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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 08/6/2008
The Universe unfolds like a flower. It cannot be forced but it's opening is essential to your awakening.
Eric Pepin offers a free module from his teachings called "The Struggle to Awaken". In this module he talks about how spiritual awakening and enlightenment are like a box.
"All the secrets of the Universe are in this box. Everything you have ever wanted to know. An Enlightened Master is telling you that they are in there. But there is on problem. The harder you try to open the box, the tighter it becomes. But there is a way to open the box"
The Universe cannot be forced to reveal its secrets. You cannot force your way into Enlightenment. It is only by making sure that everything is in the right place that you can coax the right circumstances for the box to open.
Eric then grabs a box down from his shelf that contains a flower. He shows it to the people in the room and asks about it.
Eric likens the flower to the box. "Have you ever tried to open a flower before its ready to open? You can pull it apart, but you will ruin the flower. What makes the flower open? Is it the rain, the sun? It opens when everything is perfect and there is an unseen harmony that calls to it."
Your awakening as a spiritual being is no different. If you try to force it, you will experience much frustration and dead ends. You must learn to let the Universe unfold to you when it is ready to. Patience is a must.
This is where self work comes in. Being able to allow things to 'be as they are' without "wrestling the bull by the horns". If you are impatient, full of pettiness or negativity, the conditions are not going to be right for the flower to begin to open. The flower does not open in the dead of Winter. It does not open when a tornado is blowing through. It pics the right day, when everything is just right. But in order to reach this right day, you must do the necessary steps in advance. You must have planted good soil, given adequate sunshine, given enough water, made sure animals didn't eat it and so on. It also means you cannot go out and dig your flower up each day, wondering if its growing yet. You must trust the process. You must be patient. If you do the process, there must be a specific outcome. It is the law of cause and effect, of action and reaction.
The reason most people do not awaken is not because they don't have enough information per se, its because they don't do the right self work with the information they have. People think that enlightenment is just something that hits you without cause or because you meditate long enough. In truth, meditation is only a tool to help you with your self work. Nothing but 'will and effort' can move your tonal into the correct place where the Universe will respond to you. Always remember that.
To hear The Struggle to Awaken for free, please visit http://www.hbidynamics.com and click free audio on the right side of the screen.
Higher Balance Institute is the world leader in advanced programs for spiritual growth and development of the psychic sense. It is the most comprehensive and unique program of its kind, designed to produce direct, real personal paranormal experiences to learn from. Our mission is simple - to awaken the world one mind at a time. For more information, free eBooks, classes and videos visit us at The Higher Balance Institute.
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"All the secrets of the Universe are in this box. Everything you have ever wanted to know. An Enlightened Master is telling you that they are in there. But there is on problem. The harder you try to open the box, the tighter it becomes. But there is a way to open the box"
The Universe cannot be forced to reveal its secrets. You cannot force your way into Enlightenment. It is only by making sure that everything is in the right place that you can coax the right circumstances for the box to open.
Eric then grabs a box down from his shelf that contains a flower. He shows it to the people in the room and asks about it.
Eric likens the flower to the box. "Have you ever tried to open a flower before its ready to open? You can pull it apart, but you will ruin the flower. What makes the flower open? Is it the rain, the sun? It opens when everything is perfect and there is an unseen harmony that calls to it."
Your awakening as a spiritual being is no different. If you try to force it, you will experience much frustration and dead ends. You must learn to let the Universe unfold to you when it is ready to. Patience is a must.
This is where self work comes in. Being able to allow things to 'be as they are' without "wrestling the bull by the horns". If you are impatient, full of pettiness or negativity, the conditions are not going to be right for the flower to begin to open. The flower does not open in the dead of Winter. It does not open when a tornado is blowing through. It pics the right day, when everything is just right. But in order to reach this right day, you must do the necessary steps in advance. You must have planted good soil, given adequate sunshine, given enough water, made sure animals didn't eat it and so on. It also means you cannot go out and dig your flower up each day, wondering if its growing yet. You must trust the process. You must be patient. If you do the process, there must be a specific outcome. It is the law of cause and effect, of action and reaction.
The reason most people do not awaken is not because they don't have enough information per se, its because they don't do the right self work with the information they have. People think that enlightenment is just something that hits you without cause or because you meditate long enough. In truth, meditation is only a tool to help you with your self work. Nothing but 'will and effort' can move your tonal into the correct place where the Universe will respond to you. Always remember that.
To hear The Struggle to Awaken for free, please visit http://www.hbidynamics.com and click free audio on the right side of the screen.
Higher Balance Institute is the world leader in advanced programs for spiritual growth and development of the psychic sense. It is the most comprehensive and unique program of its kind, designed to produce direct, real personal paranormal experiences to learn from. Our mission is simple - to awaken the world one mind at a time. For more information, free eBooks, classes and videos visit us at The Higher Balance Institute.
Article Source: EzineArticles.com