Spiritual teachings are medicine.
The general spiritual teachings are aimed at meeting most people where they are, and nudge them in the direction of love and reality.
And specific spiritual teachings are aimed at a particular person, with the intention of correcting hangups and one-sidedness of that person.
If most people were very familiar with Big Mind but not their human self, reverse of how it tends to be today, then the teachings would tend to be reverse as well. Mainstream spiritual teachings would say: “Look, you have this human self, and a world, and it’s important you take care of this human self and your life and your world. It’s not all about basking as Big Mind and Big Heart (and Big Belly). It’s also about how you live it through this human self.” And, of course, some teachings do say that, because some people are at that place. It’s one of the typical phases of a spiritual development or awakening to be temporarily identified more as Big Mind and Big Heart, and less as the human self.
In general, spiritual teachings can be grouped in a few different categories. (a) Living according to certain guidelines (morals), and developing and living from love. (a) Inviting Big Mind/Heart/Belly to recognize itself. (c) Recognize all life as Big Mind/Heart/Belly. And (d) how to live from and as Big Mind/Heart/Belly through this human life in the world. Each of these is a medicine for people at specific phases on the path.
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– sp teachings as medicine
– if most were very familiar w big mind but not human self, then the emphasis would be reverse from what we see today (look, you have this human self, and a world, and it’s important you take care of this human self and your life and your world)