If people see you are being a hypocrite due to saying one thing and doing another, your words will likely have the opposite effect. Think about how often there has been a well-known spiritual teacher or guru who has said something that sounds quite profound and insightful, yet then goes off and does something contradictory.
A long time ago, a wise man decided to write a book. His name was Lao Tzu, and the book was called the Tao Te Ching.
Not only one of the world’s oldest pieces of literature, it’s also one of the most profound and potentially life-changing.
Everything happens the way it does because the conditions for its happening are such that nothing else could happen, and those conditions are the will of God.
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Here’s a seven-step program for change that you can follow without strain, choosing any recommended step at your own pace and comfort level.
Sadhguru defines consciousness and busts some common myths about a much misunderstood topic. Explaining that consciousness has nothing to do with the mind, he outlines different conscious states from a Yogic perspective.
Above all else, there are three indispensable tools for the attainment of enlightenment: knowledge, awareness, and love.
A new study sheds light on the existence of a higher level of consciousness in humans that is accessible. Does consciousness originate in the brain or somewhere else? What does this say about who ‘we’ are as humans?
It helps to have a buddy on the spiritual path too, and mine is Ellie. I call her when life seems too dark or too much, and she reminds me of the wisdom that can save me from drowning.
Here in 2021, we can all look around us and agree that things could be better. No matter what your beliefs about how society should look, we can all feel the pain that comes from living in the current paradigm. Since we deeply feel that everything could be so much better than it is, how do we shift into a better paradigm?
Awakening often comes with profound spiritual implications, as we have undeniable experiences of connection to our Universal intelligence. Signs, symbols and synchronicities show up in our lives more and more, altering our course forever. In the process, there are some Universal changes we must make on the path for our own growth and evolution.
Pure Consciousness is the basis of all creation, constantly transforming itself from the non-local field of pure potentiality into the localized conditioned consciousness we call the material world.
As something separate from you, a higher power has to be implored to restore you to sanity. When you awaken to the greater power of which you are already a part, sanity happens..
There are two dimensions to who you are. The first is what I sometimes call the “surface I”—the person with a past and a future.
Do you believe that anything is possible? If not, why not? The most likely reasons are that someone early on, like a parent, told you something was not possible. Another is that you grew up trying to do something but came up against obstacles to doing it. This conditioned you to believe in limitations.
Thanks to the sages, luminaries, spiritual teachers, thinkers and every-day people who had and shared their enlightening experience, we can ignite the light of expanded awareness of the higher and deeper aspects of the human experience and existence itself, within ourselves.
Thoughts, ideas, and concepts are tremendously powerful, influential, energetic forces.
The 10 Spiritual Realms as described by Nichiren Daishonin are listed below. Broken into two parts, the first six (Hell, Hunger, Animality, Anger, Humanity, and Heaven) are derived from the Indian concept of the six realms of rebirth. Above these lie the four holy states (Learning, Realization, Bodhisattva, and Buddhahood).
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Awaken Interviews Kundalini Master Guru Singh Pt 2 – Direct Experience Of The Divine Donna Quesada: So there’s this interplay
“You ask, ‘what is Zen?’ I answer, ‘Zen is that which makes you ask the question.’ Because the answer is where the question arises. The answer is the questioner himself.” ~Daisetz Suzuki
Reflecting on the meaning of awakening, reality being an illusion and how to navigate fear within the illusion, and does life have a purpose?
A number of ancient cultures believed in a Cycle of World Ages in which we gradually descend from a state of spiritual perfection and material abundance to one of ignorance and scarcity. In ancient India, this was called the Yuga Cycle.
