Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

Then she said something very profound. She said: “I really understand the dynamic of running from that feeling of neediness, and ...

of associated feelings and stories wash through her over a few hours. Just relax, lie on your back and feel everything, for feel ...

extreme danger, vulnerability, with no protection, no security anywhere. The other thing that might happen is that when he or sh ...

to come away from it, to grow out of it naturally, organically, within the confines of real, human relationships, and not the ar ...

I wanted them to feel their (my) neediness. I wanted them to suffer the way I was suffering. I wanted them to fear being rejecte ...

This is an extremely primitive and basic form of nonverbal communication and love. But there is also the sense of omnipotence th ...

However, I think you really like the passion you feel now versus the deadness of five years ago. You know the peace and deadness ...

Role of the Teacher....................................................................... So many people are on a purported spi ...

guru the quality in us we most cherish to become and own. Some want a nurturing mother or father, all accepting, all caring, all ...

qualities, such as love or compassion, intellect, or energy gurus, yet they were all men or woman first, ordinary men and women, ...

the teacher has nothing to teach, and has everything to be taught; i.e., anytime a teacher looks at a student of the opposite se ...

Coming Alive to the Whole Self.................................................... We live in a mad, mad world. I felt it from t ...

different reality, we are quickly shuttled away to the sidelines: not accepted, not allowed into the fold of family and society. ...

back, I would not now accept that initial no-I, no-self experience as an awakening. The single experiences, no matter how world ...

“box” we were forced to contract into in order to fit. It is all me, it is all the Self. The totality of this true self is incre ...

awakening; the same with Nisargadatta, and even more so with Robert. Joshu supposedly struggled 40 years before his first awaken ...

in a different world and have to be careful how we present ourselves within “their world” otherwise we are branded as immature, ...

feeling like my head is being swept clean...has been more associated with the gross body. I have also felt huge movements of ene ...

felt the most amazing bliss, along with a sense of awe and wonder at this power. My inquiring mind wants to know: What is feelin ...

and other subtle body phenomena. You are going beyond the human world towards the universal and transpersonal. Gradually you wil ...