Hello everyone
Hello pemie1,
Nice to hear from you again
First I would like to welcome all the new members, swiftex, mark10000, WolfSpiral, ScarrletFlower111, Meeha83, Telma and Denise... wonderful to have you on board .
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Second from reading some of the posts I thought I would share this interesting post from Ariel Bravy. I came upon this thanks to maja who forwarded another post from this site. In light of all the questions asked here recently, I thought this post comes extremely close to what has already been expressed on this forum and thus may help clarify some questions about enlightenment. Quite frankly I could not have expressed it any better than Ariel did so this is why I feel comfortable in posting it here.
So here it is.
http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlight ... ing-label/
Enjoy
A lot of food for thoughts there
I myself must admit that from the beginning I was being somewhat naive of the consequences of this 'awakening'.
That was/is probably necessary though to sign up (as if there was really a choice
) for this ride.
Warning: All your beloved attachments are going to be taken away from you. Everything you hold near and dear to your heart you must be completely and utterly willing to lose them. The more you hold onto them, the more you’ll suffer. It is only in the willingness to let go that find your freedom. By the way, letting go as a technique to trick the universe into granting your freedom, as in saying that you let go while peeking over your shoulder to see what’s to come, that doesn’t cut it. You can’t B.S. your way there. Believe me, I’ve tried… No one else has been able to pull that one off either.
Believe me, I’ve tried to
Warning: Your ego will throw fits. Your painbody will go crazy. Your buttons will get pushed. Your ego will throw out every trick in its book. When you start learning how to get past its tricks, it’ll become more sneaky and subtle. As you advance, your ego advances. It all happens to bring more awareness to the energies within, to help you let go of that which you previously have been unconscious to.
Cheeky bugger the ego
Warning: You must come out of hiding. All the dark stuff within you that you haven’t been wanting to look at and be truthful about, it’ll all come up to the surface. All that stuff you hide from other people, the things you don’t want to show to others or to yourself, your inside will become your outside. There’s no hiding ANYTHING from anyone. It’s a deep deep level of vulnerability, sincerity, and self-honesty.
Everything was so easy when one could cast blame on others. From a knight in shiny armor in to a beggar in rags
Warning: The more you begin living in the moment and letting go of the domination of your consciousness by your mind, you may begin experiencing memory loss. Whole blocks of memory will begin falling away. It’s not exactly like Alzehimer’s, but there very well may be some significant loss of short-term and/or long-term memory as you begin relying less upon memory and more upon a deeper intuitive knowingness.
Frightening at first. Could raise doubts of, is this the right path.
Emancipating when one lets go. Now where did I put the keys
Warning: You may experience cycles of confusion and clarity. In one moment you may be very wise, deep, loving, and compassionate, and in the next moment the cloudiness of the veil will return and you will no longer have a clue as to what’s going on. You may become sucked right back into your ego, experiencing your deepest and darkest fears.
In the eye of the hurricane realizations awaits and the dawn of a new way. I'm sorry where was I, oh yeah I was going to pronounce myself king of the meek. I'm only fooling. Dose that make me a fool. Oh no it can't be so
Warning: You don’t get anything as a result of awakening. There’s no thing you get as a prize such as a good feeling such as a constant never-ending wonderful enlightened experience or a boost to your self-esteem. (What self would we be talking about anyways who has a self-esteem?) You get nothing, but BOY what a nothing it is. By seeing that you ARE that nothingness, and that you ARE the entire universe arising from that nothingness, you realize that what you ARE is already more than anything that could ever be wanted, as Gangaji so beautifully puts it.
Damn. I was hoping I would sit and chuckle on a spiritual throne, loved and adored by all. Where is the buy-out clause
I kind of realised it was a symptom of the process. But it doesn't feel good at all...I bet it's not supposed to.Fairly like your losing it. Well, that's what losing control is. 
