In the West, our minds are running our lives, rather than being a work-servant to our lives, in the form of an obsession with the past and the future. Old programming and conditioning, and living on autopilot also dominate our experience, rather than fully immersing ourselves in the present. Also, we carry too many emotional charges and traumas that become stuck in our koshas, the energy layers which cause us to revisit old events physically. To fix all this, we get identified with our stories, as well as our physical bodies, and wind up as seekers seeking everything from happiness to more pleasure, instead of seeking “essence.”
Also, we don’t know our own divinity, and don’t feel connected. All suffering originates in the belief in separation. Sin is our separation from God, the Good, in consciousness. Our salvation is now—not something that occurs after death. It happens whenever we turn our thoughts from fear, anxiety, worry and doubt to thoughts of love, harmony, joy and peace. The “fall” that religion has frightened us with, simply takes place in consciousness whenever we fall into negative habits of thinking. Heaven and hell are states of consciousness, not geographical locations. We make our own heaven or hell here and now by our thoughts, words and deeds. It would be great if we could release all these fears.
Judging by the amount of people I see attending spiritual programs, I would say people are looking to create a level of awareness. Many have been seeking for so long, they are caught up in the seeking process. Enlightenment is not the end of the road. It is simply waking up. It is shifting from living from the mind and thinking from the heart. You learn to disengage from the mind – (we don’t stop thinking of course) but disengage from old emotions, habits, assumptions, traumas, conditioning, and living life through all these masks you have constructed in order to survive. That is the true transformation.
Blessings,
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