Satsang Dec 26 cancelled due to storm New Book — now shipping
28 Aug 2010 2 Comments
* * * * * My new book Ego-Attachment– The Route Of All Suffering is now available in print or as an Electronic eBook! Frankly, I feel this is some of the best writing I’ve ever printed. I’m told that the message is Right On Target with what I’ve been speaking about to more and more people who are interested in me and what I have to say, right now. I go into the heart of the matter and state the case in few uncertain terms. That is, I speak my truth.
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Ω There is a long-ish excerpt published below.
Testimonials. We haven’t collected any but please feel free to “Comment” to this message or send an email. However. I’m delighted to report, one of us has had an awakening. She bought one of the first copies of the book, and when she read to half-way through the last page of “Origin” section, she experienced her mind stopping completely. In the following days, she has continued experiencing the emptiness of emptiness and bliss. This is a very private time, as well, so of course we can’t just rush over and start asking questions, but I’m very pleased she is journaling and sharing. It’s sort of funny, but while her email about her enlightenment experience was on the screen, we were speaking here at the center of the universe about developing these web pages and I commented that the website didn’t have any “recommendations” or testimonials for the book and someone started laughing and just pointed at the screen. Before we had even gotten to the point of collecting people’s responses for testimonials about the book, someone had woken up reading it! Well, that seems a pretty good testimonial! *smile*
But of course, no-one can say what “caused” an awakening. This wonderful person has been attentively seeking for many years, has studied under Jan Frazier, where I think she shifted into the high-level person I met when she came to my events, too, at Jan’s recommendation. She woke herself up. She woke up her self. Whatever, we’ll have to wait and see what she has to say, if anything, if ever. So don’t think reading one book WILL do it, it’s just that you never know, So Keep Going, start and don’t stop. If not my book, someone else’s. Be SURE to read Jan’s book first.
By the way, under the ABOUT heading at the top-right of the main page, is information about new satsang schedules, planned new books, chance to join a many-week sangha peering sangha retreat (one three hour period a week with the same people every week, for Learning, Awakening, and Companionship) and more on the these pages.
Sep 28, 2010 @ 18:04:57
How do you know if you woke up? How would you be able to wake up yurself? I really thought it had alot to do with grace, and god’s timing. I ordered the book.
Oct 12, 2010 @ 10:02:22
Hi Dee,
All, ALL, notions lose all certainty upon awakening. That is, in that moment. The certainty, the very notions, may come or go, verified or disappear. But awakening is when the mind finally comes together as You you. (see, even the word “mind” can lose certainty… does the speaker mean the thinker, or does the thinker mean, what *I* mean, the entirety of what you brain does — primarily in our case referring to consciousness.) So the idea of “grace” goes… you are sitting in absolute grace. The idea of God goes because you are experiencing All-That-Is. And while you’re in absolute awareness, you are not thinking thoughts, ideas or even words. I say this by way of first showing that your ideas, right or wrong disappear into the truth of it all. The experience is like “allness” not “this or that.”
People know they have awakenings or shifts of consciousness, because they are the direct experiencer. But your question implies a kind of “The” wake up. And that’s a little harder to pin down with words. First, I want to say that ALL shifts and awakenings are valid and real, and if they are partial, which 99% are partial, they are still part of the whole. That is, if your awakening is going to arrive in bits and pieces, shifts and revelations, then fine, *fine*, because that’s the way it is. I could even express a personal opinion that in some ways that is preferable over one full-on awakening that can knock someone off their feet. I believe there are many people who have awakenings which are “bigger than they can handle”…. I say “handle” in the sense of being able to make enough sense out of it to ponder, speak a little bit at least with a trusted companion. And that brings me to the next part, that there are degrees in all of this. Not that the degrees matter at all, it is only worth mentioning so that you can have an answer to your question: how do you know?
Well, you know something happened, if something happened. Simply study the nature of it. Feel its depth and significance. This is where reading texts like my books are of help as then you at least have a conceptual notion of what is going on. I assure you, if a Manhattan commuter who knows nothing of this has a sudden full-blown awakening, it’s going to be a shock to her system and she might not fare too well. If she, for instance, started shouting, “Oh my god, I see GOD!” then, welp, you can have an idea of how that will go.
But if someone has read even *these* words, and later today has a shift, revelatory insight, they will certainly have an idea that this is indeed the kind of thing we’re talking about. And that is A Very Good Thing indeed. Because these things can be dismissed or at least stuck back into a far corner of the mind. But better, is the person has a sense that these are possibly *cumulative*, ho boy, definitely worth paying attention to! And discussing with others, and trying to see if you can match it up with description in texts. (And I’ll add my personal view and that is that having attention on this increases the likely hood of further insights. And might even prepare the ground for a second shift/awakening.)
I see no evidence at all that awakening is earned through any type of merit. The only pattern I see is that is *seems* that perhaps it happens more with seekers. But we can’t even be sure of that because if a non-seeker rejects it and “goes back to sleep,” then we’d never even hear about it.
Further, awakening has happened to beautific worshipful people, average people and even “bad” people…. that is, people who while committing things they know they shouldn’t instead can’t take the guilt and reverse course and wake up instead. It has happened. Perhaps we could say that the guilt was equivalent to ‘grace’ and therefor implying he did in fact “earn” it. But I believe that is a huge stretch of logic made only by someone who already wants to believe awakening is an award for merit. It is not.
It might be said that being human, that is a person very much open to their’s and other’s human condition might predispose the awakening, but still, this is just speculation to what degree. But I’m pretty sure that a really grumpy person could have the ability to ignore and “destroy” an insightful moment by ignore and rejecting it. In the same way, I believe that being open and loving and human sets the stage in an inviting way.