I just had a HUGE breakthrough regarding spirituality and the implications are far-reaching if you want to fulfill your desires into a physical reality. This is a bold sexy promise, and it explains why I and Rion have been getting results totally off the charts while many clients got massive internal transformation without reaping the full external rewards in terms of fulfillment of desires.
Here’s the breakthrough. Contentment Spirituality is about removing pains and desires to reach inner peace and stillness. Dharma Spirituality is about removing fears and limitations to fulfill every desire into a physical reality, including the purpose of helping others grow.
Most of what we’re seeing in the spiritual communities right now is about removing pains and desires to reach inner peace and stillness, which I call Contentment Spirituality. If you’re down that path, you may feel like something is missing. You might feel an urge to play a bigger game.
What we’re bringing is a completely different school of thoughts. It’s not Contentment Spirituality, it’s not Conscious Business and it’s not Self-Growth. That is why anyone already enrolled into any of these schools of thoughts had a hard time relating with the value I was bringing.
We’ve been trying to teach it from the perspective of spirituality and self-growth, which cannot work. You cannot get the full extent of the results until you first enroll into the school of thoughts of Dharma Spirituality. Some clients had a hard time integrating the inner transformation because they ended up lost between the world of Contentment Spirituality and Dharma Spirituality without realizing there was a gap in between. They also didn’t know how to view all other teachings out there which are almost exclusively about Contentment Spirituality. Making that clear distinction will make the shift much easier to allow fulfilling all your desires into a physical reality.
Buddhism talks about Dharma but it’s missing the BIG VISION part of it: earning more, living more and spending more. One of those desires is the fulfillment of your life purpose, which is basically this: helping others grow.
This shift in perspective changes the whole game to get a new level of concrete results in this physical life. We didn’t talk about Dharma Spirituality when presenting the upcoming Self-Awakening and Transformation Event in Thailand, and this is a HUGE new concept that will be covered extensively which will bring all the other concepts from a whole new perspective that will allow you to truly achieve your purpose and fulfill your desires.
Despite the high level of the previous event in Medellin, it didn’t include purpose and Dharma Spirituality so this is a whole new perspective that will bring the experience to a whole new level. Your purpose is a catalyst allowing the fulfillment of all your desires. It is high-octane fuel that powers your engine.
Because we could only enroll those who had indirectly bought into the Dharma Spirituality mindset, this greatly limited who we could reach and we still have a few spots for both the men’s event and the women’s event (currently 3 spots in each). Not only will you get profound inner transformation to allow the fulfillment of your desires into a physical reality, but you will also be one of the very few to explore this whole new school of thoughts. In some way you will become one of the founders of this new movement which will explode into the Western world.
The Contentment Spirituality movement is growing exponentially, yet many people are holding back from it because it feels disconnected from their physical desires and concrete life. Dharma Spirituality bridges that gap. Spirituality no longer needs to be a relaxation tool or a compartmentalized aspect of your life. It can now become the driving force that will propel everything else forward.
The events’ sales pages don’t reflect these new breakthroughs (and I’m not going to rewrite them) but you can be sure it will become a core aspect of these events.
To get a head-start in Dharma Spirituality, come to our upcoming event which will be the world’s first event on this new school of thoughts.
For men: http://self-awakening.com/2012_thailand.html
For women: http://www.spiritualselftransformation.com/thailand-event-women
Before clicking the above links or doing anything else, take a deep breathe. There’s a lot to take in, and the concrete implications in your life reach very far. Removing pains does not necessarily bring a joyful and meaningful life. Fulfilling your desires and purpose does.
Etienne Charland, Soul Foundation Architect
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#1 by Etienne Charland on September 7, 2012 - 9:33 pm
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What do you truly desire, deep in your heart?
#2 by Yol Swan on September 7, 2012 - 5:58 pm
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Interesting mixture of concepts, but aren’t you really referring to kama and not dharma? Maybe that’s where your confusion lies regarding your programs and clients.
Dharma is about right(eous) action, kama is about fulfillment of desires. And then, after you are done with those, comes moksha or Liberation.
My two cents here…
#3 by admin on September 7, 2012 - 7:02 pm
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Dharma is alignment with the Universal laws of life, which is growth. “Desire” comes from the latin “de sidere” which means “from the divine”. Desires are thoughts seeking physical manifestation through you. Thus, fulfilling your desires is in alignment with the growth of life. Desires can also come from fears, in which case the fears must be healed.
#4 by Bushra on September 7, 2012 - 6:52 pm
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Etienne, this blew me off, and this is Contentment Spirituality has been always my area..this is exactly why, even when Im not in pain, I feel so much void, bcoz I am not living my purpose to reach my goals and desires. This is exactly why I wasn’t connected to my body or never bothered abotu improving the pleasure quotient in a physical level…
The spirituality which exists in the world now, and whats taught is how to overcome your desire for material things, and focus on an empty and colorless life. Now this makes perfect sense. Im gonna share it everywhere possible…Its gonna shift many attitudes Im sure..and will be a relief to those like me who was in an illusion about spirituality. Good going!
#5 by Yol Swan on September 8, 2012 - 10:17 am
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Desire means “to long or crave for,“ and the Latin de-sidere (which actually means “from the stars”) probably refers to the longing and expectation that human desire entails, since every desire creates attachment.
In Hinduism and Buddhism, which are the traditions you are borrowing the concept of Dharma from, desire binds you to the illusion of physical reality and therefore is opposed to Liberation. Nothing that is binding can be liberating. Absolute freedom can only come from the transcendence of all desire and attachment that arise from the senses.
So it is by transcending material desires that you find the innate drive to merge with the Divine, which is the ultimate goal of human life. Why is this? Because most desires are tainted by the ego-mind and aren’t true. This is why you can have all the relationships, riches, fame and power in the world and still be miserable.
I’m not saying don’t go for your desires and fulfilling your purpose. I’m just pointing out that mixing up concepts just adds to the prevalent confusion between a higher purpose and worldly attainments. It’s all good, but you have to be absolutely clear about what you are talking about, instead of trying to bend thousand-year old concepts to fit your needs. That’s called marketing, not spirituality.
#6 by admin on September 8, 2012 - 10:33 am
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Here’s an interesting part from the book The Hidden Power, written by Thomas Troward and published in 1903.
“The whole of this momentous questions turns on the place that we assign to desire in our system of thought. Is it the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden of the Soul? or is it the Upas Tree creating a wilderness of death all around? This is the issue on which we have to form a judgment, and this judgment must colour all our conception of life and determine the entire range of our possibilities. Let us, then, try to picture to ourselves the ideal proposed by the systems to which I have alluded – a man who has succeeded in entirely annihilating all desire. To him all things must be alike. The good and the evil must be as one, for nothing has any longer the power to raise any desire in him; he has no longer any feeling which shall prompt him to say, “This is good, therefore I choose it; that is evil, therefore I reject it”; for all choice implies the perception of something more desirable in what is chosen than in what is rejected, and consequently the existence of that feeling of desire which has been entirely eliminated from the ideal we are contemplating.
Then, if the perception of all that makes one thing preferable to another has been obliterated, there can be no motive for any sort of action whatever. Endue a being who has thus extinguished his faculty of desire with the power to create a universe, and he has no motive for employing it. Endue him with all knowledge, and it will be useless to him; for, since desire has no place in him, he is without any purpose for which to turn his knowledge to account. And with Love we cannot endue him, for that is desire in its supreme degree. But if all this be excluded, what is left of the man? Nothing, except the mere outward form. If he has actually obtained this ideal, he has practically ceased to be. Nothing can by any means interest him, for there is nothing to attract or repel in one thing more than in another. He must be dead alike to all feeling and to all motive of action, for both feeling and action imply the preference for one condition rather than another; and where desire is utterly extinguished, no such preference can exist.”
#7 by Rion on September 8, 2012 - 11:12 am
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The higher goal of dharma is for us to reach enlightenment (and awaken) but as a subset of it, we are here on earth to express ourselves and our talents as an expression of divinity (and to helps others awaken one could say).
What we’re talking about here with Dharma Growth or Spirituality is about a purpose-driven life that is spiritually connected; where the physicality, sexuality and heart of life is not devalued or disconnected from but rather empowered and driven to create more freedom and expression in the world and to live in integrity with one’s self.
It is a more humanistic valuation would be clear to say but leads with (and values) a rich soul first. It’s about practically connecting and living with a greater desire, passion to express oneself, to help others grow and step into their potential.
And as Bushra said and I’ve felt, I also think that millions of people are just feeling disconnection like something really ‘is’ missing with contentment style spirituality which disconnects them from their other areas of self-consciousness (and expression of divinity).
Even though transcending all desires can lead to higher levels of spiritual enlightenment, not everyone cares about that yet. Many would rather live their life in THEIR God-given purpose and then find fulfillment in that expression…that’s why they’re still ‘seeking’ perhaps.
Contentment style spirituality is not always connecting them to living or contributing in growth to a higher purpose.
Yes, dharmic application of spirituality (in this form) is very different than contentment styles of spirituality yet in the process of stepping into one’s greatest talents and living out a greater meaning, one can evolve to higher levels of spiritual awakening.
This can mean spiritual advancement and awakening living in one’s dharma which would have other never happened (as in my case).
We’re not disrespecting ancient religion by any means but the difference between contentment and purpose driven (dharma) spirituality is quite profound and neither is right or wrong; just a different path and transmutation (from allness).
Yes manifesting desires on all levels of self-experience can happen in the infinite abundance that already is and if it’s creating more growth and abundance instead of taking away from life how can there be judgment..that miraculous kind of life experience is just less likely to happen when it’s not even valued as part of self, repressed, devalued or diluted.
There is the spirituality of heart and sexiness which is often overlooked throughout the world but in a holistic and spiritually empowered path of adding value to the world in expression of one’s greater purpose and divinity, more of that spiritual power can now be accessed to fulfill greater desires FROM higher consciousness and connection instead of fear, hope and disconnection.
One’s dharma should be connected to a greater cause of adding value to the world and in that process, great spiritual awakening can also occur b/c there is a reason to (whether contentment spiritualists are connected with more humanistic desires and human drive or not).
There is great value in both styles and each can choose a path that is their path or no path at all…after all it’s probably part of their dharma!
#8 by Hien on September 8, 2012 - 1:37 pm
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I´ve read your article, you are more than advanced level. Frankly I don´t know much about Buddhism philosophy , but here you are developping and extending his philosophy into life art and it´s appropriate to apply in western countries personally I think.
I don´t know abt contentment or Dharma Spirituality, but peoplel here living with the idea of your contentment spirituality as it´s buddhism says knowing to remove is live with reality and as for u it´s dharma, it may be the way to live better. And perhaps we still have a lot of things to worry for basic needs so we will not understanding what you mentioned, except for the political and business leaders.
And spirituality here is known as other invisible forces (the deads, the god..) – yin world. And now I know why someone can allow the soul to enter their bodies to talk with Yang ppl, as in our body we have 2 yin and yang air flow, so if someone who have stronger yang air flow than yin, they can absord the souls to enter their body – explained from traditional medicine.
Return to what you´ve been doing, it´s incredible that you could show the missing in what buddha said. you say: help others grow and buddha says: help others escape from sea of miseries, who´s right? Good night!!!!
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#9 by mpgamer55 on September 8, 2012 - 6:35 pm
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I’m not understanding what you’re talking about here Etienne.
I agree that it appears you are using the term Dharma incorrectly.
Dharma refers to the natural laws of how the universe works, which can be tested by following the principles laid out. Part of the Dharma specifically states that Attachment to desire is considered to be the source of all suffering. So yes, desire itself is not the problem, it’s the attachment that is the problem.
I could be wrong but, it appears you are actually referring to detachment vs non-attachment. Then again this is nothing new. Detachment is what you’d call contentment spirituality and Non-attachment is what you are calling Dharma Spirituality.
Hinduism takes Krishna’s teachings to the extreme and the philosophy is to become detached from the world, giving up everything.
Buddha refined these teachings with the Middle Way(non-attachment) which balances the 2 extremes(attachment/detachment). Here non-attachment is achieved which does not preclude action.
Of course, when you no longer care about the results of action, then you can effortlessly manifest things, there’s no pressure or resistance. Nothing wrong with manifesting however, this is not the goal. The goal is peace. It may not sound pretty and it may not be as marketable but, it’s more important than having more, living more, and spending more. Because as previously stated, we all know people that do all 3 that are miserable.
Of course at higher levels of consciousness things can effortlessly manifest, so that’s not really a big deal anymore.
If you are feeling something missing in your life then you are still attached. And again there’s nothing wrong with that. You just have to ask if the attachment is worth the payoff you get out of it. Many people enjoy the emotional roller coaster.
There’s really only 2 ways to be happy. You can either seek a bunch of things that make you happy(temporarily) or you can just be happy.
As far as life having meaning, it’s not what you have or what you do but who you are. If having status and materials is your life purpose then if you lose those things then you life loses meaning. If your life purpose is to be a musician(doing something) and then you lose the ability to play the instrument then your life loses meaning.
The only constant is who you are. It cannot be taken away.
Please correct me if I’m wrong here. I may not fully understand what your talking about.
#10 by Rion on September 9, 2012 - 6:19 am
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There are slightly different understandings of dharma. The Sanatana Dharma definition seems more open and contentment-oriented like knowing your place and accepting things as they are from my current understanding.
Dharma is also known as your higher purpose and ability to express your unique talents (reference Deepak Chopra’s website on ‘what is the purpose of life’).
What we’re talking about with respect towards contentment style spirituality is bridging, acting and fueling your greater purpose spiritually which also helps fulfill your greatEST purpose (of awakening).
What we represent is more of an abundance dharma approach of expressing your greater purpose which is soul-led first and b/c you’re in your integrity, whether the money or not is there you’re not attached to additional material things although they’re great if they help fulfill your dharma.
It’s an actionable philosophy that includes both awakening and fulfilling your greater purpose which includes both yin and yang energies. The dharma should be spiritual in the nature of including helping others (it transcends Western ‘goal-setting’); something that can never be taken away from you but provide a full integrity of self-expression in divinity.
For just under 10 years I’ve been on my path which I called my ‘destiny’. Now with the spiritual aspect of awakening coming in (and both of them = my dharma), that is simply what has been driving both my life purpose and my awakening. My purpose already was so great that everything ended up in the spiritual realms.
None of the (spiritual) breakthroughs and everything I’m teaching would have evolved if I were not living in my dharma or had a different one. It is simply a path and I’ll be perfectly honest, I’m not content with contentment spirituality. I’m too implicated to making a great contributory difference in the world.
We’ll probably take a lot of heat from contentment spirituality and that’s fine. This is a different outlook and transmutation of spiritual energy which also embraces the conscious heart, mind and sexual self.
Much of the world is also connected to a desire to do great things and add value in life purpose instead of escape their own desires for which they can fulfill their dharma and awaken as well (where their desires can fuel them but never have to ‘own’ them thus they can experience more of the richness of life in heart, mind, sexiness, body and soul of all that is instead of just ie. soul).
I don’t think it’s everyone’s dharma to detach from all body and sexual desires. For many, living in their cause and dharma is what makes them happy as long as they’re expressing it and it’s something that can’t be taken away.
The awakening spiritual aspect of this philosophy is still here, but it’s connected to a greater purpose-driven life which explains why I’ve had difficulties connecting with some contentment style work unless it fit into my plan of fueling my greater purpose and further awakening into my dharma.
Hopefully that should provide more clarity. For Westerner’s who really value life purpose and expression, getting into dharma which includes awakening (their greatest dharma) would be a powerful connection point, evolution and catalyst for living.
It wasn’t Mr. Incredible’s dharma to work at an insurance claims job!
#11 by mpgamer55 on September 14, 2012 - 8:03 am
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I understand that your intentions are probably good but I still feel this is incorrect use of the word Dharma. No where does it state in the origin of the word dharma that it has anything to do with life purpose in the traditional sense.
What they mean by life purpose is enlightenment. Because that is the whole point of existence, to learn and grow until enlightenment is reached.
And there’s absolutely no conflict with spirituality and manifesting/succeeding in the world. There would be no world to succeed in without the spiritual. Not all Hindus have to live in a cave.
I think what Etienne really meant to say here(instead of dharma) is achieving one’s highest good in the world.
From what Etienne wrote it appeared that the focus was that of passion. Which is fine by itself but, unfortunately it will lead most people to attachment and suffering. Unless you are only teaching people of already very high consciousness that have let go of results.
The teachings of Lord Krishna are the foundation of Hinduism, where the word Dharma originates. Dharma specifically states the laws of karma and rebirth.
Krishna says there are three modes of material nature, goodness, passion, and ignorance. From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion, greed develops; and from the mode of ignorance develop foolishness, madness and illusion.
Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in the abominable mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds.
Therefore, those that live in the mode of passion will reincarnate because they are stuck on the earthly planets. Again I’m not saying there is anything wrong with this. It is simply part of what the Dharma states is a natural law of how the universe works.
One follows these laws and principles to reach their true life purpose, enlightenment. That is the meaning of Dharma.
The error is not in fruitive action. The error is because the focus is on the fruits. Which we have no control over. Sure we can put in the effort to increase the odds but, nothing is guaranteed. It can only lead to attachment and suffering, whether the goals are met or not. Because true happiness can only come from within not from achieving goals.
If I think I’m not good enough, incomplete, or missing something then I will seek happiness outside myself. Then I will become attached to external things, thinking that I need them to be happy.
Krishna again states, The result of pious action is pure and is said to be in the mode of goodness.
When the embodied being is able to transcend these three modes associated with the material body, he can become free from birth, death, old age and their distresses and can enjoy nectar even in this life. (Read Non-Attachment)
If you are going to teach this, I recommend that you first eliminate all negative emotions in your students so they no longer feel that they lack anything.
There are 2 ways to do this. 1)Override the negative emotions with positive ones. 2)Release the false beliefs(I’m not enough) causing the negative emotions by experiencing them out(not resisting them) until they are no longer experienced as ‘bad’ and can be seen as neutral.
Lastly, a lot of people do not know what their passion or highest good are. So unless you can pin this down for everyone then the information you teach on manifesting will be of no use to them. So you’ll have to employ some type of system to inspire them to find their highest good.
Best wishes, God Bless.