TrainingDummy wrote:wayne hansen wrote:First when people talk about spiritual aspects each individual has a differing view of what it entails
It should be a result of standard training
Three stages are needed
1. Earth.body training
2. Man.mind training
3. Heaven.spirit training
Without the first two in place the third will lead to dark places
Sounds fine within a Taoist context but there's plenty of spiritual traditions that don't involve those three stages and don't seem to be lacking without them.
Different people have different things to do.
Note my personal training is roughly under this framework, but I always feel diversity in spiritual models makes it more interesting and avoids dogma.
In olden times stage one was probably achieved by most people by the heavy burden of physical labor. In ancien warfare(maybe modern too) some soldiers probably got stage 1&2 from coming out alive and whole from the battles