The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes by Deepak Chopra

Author:Deepak Chopra
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

As was often his custom after a day spent in the temple, Jesus retreated to a hill called the Mount of Olives. His disciples regularly followed him, for these were times that Jesus would share thoughts and lessons. But something was different about this evening. After a while, Jesus withdrew from the group, knelt down, and began praying.

According to the gospels, Jesus’s posture for this prayer was noticeably different from his regular pose. Usually Jews stood upright, lifting their eyes to the heavens, when praying. Jesus being on his knees suggested an urgency and humility unlike any before.

Jesus then recited a prayer to God: “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; yet, not my will but yours be done.”

It was the night before his crucifixion, and Jesus was aware of his fate the following day. Even he felt the burden of his destiny, feared he would not have the will to endure it, and sought God’s strength to help fortify his own.

Jesus’s last night in the Garden of Gethsemane (the specific location on the Mount of Olives) embodies his willingness to sacrifice his own life for the love of humanity. It’s his “growing up” moment and realization of what exactly he must do in order to save his people and be the hero he’s destined to be. It is the Law of Love in action—the power that comes from compassion so deep that it demands loving sacrifice.

Jesus sacrificed his life for the sake of humanity. Buddha sacrificed his base instincts to become enlightened. In spiritual traditions, this is the ultimate aim—true spiritual liberation, freedom from the known and the cycle of suffering. Generally in our culture this is envisioned as the monk meditating in a cave or observing a quiet life in a secluded monastery, eventually fading into anonymity. But not for Buddha.

Buddha, or “the enlightened one,” as he was known at this stage in his life to his disciples, proposed that there was a step more evolved than even enlightenment, or personal release from suffering. It was to share with others the wisdom gained and the experience of higher guidance, and in doing so elevate them to the same stage. Compassion in action. Love as the ultimate superpower encoded in total self-knowing and self-awareness.

Buddha called those who had evolved to this stage of sharing the ultimate truth bodhisattvas. It should be no surprise that the word bodhisattva translates as “heroic-minded one,” or in common parlance “superhero.”

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