Offering wisdom on the challenging yet necessary work of spiritual practice, Krishna Das explains working through difficulty and finding answers in ourselves.
“Spiritual practice is not like a drug that you take, have an experience, crash, and then do it again. Spiritual practice is training ourselves and transforming ourselves. If not transforming, opening ourselves in a certain kind of way and making ourselves more available to real grace and real love.” – Krishna Das
This time on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das offers wisdom on:
- Dealing with family issues
- Untying emotional knots through practice
- Doing spiritual work and cleaning our hearts
- Releasing the programming from our past
- Treating others well and making positive karma
- Chanting, mantra repetition, and serving others for deeper consciousness
- Continual growth in spiritual practice
- Being present, being with the sound of the name
- Experiencing the space around our thoughts
- Finding answers within ourselves
- The roots of depression and anger
Today’s episode originally aired on Krisha Das’ “Hanging Out In the Heart Space” online satsang on May 5th, 2022. Be sure to subscribe to Krishna Das on Youtube to get new episodes of “Hanging Out In the Heart Space”, fresh music from KD and more: Krishna Das Music
“Removing the energy out of the traumatic experiences and experiences that formed us is a big job. It’s a really big thing. Don’t think of it as a waste of time. It’s our spiritual work. We’re cleaning our hearts of anger, betrayal, hurt, damage, grief, and shame, all the stuff that we’ve learned and absorbed as children in our families and in life.” – Krishna Das
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