I just finished listening to an audio program by Adyashanti entitled The End of Your World. It couldn’t have come at a more perfect time.
If you have experienced a temporary awakening to your True nature and had an actual glimpse of Oneness as the ultimate reality, this is a very helpful program to listen to.
What I found for myself through this program was that it cleared up many confusing experiences I’ve been having, answered many questions, and showed me that everything that is being experienced is going perfectly according to plan. There’s nothing wrong with anything happening in my life.
One of the main things I realized from his explanations was that despite the fact that we tend to think there is this magical experience called “Enlightenment” where we finally hit it and we’re set for life, just coasting in this stage of awesomeness.
I’ve had one or two glimpses up to this point, before listening to the program, of experiencing the Divine as the One and the All. The “problem” was first that it feels like something wrong happened causing me to reidentify with the ego and almost “falling out” of enlightenment.
Second, there’s this certain level of confusion because on one level you know, you KNOW, that everything the mind is telling you is completely bogus. It’s literally 0% True. Nevertheless, you buy into the thoughts anyways. 
It’s somewhat of a disconcerting feeling.
He describes awakening as a maturation process and gives a metaphor of a rocket ship. When someone first experiences awakening, very often there’s a sense of lifting off the ground, so to speak, rocketing up into the heavens, and almost running out of fuel and crashing back to the ground.
The temporary awakening may be for just a moment, a few days, or even a matter of months. The rocket has not yet gone beyond the earth’s gravitational pull to where it can simply coast on to freedom.
What this product discusses:
- The experience of awakening and then losing the experience
- The experiences beyond awakening
- The maturation process of awakening itself
- How thoughts can ‘velcro’ a sense of identification onto you and pull you back
- What awakening reveals
- What enlightenment is, and what it isn’t, beyond all the glamour and hype
- Traps that one can get caught in even after awakening (This information is VERY valuable)
- What is necessary to fully awaken
- Abiding in an undivided state of consciousness
- Inhabiting the world of form without identification
- The proper way to perform spiritual inquiry
- Much much more!
This program is geared towards people who have already experienced a temporary awakening, yet it would be valuable for anyone looking for enlightenment.
Why? This program will help you understand more accurately what you’re getting into, realize certain expectations you may have about enlightenment that are distortions from it’s actually about, and prepare you for what is to come without getting unconsciously ensnared by some of the ego’s most subtle tricks.
For more information, or to purchase this audio program, head over to Amazon and/or Sounds True Audio.
Namaste.
Your capacity for awareness is an innate aspect of your true Self.
A baby fetus is aware of its surroundings, even if it doesn’t have the capacity to mentally language its experience. Awareness is prior to all thought, yet people tend to believe that thoughts are who they are, as if they couldn’t exist without thought.
The ego is reborn every morning. If you’ve noticed, when you first wake up, the very first experience is simply conscious awareness. As the ego slowly returns and identifications reappear, one next starts to realize ‘where’ they are, but they don’t know what day it is. The sense of space returns, followed by the sense of time. A person’s name and identity then return as well into their conscious experience.
In that very first moment when you just wake up, notice you still exist without an ego, a sense of “me.” It is possible to exist sans ego, but we’re generally not used to functioning in such a way.
Let’s talk a little bit more about this.
A useful exercise is to pretend that you have no memory.
By setting aside memory (it’s not you anyways, it’s simply stored experiences and programming), Self-inquiry is much easier. In this moment, without a memory, who are you?
This leads to the discovery that there is no ‘who’ there, only awareness of this moment.
The Self actually has no memory whatsoever. Every moment is experienced as a magnificent and glorious awe-inspiring wonder of the grandeur of life, like the very first time you stepped up to the edge of a massive canyon or gazed upon a fiery sunset. It leaves one utterly speechless. It’s like a newborn child who looks around the world in amazement. This is the perspective of the Self. Read More …
Have you ever had that experience where you’re watching a movie or TV and suddenly you get snapped out of it, back to reality? Instead of being totally absorbed by the film, you now see the screen in front of you, your surroundings, and even the portion of the screen where the movie isn’t playing.
Before you saw nothing but the screen.
What happened? Did you go anywhere or did only your awareness shift?
Could you maintain total presence in your body and physical reality while simultaneously being totally absorbed by the movie?
No way. In a sense, you have to “fall asleep” in physical reality and totally enter another dream-like reality. The emotions you get from the movie, the sounds and sights, they all feel very real… yet when you snap out of it, you realize it was all just a flicker of images and not much more.
In fact, if you remain present while watching the film, you find you can’t get lost in the film. It loses its sense of reality and you are conscious of the fact that it’s simply a movie in front of you and not real life.
Yet interestingly, when you “wake up” out of the movie life, you find that there is a life which is even MORE real. Nothing real was actually lost by awakening. You begin to see the movie for what it actually is: simply images on a screen.
What we call “real life” in physical reality is EXACTLY the same way. Our ability to feel that it is real and get sucked in with all its sights and sounds and emotions allows us to fully experience the reality. As long as we’re asleep and absorbed in this reality, we get to “juice” all the drama and emotions, illusions that are only part of a dream.
Enlightenment is an awakening, just like snapping out of the movie. Nothing real is lost and you don’t actually go anywhere. You realize you’ve always been here the whole time. Your awareness has simply shifted from the “dream world” (separation consciousness of physical life) to the “real world” (unity consciousness of spiritual life).
Nothing real is lost and everything is gained.
Life beyond the illusion.
What is it like when you awaken and see this physical life as just a dream?
None of our fears or worries have any reality. They’re all just mental images on the movie screen.
Everything physical is made up of pure energy. What we see in physical form is simply a temporary manifestation of the perfection of creation appearing in the form of a person, thought, plant, or idea.
Everything is cradled in unconditional love. Like the light of the sun, it shines to all equally. What makes the difference is not who is special and is being given more sunlight, but rather who is willing to receive the light and be open to it warming their presence. One can block the sunlight and choose to not receive it, but it will continue to shine just the same.
Time is seen as an illusion. Reality is timeless. What we call “time” is simply a shifting of awareness from one frame of the film to the next, yet every frame of the film already exists in this moment.
Sometimes we are able to “peek” at a future section of the film and then come back to the part of the movie that’s playing now and somehow we just know what is to come if we continue playing this same film. This is called intuition, psychic abilities, or clairvoyance. It’s nothing more than recognizing that the whole movie and all potential endings to the movie exist now. If we continue playing this same movie, we can figure out what is most likely to come by simply looking ahead at the “future” which exists right now. It all literally exists right now.
All of this and more… just from “snapping out” of the movie of life. This snapping out comes from quieting the mind, abiding in the present moment, and recognizing your true nature as the awareness that is watching the film instead of the character in the film.
Past and future are illusions, nothing more than pieces of the film that you’re not currently bringing your awareness to.
Bring your awareness to this moment. This present moment. It is only Now that you can experience life. Totally experience Life as it unfolds right in this very moment, not your mental beliefs and distorted interpretations of what’s happening.
Become fully aware of Now and the more you remain in this state, the more you remain awakened from the mind-made mental reality we believe is real life.
Snap out of the movie. Ultimate reality is WAYYYYY better than the movie.
