Comments on: Hiding in the Absolute http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/hiding-in-the-absolute/ A Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Enlightenment, and Unconditional Love Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:06:25 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Randy Burks http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/hiding-in-the-absolute/comment-page-1/#comment-877 Randy Burks Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:52:38 +0000 http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/?p=1261#comment-877 The five greatest Zen Masters of both rinzai & soto schools are in complete agreement with you and the reasons you have posted. There is an ancient list called "Tozan's five ranks". check it out. Thanks for this rare but all-important insight.Gassho---R. The five greatest Zen Masters of both rinzai & soto schools are in complete agreement with you and the reasons you have posted. There is an ancient list called “Tozan’s five ranks”. check it out. Thanks for this rare but all-important insight.Gassho—R.

]]> By: francisonline http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/hiding-in-the-absolute/comment-page-1/#comment-872 francisonline Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:24:03 +0000 http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/?p=1261#comment-872 more & more of us are waking up to something we can't quite clearly define as of yet. but amidst all the doom & gloom that the media portray, i am very optimistic! :dancing more & more of us are waking up to something we can’t quite clearly define as of yet. but amidst all the doom & gloom that the media portray, i am very optimistic! :dancing

]]> By: Myrko | AwakeBlogger http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/hiding-in-the-absolute/comment-page-1/#comment-774 Myrko | AwakeBlogger Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:28:51 +0000 http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/?p=1261#comment-774 This was a real good choice for a topic. It comes trough, that it is a personal journey on your side as you mentioned ("I’m speaking also to my self here with these words.") I sense that this trapping of "Hiding in the Absolute" is a very common and problematic one. I was (and even am) there, too. I also listened to Adya about it. It may even be a trap that is viewable for people without the actual awakening realization, just from a interellectual standpoint. If I say everything is one and perfect, you can answer "What is there to do? This Awakening stuff is dangerous, I don't want to do there." I personally seem to withdraw from the Relative and this is problematic. I recently said to me, just judge by results, i.e. How do you feel with it? And I did not feel very good about my latest results, contrary to my very goal- and action-oriented lifestyle before. All the skills and knowledge just did not seem to be so important anymore. Maybe I can even "compensate" them from source!? But it seems to be the wrong approach?! Life doesn't end with awakening. I recently learned more about Ken Wilbers integral approach, which also embraces all areas. I know go this way seeng everything as a part of what is, which allows me to take my goals, actions and material things serious enough to be where I feel good. The way of seeing the Relative from the Absolute and a part of it seems to be the solution?!? <abbr><em>Myrko | AwakeBloggers last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/awakeblogger/~3/429974261/" rel="nofollow">2 Minutes for a Calm Mind</a></abbr></em> This was a real good choice for a topic. It comes trough, that it is a personal journey on your side as you mentioned (“I’m speaking also to my self here with these words.”)

I sense that this trapping of “Hiding in the Absolute” is a very common and problematic one. I was (and even am) there, too. I also listened to Adya about it.

It may even be a trap that is viewable for people without the actual awakening realization, just from a interellectual standpoint. If I say everything is one and perfect, you can answer “What is there to do? This Awakening stuff is dangerous, I don’t want to do there.”

I personally seem to withdraw from the Relative and this is problematic. I recently said to me, just judge by results, i.e. How do you feel with it? And I did not feel very good about my latest results, contrary to my very goal- and action-oriented lifestyle before. All the skills and knowledge just did not seem to be so important anymore. Maybe I can even “compensate” them from source!? But it seems to be the wrong approach?! Life doesn’t end with awakening.

I recently learned more about Ken Wilbers integral approach, which also embraces all areas. I know go this way seeng everything as a part of what is, which allows me to take my goals, actions and material things serious enough to be where I feel good.

The way of seeing the Relative from the Absolute and a part of it seems to be the solution?!?

Myrko | AwakeBloggers last blog post..2 Minutes for a Calm Mind

]]> By: buddhalite http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/hiding-in-the-absolute/comment-page-1/#comment-761 buddhalite Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:18:33 +0000 http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/?p=1261#comment-761 What a timely post. I think the issue Integration is going to need more discussion as we continue to evolve. I have been grappling with it myself. Awakening to the Absolute is wonderful but the natural next process is learning to integrate one's awakening. This next process is as much of a journey as our journey towards Realization. Not too many people have talked about integration before since there has been so much emphasis on how to realize Who We Are in the first place. This is a very grounded and relatable article on that topic. This website is wonderful, grounded and rings with Truth. Please do address more issues of integration - as you put it so nicely - integrating the Absolute into the Relative - in future articles! Thank you! What a timely post. I think the issue Integration is going to need more discussion as we continue to evolve. I have been grappling with it myself. Awakening to the Absolute is wonderful but the natural next process is learning to integrate one’s awakening. This next process is as much of a journey as our journey towards Realization. Not too many people have talked about integration before since there has been so much emphasis on how to realize Who We Are in the first place. This is a very grounded and relatable article on that topic. This website is wonderful, grounded and rings with Truth. Please do address more issues of integration – as you put it so nicely – integrating the Absolute into the Relative – in future articles! Thank you!

]]> By: Scarface http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/hiding-in-the-absolute/comment-page-1/#comment-760 Scarface Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:23:24 +0000 http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/?p=1261#comment-760 I like to add, in concern to the relative and the absoululte, Or manfested and unmanifested. This is what happened with me before. I had read somewhere, "it's enough to know what you are not. So ask yourself: "Is this my true original nature"". And keeping this question in my mind, made me inderstand my true nature (absolute/unmanifested"). But over time I felt like it as a result also made me kind of reject/escape the manifested world. I was like this is not my true nature. I noticed this happening within me and thought there is something missing. The path of asking yourself "Is this my true nature?", got me from seeing from relative to absolute. But then I saw: "what if I go from the other way". So not from down to up, but from up to down. Or from absolute to relative. Basically the same "path" but walked from the opposite direction. Then I could only say; "I am that also". So now I ask/state myself the following questeion that does both in once, for me at least: "Is this my true nature? No, this is not my true nature, but it is also a part within/of me". It makes me feel transandental/detached and warm/embrassing at the same time. Thanks for your all your posts by the way. I consider them of great value for me. I like to add, in concern to the relative and the absoululte, Or manfested and unmanifested.
This is what happened with me before.
I had read somewhere, “it’s enough to know what you are not. So ask yourself: “Is this my true original nature”". And keeping this question in my mind, made me inderstand my true nature (absolute/unmanifested”).
But over time I felt like it as a result also made me kind of reject/escape the manifested world. I was like this is not my true nature.
I noticed this happening within me and thought there is something missing. The path of asking yourself “Is this my true nature?”, got me from seeing from relative to absolute.
But then I saw: “what if I go from the other way”. So not from down to up, but from up to down. Or from absolute to relative. Basically the same “path” but walked from the opposite direction. Then I could only say; “I am that also”.
So now I ask/state myself the following questeion that does both in once, for me at least:
“Is this my true nature? No, this is not my true nature, but it is also a part within/of me”.
It makes me feel transandental/detached and warm/embrassing at the same time.

Thanks for your all your posts by the way. I consider them of great value for me.

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