What is the link between being spiritually fulfilled and a loser?
Does some kind of prerequisite exist to reaching the highest levels of spirituality, in the form of self-denial, abandonment, nonattachment and an aspiration-free life? Indeed, there is.
In the words of Jesus Christ: “Anyone who does not give up all he has cannot be my disciple.”
As for those who thought that they can buy themselves spiritual favors, and turn their wealth into a noble or holy purpose, the same Jesus Christ has this stern warning: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of heaven.”
Why then almost everybody is running like in amok all their lives, trying to accumulate more of this, more of that, and that… and more of that?
More money, more possessions, more experiences, more knowledge, more memories… the list has no end.

Jesus Christ’s teachings have this underlying message: be a conscientious loser now – choose to lose all now, in order to find your Self and the eternal life. Yet, the great majority will do precisely the opposite: gather whatever is possible now, only to lose it at the moment of death.
When you talk to some of them, they will tell you that their dogma for a content living is to gain as much as they can now (they call it a security), and enjoy it to the max, for one day you’ll have to leave it all, and be gone – possibly forever. Is this a loser’s attitude or what?
Fully consciously, they choose to lose their inherent rights to live in the Natural State. Rather, they love every moment of living in the domain of consciousness, where all is an illusion, except for the pains of birth and death. Their pure ignorance makes them to opt in for more of the same…

Buddhism’s twelve-fold chain of causation maps their path precisely; the links are: “Ignorance; consequent entrance into the womb; consciousness, rebirth; development of the sense organs; contact with external phenomena; the resulting sensations; the craving for pleasure to which these give rise, the amassing of pleasure-giving objects, money, property and so on; the growth of further karma; rebirth; and fresh experience of the sorrows of decay and death.”
Can you imagine a loser bigger than someone who goes through this vicious cycle time and time again? A perpetual loser.

Nowadays, spirituality, Enlightenment, Liberation, Realization are more widely known than ever before. For a human being of average intelligence, it should be blatantly obvious that what you invest toward your life enjoyment, now, will eventually be totally lost.
Only one’s spiritual wisdom and resulting deeds will contribute to one’s “afterlife”. Losing all possessions now, so that they don’t distract you from growing spiritually, is the only way to lead a worthwhile life.
Yet many young and, what’s more surprising, old will carry on as if they were immune to the ravages of time, life’s hazards and tragedies, destined only for harvesting joy and happiness. All their wealth and attainments will one day fit easily into one suitcase, they take when moving to the old people’s home. Then, left with plenty of time to ponder over one’s life, it will be already too late to reclaim one’s True Nature. For the time of conscious choosing has passed. You have lost it, you loser!
The time that separates you from your deathbed, no matter how long, is worthless. Paralysed by pain and fear, you will be unable to muster even that minimum of spiritual earnestness that would deliver you the internal peace. In the final moments you will end up as a loser, no matter what the eulogy will say, and what those who have now inherited your gains write on your epitaph…

Spiritual people, those living true spirituality every minute of their lives, lose all they have time and time again. Faced with “opportunities” they surrender them without regrets. Why should you cry after another mirage is lost? When you accept Buddha’s words that “Nothing is” and that “There is no fundamental reality” life becomes easy. Taking it for all it is – a temporary illusion, you use it to bring you closer to Realization. When you do so, you will lose all that appears and gain all that is – Truth.