by George Merritt

Created on: November 21, 2007   Last Updated: June 05, 2009

Just what is the Spirit in life? Is it our consciousness, is it our heart or brain, and or nerves? So many different definitions and arguments as to what is the Spirit.

Spiritual life is the fact of our existence, and through love we can exist and be dead of spirit at the same time, which is part of the problem many seem to have today in a society which pushes for what can we get for this, or what is in it for me or us? Truth and love go hand in hand, we can not have one with out the other, as in sex without love or truth we have nothing, except the perceived pleasure of nerves, perceived because it is a lie to the spirit.

I believe one of the belief systems which gets it right is the Tibetan Buddhist practice. When one reads the "Tibetan Book of the Dead", which I consider to be one of the best books ever written, along with "The Prophet" and the Bible, it is found to be a moment by moment practice, not just something we do once or twice a week, or how ever often there is a meeting. It is now, at this moment, and once it passes we can only use it for reference. We need to add Thomas Merton to the list of those who at least seemed to know some sense of Love, even with the confusion in acting on life. Actually there are many who write of the spirit, though it seems few actually live by the spirit of what they may write. Goes for all of us, as none of us are perfect, even though we are practicing for perfection.

"Chose the womb carefully" is the most profound group of words I have ever read, and did not at all understand until after the whole book, or after going over it many times. When we think of love many think of family and growing up, perhaps with brothers and sisters or not. Question is did that family come from love, or some mistaken definition of love? This is what the spirit is all about, in my humble opinion anyway. When children are young they are naturally spiritual, until someone tells them they are an idiot, or whatever. These children obviously came from a womb, usually their mothers womb. Some know the fathers and some do not, which is not important truly, the father is not what counts in the spiritual world of our conscientiousness, hopefully though he does love his wife and children. The father, or man is only good for the transformation of the spirit to the living body, in other words as the book tells us from the in-between to a new body, at least something along those lines. In other words when we leave our body at death, we are only

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