DICKENS Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”
In enlightenment, one ceases to be a separate, disconnected object and becomes undivided, limitless, boundless everything. Enlightenment is not an object that experiences all objects simultaneously - enlightenment is a continuous, undivided, unified, underlying and essential nature of all objects.
Near the center of the brain at the top of the spinal cord, tucked in a groove between the two hemispheres, is a tiny gland, known today as the pineal gland.
According to science the pineal gland is key to the body's internal clock because it regulates the body's circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms are the daily rhythms of the body, including signals that make someone feel tired, sleep, wake up, and feel alert around the same time each day. Consider the rhythms energy pulsating throughout your body, through the seven energy centers known as the Chakras. The third eye is the sixth chakra.
Ancient traditions knew of the pineal or third eye and all its mysteries. They knew of the pineal role in our spiritual development and communication with spiritual beings. Within Taoist self cultivation, the third eye, known as Ancestral Cavity, is located between and behind the eyes and serves as the cavity of profound and ancient knowledged and can be accessed through meditation and contemplation.
In Buddhism, the third eye refers to Eye of Consciousness, seeing the world beyond physical eyes. In Hinduism the third eye is the eye of spiritual wisdom and knowledge..
The third eye is mentioned in Matthew 6:22 when Jesus said, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”
In the Law of One, the third eye, the indigo-ray or 6th chakra is our gateway to connect with Infinite Intelligence. In order to connect, we have to unblock our lowers energy centers, by dealing with the negative and positive emotions that has shaped our lives and freeing the pathways for the flow of energy.
Each Chakra is a energy center. The fifth Chakra, known as the blue-ray, is our understandings of ourselves and our communication with others. The fourth Chakra, the heart chaka, known as the green-ray, is our understanding of universal love or compassion. The third Chakra, or yellow-ray is what we call the ego. The second Chakra, or orange-ray is the emotional or personal energy center. The 1st chakra, or red-ray is basic and fundamental.
Your pineal gland is already active, known as intuition. The more energy flowing through our energy centers the more active the pineal gland. Energy flows when we love others as we love ourselves; love nature; be of service to others. We should be mindful that our thoughts, emotions and actions create our reality and those around us. A time for daily reflection, meditation, contemplation and prayer may be beneficial in spiritual awakening.
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RAMI SIVAN
The word usually translated as “illusion” is MĀYĀ which literally means “that which can be measured” – it is an indication of relativity.
In Vedanta there are two perspectives of reality:–
- Practical - empirical reality - the world and yourself as you see and experience them. i.e. you live for 100 years, experience happiness and sorrow, failures and disappointments. Your sphere of influence is your family and friends and the people you encounter and you live most of your life in a small area of real estate. This is known technically as vyavahārika satya.
- Absolute or Objective reality - the world and yourself seen from the universal perspective. The Universe is 13.7 billion years old, the diameter of the observable universe is 93 billion light years, our earth is a speck of sand on all the combined beaches of the world. This is known as paramārthika satya.
So from a practical point of view compared to a universal point of view our lives and circumstances are an “illusion” - 100 years compared to 13.7 billion. Not even a snap of the fingers or a drop of water on a hot pan.
Then again 13.7billion compared to eternity and limitless space is also an “illusion” and so on and so forth.
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To know how to get through a dark night of the soul requires you to realize the purpose of it.
To make it simple, the purpose of a DNOTS is always and without exception to experience and be guided towards a spiritual awakening and to stop identifying with your ego. How long it lasts entirely depends on how much there is to get rid off. For some, it may last a few months but for others, it can last many years.
Because your deep-rooted identification with ego (your ego is your conceptual self. The self that only exists as thought patterns in your mind and is therefore formless. It has no real presence in the external) is what causes a DNOTS in the first place. It is what keeps true self-actualization and the truth away from you.
Think of a dark night of the soul as an ego death. Your ego dies so you can become who you truly are.
Here is how you can handle a DNOTS:
- View it as an opportunity for a spiritual awakening.
A spiritual awakening is not some kind of woo-woo bullshit. It is another term for becoming self-aware. Aware of your true self and your true nature that is free from social conditioning and ego.
Your true self is the presence that experiences everything, the consciousness itself. It is not your beliefs, emotions or thoughts.
It is also not your wealth, your car, your clothes or the titles, successes and achievements in your life.
- Endure the pain.
A DNOTS is always very painful because it brings with it the realization that what we believed to be true was a lie.
This period of your life may be caused by the unexpected loss of a family member which reminds you of your mortality, a breakup or divorce, the end of a career or any other devastating setback.
Know that the pain you feel arises from the ego, your conceptual self. It is in pain because it can no longer sustain itself, since what it believed to be true was not true at all.
- Renew yourself.
Use this DNOTS to make a new beginning in your life and hit the restart button.
- Meditate.
Educate yourself about meditation and spirituality. Meditate daily for 15–30 minutes.
- Take massive action.
Leave the toxic environment you are in and get into one in which you can grow, where you are loved, respect and cared for.
Also do the changes you need to make. If you need therapy, take therapy. If you need to lose or gain weight, workout and eat healthier.
If you have been very needy, narcissistic, toxic or bitter and resentful, heal yourself. Do what you have to do in order to heal, to transcend neediness, to become less narcissistic and less toxic and find joy in life. This is how you can let go of the past.
- Experience the freedom and bliss of a spiritual awakening.
As I said before, every DNOTS ends with a spiritual awakening.
This is basically a state of joy, freedom and new-found enthusiasm for life.
But don't just wait for this awakening to come. Keep taking action.
You will know when you reached a spiritual awakening. It may not come after months or years but you will 100% experience it at some point.
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Who wants liberation? Is it the same "I" which wants sensual pleasures?
Yes.
If it's the same "l" then why does it want liberation and from what, if every disturbance is created by "I" only?
Practically no one wants liberation. Of all the 7.7 billion humans who identify themselves as a separate “I,” virtually none of them (perhaps .001%) are truly seeking ‘liberation,’ or even know what that means.
They just want and end to suffering. And since by nature the body/mind will experience sadness, pain, illness, daily challenges, and death, and the “I” ego knows this, it, as a false ‘separate entity,’ feels disturbed and wants to avoid those things. Seeking ‘liberation,’ ‘enlightenment,’ ‘permanent peace,’ ‘Union with the Self or God,’ are all just fancy conceptual terms for “I want to be happy all the time, never experience suffering, and possibly never die.” That’s it. Anything else the “I” says, any lofty ‘spiritual’ motivations for ‘seeking liberation,’ is just the ego fooling itself.
Yes, the “I” is the source of all added disturbance & suffering. Yes, believing “you” are a separate “I” is the only thing that causes this suffering and the only thing that keeps you from realizing You are already resting in full liberation and perfect peace. And yes, this illusion of separateness seems to be part of manifest Consciousness, a hide-&-seek game It appears to play with Itself.
But you can realize this “I” is a phantom any second, and the moment you do, the game is up, and so is creating disturbances, desiring sensual pleasures, and all ‘individual’ suffering.
Until that direct Self-realization, all of your yearning for ‘liberation’ will indeed be originating from the ego “I.” And it’s not a problem :-)
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Regardless of our circumstances, if we are Buddhist practitioners, we can have control over how we react to our thoughts and feelings.
—Interview with Charles Johnson by E. Ethelbert Miller, “Black Coffee Buddhism”
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I am 87 and in constant severe pain and have lost the ability to walk due to spinal issues so I feel I am living in hell on earth. I am mentally completely with it and lead a very active life for someone so old, still work, drive, handle all my own affairs, eat out, have hobbies, etc. And I have a beloved kitty. But there are days where I sit and cry that I am a useless crippled misfit and I wish I could have my final peace to end this shit but other days I want to keep going. I think it depends on where people are in life and what they have and don’t have and need or want - and physical situations.
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You are exactly what you appear to be.
You are the open secret.
What you are is obvious, but you play along.
Oops, I fell asleep.
I manifested an entire universe, then returned to infinite light.
Better not examine that!
When you do, you’ll see what you are.
Infinite light.
Absolute awareness.
All-encompassing peace.
Is it so hard to understand?
Eternity is a holographic image.
When you look at it sideways, it seems to be playing out in time.
Look directly at what is right in front of your face, and what is hidden will be revealed.
Each moment contains the whole picture.
There’s nothing to worry about.
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Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form;
Sensation, conception, discrimination, awareness
are likewise like this.
O Shariputra, all dharmas are forms of emptiness,
not born, not destroyed;
Not stained, not pure, without loss, without gain;
So in emptiness there is no form,
no sensation, conception, discrimination, awareness;
No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind;
No color, sound, smell, taste, touch, phenomena;
No realm of sight . . . no realm of consciousness;
No ignorance and no end to ignorance.
No old age and death, and no end to old age and death;
No suffering, no cause of suffering, no extinguishing, no path;
No wisdom and no gain.
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TRAVEL DIPUDA DIGHA PURI DARJEELING
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Yes, for every human soul on Earth, humans will have an average of 600 to 800 lives on Earth. Please understand that we are “fragments” of souls, as our souls may be having 500,000 to over 1,000,000 lives going on across the universe for their learning.
For the Earth Experiment, each soul has on average, six to twelve soul fragments in what are called soul “clusters.” Each soul fragment is given a different soul interest. As an example, my soul interest is religions, while another soul fragment in my cluster’s soul interest is exploration and laying out new towns and villages. In what he considers his best life, so far, was as the uncle of Marco Polo, and traveled the Silk Road before Marco wrote about it.
Our souls, as I mentioned above, volunteered for the Earth Experiment. Creator promised them that they would be on a “fast track” to raise their vibrational levels—what all souls aspire to do. They were also promised that one day in the far future, all of our souls would meld and become a creator, and take over running this universe, allowing Creator to go to some higher level of existence. This has NEVER been done in any of the BILLIONS of other universes by any of the other BILLIONS of creators.
That is a brief introduction about our souls. All living things on Earth are also ensouled, per the desire of the Creator of our universe. These are called “Group Souls,” as they ensoul every animal in a species, or every tree or plant of the same type.
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