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Beyond Reaches Back

Daily writing promptHow important is spirituality in your life?View all responses The trickiest thing about this prompt is defining or not, the word spirituality. My definition would include the basics that might come to mind for most hearing the…
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Beyond Reaches Back

By Stephanie on June 24, 2024

Daily writing prompt
How important is spirituality in your life?
View all responses

The trickiest thing about this prompt is defining or not, the word spirituality.

My definition would include the basics that might come to mind for most hearing the word, things like whether someone prays or meditates, or attends services, performs rituals. Also it would also include whether someone has alive ethics.

Perhaps not everyone would include ethics, but I believe if someone is consciously attentive to examining their motivations in an effort toward doing less harm in the world; if they care about the earth and its inhabitants and living a life that is mindful of that care, they have a spiritual practice. To be artistic is to be spiritual, and so is to be excellent at something, or true to one's integrity when no one else is looking.

I'm always trying to parse the lines and make distinctions around the idea of beliefs, however. I like the idea of shedding beliefs per se, in favor of active exploration that works toward inclusive openness and curiosity.

Spirituality is deeply important to me. At some point most of us reach beyond ourselves in some way. Sometimes beyond reaches back. 🙂

I certainly can't convey better than Muso Soseki:

Toki-no-Ge
(satori poem)

Year after year

I dug in the earth

looking for the blue of heaven

only to feel

the pile of dirt

choking me

until once in the dead of night

I tripped on a broken brick

and kicked it into the air

and saw that without a thought

I had smashed the bones

of the empty sky

Saihoji Temple, designed by Muso Soseki
Photo not taken by me because I haven't been yet! Reservations required.
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