saghora… the awakening
Enlightenment through darkness
Although awakening is accompanied by experiences, it is not an experience as such, as it changes the person who experiences something. Our old ego lived with experiences, our true self lives through pure being.
Enlightenment is not a state that suddenly begins, because everything that begins also has an end.
Our true self is imperishable and has therefore always been there.
Enlightenment is not a gain, it is the loss of our blockage.
Every identification must be destroyed, no matter which one.
Ramana Maharshi taught the path of silence and self-analysis. He said there is only one question: “Who am I?”
Whoever seriously seeks this answer will give up all identification, because we are not that. It is only our fear of emptiness and our greed for position that make us fall into this trap. Anyone who adds anything after the words “I am…” is not in the true self, but in illusion.
Jed McKenna teaches a similar path. He has his seekers write down everything they are. Then they are allowed to cross out everything that is transient so that they learn that there is no identity. In our modern age of hyper-identity, this is of course the opposite. But it is the only way.
You are not your body, not your gender, not your country, not your idea of life, not your opinion or your taste.
Burn…give yourself to the flame….
And after that? After that, everything is different. The Zen master says: In the beginning, the tree is a tree. Then the tree is no longer a tree. And then the tree is a tree again.
Things are the same as before the trial, but different. Since there is no description for it, you should remain silent.
The contents of life disappear and leave room for the absolute, pure being.
Life is just a play of our energy.
Live your life one hundred percent, no matter what happens. Laugh, cry, scream, dance, be absolutely direct. The door to the divine is the now.
Throw yourself into the great adventure of life completely free of fear. And do what is up to do. No more, no less. The now contains everything there is to know.
There is nothing to be afraid of. Everything is part of the story. Let’s dance.
And funnily enough, it is precisely the deity of limitation and restriction that leads us into this unlimited freedom of cosmic being. Saturna is the deity, we are her children. She is the great black time. When she eats us, we are our sacrifice to her. And when we cross the saturnine threshold to the highest consciousness with the awakening, then it is grace, karma and being that carries us across. Love is the trust we have in ourselves, trust is the fire in our heart, because that is where love is.
“Most of the truths of awakening can indeed be cognitively understood and even realized by unawakened people. But as long as the truth is only in the head, it has no value, because it would simply die with the head.
The whole world is in us, not us in it.