A Map To Here
UN MAPA DE DONDE ESTÁSPor Autor/a Gnóstico/a
Mucha gente tiende a concebir el despertar espiritual como un desafío, un objetivo o una meta espiritual: algo que ha de ser conquistado o alcanzado. Una ventaja que tiene el hecho de concebirlo así es que proporciona un enfoque específico a tu vida; te hace sentir que tienes un propósito, un objetivo, una misión. Se puede tomar como un mapa, un mapa sobre el cual puedes anotar tus progresos, dándote de ese modo un sensación de avance.
No hay nada malo en crearse un objetivo profundo que sirva para marcar el camino espiritual. Esa es una actitud que propicia un movimiento – un fluir – y que pone en marcha el decisivo trance de soltar el miedo, lo cual te permitirá estar más presente y conectar con tu espíritu. Sin embargo, eso es tan solo un paso. Y una vez que has soltado tus miedos y conectas conscientemente con tu espíritu, entonces tienes que abandonar esa mentalidad, si lo que deseas es conocer una libertad no limitada por la creencia de que necesitas alcanzar un estado diferente al que tienes ahora.
Para avanzar hacia una mayor libertad tienes que soltar esta idea de que has de llegar a ser algo más. Tienes que darte cuenta de que cualquier cosa que concibieras como “estar despierta o despierto” es como ya estás. Lo único que necesitas es abrir tu corazón y tu mente para poder observarte con claridad (que es igual que decir: sin miedo).
Tu despertar espiritual no lleva implícito que cambies tu manera de ser; tampoco que permanezcas como estás. Implica que te entregues al cambio continuo de perspectiva que es el momento eterno y atemporal del Ahora, donde se abren todas las posibilidades para ti. La distancia que te separa de tu “despertar” es un espejismo. No existe tal distancia más que en nuestra mente.
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SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the exhortation to release the mindset of needing to get somewhere other than where you already are? Can you share a personal story of a time you were able to go further into your freedom by releasing all ideas of becoming something more? What helps you remember that the distance between you and 'being awake' is a mirage?
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On Jan 31, 2022 Tony wrote :
This is timeless wisdom. The miracle is that it is expressed simply.
At home in the Oneness. There is nowhere else to go - nothing to acheive.
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,†Four Quartets
At home in the Oneness. There is nowhere else to go - nothing to acheive.
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,†Four Quartets
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On Jan 8, 2022 Elaine wrote :
Being awake feels like flotation: levitation and weightlessness in the present , fully consumed with all senses alert and engaged . This is a very healthy and peaceful lifestyle.
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On Dec 22, 2021 bradmccaul wrote :
This exhortation is easy to say and in fact easy to get our mind around. We can see it cognitively, that is we can grasp the notion that there is no distance except in our mind. However, I do not think we can let go of mind by appealing to it. The mind will never let go of itself. For me anyway I need to get into a different center of existence. The center of which I speak is a way being with or in the cloud of unknowing. It is in the cloud of unknowing i feel uprooted from the familiarity of who I have been with no apparent comfort in who I am becoming. I am in a space of betwixt and between. In this space, which is not a physical space but an emotional space, the past is experienced as lost and the future as unimaginable and without hope. So, where does this leave me? In the space of unknowing which leaves me only with my will, my will to choose. Freedom is not a “freedom fromâ€, say fear for example, but a “freedom to†exercise my response-ableness, for only... [View Full Comment]
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On Dec 21, 2021 amrin wrote :
For me, constant failures of my plans or not even able to predict the next moment, is always like a reminder, that I ain't the one doing. The more I am connected to reality, the more I am in that State. Whenever I am upset about something, or when I am thinking a lot, I take it as a sign, that I have left being present in the moment. Life really becomes very beautiful when we begin seeing it as something we know nothing about. It has been my favorite experience.
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On Dec 21, 2021 PRAVIN SHAH wrote :
In 1974, when I was a budding Sales Engineer, I was jealous of my colleague who was six year senior to me and had an impressive sales records and was a favorite of our boss! One night, this negative emotions of self-doubts, competition and animosity was so overwhelming that I could not sleep that night! In the desperation of finding 'peace', it dawned on me that 'Why don't I admire his success and make friends with him and asked him to train me to be a great salesman just like him!!!'. It was a 'Wow' moment! It was as though the mirage had lifted and found my true divine self, who was loving, fearless! The lesson from that night was (1) Be aware of your mind and its negative thoughts, and (2) convert them into very positive loving thoughts and actions! Always choose 'Love' over 'Fear'! The 'Mirage' will be lifted, the EGO will be dissolved and the True Self will be revealed!
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On Dec 21, 2021 Patrick (aka anonemoose monk) wrote :
As mystics throughout the ages have experienced, it is the path of emptying, becoming nothing, centering the mind down into the “heart†that leads to awakening and discovery. I choose to call it surrender to Divine LOVE. There is much more I could say/write regarding that, but may this suffice. }:- a.m.
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On Dec 20, 2021 Fran Carbonaro wrote :
Most of my life (and in most every aspect of it) I've been seduced by the mirage; believing in it, wanting it and headed toward it. It was an endless affair with possibility, imagination and creativity. Then I was blindsided by the reality of my husband being diagnosed with both Alzheimer's and cancer, within a year of each other. For a few years, everything collapsed into fear and grief, even as I faced the immensity of my new assignment. It sure was the end of "the affair" and my infatuation with the mirage. I am his full time caregiver and he is my teacher; still a remarkable man with an open heart who doesn't remember he has cancer. He knows he is dying and isn't concerned about it. Within the paradigm of surrender that the pandemic has ushered in, the truth of uncertainty is a resting place.... a "timeless, eternal Now moment."
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On Dec 18, 2021 David Doane wrote :
I agree that we don't need to get somewhere other than where we already are; I believe it's important to be me exactly here where I am. I don't believe I need to become something more; I'm enough -- it is important for me to use what I have and be what I am. I don't believe I have always been "already awake"; I believe I awoke and am becoming more awake. I agree that awakening isn't about changing or about not changing what I am; it is about awakening to and being what I am. It was a major eye opening awakening for me that I don't need to change me and have a goal of being different in the future; it is for me to be more and be all that I am here and now. There is a 'distance' between me asleep and me awake. I'm not a different me in being however awake I am; I am more me in being more awake to who and what I am, and that's no mirage.
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On Dec 17, 2021 Jagdish P Dave wrote :
As I was reading this writing by The Gnostic Writer my mind was fully present with what I was reading. My awareness of being fully present with what I was reading is an example of being here and now. Being here and now is the existential reality. My mind is not split by going to the past or thinking about the future. I am in the awakened mindset. My mind is not hijacked either by the past or the future. My father compared such a here-and-now mindset with clear sky with no clouds.
As I am reading this passage my mind is fully present with what I am reading. My mind is not wandering. It is focused. It feels like I am in the
flow without any pull or push coming from the past or the future. I am in the fully awakened state of my mind and heart.
Not sleeping mentally or dreaming about the future keeps me anchored in the flow of awareness-awareness of here and now. Do I remain in this state all the time? I wish I could. The monkey mind wanders. Mindfulness of the monkey mind brings me b... [View Full Comment]