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jean
Germany
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 Posted - Jun 25 2016 : 4:05:37 PM
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It's only in the process of awakening that there is an enjoyer, or a subject, to that process,
because the nature of Awakening, the actuality of it,
its nature is to dissolve – everything -- even the Knower of it.
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kumar ul islam
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jun 25 2016 : 5:28:26 PM
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The field and the knower of the field are one  |
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jean
Germany
107 Posts |
Posted - Sep 25 2016 : 08:32:10 AM
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When the Divine Mother fully possesses you, you have no life left.
You've given it all.
Then you are on fire with a love that is unquenchable,
with a lovingness which has the reverberations of emptiness within.
From "Beyond the place of laughter and tears in the land of devotion" |
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Bodhi Tree
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Posted - Sep 25 2016 : 4:24:31 PM
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I was browsing David Spero's website, and he has a list of fellow spiritual teachers that he likes, I suppose. At the very top of the list is Adyashanti, and Spero re-printed an excerpt from Adyashanti's book Emptiness Dancing. Here is the first sentence from that excerpt: "Before I had my final awakening years ago, I was crazed for enlightenment."
I read that, and thought: Boy oh boy, since I'm crazed for enlightenment too, I can't wait until the day when I have my final awakening! 
Kidding, kidding. Here at AYP, we don't entertain notions of attaining final enlightenment. We cultivate ecstatic bliss, stillness in action, and an outpouring of divine love—and there is no finality or limit to the extent those qualities can be cultivated and expressed in this lifetime. Rather, we have useful benchmarks that can be acknowledged as motivators for us to continue with our daily practices, of which self-inquiry is only a small part. But there is no final awakening, no ego-death, no dissolution of the "I", or any of those things.
The ego remains. Our past conditioning becomes improved and refined, but does not vanish completely. We simply become a little bit better at serving the collective, day by day, meditation by meditation, sutra by sutra, breath by breath.
Welcome to the true path of gradual, consistent, and persistent awakening.  |
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jean
Germany
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Posted - Mar 30 2017 : 07:03:36 AM
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A human being who is able to meditate naturally, spontaneously, drawing the mind into that field of absolute negation,
someday encounters the most radical human event, the most radical event that can be experienced in a human birth,
which is the climax of individual consciousness into Transcendental Reality.
David Spero |
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