Ramana Maharshi was a young man when he suddenly felt like he was dying. He stayed conscious as his body appeared to shut down and asked himself the question, what remains when the body is not? He discovered non-duality in that break-through moment.
Eckhart Tolle was a student who fell into a deep depression. One day he felt like a vortex was descending on him and was sucking him in. The next morning he woke up as a transformed man. It took him a while to study spirituality to find the language in order to share what happened to him.
Isn’t it interesting that two of the giants of spirituality never consciously set out to become enlightened? These spiritual break-throughs just happened to them and then made it their mission to share their insights with others. The subconscious does the heavy lifting in the Awakening process.
How can we see what we don’t see? How can the conscious 20 percent in the iceberg analogy steer the unseen 80 percent drifting in the water? Actually, it’s the other way around. The unseen 80 percent is carrying us along! Wake up to this fact and you see what the “you” doesn’t see. That’s spiritual living.
#ramanamaharshi #eckharttolle #subconscious #spirituality #awakening #adyashanti
No comments:
Post a Comment