Very well said once again. I really appreciate how you thoughtfully present these vital topics. As you said birth is the calamity because it means you’ve failed to wake up, thus life is preparation for death and only through death do we get the opportunity for true freedom, the chance to be as we truly are.
It’s a shame more people don’t study human design in addition to spiritual practice. The tools are all around us but so many ignore them, to remain in the “comfort” of perpetual sleep.
Non-duality is a trip, for sure, outside this Matrix. Collette Barnes Whiteman puts it succinctly and powerfully (it may be a quote from Mooji), "[you are] The animating presence that creates everything." [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I8nxhhWtFeg] Mystics, experiencing the ineffable, point to the experience. For us, becoming Aware, or not, is a matter of Karma and Grace.
Maybe, maybe not. Some say what we can do is look in the right direction or remove the blocks to becoming aware. Let’s compare enlightenment with seeing a one-minute-long, extremely bright shooting star in the night sky. It only comes once in your lifetime, so the chance you see it is extremely small and down to destiny or grace.
But if you never look up, you will surely miss it.
Looking up is something we can do. Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Q: Did you get your own realisation through effort or by the grace of your Guru?
M: His was the teaching and mine was the trust. My confidence in him made me accept his words as true, go deep into them, live them, and that is how I came to realise what I am. The Guru's person and words made me trust him and my trust made them fruitful.
Q: But can a Guru give realisation without words, without trust, just like this, without any preparation?
M: Yes, one can, but where is the taker? You see, I was so attuned to my Guru, so completely trusting him. there was so little of resistance in me, that it all happened easily and quickly. But not everybody is so fortunate. Laziness and restlessness often stand in the way and until they are seen and removed, the progress is slow. All those who have realised on the spot, by mere touch, look or thought, have been ripe for it. But such are very few. The majority needs some time for ripening. Sadhana is accelerated ripenin
I agree, but AI will exploit that sleepiness and lack of self-awareness to manipulate asleep people in any direction it is programmed to do, as I illustrate in my recent article.
Very well said once again. I really appreciate how you thoughtfully present these vital topics. As you said birth is the calamity because it means you’ve failed to wake up, thus life is preparation for death and only through death do we get the opportunity for true freedom, the chance to be as we truly are.
It’s a shame more people don’t study human design in addition to spiritual practice. The tools are all around us but so many ignore them, to remain in the “comfort” of perpetual sleep.
Non-duality is a trip, for sure, outside this Matrix. Collette Barnes Whiteman puts it succinctly and powerfully (it may be a quote from Mooji), "[you are] The animating presence that creates everything." [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I8nxhhWtFeg] Mystics, experiencing the ineffable, point to the experience. For us, becoming Aware, or not, is a matter of Karma and Grace.
Maybe, maybe not. Some say what we can do is look in the right direction or remove the blocks to becoming aware. Let’s compare enlightenment with seeing a one-minute-long, extremely bright shooting star in the night sky. It only comes once in your lifetime, so the chance you see it is extremely small and down to destiny or grace.
But if you never look up, you will surely miss it.
Looking up is something we can do. Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Q: Did you get your own realisation through effort or by the grace of your Guru?
M: His was the teaching and mine was the trust. My confidence in him made me accept his words as true, go deep into them, live them, and that is how I came to realise what I am. The Guru's person and words made me trust him and my trust made them fruitful.
Q: But can a Guru give realisation without words, without trust, just like this, without any preparation?
M: Yes, one can, but where is the taker? You see, I was so attuned to my Guru, so completely trusting him. there was so little of resistance in me, that it all happened easily and quickly. But not everybody is so fortunate. Laziness and restlessness often stand in the way and until they are seen and removed, the progress is slow. All those who have realised on the spot, by mere touch, look or thought, have been ripe for it. But such are very few. The majority needs some time for ripening. Sadhana is accelerated ripenin
Yes! May your life be blessed with showering stars. 🤩
Thank you, I would be very happy with just one. :-)
Same to you.
Man is already psychologically asleep and therein lies his pain. It's got nothing to do with A/i retardism.
I agree, but AI will exploit that sleepiness and lack of self-awareness to manipulate asleep people in any direction it is programmed to do, as I illustrate in my recent article.