wise to the degree that this One Spirit allows you to. And you innovate technically, as much as this One Spirit allows you to. Your consciousness helps you to be present and avoid getting out of touch with reality.
- After intending to appreciate nature and experiencing the above paradigm shift, you begin to see truth, goodness and beauty and increase it in the world.
- As the first two ways are exposed to you, you begin to be more open to the spiritual world and Spiritual Productivity starts unveiling its secrets to you and you experience bliss of understanding. Such is the bliss of some of the rightly guided ulema and the awliya in the 21st century; which comes only after battling the false, the bad and the ugly over a long span of time, without losing hope.
These three ways are potent to develop patience in you.
Key Takeaways
Stay tuned into the essay series. I shall keep publishing these blogpost-essays. The next essay will expose the friends and the friendship on the processive Way to attain Spiritual Productivity As An Object Of Wisdom And Technology.
Recommended reading alongside this essay series is Go Rin no Sho (circa. 1645 A.D.)