isn't "whats in the way"always a belief? conditioning,etc?...seems like I "fell awake" love that term,when I realized that I was none of the stuff that I thought I was or wasn't....been lookin for a phrase to describe what seems to have happened and I think its been found...I tried for years to "surrender" but it just didn't happen so I just said to hell with it. this is the way it's gonna be..and then somehow,i "got surrendered" or fell awake and everything has been plain as day ever since..i have read this post 3 times. thanks
No thank you.
and you are right.
I come across so many people now who even I back in the day would have ignored as interested in This. Around me from family to work people they all now seem to resonate with awakened teachers and what they're pointing at. My boss who is falling awake loves the teachings of Alan Watts or Wayne Dyer. His wife was ill doctors couldn't help and asked if I could help. I said put your hand on her back and I placed my hand on his. She got better but he said my mind became still as you placed your hand on mine. He has become more creative, a better boss to all, and said to me recently when I was identified more in my mind chatter I never saw my wife if I'm being honest but now if I see her as if I'm looking at her for the first time. And the same for other people the people who work for me. The same for you.
At work there's been a shift from his old experience, identification as he trusts more in what comes in as he's more in the flow compared to before.
The term falling awake I borrowed from the American Mystic Joe Miller. It fits with what happened here. And the innocence of sliding down a slide within. Some people I come across describe it as going down a lift or sliding down a bannister.
What's in the way. Will always come up when someone is enquiring in to self realisation.
As we are not one person in the story but many. We appear in the movie as different characters. I could sense this before falling awake that I'm in a script appearing as different characters. The burden to keep up these many 🎭 mask. Sucks the life right out of you.
Whether I'm a son to a father, a lover or a worker to a boss. And many more. A seeker to God. It's just another script.
I could see I was a different character in each of these scripts. But which one is the real me. In the story one script has problematic areas and it would pour over into the other scripts causing problems.
So by grace my partner had been sent abroad forced into an arranged marriage.
I just couldn't find the strength after that to smile in the many characters and scripts. As Eckhart wanted to commit suicide and said I can't live with myself anymore. And the realisation who is the I and myself. Am I one or two. The beauty of Eckhart is that he is pointing for most people.
You will get the odd sage who will awaken not really knowing the pain body as they come across a sage and wake up simply from good living. But bringing that realisation back down to where most are living in fear, fear of the paying the next bill, fear of losing their job, fear of their partner leaving them. The seekers won't resonate as a poster once posted on here is awakening just for the privileged few.
Definitely not.
Most live that reality. Why Tantra embarrasses all. That you are the seed and great oak tree within.
Jesus said or the author the kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed smaller than all seeds but when it falls on tilled Earth it becomes a large tree and becomes a shelter for all the birds of heaven
I closed my eyes went within as I didnt want to make another step as a character/S
And just being present in the Now it was experienced as going down a slide and on the body mind experience it felt like an explosion of light from the solar plexus and heart centre.
And this is what Eckhart is pointing at Being in the now.
The beauty of Eckhart and I come across so many people now who come across his book. That they have an experience of That, a glimpse even though it may be temporary whilst reading his book or listening to him. In my area it's not an affluent area where most take a gap year and visit a guru like Steve Jobs and his zen masters. But they do resonate with Eckhart. No need for thirty or forty years of meditation practice. Living is meditation.
I went to a meet up group in Birmingham UK talking about the Power Of Now and I was surprised as each person around the table had an experience of This whilst reading his book or listening to his videos.
Etolle if you look at past sages just one or two people fell awake under their teachings but in my experience thanks to Tolle more people are looking at this.
I bow down to him. As I feel he is a very very important sage for these times.
Just today at work the boss who has many
friends came in and looked at our site and pointed out the areas where there could be improvement from traffic flow, to bounce rate, and asked why when you advertised in The Times why you didn't act better on that campaign. As you had a flow coming in. At that point.
I asked him about my teachers site the traffic flow and this site.
As I am grateful to be able to put his site over without a fee and I only come on here spiritual teachers org to say thank you for allowing that.
And he said this site has a traffic flow but has real potential. The key words are there but the advertising isn't.
That's why if you look at at eastern traditions as I come from an Indian background we really serve pump money in to our Gurus probably way too much 😂.
In the western teachings I don't feel students understand seva, serving or giving their skills over to serve the whole under a Guru or sage.
Being with Ian I promote his teachings. I set up His interviews. But coming from an Indian background being around a sage and serving is always a privilege.
Just recently a psychic said you're a good student as well as a teacher.
But I always see myself as a student.
Like Being with Ian Wolstenholme no words 😶 come in to say thanks for the help and pointing.
You can understand how Rumi when Shams appeared his whole outlook changed. Some of his poetry service points just at Shams.
And that's grace.
Thanks for sharing as you will find many resonate with your words as I do too.
