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How do you teach someone to follow the silent, invisible stream of the Universe -
Listen to their inner voice as it echoes through the energetic fibers of eternity -
If they are locked in epic PvP battle with their brain …
To maintain attention –
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THE RIVER
This is something I came across after I really dug into finding my reason to meditate and started meditating with it. Around this time I also started reflecting more on time and what time is. Started dissecting it. The two, The River and time, are somewhat connected, which will make more sense to you in a moment.
The river is really split into two things: perceived and actual. Most people will probably find the first more useful as the second won’t always apply.
After I started meditating for awhile with my “reason” I started having “good” meditations. Notice I put “good” in quotations. I do this because Eric told me once there is no such thing as a bad meditation. Every meditation is perfect. You get from it exactly what the Universe needed you to. I find that’s an important frame of mind that’s too easy to overlook.
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There was a time I copied a quote and put it by my meditation spot. Every time I sat down to meditate, I’d stop and look at the quote and reflect on what it meant. It was this:
“When someone is seeking…it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything…because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.”
For me it describes a state a fluidity. A state without expectation, which means to me, a state where I am placing no DEMANDS on the Universe about what I should be experiencing. When I think about “expectation” that’s what I feel it is. You have set a destination and now you are telling the Universe to take you there. When it doesn’t, like a kid who wants to go to Disneyland but can’t, we throw a fit.
This gets into the problem of what you are experiencing is not the specific progress you are looking for. That’s a serious problem because it means you will only be satisfied by material that meets your expectations, which means it is taking you where YOU want to go, not the Universe.
I accidentally found a way that, for me, allowed me to progress while removing expectations. I call this..
“THE REASON”
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I was writing to someone recently who had pitched the idea of trying to manifest, or alter reality, to bring more of the presence of the Force (of God) into the world.
A pretty noble idea.
While most people out there are pushing manifestation for wealth, health, and relationships (The Secret, and offshoots, oh ye of my great disdain)… this person was thinking about *gasp* increasing the very purpose of spirituality.
Of course, the thought made a big assumption… one I have made before.
Is the problem with awakening that there is not enough God, literally the energy consciousness of the Universe, in reality?
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The power to awaken begins, and ends, with you.
If you have the proper tools, and if you put in the effort to use them… you will have incredible experiences. Experiences are the key to the universe. They will teach you more than 1,000 books, or blogs, old yogis or anything else ever could.
It is the Universe teaching you. Just the way a true spiritual master learns… right?
I’m not talking about experiences you get from popping a pill, or some push-button meditation program or some kind of psychedelic drug. They’re all dead-ends.
There is a HUGE difference between “brain experiences” and true spiritual states.
But everyone always goes looking for the easy short-cuts… I hate to be the one who tells you but… the only shortcut is using the right knowledge, in the right way, and learning from your own experience.
It really comes down to this:
you cannot learn your way into awakening.