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@Evangelicalhumanist this OP is a reply to your question " what does Amanaki mean by " spiritual practice "
Spiritual practice to me is first of all starting when a person chose to begin Cultivation of a spiritual teaching (religion included here). The practice in it self contain the reading of scripture/teaching, meditation is a Hauge part of spiritual practice too, but some paths have prayer instead of meditation. This lead to the different changes we have to do toward our own life from a non practitioner to becoming one who honestly can say they follow the guidelines within the teaching. This part is not done over night, this take time because there is so many aspects of our life that do not match up to spiritual standards( i explain spiritual standard later)
The practice also contain the observation of our self in family life, do we hold the higher standard of morality that we should do as spiritual practitioners? If we do find area in our daily life that does not are up to higher morality, this is area we have to work on, to remove our faults way of living, thinking or speaking.
But we also have to work on our behaviour outward toward others, refining our way of speech and acting.
When we get stuck and we realize we need deeper understanding or wisdom, we must read the teaching more, and by doing this we will realize our weakness and get a chance to correct our self.
It is always something to fix in our spiritual practice, or something to learn and understand. So a spiritual practice is never going to end, be sure we can always find area within our self to make better.
So you see, spiritual practice is everything within our speech, thoughts and action. And the refinment of our self.
You will maybe find other people who tell you a different understanding of what spiritual practice is, but i hope you gained some understanding of what i mean by spiritual practice.
Spiritual standard is, morality, truthfulness compassion forberance (in Falun Gong) and when cultivating upward in the path every aspect of our life should contain truthfulness, compassion and forberance.
So the standard is to become one who always follow the right way of life explained in the path we chose to cultivate.
If you have more questions feel free to ask.
@Evangelicalhumanist this OP is a reply to your question " what does Amanaki mean by " spiritual practice "
Spiritual practice to me is first of all starting when a person chose to begin Cultivation of a spiritual teaching (religion included here). The practice in it self contain the reading of scripture/teaching, meditation is a Hauge part of spiritual practice too, but some paths have prayer instead of meditation. This lead to the different changes we have to do toward our own life from a non practitioner to becoming one who honestly can say they follow the guidelines within the teaching. This part is not done over night, this take time because there is so many aspects of our life that do not match up to spiritual standards( i explain spiritual standard later)
The practice also contain the observation of our self in family life, do we hold the higher standard of morality that we should do as spiritual practitioners? If we do find area in our daily life that does not are up to higher morality, this is area we have to work on, to remove our faults way of living, thinking or speaking.
But we also have to work on our behaviour outward toward others, refining our way of speech and acting.
When we get stuck and we realize we need deeper understanding or wisdom, we must read the teaching more, and by doing this we will realize our weakness and get a chance to correct our self.
It is always something to fix in our spiritual practice, or something to learn and understand. So a spiritual practice is never going to end, be sure we can always find area within our self to make better.
So you see, spiritual practice is everything within our speech, thoughts and action. And the refinment of our self.
You will maybe find other people who tell you a different understanding of what spiritual practice is, but i hope you gained some understanding of what i mean by spiritual practice.
Spiritual standard is, morality, truthfulness compassion forberance (in Falun Gong) and when cultivating upward in the path every aspect of our life should contain truthfulness, compassion and forberance.
So the standard is to become one who always follow the right way of life explained in the path we chose to cultivate.
If you have more questions feel free to ask.