An experience of awakening
An attempt to describe an experience of awakening on 24th January 2023:
I walked into the living room, into a ray of sunlight
Stop
There is conscious awareness
There is beingness
There is silence or silent presence
There is no ‘I’ or ‘me’
There is no time
Such awakening experiences can come at any time and in any circumstance. With practices such as meditation, yoga, qi gong etc. the ‘me’ or surface mind may become quieter, but there is no one-to-one connection between practice and experience. I had a very profound experience the very first time I meditated over 40 years ago and then nothing for the next couple of years as I tried to repeat the experience!
However, as the mind becomes quieter, there are likely to be more experiences of silent presence, whether you are formally practising or not.
Awakening moments happen when conscious awareness detaches from the surface self and all of its activity - thoughts, emotions, memories and so on. This enables consciousness to observe and experience more of its own deeper nature.
What causes this detaching? Steve Taylor has described many cases of trauma leading to it. The usual spiritual practices also seem to help in some way, perhaps by seeing how unnecessary thoughts and emotions etc. are most of the time, and that we can get by perfectly well without them!
To be continued, albeit not in a chronological sequence.
Thank you for reading this far.
Stop
There is conscious awareness
There is beingness
There is silence or silent presence
There is no ‘I’ or ‘me’
There is no time
Such awakening experiences can come at any time and in any circumstance. With practices such as meditation, yoga, qi gong etc. the ‘me’ or surface mind may become quieter, but there is no one-to-one connection between practice and experience. I had a very profound experience the very first time I meditated over 40 years ago and then nothing for the next couple of years as I tried to repeat the experience!
However, as the mind becomes quieter, there are likely to be more experiences of silent presence, whether you are formally practising or not.
Awakening moments happen when conscious awareness detaches from the surface self and all of its activity - thoughts, emotions, memories and so on. This enables consciousness to observe and experience more of its own deeper nature.
What causes this detaching? Steve Taylor has described many cases of trauma leading to it. The usual spiritual practices also seem to help in some way, perhaps by seeing how unnecessary thoughts and emotions etc. are most of the time, and that we can get by perfectly well without them!
To be continued, albeit not in a chronological sequence.
Thank you for reading this far.
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