Welcome to my website ‘Spiritual Living.’ My name is Jürgen Lang, and I am the site’s operator.
This site is about topics such as the question of one’s own identity (‘Who am I?’), the reason for the existence of evil, how to find one’s inner voice, what true love looks like, how to ensure a constant and secure supply on a spiritual basis, and what role meditation and mind control play in life’s success. All in all, it is about finding a way out of suffering.
Our present time is characterised by globalisation, terrorism, brutalisation, increasing vigilante justice, cybercrime, fascist tendencies and war. These problems are of increasing existential importance. This applies all the more since humans have manoeuvred themselves into a self-destructive relationship with the climate.
The solutions have been around for a long time, they have always been there. They are laid down in the great wisdom texts, albeit often encrypted. Moreover, ideals such as the Golden Rule or love of enemies seem irrational and implausible anyway. They have therefore largely disappeared from public consciousness. By contrast, since their appearance on the earthly stage, human beings have not deviated one iota from the archaic principle of ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’.
The poet laureate names the prerequisite for extricating oneself from personal suffering: ‘From the violence that binds everyone, that person who overcomes himself is freed.’ This involves overcoming the egocentric instinct for self-preservation.
The common credo of the great wisdom teachings is to show modern, meaningful approaches within the framework of this website. Their explosive power for the present is immense in view of climate change and war. They show the way out.
The text contents are not for the faint-hearted, because they question almost everything that is still considered a solid world view today. Forgiveness, non-resistance to evil, understanding of the structure of evil and love of strangers appear as implausible ideals, whereas the principle of ‘an eye for an eye’ in the form of revenge and retaliation prevails as a fundamental pattern of action. A discussion of the applicability of love of one’s enemy or of renunciation of retaliation also meets with scepticism among well-meaning readers.
The reason for this is that almost all people orientate their lives fundamentally and almost exclusively towards their own well-being. In doing so, they subject their lives to the basic biological instinct of self-preservation. In principle, this corresponds to the life of lions in a pride: hunting for sustenance, organising cohabitation, reproducing, resting and fighting against intruders. The purpose of their existence is their existence. They cannot break out of this programme. Humans are also subject to this animalistic programme. For them, the purpose of their existence is also their existence.
This existence is characterised by insecurity, loss, grief, pain, worry, jealousy, fear and violence. Whatever suffering is involved, people take it for granted and therefore do not even think of abolishing it, even though all religions show them exactly that. Instead, they try to fight suffering tooth and nail. And this despite the fact that the meaning of suffering is very clearly shown to people by the teachings of wisdom, as expressed, for example, from a Christian perspective in the parable of the prodigal son. For man is the only mammal that can break out of the programme of egocentricity, of biologically predetermined ego-related self-preservation – which includes children, parents, partners, friends, etc. This way out is the only theme of humanity. This way out is the sole theme of the Sermon on the Mount, the Buddhist Eightfold Path, the Koran, the Ten Commandments, the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, the Chinese Tao Te King, etc.
The first result of this turnaround in consciousness is the station of individual freedom from suffering, as described in the Book of Job, for example; above all, however, it is the concrete experience of those who are on the spiritual path and who have endured the first and second stages of suffering. This change of direction with the expansion of consciousness to the spiritual level is linked to the sacrifice of traditional attitudes towards all other people.
The past millennia of Homo sapiens show how inconsequential the existential concept of redemption of religions has remained for people, but also how conclusive the life experiences of all those who have taken the spiritual path of Samaritan devotion and care are.
Every confrontation with the topics of the spiritual path is painful. But nevertheless, nothing less than a radical change in the consciousness of people is required to banish suffering from their lives.
I am a retired teacher. For four decades I lived a normal everyday life. Due to a life crisis, in which all the foundations of life that I thought were secure were lost to me, I first set out to find ways out, and later to look for explanations. After many years of studying religions, during which I left all ecclesiastical and esoteric references behind me, I found myself on a spiritual path. This is how I came into direct contact with my intuition and thus also to step-by-step guidance through it. As a result, I have increasingly become a person full of peace of mind who no longer needs to worry about anything and can lead a fulfilled and exhilarating life.
After decades of studying the wisdom of the great cultures, I started seminars in Hungary and Brazil. Later, I wrote my first book, in which I shared my own experiences with suffering (starting with my divorce) and how to overcome it. The spiritual knowledge, for example, not to seek retribution, not to judge and not to resist evil, opened up a spiritual path for me. Practising it and the associated personal concrete experience of overcoming suffering through inner guidance showed me how tangible this path is. The underlying wisdom is not mine, but only brought to my attention, followed, tried, described and demonstrated by me – those that I consider generalisable.
The aim of passing them on is to take spiritual living to a further level; this enables one to live a life free of worry and fear. It is no coincidence that the spiritual testimonies of all cultures emphasise that a fundamental change in people’s consciousness is necessary in order to banish suffering from their lives.
The following chapters aim to expand spiritual knowledge and connect it to our ‘gut feeling’, our inner voice, our intuition. This also increases our individual capacity for love or even helps us develop it in the first place.
‘Life’s call to us will never end, …
Well then, heart, say goodbye and get well!’
(Hermann Hesse: Stages)