Your self is not a spiritual obstacle | Vividness
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Your self is not a spiritual obstacle | Vividness
Enlightenment (mokṣa) is here and now. It occurs when we free ourselves from ego clinging and become more transparent, letting go of the armoring, carapace, or protection that we think of as ourselves, dissolving any separation with the greater world.
I suggest examining whether a spiritual (meditation) practice 1) develops your capacity for inner Stillness, 2) expands your awareness of your reality constructs, and 3) leads you into your fullest creative sovereignty. Otherwise, you might just be spending time (and money) taking on more forms and patterns of perception rather than truly liberatin
... See moreInevitably, there is much about ourselves we don’t like and want to change. There are also broad areas of our mental and emotional life we don’t want to examine at all and whose existence we would prefer to deny entirely. These are the areas where we feel most vulnerable, most fragile—perhaps most damaged—or those things we are most ashamed of. But
... See moreThis isn’t about becoming a perfect being. This is about seeing what causes division within oneself. That is very different from having the goal of becoming a perfect person, because awakening and enlightenment have nothing to do with becoming perfect, holy, or saintly. What is truly holy is perceiving from wholeness. which means not being divided
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