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Whatever drew you to seeking something beyond the world, the desire for something not of the world, the desire for freedom from the world, has arisen. Yet, beyond that, there are some other “symptoms” that indicate you are ready for enlightenment, or Self-Realization.
If someone told you “you can’t do it,” what did you do? For me, of course then I had to do it (if I remotely cared about it.) We hear a lot of things about happiness and spirituality. Like, you have to suffer, or not this life, you have more karma to burn, or lessons to learn, etc. What if you became outrageously impatient, not willing to take ‘no’ for an answer? That’s what happened to me…
Not suffering does not mean that you didn’t love, it means you still love; you just haven’t swapped love for the idea of loss. Death is not the opposite of Life. Birth is. Life has no opposite…
At its essence, the message of the loved and revered Spiritual Masters who have passed was:
If you are asking the question, then the answer is: this is not it. But the question falling away is also not enough. One can realize that they are not a thought, not any thought, and questions will subside. But do you know who you are?
People think you have to suffer to wake up. They hear what happened with Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie. How they suffered. But it’s not just the suffering they have in common. And suffering wasn’t the key commonality.
Ever have the feeling that something’s missing? Something is not quite right? I’ve had that feeling off and on since a child… in 2010, I realized this feeling was real, why I had it, and what was missing.
People often don’t like it (at first) when we begin to closely look at their dearly held ideas and beliefs about themselves and the world. I was afraid to let my ideas and beliefs go because I had nothing else. But we must do so, if we want Truth…
So many people use, and abuse, the word enlightenment, that it no longer carries the meaning it may once have, long before I crossed paths with it. Now it means a glorious mental-emotional experience, and people are on the hunt for that…
Dear Self: I realized that I am in this all alone anyway, meaning that people might give you hints or tips but in the end it’s me that has to work it out. Also wondered a bit about the applicability of what otheres say. Sometimes it seems that it’s kind of like telling a person who’s stuck in the wheelchair how to walk. What I mean is that it’s not really a method or a path but a description of a way of being, which then isn’t how they got there in the first place.
