Spiritual Survival is the same as physical survival

[Preety_India]

In my latest contemplation sitting, I had this insight that spiritual survival does not discount physical survival. 

In fact spiritual survival wants physical survival to be optimal.

In this context, transcending survival is not an option. It won't make sense to transcend survival. 

Because the body is the vehicle of the soul, it's temple. 

How can the soul arrive at higher consciousness without this vehicle? 

That's why physical survival is just as important as spiritual survival. 

Improving physical survival is not selfishness as I used to think before, although a bit of fine tuning is necessary here. 

Physical survival shouldn't come at the cost of hurting someone. Then it's not selfish, although in some ways it still is, yet this selfishness is not immoral in its root. 

Moralizing survival would not benefit the spirit, in fact make it even more difficult to make spiritual progress. 

Your thoughts? 

 

[Godishere]

They are indistinguishable.

Survival Is selfishness because you believe you are a self. Transcending survival is an ego thing. It wants to utilize it to benefit it's own survival. 

The soul/Self has always been infinitely conscious. You have just fooled/limited yourself otherwise.

Survival is completely imaginary. What your doing is actually imagining stuff about survival. What is contemplation but survival?

[Blackhawk]

Anyone who is alive who says "survival is ego-stuff", "you need to transcend survival", "survival is bad and selfish", etc. cannot be taken seriously. Because obviously they are surviving, because they are alive.

It's like someone would say "I'm not speaking".  Um.. yes you are. The fact that you say that proves that you are speaking.

Edited August 16, 2021 by Blackhawk

[Blackhawk]

Anyway..

According to NDEs, being physically alive limits you.

But I don't know anything.

Edited August 16, 2021 by Blackhawk