Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

After a while the light began to fade away, and there was no darkness. There was just a place between light and darkness, the pl ...

and thoughts. And since the ‘I’, which I was, was all- pervading, there was no other place for anything else to be. There was no ...

There were no words like I am talking about now. I am trying my best to speak intelligently and try to use words to explain what ...

And then there was this fantastic humility. The love, compassion, and humility are all synonymous. I am trying to break it down ...

no longer interested in school. I was no longer interested in the friends I had. I will not go on any more than that for now, as ...

time you are aware that you are playing a part. You are not really that person. It is only a part you are playing. In the same w ...

the karma. Do not reflect on these things. This is important. You have to drop this. Leave it alone. If you only knew that nothi ...

course, you may do this by inquiring, "To whom does the body come? Who has this body?" and remain in the silence. Many of us her ...

compassion and humility. For if this is the end result of awakening, if you do this first, the awakening will come faster. Even ...

Why can't you be yourself and wake up? Why do you have to go through all these things and make me sit here talking to you like t ...

felt that that an essential characteristic of the ‘I Am,’ of consciousness, was love; a great love far beyond what humans feel t ...

love for everything and everyone, and a profound sense of humility, and a compassion for all living things. Then Robert proposes ...

compassion and surrender, there is built in us a receptivity for the transcendental awakening experiences; which in a sense, rea ...

What I would note though, is that Maharaj grabbed onto one fruit of the awakening experience, that he was not his body. That con ...

I wondered if those primal beliefs of, 'I am the body, I was born, I will die' could be dropped in the same way as any other bel ...

'IT'. I am realizing that this has all been learned just as my beliefs in Christianity had been learned. I have merely exchanged ...

The Spiritual Processes Around a Guru and Ashram..................... A year ago I was watching a video moderated by Andrew Cohe ...

expression for fear of causing someone an offence and starting some sort of buried seething or overt angry confrontation. Most n ...

perhaps an easy road to awakening, held in stasis by the ecstatic presence of a divine guru. Later, that same guru might appear ...

turnover. There is something about having made the commitment to live together that stabilizes the Sangha. I was with Robert for ...