Examining Crucial Questions
I myself did not get here overnight. Self-awakening called me to action and it took many different paths and processes to reach my awakening. The search for understanding was often unsettling. I searched and explored many different meditations and traditions. It was an absorbing quest. Yet, we all need to give birth to a wisdom tradition entirely our own, especially since our culture suffers from a crisis of perception and shallow awareness. It may take a long time to overcome this crisis, but in the long run you will be rewarded with deep insights into the true nature of spirituality.
I had to examine crucial questions that no one could answer for me in order to discover the seeds of a spiritual life that works for me. “Am I only the body?” “If there is more, then what is there?” “What is this thing called consciousness?” “Am I just an outward flow of life or do I have an inner life?” “What do I really believe?” “Is there more to life than this?” “What beliefs are mine and what comes from my history and society?” “Is there death?” Don’t be afraid of the vacuum all these questions will create. Have the courage to stay in the vacuum for a while. Be a witness to whatever arises. This silence becomes meditative. If you meditate over a question, it will allow for the answers to come through. This calm inner self will bring to you many answers. It becomes your bridge from the outer to the inner. These questions were the stirrings of my awakening as these thoughts shaped my life.
The biggest spiritual challenge in this self-inquiry was how much of my environment do I create? What responsibility do I shoulder in all that goes on in my world? I concluded that I create all of it. I asserted that my assumptions, conscious or unconscious, about anything or anyone influenced people’s behaviors in my life, bear fruit in my reality, and shaped my life and relationships. These assumptions build a bridge of incidents that lead me to the end result. I concluded that others merely are bearing witness to that which I thought about them and played out for me the conversations I may have in my head about them. I began experimenting changing those conversations and those people or circumstances miraculously changed! Life circumstances are always playing out for us the movies in our minds. Run your own experiment and see your results. Because I no longer wanted to live in a fictitious world, I ran a significant number of experiments of my own before I felt convinced. Change your assumptions, and you will change your reality because all of creation exists within you.
Click Follow to receive emails when this author adds content on Bublish
Comment on this Bubble
Your comment and a link to this bubble will also appear in your Facebook feed.