Spiritual kung fu

Let’s talk about spirituality. Originally it was the term used in original Christianity before great divide in 1054 and before appearance of Protestantism. Later is stayed in eastern orthodox church to describe a specific way of life that is oriented toward Holy Spirit. It would take too much time to precisely describe what real, Christian spirituality is. Similar practices can be found on far east in Buddhism and some not so well known religions.

Today, term spirituality is hijacked by New Agers and it doesn’t really have any definition, for every person it means whatever that person wants it to mean. This New Age spirituality became very popular and very often people are attracted to spirituality like as a fashion. They want to wear some supposedly spiritual outfit, and walk around with very serene expression on their face, and talk endlessly about what they think is important for “spiritual growth”.  

“Spiritual” practice is a mish mash of everything these people pick up along the way from internet, yoga classes, sporadic lecture by some “guru” … each person has its own specific spiritual belief and “practice” made of different proportion of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Esoteric arts, Qigong, sometimes martial arts, ect. They mix things that cannot be mixed and make their own eclectic religion.

As for the “practice” their spiritual practice is consisted from only one segment, endless talking about being spiritual. Some try to meditate or do some “energy” exercises and even hallucinogenic drugs. While originally spirituality comes with great personal sacrifice and involve deprivation of sleep, extreme fasting, constant prayer, hard labor, celibacy, helping those no one else want to help (terminal illness patients, abandoned children with heavy developmental problems, ect, things that real Christian monks still do), wove of silence, and many other things which are extremely physically and mentally demanding, New Age spiritualty goes with soft beds, internet, good food, no physical and mental restriction what so ever.

What New Age actually develops is sense of self value, there are no more egoistic people than new age spiritual seekers. They have extremely high opinion about them self and they are extremely selfish without exception. Another thing that New Age spiritualty helps is moral and ethics, it kills them completely. These people lie and cheat with such ease that average sociopath looks like an amateur. Also this spiritual path kills empathy and develops an ability to politely insult and then leave the victim with a blessing before there is any chance to respond to the insult.  Another feature of new age spiritualty is an ability to judge everyone and everything from a position of high spiritual and moral authority which is fake as it can be but those people really believe they are better than others.

Passive aggressiveness which goes with constant comparison and competition with others is another thing that goes with new age spiritual practice. Instead of making people in their company feel uplifted, calmer, at peace or inspired they can often leave people feeling drained, belittled or anxious. The true legacy of true spirituality is how people leave feeling after being in their company, we should all leave feeling a lot lighter, and brighter about life. Be with a new age spiritual practitioner feeling is always  like our soul has been slapped in the face with a mix of spiritual insults, negativity and a dash a competitiveness. Many of these “people” are involved in martial arts and great percentage call them self teaches or Sifus. A side the fact  that martial arts has nothing in common with spirituality on any level , in fact martial arts are complete opposite of any spiritual practice, these “spiritual” people can turn your life to hell if you get involved with them, they will suck you confidence and self respect like a vampire, they will put you on a wild goose chase and you will waste time and money in pursuit of something that doesn’t actually exist , except in the heads of these people. Kung fu is full of frauds as it is, people who are selling “lineages” , “originals” ,”secrets” , “tradition” , everything but real fighting skills, with these “spiritual” idiots situation becomes unbearable.