The End of Your World uncensored straight talk on the nature of enlightenment by ADYASHANTI

Author:ADYASHANTI
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Body, Mind & Spirit/Prayer & Spiritual
ISBN: 978-1-59179-877-4
Publisher: sounds True
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Energetic Component of Awakening

A wakening brings many different transformations to the person. Awakening is waking up from the person, yes, but it also has a profound impact on, and in many ways transforms, the person. To give concreteness to what I am talking about, I’ve been telling you about my personal experience—my own awakening at twenty-five and some of the subsequent struggles I had. I’d like to continue with that.

At about age thirty-two, and in many ways unexpected, there was another great awakening. It was not essentially different from the awakening I had at twenty-five, but it was much, much clearer. I think it would be accurate to say that the awakening I had at twenty-five was a bit hazy. It was like walking out into the sunlight, but on a foggy day. Even though there was a change of perception, it wasn’t totally clear.

At thirty-two, the awakening that happened was extraordinarily clear. It was an irrevocable and irreversible event, an irreversible seeing. What I saw, which was not essentially different from what I saw at age twenty-five, was that I am everything and I am nothing, and also I am beyond everything and nothing. I saw that what I am is inexpressible. It had the sense of going through and through and through—right to the very root of existence.

I’m not interested in talking about that particular awakening in any detail right now. All I will say is that, afterward, what had been realized was never unrealized. It was never forgotten; the aperture didn’t close down again. At the same time, there were phenomena that occurred on the physical level, and that’s what I’d like to talk about now. These physical or energetic phenomena are often a part of awakening. Some people will experience some of what I am going to talk about even before awakening, while others will only experience it afterward. As such, what I am going to speak about is applicable whether or not one has experienced awakening.

When we have realized the true nature of existence—when existence itself has awakened to itself—there is almost always an energetic component to the realization. By energetic component, what I mean is that there is a profound realignment of the way our system works. A type of rewiring occurs in the mind, at the mental level, and there is a rewiring of how we sense and perceive on an emotional level. There is also a very deep change in the way the whole energetic system of our body, both material and subtle, flows and moves and is experienced.

One of the most common energetic changes that occurs with deep realizations is simply the pure release of a lot of energy into our system. It’s not that our system is getting an influx of energy from outside of itself; instead, when we become really conscious, the blocks and barriers—the internal dams—open up. As they do, there is an immense release of energy. In fact, anytime the egoic structure dissolves, there is a releasing of energy.

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