D ans leurs préfaces au Livre des sagesses ; l'aventure spirituelle de l'humanité (Bayard 2005), Frédéric Lenoir-Ysé Tardan Masquelier say that the history of mankind bears the trace of a man perennial and women belonging to different cultural backgrounds, who claim to have made a radical experience of the absolute. Whatever the name given to this absolute, it is perceived as personal or impersonal, all show a unique experience that gave meaning to their lives.
In Buddhist tradition, Zen, Hindu, Sufi, and some Western spiritual traditions, spiritual awakening is the pinnacle of human achievement. In the spiritual worldview, there is nothing more important for humans to understand the awakening to his true nature''''is the reason he is on earth. Sages often compare this awakening in morning awakening, consciousness emerges as when sleep after a night of bad dreams.
Spiritual awakening or enlightenment is perceived differently depending on what spiritual tradition or what current new age we have. Some of these currents are awakening as something grand, like Bodhi higher in Mahayana Buddhism, for example. ''This is made of multiple knowledge is a true omniscience, which mingle magic powers and a multitude of wonderful features. The bodhisattva is a being so endowed qualities most extraordinary .''* Have also found that vision with the followers of Siddha yoga and bhakti yoga in India.
But in recent decades, especially in the West,''ordinary''awake multiply, their promises are more timid, they project a more simple and are a little more realistic. Realistic is perhaps a strong word, but at least we no longer speak of magic power. For
Adyashanti enlightenment is simply not see through the ego. It does not see life or anything: self, others, your dog, your cat, your livelihood ... It does not see the world through the eyes of this distortion is called: state of consciousness of the ego .... That's why it was compared to its natural state, natural meaning that it is not distorted by a lens ... is a perception without lens, without distortion, in the end is what enlightenment: a perception without distortion. Living In
released Eckhart Tolle suggests that there is a dimension free of problems, suffering and conflict.
Bernard (Two Oceans, 2003), said that be free is free from person permanently and say that watching the film of the life of this individual he believed to be like it was a dream, nothing more.
Eric Baret him, suggests that arousal is humility is to stop pretending to be this or that, stop pretending to be an author, stop pretending to direct his life, realizing that the aware of the things is there and give without wanting to direct current.
When asked Daniel Odier to speak of the great masters, he replied: Simple, light, relaxed, unpretentious, not technical, do not take anything for special, authentic. They reproduce knowledge to all people whom it was stolen by the power hungry.
Once awake, what happens?
Francis Lucille says: Following this awakening, we are free from fear and desire, free from fear, because, having returned to our immortal self, the specter of death is leaving us forever, and free because of the desire, knowing the absolute fullness of being, the attraction exercised on us obsolete objects ceases spontaneously.
Nisargadatta, the sage of Mumbai, said ; For me, the desires are merely among other things, mere clouds in the sky of the mind, and I do not feel compelled to act on them.
Jean Klein himself, said that the first thing you notice is how much richer and deeper are your perceptions. Communication becomes even more varied. In general, we are set in patterns of communication, but when we live in the open, high sensitivity arose, a sensibility that we never dreamed of.
Betty, a Quebecer says awake; I saw without emotion, desire and fear left me permanently, nothing is discussed, decided in advance, I live every moment fully. The mechanism that made me ask questions no longer exists, Life Is every moment, everything is perfect, everything is intelligent, I have the momentum of "what to do" all the time. Whether it's for my job, my relationships, my friends, my cat, get bread to eat, sleep, take care of my body, everything is complete without a stop and everything is seen in a complete and perfect. The little person who was convinced that everything had to analyze, compare, control no longer exists.
Jack Kornfield reported the words of a master with whom he studied: I am not this body, so I am never born and I shall never die. I am nothing and I am everything.
Finally, Swami Prajnanpad adds that the sage sees this as this is .
Nobody can deny that it looks good awakening.
I'll stop here and wait for the reviews, comments if there a. I want to make sure to leave with a definition that satisfies the majority. You notice I used the definition that we offer those who say they have experienced this awakening ... matter of making the exercise a bit more credible, especially about not distort the concept of arousal.
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* Dict. Buddhism (Albin Michel, 1999)
