Spiritual Ambition

Meditation Without Borders – Being the Change Podcast

We’re taught from when we are little to be ambitious in order to achieve what we want, but what if what we want is to strive for something that is already within us, enlightenment? In a teaching that expounds not looking to the future for happiness, where does something like ambition fit into such a philosophy? And is enlightenment envy a thing?

In this episode, Kristen and Isabel get personal about their own experience with feeling ambition in the spiritual sphere and how they have found ways of not letting it get in the way of their paths.

Show Notes:
1.30 Pitta dosha personality

5:00 Santosha

5.55 “Suffering is wanting a different experience than what you are having right now.” Kristen

6.30 Enlightenment impatience

7.00 Flower blooming process

7.41 “We want to have that destination in our mind while also realizing that there is a journey that’s happening. And that we don’t want to rush the journey. We want to have the full unfolding.” Kristen

8.20 Enlightenment envy

10.00 Vulnerability

10.50 Nature is never always in bloom

14.26 The trick is to feel sad without being sad

14.46 “At your core you are always fine, but you are still allowing yourself to feel humanity. It’s like being in the big ocean of self while simultaneously being in the wave of self. The wave of self, feeling sad and the ocean of self, the being, is always fine.” Kristen

17.00 It’s about the how

19.50 Status – “True status is something you just experience.” Kristen

24.20 Punya – Spiritual merit

27.15 Karma and Kriya

33.40 “To what extent are you enjoying and experiencing whatever point in the storyline you are in right now. It’s not the how it’s the what.” Kristen

37.00 The characters we play

39.00 Big Self goals

43.54 “Spiritual ambition - Once you get there, it won’t matter to you. The unfolding is happening with that. The river is moving, you don’t have to push it. You just have to listen and do the practice and do those spontaneous actions and watch the whole thing.” Kristen