#126: Journey to the Magical Oasis -- Awareness is a Doorway, Not a Destination
ONE: The Sufi Poet Hafiz shakes things up. TWO: The trap of looking for an eventual "big" spiritual experience. THREE: Journey through a magical oasis - awareness is a doorway, never a destination.
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Posted by SuperWisdom Foundation at 2/28/2009 7:11 AM 
Categories: Tom Russell Speaks Live
Tags: Spiritual Awareness
Categories: Tom Russell Speaks Live
Tags: Spiritual Awareness
Such an excellent point— that the trap born of laying down ambitions, even for spiritual successes, causes us to look with our mentalities …causes us to feel satisfaction, identification, resistance and even "safety" within self-reflective culturally bound "accomplishments" …causes us to loose the causeless immediacy of really seeing everyday ordinary situations in terms of openness and sincerity.
There is really nothing at all holy about mingling self-purity within mundane experience. Since it is our nature, though it may seem uncommon, it is natural. That's why even "enlightenment" itself cannot be considered an accomplishment. It really isn't. It's just an indication of working far enough towards "naturalness" to register as a shock to our intellectual self-consciousness.
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