Post by zendancer on Jan 23, 2024 14:30:49 GMT -5
Someone I know rejected conventional religion early in life, and was intermittently a seeker. About two years ago he heard people talking about ND, got introduced to TPON and another book on that subject and began wondering, "What are Tolle and other ND sages pointing to and writing about?" He contemplated this issue, and after several months suddenly awakened. The sudden discovery of THIS eradicated his past negative self-referential ideas and freed him from the concensus paradigm. Lately he's been writing about his insight and encouraging people to, in his words, "take the shortcut."
What does he mean by "take the shortcut?" He tells people that there's no need to seek anything other than whatever is currently happening, and that all they have to do is realize what's already and always here and now. He tells people that there's no need to meditate, visit teachers, read books, or do anything else. He tells them that they can spend years and years doing all kinds of different stuff in an effort to find THIS and penetrate the illusion of selfhood, but the shortcut is simply to grok the famous saying, "This is It." He tells them that whatever they are doing, or whatever they are thinking, is IT, and all they have to do is realize that fact. He even suggests that people "fake it until they make it" by constantly watching what's happening and acting AS IF whatever is happening is happening spontaneously and without any personal involvement.
I think that's an interesting approach, and it will be even more interesting to find out how effective his particular way of pointing will be. It's sort of a variation on the Tony Parsons Neo-Advaita approach that doesn't totally slam the door on the intellect.
Last night I wondered what the effect would be if a seeker were surrounded by a group of people who had discovered THIS rather than people lost in the concensus paradigm? Would the seeker be more likely to discover the truth if everyone s/he was associated with had already found the truth? IOW, would something like a "flashover event" occur similar to what happens in major fire events where the super-heated air from a fire suddenly causes areas adjacent to the fire to suddenly and spontaneously burst into flame? Tolle has suggested that as more people wake up, this kind of thing becomes much more likely, and it appears indubitable that as ND messaging via social media and videos on YouTube make more and more people aware of what words like "enlightenment" or "awakening" are pointing to that an interest in existential realizations will naturally increase as well as ND realizations, themselves.
Anyone who watches videos of people like David Bingham and similar ND sages will discover that more and more young people are waking up to THIS more quickly than in the past, and it certainly seems to be correlated to the increasing familiarization with ND pointing by more and more people. Many of the young people, such as Anna Brown and others, never spent years pursuing various spiritual practices, and that may prove to become even more common in the future.
What does he mean by "take the shortcut?" He tells people that there's no need to seek anything other than whatever is currently happening, and that all they have to do is realize what's already and always here and now. He tells people that there's no need to meditate, visit teachers, read books, or do anything else. He tells them that they can spend years and years doing all kinds of different stuff in an effort to find THIS and penetrate the illusion of selfhood, but the shortcut is simply to grok the famous saying, "This is It." He tells them that whatever they are doing, or whatever they are thinking, is IT, and all they have to do is realize that fact. He even suggests that people "fake it until they make it" by constantly watching what's happening and acting AS IF whatever is happening is happening spontaneously and without any personal involvement.
I think that's an interesting approach, and it will be even more interesting to find out how effective his particular way of pointing will be. It's sort of a variation on the Tony Parsons Neo-Advaita approach that doesn't totally slam the door on the intellect.
Last night I wondered what the effect would be if a seeker were surrounded by a group of people who had discovered THIS rather than people lost in the concensus paradigm? Would the seeker be more likely to discover the truth if everyone s/he was associated with had already found the truth? IOW, would something like a "flashover event" occur similar to what happens in major fire events where the super-heated air from a fire suddenly causes areas adjacent to the fire to suddenly and spontaneously burst into flame? Tolle has suggested that as more people wake up, this kind of thing becomes much more likely, and it appears indubitable that as ND messaging via social media and videos on YouTube make more and more people aware of what words like "enlightenment" or "awakening" are pointing to that an interest in existential realizations will naturally increase as well as ND realizations, themselves.
Anyone who watches videos of people like David Bingham and similar ND sages will discover that more and more young people are waking up to THIS more quickly than in the past, and it certainly seems to be correlated to the increasing familiarization with ND pointing by more and more people. Many of the young people, such as Anna Brown and others, never spent years pursuing various spiritual practices, and that may prove to become even more common in the future.
