337. Regular Practice elevates Seeker to Spiritual Awakening!!

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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 different kicks, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” says legendary martial artist Bruce Lee.

Practice is learning things by repetition. It is not necessarily the amount of time we spend in practice that counts but the interest we put in the practice. A raw diamond after a consistent long polishing becomes valuable otherwise it is just a carbon. Any performance shows excellent results after a long practice. Practicing improves our technical thinking and boosts our imagination to perform better the next time. We have to practice methodically, thoughtfully and regularly. Practice does make perfect but a perfect practice makes perfection a lot quicker.

Practice of anything is important and it should be considered as a necessary evil. That does not mean that it is unpleasant but it has to be made to serve as goal achiever. Practice is also important for a spiritual seeker. Spiritual seekers are advised to take up the spiritual practice without any intervals, comparing it to the uninterrupted flow of the clarified butter from one vessel to another. An uninterrupted practice annihilates skepticism. 

A musician says, “If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.”  Thus is the importance of a regular practice. While the musician was about others noticing about his practicing schedule, in spirituality there is no need for others to notice if the self notices it that is itself a hindrance.  

Spiritual practice is the firm soil on which the sapling of faith grows and matures to become a big tree of spiritual awakening. Often we are asked to tread the path of spirituality alone but members of the family can get together. When an individual family involves in spiritual practice, each family member gains something from it, and the family bond is automatically strengthened. There are many ways of spiritual practices that together a family can practice like hospitality, respecting each other, and reading scriptures, contemplating and discussing to get clarity on the unknown. 

Then spiritual practice can be introduced to a group of families. Each family would then decide how to include that practice in their family life and for the wellness of the society they are living. Thus each individual of the family is elevated to Spiritual awakening in particular and society in general……. Correct????