Realize the Rite of Passage

Notice every genuine spiritual tradition echoes the right of passage. Each tradition offers stories, symbols and metaphors that are understood differently based on level of consciousness. Of course, we can misunderstand a message, resist deeper truths or, only allow ourselves to be taken part way along a specific journey. The thing is, partial success does not yield a rite of passage. One either passes the test or, clings to what holds one back until ready to make a leap.

One metaphor is the idea there is no going back to the previous level of ignorance (and "levels" exist). Another metaphor is the need to endure 1 or several ego deaths, so to experience rebirth at a higher level. Letting go here is key to clarity and access to "higher" reality. And then, the metaphor of alchemy, a refinement process, a gradual extraction of who you are from a false construct. You might surmise this is worse than a quick ego death, as it involves many processes--burning, distilling, simmering. This said, clinging to ideas about suffering is problematic. Its made complex or simple.

Funny- the ancient yogic view echoes 'rite of passage' is not at all a "passage" or "ordeal". It is simply awareness of one's own mistaken perception. In the metaphor of a rope for a snake, the snake never exists, only a rope. Rather than a rite of passage as is so often assumed, the key is to realize (see) things as they are. The truth is that no snake exists and thus, it has no need to be feared, killed, controlled, avoided, alchemically transformed or burned. So why not take the easy way? Why turn self-realisation into an ordeal? The "ordeal" is only attachment. Ego resists letting go of its suffering, narrative, or belief it is/is becoming what its not. The ego resists giving up mental ideas, defenses, those things that are creating its problems and tearing it apart. No snake then needs attention. No rescuer is required either. Seeing energy as it is never happens in the future, only now.

In a nutshell--Samsara is Nirvana. There is no nirvana other than samsara seen as it truly is. To see clearly, simply remove the scales, veils, delusions, projections, false beliefs, all of those qualities that have ego think its unique and special. Simply tune into silence, dissolve into absolute consciouness, in which one is never differentiated from infinite intelligence and never born. No metaphor captures the truth of supreme reality. And yet, it is what one is and one cannot be anything but that. One is yoga.

Once one attaches to the imagined process, one splits into self and others and the prospect of disappointment, betrayal, sense of dependency unfold. "We" get caught in that double bind that begins to replicate itself in every situation: it cannot know what it wants for it always wants and wants the opposite of what it wants, because the one consciousness is torn and split. At times, it seems one never left the infantile state for one was too attached to being cared for by the other. The illusory adult is simply a strategizing construct that struggles to separate itself from its attachments and codependency and its inability to gain real power and real freedom. So long as any construct whatsoever exists, any system of belief or any projection of a world, so that there is any illusion you have a name and a form, so long as any hallucinations and delusions infest the mind, there cannot be realisation of the Oneself as the Absolute. What happens, that samskara, predisposition once the physical verhicle dies, creates another and another, in attempts to liberate itself from suffering. Nothing heroic about it. Only suffering must be sacrificed. This happens at any moment as nothing really happens.

The Zen koan everyone is facing is the attachment to their baggage. As Ramana said, "you are on the train, holding your suitcase on your head as if you are convinced it will not come with you." You can leave Samsara for Nirvana, but samsara will never go away. Turning this into some long-term process is not a rational path to self-realization, but it is common. Why extend suffering? To end it now, use your power of reason and love. Together they guide you to liberation. Being free opens you to the beauty and bliss of a reality you can choose over the unreality and never return to unhappiness.

May your third eye open to see the real, such that all illusions fall away. May you know freedom from all attachments, attitudes and judgments that consciousness hides within (including highest hopes and worst fears). Liberation is now or never. May you choose the Truth Now. May you choose peace that comes with the realisation that inner and outer are one. May you choose the knowing of self-created illusions, realize you are never born, never changed and you have never left mirvana. You have always realized the paradoxical nature of the real for that is what you are. May you know the supreme bliss of getting the joke in the wonderful sense of humor of the Divine Source who abides as the ultimate knower in your heart.

Take Path to Pure Freedom

Notice meditation is a path to freedom and reuniting with True Nature. As you learn how to listen to and reclaim your True Power, or Soul, you experience what awakened beings through the ages refer to as Nirvana: the ability to transcend suffering, embody unconditional love and peace and live authentically again. Our own process guides us to deepen conscious connection with Source, helps us polish the mirror of perception, appreciate the gifts to be found in illusions that run us. It's about training in awareness and getting a healthy sense of perspective. To see through falsehoods within and around us is to open ourselves to unforeseen interdimensional doorways and adventures beyond words and known worlds. We are each in a league of our own. We bring grace to our lives and those of others as we love and accept ourselves fully and radiate that. (Cosmic conscious art- "Buddha's Birth" by Pumayana - Mandalas and Sacred Geometry)

Access mind-blowing Realities

Notice the point of stillness of the mind is the origin of all space & time, the centre of the "forbidden fruit" (aka "apple" in Eden) is a simple 'physical' example of a torsion- field. Everything in the entire cosmoverse behaves like a torsion-field: a self-sustained, self-contained energy system the living aerodynamics of which always stems from its "zero-point". In Sanskrit, [“perfectly (sam)-composed/engineered (krit)”] this is called "nirvāna" and it means "coming to a stop", or "the point of stillness" or «cessation» (of the movement, turbulence or "spinning around" in this movement →∞ indicated by the infinity sign "8" on the side: which is simply the half-section of an apple; which is called "samsāra”: ="spinning around"). In mechanics and engineering this is called "rotor & stator" and it is the basics of an "engine" or "motor"—Which is by the way called "Pyramid" in Greek: pyros=raging fire (PIE paewr→"power"), mid=middle, so "fire or power in the middle"...(what our cars have!=a motor). No movement exists without a point of stillness, which IS its point of origin, or Source. This is basic quantum mechanics: that both the equation of the zero-point AND of its spinning (maths inside of which are all based on π, Phi,...) are superposed and entangled, or- simultaneous and non-exclusive. In this view, a gold mine of new openings and insights exists into this most fascinating zero-point porthole. It is key to parallel dimensions, time travel, hyperspace and accessing mind-blowing new realities.

Allow True Nature to unfold

Notice non-duality is a realization attained as one rises above or moves beyond the thinking mind. The consciousness that identfies with thoughts is always awake, alert and attuned to that which is real, that which reveals itself as thoughts fade. Although a variety of views exist on non-duality, the common approach to fully engage here is to quiet the mind and focus on the breath. One can shift to see the mind not as a object of thought, and not separate from wider consciousness. From this point, no quest for nirvana or samsara exist. Liberation from an illusory world and forgiveness for what is imagined in it, are not necessary. We always know all of this but ego discourse distorts the Truth of who we are. Early in life, we are widely conditioned to fear what we peceive to be real in the physical. This begins as trauma that creates a glitch in the program. The emotional /psychological pain or indigestable aspects of physical reality lead one to create an ego structure to avoid them. We teach ourselves to avoid them by creating behavioural patterns that not only block that sense of "real pain and discomfort" but also block core energy reality beyond. People create phobias and ideas they fear as layers to further bury what they actually fear- being themselves which implies losing ego mind. This requires letting go of ego structrues as all ego identity is conditioned to believe is real and necessary to survive. As humans, we are taught distance self from feared objects or experiences. The ego defensiveness does not allow true love for along with love comes facing the terror. Ego cannot enter fully into divine love because this representes the end of the Ego. As one grows more mature, one can examine one's own condition, deconstruct and open layers that produce the suffering or byproduct of defensiveness, closed-heartedness and imaginary reality. The unconscious core does not wish to lose its core identity. This fear reappears in suffering and anxiety, nightmares, intrusive fantasies,and perceived karma. Ego is constructed by illusory thought structures and fear of return of the real. A key revelation is ego only sees or accepts its own projections. Let ego-driven realities go and allow True Nature to Unfold.

Everything is cyclic

As you connect with what drives you on the wheel of success, fear arises in the mind, the thought that any joy or enlightenment you glimpse can also be lost.  Only as you allow yourself to explore your sense of truth and go wherever this truth guides you without resistence, do you truly surrender.  Shift vantage points and see what unfolds in silence.  What happens as you realize that everything, including the personal story and your dream, comes and goes without you? How does it Transform your Life?

You emerge in this body innocent and helpless and leave the body after coming full circle, returning to innocence and helplessness, and opening to degrees of inner-sight. You grow aware that motion is ceaseless and also non-existent. Suddenly, it is very apparent that everything comes and goes. Absolute acceptance of the way things are arises, including who you are, why existence is what it is.  You sense how it feels to be motionless.  Waiting is no more. From the moment, you abandon the wanting, stop fighting yourself, you see more clearly.  Nothing matters.  You no longer seek anything through experience. You are in this world but not of it. The wave of energy is being.

"All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point." -Robert Collier, The Secret of the Ages