4.1 🟣 The Inner Warrior

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Three Foundational Attitudes for Spiritual Practice

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   1. Quick Reference
   2. Introduction
   3. 1. Earnest Aspiration for Liberation
      1. This requires:
      2. The obstacles to earnest practice:
      3. How to develop and strengthen this aspiration:
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   1. 2. The Attitude of Learning from Every Experience
      1. The problem with pleasant experiences:
      2. Learning from challenging experiences:
      3. The problem with trivial experiences:
   2. What we can learn from every experience:
      1. 1. Training our capacity for awareness
      2. 2. Learning about our patterns
      3. 3. Training discrimination (discernment)
         1. The practice:
   3. 3. The Holistic Warrior Approach
      1. The martial arts principle:
      2. The most passive approach:
      3. Let’s take anger:
      4. For sexual desire/lust:
   4. The peaceful warrior
   5. Essential Points to Remember
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Quick Reference

The Three Foundational Attitudes:

• Earnest Aspiration for Liberation – Deep longing and sincere desire for freedom from conditioning and awakening to your true nature

• Learning from Every Experience – Using every moment—pleasant, challenging, or trivial—as an opportunity for transformation and self-knowledge

• The Holistic Warrior Approach – Knowing when to fight actively, when to remain passive, and when to yield and redirect energy

Introduction

Spiritual practice is not complicated. Yet most people make it complicated. They collect methods. They follow teachers. They read countless books. But real transformation eludes them.

I want to share three foundational attitudes that make the difference in practice. These are not techniques to learn, but attitudes to develop. They will help your spiritual work become effective.

The three foundations are:

1. Earnest aspiration for liberation
2. Learning from every experience
3. The holistic warrior approach

1. Earnest Aspiration for Liberation

This is the foundation of all spiritual practice. Without this, nothing else works.

What is earnest aspiration? It is the deep longing for truth and liberation. It is the sincere desire to be free from conditioning and to realize truth—that is, to awaken to your true nature.

This is not casual interest. This is not hobby spirituality. This is a burning desire in your heart that says: “I want to know the truth, I want to be free. I want to wake up. I want liberation.”

This requires:

Devotion – giving your heart fully to the practice and the path

Determination – continuing even when progress seems slow, even when difficulties arise

Earnestness – being sincere, not playing games with yourself, not pretending

Deep longing – a fire inside that cannot be satisfied with anything less than freedom

Without this foundation, your practice becomes half-hearted, inconsistent, and mechanical. Some progress may come, but slowly and superficially, because the fuel is missing..

The obstacles to earnest practice:

Even when we have some aspiration, practice often becomes inconsistent. We have interruptions. We don’t give our full attention. We don’t bring our whole being – our intelligence, our resources, both inner and outer. We practice mechanically, without using our intelligence to understand what we’re doing.

There is also resistance. It may manifest as an impulse to avoid practicing and engage in other matters. Other matters seem more important than practice. We have priorities that pull us away from spiritual work

How to develop and strengthen this aspiration:

Through practice itself and purity: The results of practice increase devotion. As the mind and heart become purer, as the sattva guna (quality of purity, clarity, harmony) increases, we see the benefits clearly. This naturally strengthens our aspiration to continue.

Through daily study and watching videos: feeding our mind daily with spiritual, luminous, high-vibrational ideas and teachings, reading the lives of great sages, etc., steadily increases our longing and aspiration to live them personally in our life.

Through spiritual company (Satsang): Being in the presence or realized beings and also of spiritually advanced persons – especially those who already have strong aspiration – purifies our energy. Their high frequency permeates our being and inspires us. We experience a higher state in their presence, and we naturally want to live in that frequency.

Through sacred places: Practicing in ashrams, spiritual centers, and places where enlightened beings have lived or taught carries a special energy. These places support and strengthen our aspiration.

Through life’s difficulties: Great challenges and suffering can trigger the aspiration for liberation. When we suffer deeply, we ask: “There must be another way to live. I want freedom from this suffering.”

A deep longing and aspiration for truth and liberation is the base. Without this, the other two attitudes and our practice cannot be successful. With this, everything becomes possible.

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