Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

knower, even though there is an even higher Knower behind it. Those whose awakenings have not included Self- knowing, Self-Reali ...

All the biographies of the great saints, both Self- Realized or not, as well as all the methods they teach are their path, not y ...

It is this point of maturity that Krishnamurti talks about; the awakening of intelligence, spiritual discrimination. One really ...

So he began a long fast to weaken the body so that his mind and spirit could become stronger. He had this concept that if the bo ...

important is there was a maturity of intelligence that blossomed in him. He was no longer gullible following any teacher that ca ...

In other words, they did not all recognize that the ‘I-thought’ had no referent; nothing that the word ‘I’ pointed to, which is ...

awakened by surrendering to him, following him, being close to him, having constant Darshan with him and his tradition. Oak Cree ...

On Being Comfortable.................................................................. In 1997 or 1998, I went to Korea, sponsor ...

I was totally at peace, smiling, happy, even when accidents occurred such as getting lost in downtown Seoul. Here is the issue; ...

and writers of books, bios, lessons, and organizational teachers. At this point, few can really see who or what the teacher or g ...

But you see, this is all projection and image, carefully managed by handlers, whether of Ramana, Muktananda, or as I did with Ro ...

So, realize it is really, really easy for a guru (or anyone) to be, or at least appear happy when surrounded by handlers that ma ...

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too Some people want to have their cake and eat it too. In other words, they want to hang on to their ...

In any event, no matter what types of spirituality the average person practices or accepts, very few want their practices to int ...

People try to strengthen their ties with others by speaking to them respectively and congratulating each other over small things ...

exhausted trying to maintain those things that appear in the illusion, as those things are ultimately perishable. In short, peop ...

will not touch the earth.’ The guru asked him, ‘Where was he sitting,’ and the disciple replied, ‘On a tree.’ With this the guru ...

society” and religion we all live by? Siddharameshwar clearly states all the spiritual and religious ideas separate us from the ...

The Search.................................................................................... Most of us begin our spiritual se ...

When Plato talked about knowing one’s self, it was through reason and rationality, questioning accepted beliefs through use of t ...