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Here you can ask questions about your own awakening process or awakening in general?
Does anyone else experience resistance to even posting on here? Because of the little voice which says, “who are you to claim you’re becoming enlightened? What will people think? You’re getting above yourself!”
It helps when I remember that “Hazel” is not becoming enlightened, all on her own, making her “superior to other less enlightened people.” There was a phase of being pulled into the attraction of that idea, but now there’s just less identification as Hazel than before. More awareness of being something more, something inclusive. The shared experiences in Peter’s groups have been helpful. There’s a lot of gratitude and wanting to share, so “others” can find a way out of suffering too.
So the little warning voice is getting ignored.
Happy Christmas to all.
That’s probably a “yes” then. :o)
Hi Hazel. Yes, most certainly ignore the “little warning voice”. This is the voice of the ego, the inner chattering of all the personal stories of me, of why I’m not good enough or why I’m superior. It’s all the voice of me. And you are growing past this voice. You don’t need it any more. But that doesn’t stop it from popping up from time to time. it has its own momentum. Mooji likens this to an electric ceiling fan. When you switch off the power, it doesn’t stop immediately. It keeps on revolving for awhile. It gradually slows down before it comes to a complete stop. And that’s also what you experience with the ego voice.
There is really nothing special about awakening or enlightenment. Nothing is attained. The Buddha didn’t attain anything. He simply stopped. He stopped believing the stories of a separate, limited self. Truth is always here and always has been here. The Truth of you beyond all stories is always here and has always been here. There is nothing to attain. So enlightenment might be the least special thing there could ever be. Enlightenment may mean the realization of your completeness and unchanging, unconditional peace, love and happiness, but it doesn’t make you special. It makes you very unspecial. It makes any story of a special you disappear. Then there is just this. And yet just this, just this pure being without a story is not nothing. As you know it is the most amazing miraculous discovery any human can have. That it is so wonderful, so amazing, so miraculous is really a testament to the power of the dream that has hidden it for so long.
You post from your own experience, from your own being. And there is nothing special about this. Can you imagine that being, that pure existence, takes a lot of effort? No. You already exist. It takes no effort to do this. It takes the end of effort, the end of specialness, the end of all stories. This just being, this pure existence without any story is enlightenment.
We do certain exercises and practices to move our focus away from the stories, the little voice of me that has preoccupied our attention for so long. We are not attaining anything. We are not adding anything. We are simply removing what is standing in the way of what has always been here. And it has always been here for everyone, nothing in all existence is separate from this pure, infinite, eternal presence. You might say that we are all enlightened. It’s just that most of us don’t know this yet. We are still too preoccupied with the stories that say we’re something else.
And that’s what the Enlightenment Experience groups are for. We just keep returning to what we really are, to what has always been, to the peace, freedom, love and bliss that has always been here hidden beneath all the stories of a separate limited me. Eventually all those stories just fade away on their own. Compared to Truth, they soon lose all their previous imagined importance.
Everyone is not ready for this. Most are still far too invested in and attached to their stories to willingly let them go. They still believe their stories are real. Truth like this, simple and beneficial as it is, can feel very threatening to those who are still strongly attached to their story of me and my life. I see this all the time. And others just blossom and come alive in the light of this simple truth of being. Their inner being is ready to awaken and be realized. They’re done with the stories. You know this. And life has blessed you to be one of the latter.
I was away for a week just after I launched this forum. I’m back now so I’ll announce it again. I expect there will be a few more posts here after awhile.
Pay attention to all stories. But don’t believe them. If you pay attention to them, they will reveal their lack of truth all on their own. No story can really be true, even stories about truth. Truth cannot be captured in a story, thought or belief. It stands on its own, complete and unchanging.
Love,
Peter
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