The Lay Spirituality game
So, what is this Lay Spirituality?Is there any use to keep talking about it as if it were a pathway, a road that leads you somewhere to come to some conclusions about life?
In space there are no roads, there is only empty space.
In our spirit, in our conscience as in space, there is no pathway and therefore to talk about “lay spirituality” implying that is a way of establishing the search for oneself following certain rules and refusing others is pure vanity.
Everything happens on its own …, according to an inner spontaneous drive. As a matter of fact to believe in a certain road and to think that you are “right” is the prerogative to every pathway … but in lay spirituality its not even necessary to discuss about the contradictions of this or that religion, of this or that belief. Until there will be someone who “believes” in religion you cannot help recognizing that for him bare truth in itself is a mirage. To believe in this or to believe in that is only belief. But can we assert to “believe” in our existence, to “believe” in our conscience?
We exist and are conscious of it, we do not “believe” that we exist.
“I” is a sign, we each say of ourselves ” I am”, this sign is common to all, all the rest is added thought. “I” is the same for everyone. If this is the truth then why should we tie “I” to a specific way of thought, or to a concept? Every thing is in the “Self”. The individualized form of “Self” is like the conscience of a cell in the body. Obviously in the consciousness of oneself as a unified organism (as a whole), that cell is only one aspect, an experimental microscopic version of oneself. So where is the difference between the individual and everything? That “I” from which all thoughts come from and that is capable of recognizing every thought, is the same “I” in which everything dissolves.
As a matter of fact, to be unaware that everything is one, is like dreaming.
To awaken to one’s consciousness and calling this fact “lay spirituality” is a way of saying it, from experience’s point of view, you cannot give it a name, therefore lay spirituality is just the description of something that cannot be truly described.
A Zen teacher used to say: “the finger that points to the moon is not the moon”.
Paolo D’Arpini Translated by Ilaria Gaddini Original italian text: Il gioco della Spiritualità Laica http://www.circolovegetarianocalcata.it/2008/05/11/il-gioco-della-spiritualita-laica/
