The poetry of Attar is unpacked to reveal its profound spiritual teachings. The relationship between the weak and the strong elements in the ego will determine its health and willingness to grow and recognize the Truth. The bottom line is that the ego must realize it is nothing, a shadow, and one must live only for what is real and eternal—which is the Beloved Self.
Where does the soul reside? How does the injection affect the soul? Does it separate one from God?
Another reading from the great Sufi mystic Attar's petite poems of passionate power opens the heart to fuse with the Beloved. Through love of the Real, we come alive to our true nature, instead of existing as living corpses.
A mother can love her children in a way that empowers them to individuate and realize the GodSelf. But true love is not attachment, which creates bondage rather than freedom. Once one becomes a being of unconditional love, one’s benevolence makes one a world mother.
The love poems to and from God channeled by the revered Sufi mystic Farideddin Attar, and collected in the book entitled Sweet Sorrow, may be the most potent medicine for cynical minds afflicted by toxic forms of love. The power of these numinous nuggets of gnosis to re-connect one with our true nature is astonishing. Be warned: This bliss may be contagious!
What is our real responsibility while visiting this dying world? Heroic measures are called for, but are they measures of struggle against evil, or measures to awaken from the illusion and to dream a new world into being? Or is even that question part of the illusion, since all is ordained? Gaining the intelligence to know the accurate response may be the best strategy of all.
The Diamond Sutra, also known as the Lightning Strike Sutra, reveals the paradoxical clarity of the awakened Self, and enables the attainment of the merit which entitles us to dream a perfect world.
The anima mundi is the Mind of God, a wonderful playground for mystics, but beyond the Cosmic Mind is God’s Heart, which is beyond all images and concepts.
Sri Ramana teaches the direct realization of the Self, requiring only tireless devotion. Grace is the reward for serving God wholeheartedly, with complete indifference toward the apparent world.
As you become aware of your thoughts, emotions, and energies, become keenly aware that subtle level of consciousness that is in control of your thoughts and your paradigm of reality. In this guided meditation, Shunyamurti guides you to trace this inquiry back from the NPC you believe yourself to be back to the Zero Point of Consciousness.
Information, energy, or nonlinear change that occurs as the effect of events that take place in the future and alter the past, which is perceived in the present as non-ordinary phenomena, synchronicities, unpredictable emergent properties or other notable explicate arisings. The source of such forces may also lie beyond chronological time, in higher dimensions of the Real.
Since awakening is instantaneous, along with the recognition that one was never really in the dream, but enjoying the creation of the dream, it must be understood that making awakening into a process can only be part of the dream, and has nothing to do with Awakening itself.
When we speak of the Real, unless otherwise qualified, we mean the Supreme Real. The Supreme Real does not appear. Appearance is not Real. All that appears is empty of true existence. There are no real things. All that is phenomenal is temporary, dependent, and reducible to a wave function of consciousness. The world does not exist independent of consciousness. There is no matter or material world. All is made of consciousness. Pure consciousness is Presence. It is no-thing, non-objective, not in space or time. All that appears in Presence, or to Presence, is an emanation of Presence, but is not different from That. This is one meaning of nonduality.
The Real is also a term used in Lacanian psychoanalysis. What Lacan means by the Real is that aspect of phenomenal appearance which is overwhelming, traumatic, or impossible. We would call that Real One. It is a relative Real, not Absolute. We add that there is a Real Two, which consists of divine love. Love is not an appearance, but it changes appearance, through recognition of its Source, into a divine manifestation, a projection of God’s sublimely beautiful Mind as infinite fractal holographic cosmos. Real Three is the unchanging Absolute, beyond all conception or image.
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