Very useful. The transition from I am aware to I am the awareness, from I am conscious to I am the consciousness is the great spiritual leap forward. This needs constant remembrance that we are the awareness, we are the consciousness until it becomes our new identity. We need not drop our old conceptual identities. We just need to deepen and strengthen the new identity until it replaces the old.
Straight to the point. Excellent and very much needed clarification in a market saturated with products that promise to lead you to "the goal". Thank you!
Yes, in this culture particularly in the male gender, there is a prevalent attitude to want to fix everything. (I presume we aren't talking about plumbing.) While this can-do attitude may be preferable to apathy, it requires discretion. Byron Katie distinguishes between one's own business, other people's business and God's business. She suggests that the more we can stay in our own business, the better. When someone is going on about their sorrows, we can be empathetic and present to what they are saying without engaging in the story, that is, without helping to decide who is right, who is to blame, what someone else should do. We can simply be present for their expression of their experience: attentive but not interfering. Adyashanti said something very interesting about trying to relieve someone else's suffering. (We're talking about psychological suffering not physical suffering. If some needs immediate physical help, then obviously do what you can.) What he said can sound harsh when first heard. He recalled his teacher telling him when she first asked him to teach to be very cautious about taking away someone's suffering because it may be exactly what is needed to awaken. Harsh, yes, but true. Awakening to one's own essential beingness resolves the fundamental question of Life. Compared to the relief from that realization, whatever psychological suffering may have been needed to compel us to release our strangle-hold on personal self-identity is a relatively small price to pay. It is also useful to keep history in mind: there has perhaps been as much suffering that has been caused in the name of making the world a better place and insisting my view of the divine is the correct one than in all the wars, famines, plagues and murders combined. In this regard, the Hippocratic Oath is useful to remember: "First, do no harm." If we do act, an appropriate degree of humility is appropriate; we can only be of service to the degree of our own understanding. If we have not yet discovered our own essential beingness (True Nature, Unborn Self and so on), we will be limited to trying to fix things on the level of form, which is by its nature, transient. In response to this question, some spiritual teacher (I can't remember who) said, "Wake up first and then do whatever you love." Similarly, Jesus said, "Seek Ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all else will be given." Best wishes.
Very useful.
The transition from I am aware to I am the awareness, from I am conscious to I am the consciousness is the great spiritual leap forward. This needs constant remembrance that we are the awareness, we are the consciousness until it becomes our new identity. We need not drop our old conceptual identities. We just need to deepen and strengthen the new identity until it replaces the old.
Yes, that transition makes all the difference.
Straight to the point. Excellent and very much needed clarification in a market saturated with products that promise to lead you to "the goal". Thank you!
Thank you. Yes, this path is prone to complication.
Raised and conditioned in the "to do about.." society: if there's a problem, let "me" do something about it.
...advaced course please😅
Yes, in this culture particularly in the male gender, there is a prevalent attitude to want to fix everything. (I presume we aren't talking about plumbing.) While this can-do attitude may be preferable to apathy, it requires discretion. Byron Katie distinguishes between one's own business, other people's business and God's business. She suggests that the more we can stay in our own business, the better.
When someone is going on about their sorrows, we can be empathetic and present to what they are saying without engaging in the story, that is, without helping to decide who is right, who is to blame, what someone else should do. We can simply be present for their expression of their experience: attentive but not interfering. Adyashanti said something very interesting about trying to relieve someone else's suffering. (We're talking about psychological suffering not physical suffering. If some needs immediate physical help, then obviously do what you can.) What he said can sound harsh when first heard. He recalled his teacher telling him when she first asked him to teach to be very cautious about taking away someone's suffering because it may be exactly what is needed to awaken. Harsh, yes, but true. Awakening to one's own essential beingness resolves the fundamental question of Life. Compared to the relief from that realization, whatever psychological suffering may have been needed to compel us to release our strangle-hold on personal self-identity is a relatively small price to pay.
It is also useful to keep history in mind: there has perhaps been as much suffering that has been caused in the name of making the world a better place and insisting my view of the divine is the correct one than in all the wars, famines, plagues and murders combined. In this regard, the Hippocratic Oath is useful to remember: "First, do no harm."
If we do act, an appropriate degree of humility is appropriate; we can only be of service to the degree of our own understanding. If we have not yet discovered our own essential beingness (True Nature, Unborn Self and so on), we will be limited to trying to fix things on the level of form, which is by its nature, transient.
In response to this question, some spiritual teacher (I can't remember who) said, "Wake up first and then do whatever you love." Similarly, Jesus said, "Seek Ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all else will be given."
Best wishes.