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

[Meggings]

Russel Williams: By the lessening of grasping, which is the killer of enlightenment - aversion is the opposite side of the same coin...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P4VEXH9udFU

[Clear Light]

Ah, "I" wonder if perhaps this may help to direct your Attention inwards ...

[Wind]

At the centre of each man, each animal, each plant, each cell, and each atom, there is a complete stillness. A seemingly empty stillness, yet it holds the divine energies and the divine Idea for that thing.

~ Paul Brunton

[Clear Light]

Daily Tao / 16 – Ordinary

Umbrella, light, landscape, sky —
There is no language of the holy.
The sacred lies in the ordinary.



No one is able to describe the spiritual except by comparing it to ordinary things. One scripture describes the divine word as an “umbrella of protection.” Another says a god is light. Heaven is supposed to be in the sky, and even ascetics who have rejected sex use erotic images to describe enlightenment. People have to resort to metaphor to state the divine.

Even esoteric languages have been invented, and they mystify the outsider. Holy words always appear that way to the uninitiated. After one learns to read them, their message becomes assimilated. We no longer worry about the images, for we have found the truth that the words were indicating.

When you buy something that has assembly instructions, you follow the directions, but you do not then venerate the instructions. Spiritual attainment is no different. Once you’ve gained it, instructions become secondary. Spirituality gained is no different than the ball game you play, the work you do, the car you drive, the love you make. If you constantly regard Tao as extraordinary, then it remains unknown and outside yourself — a myth, a fantasy, an unnameable quantity. But once you know it, it is yours and part of your daily life.

[From : "365 Tao Daily Meditations" Deng Ming-Dao]

[ZooLife]

Posted by Clear Blue Skies (here)

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Ah, "I" wonder if perhaps this may help to direct your Attention inwards ...

Do the two of you agree with this post?

If they do there can be no room for wrong.

Cross-eyed is a myth if you catch my drift.

Fill my eyes with that double vision
No disguise for that double vision
Ooh, when it gets through to me, it's always new to me
My double vision gets the best of me -- Lou Gramm (Foreigner)

[Meggings]

This is someone I know slightly in this lifetime, but whose soul I love deeply. In the past I have posted quotes from his books, but for those who might have time and inclination, here is a 53-minute interview with Paul Selig done this past week.

With simple explanation, Paul speaks of what the teaching coming through him is about. By claiming our own divinity, we change the physical structure that outpictures as the world we live in. We bring the kingdom into manifestation. I simply love this fellow, how he conducts himself, what he says, and so share what I consider most valuable. Besides, I knew him in other lifetimes and feel a welling up/out of heart love when I see/hear him.

http://paulselig.com/2016/01/interview-inspire-nation/

[Clear Light]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i34IuGJUj30

Published on 25 Jan 2016 - A short but direct pointing instruction from Lama Tsultrim Allione (Length 4m:42s)

Ah, the "nature of mind" is the SAME for all beings and it is so simple "I" was not able to "accept" it for many years LOL

[betoobig]

The way she finished made me laugh...."that's all"...
Thanks ClearBlueskies.
@ Meggins , thanks i loved the talk you shared. All so simple.
Much love

[CelineK]

I believe that every path should lead to enlightenment if one is wise enough to observe in silence and without being (too) judgmental. Krishnamurti's philosophy taught me a great deal in this sense.


But there also is another kind of enlightenment that springs from metaphysics and which has to be pursued as a study. 5 years ago, I began to look into physics and the Laws of Electromagnetism/Electricity without which nothing can exist; even Thought since neurons process emotions electrically. From there I was able to visualize and grasp the per-existing conflicts within the human mind arising from the polarization of Thought. Regarding emotions as electric currents may make feel one a little dizzy in the beginning but it is all about allowing the mind to align itself to this new thinking patterns.

The Electricity Theory also improved my understanding of Eastern and various indigenous spiritual orientations as well, and more importantly why Free Will is paramount on a cosmic level for the evolution of the Soul.

[greybeard]

Welcome to the thread CelineK.
There is nothing but energy, in this world anyway..
Thanks for your post.

Chris

[betoobig]

@Celinek. Agree, one being one path.
Wachting out for signs.
Much love

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And welcome to Avalon

[Matthew]

[Clear Light]

“Truth is not a reward for good behavior, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own …. Stand still, be quiet”

– Nisargadatta Maharaj

[betoobig]

Hello everyone.
Today i was trigged by someone's coment on me, right away i went to meditate to try to see what needs to be heallled. It felt all wrong but little by little embracing that darkness i heallled it.
I realized there is, still, long way to go.
Much love

[Skyhaven]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=utPict770gU

[Wind]

"Ideally, we learn the wisdom of life best, easiest, and most from teachers, from instruction by those who know the Way in its beginning and end. Actually, we have to learn it by ourselves, by our own experience, by self-expression, all necessary and valuable, suffering as well as joy."

~ Paul Brunton

[ZooLife]

I am on the inside looking out

Wait!

I am on the outside looking in

Wait!

I am on....

Never mind.

[ZooLife]

Ever notice that one isn't typically aware of the obvious when one is thinking of something else?

[Wind]

When all thoughts and words in us have dried up,
there remains such a profound silence
—unending, without beginning.
When all the words in us continue flowing,
underneath or behind them
there remains a profound silence.
Before words are spoken, there is a profound silence.
It can never dry up. It is without boundaries.
Nothing can touch or alter it. Nothing can remove it.
This silence and being, existence and love,
Truth and God...are all One—the Supreme Being.

~ Mooji

[Enola]

The Yoga of the Sun: Surya-yoga

"Each ray of sun is a source of energy. This is why, as present day resources of coal, gas and uranium become exhausted, human beings will turn more and more to solar energy which has infinite possibilities. But solar power is not merely a useful energy on the physical plane. Light is a living spirit that comes from the sun and makes direct contact with our own spirit.

To take the sun as your model is to hold the highest ideal. If you choose to imitate a scholar, a writer, a philosopher, or even a hero, a saint or an initiate, you will no doubt receive some particles of their virtues, but this will never be as abundant or pure in quality as what you receive when you model yourself on the sun.

The sun is the image of perfection, and if you take it as your model because you wish to illuminate, warm and vivify all creatures as the sun does, you will truly be transformed. Obviously you will never obtain the actual light, warmth, and life of the sun, but merely the desire to acquire these attributes will project you to celestial realms where you will accomplish wonders. Your desire to give light, warmth, and life to others will render you more luminous, warmer and more alive.

Light thinks, speaks, sings and creates. To the extent that light is able to make its way into the human soul, it is reflected in the form of intelligence, love, beauty, nobility and strength.

You must seek light, concentrate on it, drink it, eat it and value it above all treasures on earth. Whenever you have a spare moment, close your eyes and concentrate on the image of this light that penetrates everything and brings all blessings."

Aivanhov

http://omraam-words-of-light.org/ins...re-a-blessing/