Enlightenment: The Ego, what is it? How to transcend it.

[betoobig]

I come to experience that we enlight each other, love you all.
So much thanks.
Juan

[DeDukshyn]

I just came to check out latest post (don't come here near as often as I should) ... betoobig's post at the start of this page, regardless of whatever was posted before it (I didn't check) ... priceless.

[Guish]

Fearing that none of you would understand, they gave it the name Tao, but you must not base any concept upon that name. So it is said that “when the fish is caught the trap is forgotten.” When body and mind achieve spontaneity, the Tao is reached and universal mind can be understood.

[Innocent Warrior]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TtGY4G7II6s

[Valley]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LCLgxgD6qS8

[Enola]

It actually looks like things are finally starting to loosen up for me. I found a very good teacher who was able to change my perspective around and make me focus on things I haven't before. This has given me some very important missing pieces and I now feel a real change in my energy field after the inner work I've been doing.

Although this came in the eleventh hour and I was nearly exhausted. I had a lot of darkness to overcome and holding onto so many blockages and negative energy was extremely draining.

[TargeT]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I9gccu_gV7Q

[greybeard]

Good to see you here TargeT
Thanks for the video.
Chris

[Wind]

In the inmost place
you are nothing there.
No one is residing there, personally.
Even in the place of presence, no one is there.
Even in the place of the ego-person, no one is actually there.
No one is residing there. There is only the imagination
that someone, a person, lives there.
We have a population count of 7 billion,
yet there is only the one Self.

~ Mooji

[Valley]

There is 'someone' there inside/beside us... the 'One Self'... the 'One Presence'... whose 'ultimate Essence' is Infinite 'Blessance'

[greybeard]

There are paradoxes Valley because we need language to point to Truth but what we are is beyond description or labelling.
Another paradox is that "We are form --formless--- both and neither"
Its just a question of getting the essence of what Mooji is pointing to.
There is no individual--no person--only the illusion that there is, which seems very real.
A drummer hits the skin, that's physical and can be seen to be done--a sound is produced--it can not be seen, it can not be touched--it decays into nothing.
It is all those things yet without the silence its presence would not be detected.
We are the silence--form, persona becomes material then decays back into silence--which we never left. All was superimposed so to speak.
Anything which is Truth is eternal.

Love Chris

[Valley]

It's cool Chris... I don't mind contradictions/paradoxes myself, but they are also an easy way to confuse the 'miniature' mind and get it running in circles.

Blessings All Around...

[Guish]

[Innocent Warrior]

Happy Birthday, Guish!

[greybeard]

Yes Happy Birthday Guish.
May this coming year be special for you.

much love
Chris

[betoobig]

Congratulations Enola, great news, thanks for sharing.
Dear wise Guish, happy birthdate.
And happy new year to all, may this year be the first of all enlightened years.
Much love

Pd rachel i love every song you post

[Guish]

Thank you for the wishes.

[greybeard]

"The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle was the most helpful book I ever read.
Prior to that the only spiritual books I found were of Indian Sages and only when I read Eckhart and listened to his cds did they make any real sense.
So then the books by the late Dr David Hawkins I was ready for--very in depth and no room for miss-understanding.
Through all that the depth and simplicity of Mooji is imbibed.

With love
Chris

[Enola]

I found these very helpful when I had to really face my shadow. I won't say it was fun, exactly, but the force of the negative energy in me was noticeably decreased afterwards.

http://www.spiritualawakeningprocess...ess-phase.html
http://www.spiritualawakeningprocess...ght-phase.html
http://www.spiritualawakeningprocess...orment-of.html


You may notice for those of you on the conscious path that you may be focusing on how to be a "good" person. Awakening does not do this. Instead it removes the illusion that covers up the truth that we are already beings of love, so how can you improve such a perfect and beautiful love? Without illusions in the way, we naturally behave from a deep love, integrity, and harmony with all those around us. Hurting others becomes more and more irrational and insane because we understand that when we hurt another, we hurt ourselves. Truths like this become clearer and clearer as bits of darkness dissolve and more of your inner light is revealed. With the greater light shining on everything, yet more darkness is illuminated. Deep levels of anger, shame, fear, and depressive sadness get illuminated, and a lot of inner turbulence becomes the norm in this particular phase. Each issue gets met in slightly different ways, but it all starts with acceptance and allowing. The awakened space will not tolerate ignorance and blindness, and so many of you may find yourself face down in the mud of your soul for quite some time depending on how much darkness you've carried and what your natural vibration is with which you're aligning."

[greybeard]

Thanks Enola.
What ever works.
Once the discovery process starts---loads of things come up to be burned off---painful at times but it get easier.

Love Chris