23 November 2015

When it comes to Self-Realization and enlightenment, for all intents and purposes, your mind is the enemy.  The mind replaces “realization” with knowing, which is head centered rather than heart centered.  Heart-centered should not be romanticized and transformed into the idea that it means love-oriented.  Actually, heart-centered awareness means that it “feels” like your center of gravity has moved a foot downwards from the middle of your brain into the region inside your body around where the physical heart resides.

The center of your beingness, your existence moves downward into your chest, or with Zen, even lower into your gut.  You “live” rom those areas as opposed from your thinking brain.  Thinking can go on and on, but it becomes just background noise unless you need it for some functioning.

People who come into spirituality inevitably begin by reading books and later going to teachers, but all of this head-learning has to be let go of in order for your center of gravity to drop into your heart.  This is the first step into enlightenment, realization of deeper bodies than the one created by your brain, including the energy body, bliss body, emotional body, one’s sense of the divine, the knot between the divine and the personal known as the Atman, or the I Am sensation.

To dwell here you need to let go of ALL understanding, realizing that accumulated knowledge keeps you in your head, locked into various concepts, spiritual ideologies, and the known, not spontaneous, but studied., and instead “FEEL” within your chest for the I-Am sensation. 

When found, dwell there, abide there is the I-Am feeling, the core of your awareness.  Listen to sacred music, chanting, as often as possible.  Practice loving-kindness to all beings, human and animal.  

Using this base, start loving your sense of Self.


What causes this strategy or method to fail, is reading too much, taking ideas and sayings from Osho, Nisargadatta, Krishna Menon, Ramana, Jean Klein, etc., then thinking about these ideas, criticizing and judging others too much, keeping yourself in your brain and mind.

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  1. I don't quite yet grasp how can one be in the heart and still function in the world. Those moments when I experienced myself, literally, being in the chest area, i could hear and see surroundings (and even thoughts of others), but i could not function at all, my body was kinda paralysed, numb and "disconnected" from surroundings. I need to come back into the brain to start speaking and functioning in the world.

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  2. On the contrary I "love" those moments even they aren't operating 24/7 when I've let go of the mind and am then anchored in the "I am". Funny thing is sometimes(and no doubt owing to the long term practice I've committed myself to), those moments arise spontaneously and transport me to a place I can then function more effectively because all the unnecessary mind generated noise that I identified with is now gone.

    Mark

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  3. You forgot to add yourself in the not taking of the ideas of Nisargadatta etc. :-)

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  4. Same with me. Being centered in heart makes it difficult to function outwardly.

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  5. I'm always in heart niw, i'm functioning, and this is hell-heaven. Always bliss. But the real problem is you cannot find a woman to share this love to, because the are unconsxious robots.

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    1. Mr 'freeman', your mouth and mind seems to be bigger then your heart. For if you realy living from your heart you would find many woman (people find you) to share this Love. I am sorry, your bliss is not my cup of thee. No thank you.

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    2. Freeman......

      For as long as you hold onto that agenda about women not being accessible in the fashion you'd like by virue of being "unconscious robots", you can most assuredly count on that agenda not changing and if you're experiencing "hell heaven, always bliss" it's nothing other than transient experiences but hardly with any enduring effect where spiritual growth is concerned.

      Mark

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    3. Well, some people, I.see, are zombies, and this world is full of them. What is the spiritual growth? To have no problems with this killing-each other people?

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    4. Spiritual growth: is that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. John 13:34. But this world only talk about love from the head. Our hearts are cold and hard so we kill-each in the name of spiritual growth. May God forgive me.

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