Welcome To Reality / Adyashanti

I have re-programmed mio way of looking at world ~ I look on now as The Observer.

I re-mind self I no mio emotion ~ I am one who Observes emotion as cloud that floats away and sees other cloud coming . . .

Letting go now easier ~ no clutching; keep hand open for next experience and lesson it brings.

Words no adequate once Awake.

Scusa fractured English per favore. Si?

Namaste'
Gia

LOL... not enlightened in the spiritual sense but i defintily have an enlighted view now in that all i have labled my entire life has been taught to me and is generally excepted "by society" as true. (For me) when a tree was no longer leafs, branches, roots, & bark and was now left to be the experience of that which we call a tree (as a whole unit). I see Ady trying to convay this & i even see when he gets caught in dead end trying to explain it.

But he knows better than anyone that "that" which is explaining is the imperfect being that carries the life force, but him knowing that somehow changes the message. When the screen changed for me it was like when someone is trying to stone wall you by talking pig Latin, or outright lying to you and then you through direct experience figure out what they were purposely mis-explaining to you so you wouldnt figure it out, & the first thing you say is what an ass hole!

(Yes Im talking of spiritual teachers here) and then after that you say wait f*ck me for not seeing this. This sees at times really deep and insightful and at times is lost in the background in my everyday life but the crack allows me to see through what we are all taught to see first.

@cspace1234nz
This is the perfect comment, when people are fed up with the term enlightenment and everything it represents your left with only one direction to travel. Test it, practice it, question it, only then will realization come. It's unreal that we "humans" think we are something intelligent that grew out of an unintelligent universe. Be brutally honest with yourself and beleive noth but your experience. once you can't describe something away you are forced to "experiance" it.
Luv

That's a very very good point pupo and I agree as that too is my experience.

I guess I keep wondering about all these "enlightened" ones who have popped up all over here in the west, especially when there seems to be various price tags associated with what they do and my searchings over a lot of years with the handful of true spiritual teachers that history records is that this was not the case, they were never a commercial entity.

But yes, personal practice and experience is where it is at.

Yeah that's a hard one to swallow and difficult to get around. But for me something suddenly changed about 9 months ago, no mystical experienace no overwelming bliss or happiness just such a profound change in what is happening around me that i know i will never be the same. so profound that i can apply this new "veiwing/understanding" to anything and it is instantly seen through. And i can also see why Ramana chose not to talk. Nothing but my perspective has changed, and yet i'm alive again

@cspace1234nz
Suddenly I knew what Ady was trying to say. It's like trying to explain the colour green to a blind man, you can't use other things because he hasn't seen those either. Alan Watts once had a 2 hour conversation with a blind woman about darkness, she had no idea what it was because she had never seen light... for me it was the imperfections in language that made something crack in my head. Its imperfections made me see it had been manufactured and thus flawed and Insufficient

Your comments are quite valid and down to earth with it (You must be enlightened !)

What I hear all the time from these ones is that these things can not possibly be put into words yet they continue to try. As you suggest about Ramana Maharshi, why not just be silent, reach out to a few who may be nearby and simply set the example through your life, not what you say ?

This is my whole thing about them so often being entrepreneurial and commercial, there is always another book or workshop.

Perhaps there is, in fact I am pretty sure there is but it seems these days everybody is enlightened, hell, there is excellent money to be made out of it of course !