Your Hidden Destiny
Updated: Sep 14
MASTER DA: By tendency, ego-bound individuals invest only a portion of themselves in practice of the Way. They bring to school only the most superficial aspect of themselves–their social, outward character. Behind that superficial character is a hidden personality that comes out in the difficult circumstances of life, particularly those that impinge upon the emotional being. You must become sensitive to this hidden personality and oblige yourself to go to school with your whole personality.
If you are not obliged by right understanding of your practice to submit yourself in totality to the spiritual process, you could seem to be even an advanced practitioner at any moment. However, if you are obliged to consistently demonstrate a stage of practice beyond your level of real responsibility, you begin to show signs of difficulty. You simply cannot practice any better than you practice at the feeling level, in the emotional domain of your hidden personality that only comes forward in difficult confrontations. You practice no better or deeper than that. That dimension must be brought to school. If it has not been touched, then you are still in the domain of listening, and listening is your discipline, then. If you assume any other discipline, you will either show signs of obvious emotional aberration or you will simply magnify your relatively feelingless social personality, which looks like it has got it all together. You will be an idealistic character who can conform to orderly patterns rather easily. Of course, none of that has anything to do with practice.
You must bring the feeling being to school and submit it to my Argument, to the community, and to me. Through self-understanding you must relinquish your commitment to your hidden destiny. Only then can you see and practice and transcend all the limits on the core of the personality. This basic principle applies to every practitioner.
