The Benefits Of Becoming More Enlightened - By Shen Gerald
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Wan Ibrahim
Wan Ibrahim is the owner of MySpiritualSelfHelp.com, a website that was created to share the wisdom for spiritual living. He also shares his insights, tips and stories about happiness, relationship and success from a different point of view at his Blog - Detached, and in the context of spirituality at Personal Blog Section.By Wan Ibrahim
Published on 05/20/2008
Becoming more enlightened has it benefits. The following is my personal experience of the effect of sustained non-duality and no-self.
Becoming more enlightened has its benefits.
The following is my personal experience of the effect of sustained non-duality and no-self.
The correct and prolonged process of dropping away the 'sense of self' or habitual egoic mind grasping result in the mind automatically coming to a rest. This rest can occur in any stationary position, including walking, standing and sitting positions. The rest and joy of no-self Presence is a very nice and blissful experience. Also, increasingly the egoic mind is beginning to lose its power to condition. Non-duality has the properties of being luminous and space-like.
When there is no subject-object division, the sense of suffering is greatly reduced. The egoic mind still can trick one into engaging into a 'fight with reality', but it is losing its power to sustain its own momentum.
When the egoic mind arouses a bodily tension and if it is not engaged for too long, the tension will self-release. This is what I meant as the experience of rising and falling waves. The body tension is also what gives a person a kind of identification as the body. With the tension gone, there can be at times utterly no sense of being a body.
The process is certainly not the complete enlightenment, but it is nevertheless a new and distinct phase. In this phase, the strength of Presence and 'fearlessness in deconstruction' play crucial roles in stabilizing it.
Well, that is all for this article. It is my wish that others also embark on an authentic journey towards spiritual enlightenment. The aspiration is worth the time.
The author runs Dream Datum - self growth, a website
which provides self development articles. The author has been a mediator for more than two decades.
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The following is my personal experience of the effect of sustained non-duality and no-self.
The correct and prolonged process of dropping away the 'sense of self' or habitual egoic mind grasping result in the mind automatically coming to a rest. This rest can occur in any stationary position, including walking, standing and sitting positions. The rest and joy of no-self Presence is a very nice and blissful experience. Also, increasingly the egoic mind is beginning to lose its power to condition. Non-duality has the properties of being luminous and space-like.
When there is no subject-object division, the sense of suffering is greatly reduced. The egoic mind still can trick one into engaging into a 'fight with reality', but it is losing its power to sustain its own momentum.
When the egoic mind arouses a bodily tension and if it is not engaged for too long, the tension will self-release. This is what I meant as the experience of rising and falling waves. The body tension is also what gives a person a kind of identification as the body. With the tension gone, there can be at times utterly no sense of being a body.
The process is certainly not the complete enlightenment, but it is nevertheless a new and distinct phase. In this phase, the strength of Presence and 'fearlessness in deconstruction' play crucial roles in stabilizing it.
Well, that is all for this article. It is my wish that others also embark on an authentic journey towards spiritual enlightenment. The aspiration is worth the time.
The author runs Dream Datum - self growth, a website
which provides self development articles. The author has been a mediator for more than two decades.
Article Source: EzineArticles.com