YES- INTENSE FOCUS, HOLDING ON ,
NO- CUTTING OFF EXTERNAL STIMULUS
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The biggest block to spiritual awakening is:
- Believing spiritual awakening happens in time.
- Awakening doesn’t happen in time, it happens now.
- If you think awakening happens in time, then you think it’s an experience like other experiences in time.
- By definition, your ego can’t experience egolessness.
- It can only think awakening is something wonderful to pursue.
- By pursing awakening, you kick the can of awakening down the road of identity.
- Awakening isn’t something that happens to you.
- Awakening IS.
- The “world” you inhabit is conscious experience.
- You can interpret experience how you like.
- Therefore, it’s within your power to feel joyful.
- Unless you’re busy bothering yourself, you will know the inherent perfection of experience.
- You don’t have to be an ego reacting to experience.
- You are consciousness itself, infinite and undying.
- And you are the ultimate reality upon which consciousness arises.
- You are vacancy, out of which an apparent universe arises and falls like waves on the surface of water.
- Stop wanting to be, and you’ll be alright.
The answer is totally simple and totally incomprehensible by ‘mind.’ And make no mistake, this is an intellectual/mental-understanding question.
There is only Being. Since there is only Being, One, and it is All There Is, This Everything, You (being) are indeed already That. Couldn’t be otherwise.
Within Being, there appears to arise ‘separate beings, people,’ separate ‘events,’ and “time.” These are merely appearances. They have no more substance to them the hallucinations that arise in your dreams at night. When “you” appear to awaken, become ‘illuminated,’ in the dream, it appears to have happened in”time” to a separate “person.” But, fully awake, “you” see it was nothing but a dream. There was never a separate “you,” that actually had an ‘illumination event.’ Just a dream appearing to arise in Being. There was always only Being, You, One.
The so-called “time” & “place” that self-realization took place could only happen to the dreamer…not to Being. Just an appearance. Nothing ever happened to ‘no one’ in “time.”
Mind will not get this, because mind is also part of the dream. It cannot comprehend appearances arising out of Nothing, and it doesn’t want to anyway, because Nothing means it’s ‘death.’
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Perfect. But sometimes the realisation that all is being, and we are in dreamlike state, makes us non serious about our daily as well as big tasks in our lives. Isn’t? After all when are in a dream then why we should be serious about happening in this dream like birth and death, illnesses, losses and happiness etc? Why we should take care of things if we are in dream and all is being!
t is the seeking itself that is causing your pain. The “I” repeated over & over in your question is the exact false “I” that can never awaken or “get enlightened,’ but can completely dissolve in a flash, revealing that you always were One with Being, the very Being “you” felt separate from and caused “you” to start seeking in the first place, seeking for that which you already Are.
Stop seeking…for a good long while…and just Be!
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In 1901, Sivaprakasam Pillai approached Ramana Maharshi and asked him an excellent question:
“Who am I?”
Sri Ramana was delighted that he’d asked such a fundamental question.
“Sat-Chit-Ananda,” he replied.
This means: Being, Consciousness, or Bliss.
All three terms equally describe what we actually are.
We exist; we know we exist, and the very nature of our existence is happiness.
This is the core of Sri Ramana’s teaching:
We are the happiness we seek.
We are as inseparable from happiness as water is from wet.
We feel separate only because we are temporarily distracted.
His advice is to turn inward and examine the nature of the one who seeks happiness.
You’ve been looking everywhere for the diamond in your pocket.
If this sounds intellectual, try it this way:
Another word for turn inward is surrender.
“Enlightened” people have surrendered the story of unenlightenment to the eternal reality of infinite light.
It’s not a sacrifice to give up what doesn’t exist.
“Happiness is your true nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
- Ramana Maharshi
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MYTH
Long ago, before half the stars that speckle the sky were born and before the mountains rose reaching for them, a giant ocean covered the Earth. One day, something strange happened in the giant ocean — a change so mysterious and magnificent that it was given a special name: mutation.
From this mutation, life was born from non-life: The first living creatures — tinier than a grain of sand, tinier than the tip of the eyelash of a mouse — came into being.
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The Asian ideas of nondualism developed in the Vedic and post-Vedic Upanishadic philosophies[3] as well as in the Buddhist traditions.[4] The oldest traces of nondualism in Indian thought are found in the earlier Hindu Upanishads such as Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, as well as other pre-Buddhist Upanishads such as the Chandogya Upanishad, which emphasizes the unity of individual soul called Atman and the Supreme called Brahman. In Hinduism, nondualism has more commonly become associated with the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Adi Shankara.
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Advaita is found in verse 4.3.32 of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (~800 BCE), and in verses 7 and 12 of the Mandukya Upanishad (variously dated to have been composed between 500 BCE to 200 CE).[9] The term appears in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad in the section with a discourse of the oneness of Atman (individual soul) and Brahman (universal consciousness), as follows:[10]
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