Today’s attitude of spirituality seems one of compromise. We look at our behavior and ego games and decide how to “integrate” spirituality into them. We create spirituality in the workplace, spiritual sex, spiritual realtionships, pet spirituality, spirituality of wealth, spiritual social work, and such. We want to look at our present lifestyle and make it spiritual rather than honestly appraise what we are doing in light of the apparent meaninglessness of all worldly action.
Some of this has to do with spiritual movements more interested in making money than finding Reality. We find spiritual movements willing to justify any sort of behavior in a drive to increase their coffer.
However, the root problem is with the individual who is not asking the basic questions – what motivates me, why am I in internal conflict, who chooses among my desires, what about me in unchanging, how can I discover if I have a soul or spirit? Most people see the value of the spiritual search, but refuse to gamble their worldly position for something apparently ethereal. They compromise and declare their actions spiritual, so they feel content. Our everyday life is like unbroken ground and the spiritual search is a plow. You can declare the unbroken field a farm, but will raise little but weeds, or you can plow it up, sow, and reap.