About me

Welcome to my blog “Spiritual Living.” My name is Jürgen Lang, and I am the blog owner.

This blog is about posts on such topics as the question of one’s own identity (“Who am I?”), Why is there evil? How to find the inner voice? What does true love look like? How to provide constant and secure sustenance on a spiritual basis and what kind of role  meditation and mind control has for success in life? Overall, it is about escaping suffering.

Our present time is characterised by globalisation, terrorism, brutalisation, increasing vigilante justice, cybercrime, fascism, corona and war. All of these problems are of increasing existential importance. This is all the more true since people have manoeuvred themselves into a self-destructive approach  to deal with the climate questions.

However solutions have always been there, and existed for a long time. They are laid down in the great wisdom texts, even if they are often encoded. Above all, they have largely disappeared from the common consciousness. From the common credo of the great wisdom teachers, modern meaningful approaches will be pointed out in this blog. Their explosive power for the present is huge especially from the point of view of climate change; there are escape routes.

The textual contents are not for the faint-hearted, because they question pretty much everything in principle that is still considered a consolidated world view today. Forgiveness, non-resistance, understanding of evil and love of strangers appear as implausible ideals, whereas the principle of “an eye for an eye” prevails in the form of revenge and retribution as a fundamental pattern of action. But nothing less than a radical conversion in people’s consciousness is required to banish suffering from our lives.

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 coexistence, 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. It is the way to the preservation of all. It is the path to the preservation of all. This means that I reverse the order: not me first, and then perhaps everyone else later, but the other way round, first everyone else and then the necessary self-sufficiency.

The first consequence 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, not just migrants and other ‘intruders into one’s own pack’.

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.

I am a retired teacher. For four decades I lived a normal everyday life. Due to a life crisis, in which I lost all the foundations of life that I thought were secure, I first went in search of ways out, then later on in search of backgrounds. After many years of studying religions, leaving all church and esoteric references behind, I found myself on a spiritual path. This is how I came into direct contact with my intuition. 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 buoyant, exhilarated life.

This spiritual path to redemption opened up to me primarily because of my own experiences with suffering (starting with my divorce). He contained, among other things, the knowledge not to seek retribution, not to condemn and not to resist evil. Practical practice and the associated personal concrete experience of overcoming suffering through inner intuitive guidance showed me how tangible this path is. The wisdom on which it is based is not mine, but only what I have experienced, followed, tried out, described and demonstrated – in other words, what I consider to be generalisable.

In this respect, my wisdom is not mine, but I only experience and demonstrate it. The aim of passing it on is to raise your spiritual living to a further level; by doing so, you can lead a carefree and fear-free life.

The following chapters aim to increase spiritual knowledge and to connect it with the “gut feeling”, the inner voice, and the intuition. This also increases the individual capacity for love or develops it in the first place.

“Life’s call to us will never end.
Courage, my heart, farewell, recover!” 

(Hermann Hesse: Stages)

Translated with DeepL.com