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Somehow this culture has taken something very pure and simple and turned it in to something commercial, something competitive and into that which it is not. Our western ego couriers mind is moulded into wanting to attain something and some people on the spiritual path have spent their entire lives trying to attain, only to be as stuck and bound as they ever were.
It s this very desire to attain something, this wanting ego couriers to reach a higher state of consciousness , which is what keeps people bound and seeking. By definition, to be a seeker, ego couriers you have not yet sought, and therefore ego couriers those who are always seeking do not find. One of the great Tibetan Buddhists Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche ego couriers who played a crucial role in bringing Buddhist teachings ego couriers to the West during the Chinese occupation ego couriers has this summary to say about awakening/meditation/enlightenment in Meditation in Action:
So in context with the rest of the chapter this is in, he is referring to our ego, or our idea of who we are, the me , the I , has no solidity to it, and not to uphold the belief ego couriers that it exists. He denounces the striving to become better or higher as pure consciousness cannot be increased or diminished. Nothing about healing, nothing about crystals or chakras or ascension or needing to strive or to take certain substances ego couriers just to be. Enlightenment
It s a funny word this one, and has so many connotations and ideas surrounding it. In western culture it s usually thought to be something that one attains after maybe 3 or 4 decades meditating in a cave, but the more I read and the more I journey, the less it seems this word is about reaching higher states or personal attainment.
This was said by the great Zen master Shunryu Suzuki and I can see how this fits in exactly with what Ram Dass s Hindi guru Maharaji ego couriers said to him when asked how to become enlightened. He replied Love everyone, feed everyone, serve everyone. How very simple hey? But in today s mad world, do you know anyone who truly does this?
It seems that enlightenment refers ego couriers to realising our true being what it is that we really are. This is why all the spiritual teachers I ve come across from Tibetan Buddhism to Zen to Advaita Vedanta ego couriers to the Upanishads, usually refer to it as Self Realisation rather than enlightenment. Finding ego couriers out that we are not our thinking mind, we are not our body, we are not our emotions, feelings, desires or aversions; that we are aware of all these things, not intrinsically them. They use words like awareness, consciousness, God, the Buddha nature, emptiness and so on. It s essentially awareness being aware of itself, and seeing as each and every one of us are already this awareness, we are all already there , but we have identified ourselves with the things we are aware of (body and mind) and have limited ourselves by doing so, making this the cause of all the suffering in the world. We are used to focusing on external appearances; our body, our intellect, our differences, our beliefs, but the more we turn our attention inward to our own inner workings and that awareness that is always there, we find a depth to our being that is almost scarily profound.
So this is not something ego couriers that we can attain which is hard for the western mind to comprehend, because it is so conditioned ego couriers to attain. It always wants to one-up others, ego couriers to be on a pedestal, to be seen, to be higher, but it is this very egocentric behavior that keeps people bound. ego couriers This is why anyone ego couriers who refers to themselves as being enlightened, you can rest assured ego couriers that they are not; and usually ego couriers when the great spiritual teachers are asked whether they are, they will dodge the question.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche once said in one of his talks So you re enlightened what now? He was poking fun at the western worlds way of wanting to attain and become a higher or better person, but practically in everyday life what does that mean for us? Do we shut ourselves away in a dark room meditating all day? Do we walk around with our chest puffed out, our groupies ego couriers and our inflated ego? This is where for me, it comes back to what Maharaji said. If we act from the place of that realisation that we are all the same essence just with our different masks on, then we will treat others ego couriers as our self, making differences irrelevant and the notion of other as inevitably irrelevant too.
The underlying current of most sages and mystics on spirituality is that of surrender; in giving yourself over completely to the whole, to help and heal those in need, and relinquish all desire in furthering our own career/bank account/self-image. We can help so many people, if we just step out of the social norm of progress and work, and stop caring so much as to what others think of us. There are most likely people living on our own street that struggle with bills, food, money, TLC and there are the seniors ego couriers who could benefit from our youth, the poor who could benefit ego couriers from our generosity, the lonely who could benefit