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Stick Out Your Can, Here Come the Garbage Man!You discard your garbage into containers and place it out on the curb where it conveniently gets hauled away by the garbage man. Where does it go? What happens to your garbage after it leaves your curb?
Ha! Who the hell cares!
What matters is that you no longer need be aware of it. It's not your responsibility any more and you can go about your life pursuing all your big plans for self-fulfillment. Besides, you pay good money to have all that garbage hauled away, why should you have to worry about where it goes or what happens to it?
For many folks "spirituality" serves just such a purpose.
When you embark on your "spiritual journey" all the world's refuse is conveniently hauled away and you need no longer be aware of it. All that war, starvation, poverty, economic collapse, unemployment, homelessness, child abuse, murder, disenfranchised groups, AIDS, injustices in the world, need not disturb you any longer because "spirituality" has hauled it all away.
Now it's no longer an obstacle on your "path" and you can simply focus on your pursuit of enlightenment, nirvana, bliss, awakening, realization, revelation, rapture, non-duality, God-consciousness blah, blah, blah, blah.
Hey! It's okay if people suffer because suffering is part of life, just another object of consciousness, the oneness of everything, etc, etc. As a devoted "spiritual" person you know that God doesn't want you to sweat the small stuff, because it's His job to haul it all away (remove it from your consciousness) so that you can focus on receiving what you've asked for.
So, just hunker down for a brief spell of meditative bliss and let the garbage man worry about that garbage. For cryin' out loud! You've got more important stuff to take care of and that's the point of your "spirituality." It's not your problem any more, now that you've become "spiritual."
But just remember, slip up a little, or fail to vigilantly stick to your "spiritual path," and all that trash will quickly make it's way back into your awareness and then you'll be forced to engage with it, because, in reality...
...the garbage man is YOU.
So stick out your can, here come the "Spiritual" Garbage Man!