Our spiritual concepts form the greatest blocks to awakening. Engaging in deep sadhana is the way to realize Samadhi and our true nature. Join our next online retreat: https://awakentheworld.com/onlineretreats/
,,6ISZESED7gA,UCmzsYSXn3zdCsLS063oCt8w, Religion, channel_UCmzsYSXn3zdCsLS063oCt8w, video_6ISZESED7gA,Join us for the upcoming webinar, “Shifting from Understanding to Being: Living as Your Real Self,” featuring spiritual teacher Helen Hamilton on Saturday, November 30th, 2024, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM EST. Register here: https://a-mind-awake-webinars.heysummit.com
In this webinar, Helen Hamilton will explore how do we move from an intellectual understanding of what we really are to seeing it and living as this. How do we recognize that which is real, permanent and unchanging in the midst of our changing mind and experience? In this webinar, we will begin to experience our real Self that is beyond the mind and body and yet fully present at all times.
Using a combination of guided self-inquiry, Satsang and direct experience we will come to recognize who we are. We will also discuss how to live from and as this Beingness.
This session offers a transformative exploration of moving from intellectual understanding to directly experiencing and living as our true Self.
Don’t miss this transformative opportunity to deepen your understanding and live as your true Self
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,daily meditation,morning meditation group,silent meditation,meditation online,zoom meditation,GFtA2J29EdE,UCmzsYSXn3zdCsLS063oCt8w, Religion, channel_UCmzsYSXn3zdCsLS063oCt8w, video_GFtA2J29EdE,Join the awakentheworld.com community every day for silent morning meditation on zoom, as well as monthly events and the next 7 day online "I AM" retreat.
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The Zen master Dogen's statement that "meditation is not the path to liberation; it is liberation" reflects a core insight of Samadhi, where the duality between practice and realization is dissolved. True liberation is a pathless path; not merely a goal to be achieved in the future but an inherent quality of existence that is realized through direct, present-moment awareness. The act of sitting in meditation is not about striving for some future state of enlightenment or wanting something other than what IS; it is about arriving in the present moment. This reflects the principle of shikantaza ("just sitting"), where one lets go of striving and simply abides in the completeness of what is. Join the ATW community every morning for meditation.
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Meditation in this sense is about dropping the ego's constant striving, analyzing, and seeking. Liberation is found in the simple, direct experience of being, without trying to manipulate or change anything. The very act of sitting with full awareness, without resistance or grasping, is liberation actualized.
Always Being Buddha, always Becoming Buddha:
When one sits in meditation with no goal or expectation, fully embodying the moment, they realize that there is nothing to achieve— your true nature is already here and it is only the delusion of the mind that seeks it in the future. However, by intending to experience your true nature we first observe everything that is the false self, making all of the unconscious mind patterns conscious.
The clearing of the unconscious mind is crucial in all sadhana practice because unresolved samskaras (latent impressions or karmic imprints) can obscure true freedom and perpetuate suffering, even when one has glimpses of awakening or higher states of consciousness. Without addressing these deeply ingrained patterns, there is a risk of spiritual bypassing—using spiritual practices or insights to avoid confronting and integrating unresolved psychological and emotional issues. The clearing process is the part of meditation that involves rewiring and takes time- often many years of dedicated work to shift the patterns within the self structure and to grow the inner lotus.
To understand meditation in this way invites practitioners to stop chasing after enlightenment or peak experiences and to recognize that the act of sitting, fully present, is the awakened state. While at the same time we continue to purify and evolve the self structure become an optimal vessel for awareness to shine through, creating the conditions for deeper Samadhi, and infinite possibilities for direct experiences with life.
,1,Meet the cast of Awakening Mind Part 2 in an online retreat in November. https://awake-in-stillness.purepresenceconferences.com/?sc=uWOleySF&ac=QDZtQxYb
The Mind Unveiled expresses the "great forgetting" that occurs when we enter the human experience, obscuring the truth of who we truly are. The journey of realizing our true essential nature, the dual nature of ego and illusion, and the imprint of historical and cultural conceptions of the mind are examined through personal anecdotes and expert perspectives. The Mind Unveiled advocates for a collective awakening to address humanity’s challenges, suggesting that recognizing the ego as the core of suffering can lead to a more compassionate, interconnected, and fulfilling life.
The film cast features: Angelo Dilullo, Rupert Spira, Shakti Caterina Maggi, Francis Lucille, Amoda Maa, Steve Taylor, Victoria Ukachukwu, Bernardo Kastrup, Helen Hamilton, Tom Das, Jan Frazier, Louise Kay, Lisa Natoli, and Loch Kelly with narration by Daniel Schmidt. For more information and to connect with the speakers check out https://www.awakeningmindfilms.com/home.
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,1,This guided meditation is available as an MP3 on the ATW website: https://awakentheworld.com/product/yoga-nidra-conscious-sleep-meditation/
To consciously enter the sleep cycle is to abide as primordial conscious (turiya). Even in deep sleep when mind and body have dropped of, there can be continuity of the unfathomable primordial ground of being beyond name and form. This guided meditation is meant to land beyond the mind and to transverberate into the spiritual heart.
,1,Our spiritual concepts form the greatest blocks to awakening. Engaging in deep sadhana is the way to realize Samadhi and our true nature. Join our next online retreat: https://awakentheworld.com/onlineretreats/
