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02/05/2026

Jupp.

DON’T BE A SPIRITUAL ZOMBIE!

I’ve met a lot of spiritual people over the years. Spiritual teachers. Students. Seekers.

They seem very calm. Very “present.”

And yet… something important feels missing.

It’s like they’ve lost their aliveness, their edge. Their humour. Their awkwardness. Their spontaneity. Their passion.

All the rough edges have been smoothed out.

It’s like they have no personality.

No individuality.

Instead there’s just a kind of careful, polite, slightly absent neutrality.

They call it peace. They call it enlightenment.

They call it “non-judgemental deep listening.”

They call it “no self”.

I don’t buy it.

Somewhere along the way, spirituality gets deeply misunderstood.

We hear the ego is false. The persona is a mask. Judgements are wrong. Opinions are unspiritual. Nothing is good or bad.

Just rest in awareness. Just listen. Just receive. Just be. Just live in the stillness.

Beautiful ideas, of course. Life changing, some of them.

But taken too literally, they can start to drain the life out of you. This is the shadow side of spirituality.

People begin to edit themselves. Smooth themselves out. Hide anything that feels too much, too sharp, too human, too raw, too bold, too imperfect.

And slowly, something vital disappears.

Their humour. Their awkwardness. Their honesty. And most of all, their vulnerability.

What’s left can look very “peaceful”.

But it often feels frozen. Numb. Deadening.

I’ve met too many “spiritual zombies.” Hell, I used to be one of them!

Soft voice. Careful words. No opinions.

No risk.

No real contact.

No life.

The most deeply alive, grounded, genuinely happy people I know are full of personality. They laugh, they mess up, they have opinions, they show their vulnerability, they feel things fully.

They haven’t disappeared. They’ve come alive.

Yes, parts of the personality fall away. The fake, the defensive, the performative, the unconscious, the inauthentic, the blindly conditioned.

But not all of it. That’s the crucial part.

Not all of it. A healthy, alive personality remains.

You’re not here to erase yourself in the name of spirituality.

You’re here to be real. To be human. To be a little messy, a little awkward, a little wild, a little untamed.

A little fu***ng weird.

So keep your humour. Keep your edge. Keep your vulnerability. Keep your passion.

Don’t let your spirituality turn you into the walking dead.

Let it open you.

Let it actually bring you back to life.

- Jeff Foster

24/02/2026

11/11/2025

DIE Herausforderung.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗜𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗼 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁?

𝙌: Sometimes I have a free day, and I plan to just sit at home. But then I really get bored. Why does this happen? If I want to just sit, why is it so difficult?

𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: If you are alone and getting bored, obviously you are in bad company. By the end of the day, if you are feeling miserable, you are in super-bad company. The fundamental question is: “What is my problem? I have all my limbs intact, I can see, I can hear, I can smell, I can taste, what’s my problem?” But that is the big problem. That, you will know only if you sit alone. When there are people around you, you find excuses. If you are with someone, it is easy to say, “This guy is horrible, so I’m irritated. She’s not okay, that’s not okay, this is not okay.” But when you sit alone and the problem still exists, now you know what the source of the problem is.

𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞

It is like in golf. A lot of people eulogize the game today – that it involves so much and it is not like other games – they are taking it to heaven. Many people think it is the most difficult, impossible game because when they try to hit the ball, they dig up the course. So they think it requires so much concentration and focus.

But if you look at any other game you play, the ball comes at you at different velocities, different angles, different spins, you have to judge it in a split second and act. Here, the ball is just sitting there! You have all the time in the world. You can think, you can stand, you can adjust and re-adjust yourself – it sits right there! Even then, many people dig the course. Sitting alone is the same thing. You are just supposed to sit, not climb a mountain, sing a song or solve a great problem. That’s meditation – nothing; simply sit. That’s the easiest thing, isn’t it? But just see how many problems you have simply sitting by yourself!

Everything looks unnecessarily complicated because we have never paid attention to that which you call “myself”. There is no complication in this. This is a beautiful machine. It is nice when it is quiet, and it is nice when it makes noise – it can do both well if you keep it well. If you have not kept it well, when it is supposed to be quiet, it will make noise, and when it is supposed to make noise, nothing will come out.

𝐍𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐥

You must sit alone – it is very important. The company of the divine is available only to those who do not seek company. If you have something to share, that’s different but if you are seeking company, the divine thinks “Okay, he’s seeking somebody else’s company. Why am I needed?”

I realized this very early – unless you sit alone, you know nothing. In company, you can hide so many things. When you sit alone, you have to stand the test of your own intelligence, which is severe. You cannot get away from that. It is better you are put under the severest possible knife at the earliest possible time in your life. Otherwise, you will grow up into an old fool. It is all right to be a young fool, but you should not be an old fool. A young fool is tolerable, but there is no excuse for an old fool.

Source: https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/wisdom/article/why-is-doing-nothing-so-difficult

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