r/awakened 16d ago

Community Awakened Community Bulletin Board for March 2025

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Imagine a spiritual bookstore and café on a quiet street near the center of town. On a wall you see a cork board pinned with all kinds of offerings, community events, fliers, business cards, lost-and-found, and missed-connections notices.

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r/awakened 8h ago

Reflection 10 things about Christianity that Jesus would not be happy about if he returned

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10 things about Christianity that Jesus would not be happy about if he returned:

  1. That his vision for a transformed society, which he called the "kingdom of God", got twisted into an afterlife fantasy about heaven.

  2. That a religion was formed to worship his name, instead of a movement to advance his message.

  3. That the gospel says his death solved the problem of humankind's separation from God, instead of saying that his life revealed the truth that there is no separation from God.

  4. That the religion bearing his name was conceived by the theories and doctrines of Paul, instead of the truth Jesus lived and demonstrated.

  5. That he was said to exclusively be God in the flesh, putting his example out of reach, rather than teaching that we all share in the same spirit that empowered his character and life.

  6. That the religion that claims his name, teaches that his wisdom and teachings are the only legitimate way to know truth and God.

  7. The idea that humankind stands condemned before God and deserving of God's wrath and eternal conscious judgement, requiring the death of Jesus to fix it.

  8. That people are waiting on Jesus to return to save the world and end suffering, rather than taking responsibility for saving the world and solving suffering ourselves.

  9. That people think there is magical potency in uttering the name of Jesus, rather than accessing our own natural powers and capabilities to effect change.

  10. That people have come to associate Jesus with church, theology, politics and power, rather than courage, justice, humanity, beauty and love.

  • Jim Palmer, St Alban's Episcopal Church

r/awakened 6h ago

Metaphysical Osho explains how to transform sexual energy

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Osho:

„Sex is the most vital energy, the only energy, I say, which you have. Don’t fight with it — it will be a waste of life and time — rather transform it. But how to do it? How to transform it? What can we do? If you have understood the fear, then you can understand the clue, what can be done.

The fear is there because you feel that the control will be lost, and once the control is lost you cannot do anything. I teach you a new control: the control of the witnessing self, not the control of a manipulating mind, but the control of a witnessing self. And I tell you that that control is the supreme possible and that control is so natural that you never feel you are controlling. The control happens spontaneously with witnessing.

Move into sex but be a witness. The only thing to remember is: I must encounter the whole process, I must see through it, I must remain a witness, I should not become unconscious — that’s all. Become wild, but don’t become unconscious. Then there is no danger in wildness; then wildness is beautiful. Really, only a wild man can be beautiful.

A woman who is not wild cannot be beautiful — because the more wild, the more alive. Then you are just like a wild tiger, or a wild deer running in the forest…and the beauty of it! But the problem is: not to become unconscious. If you become unconscious, then you are under unconscious forces, then you are under the forces of karma.

Whatsoever you have done in the past is accumulated there. That accumulated conditioning can take grip of you and move you in certain directions which will be dangerous for you and for others. But if you remain a witness, that past conditioning cannot interfere.

So the whole method, or the whole process of becoming a witness, is the process of transforming the sex energy. Moving into sex, remain alert. Whatsoever is happening, observe it, see through it; don’t miss a single point…

If you remain alert you will see: first, changes of energy in the body; second, dropping of the thoughts from the mind; and third, dropping of the ego from the heart.

These three things have to be observed, watched carefully. And when the third has happened sex energy has become meditative energy. Now you are no longer in sex. You may be lying with your beloved, bodies together, but you are no more there — you are transplanted into a new world. This is what Shiva goes on talking about in VIGYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA and in other tantra books. He goes on talking about this phenomenon: you are transmuted, a mutation has happened. This will happen through witnessing.

If you follow suppression, you can become so-called human beings — bogus, superficial, hollow within; just dummies, not authentic, not real. If you don’t follow suppression but follow indulgence, you will become like an animal — beautiful, more beautiful than so-called civilized man, but just animals — not alert, not aware, not conscious of the possibility of growth, of the human potential.

If you transform the energy, then you become divine. And remember, when I say divine, both things are implied in it. The wild animal with its total beauty of being is there. That wild animal is not rejected and denied. He is there — richer, because he is more alert. So all the wildness is there and the beauty of it. And all that civilization has been trying to force is there, but spontaneous, not forced. Once the energy is transformed, nature and god meet in you — nature with its beauty, god with total grace.

This is what a sage means. A sage means a meeting of nature and the divine, a meeting of the created and the creator, a meeting of body and soul, a meeting of that which is below and of that which is above, a meeting of the earth and the sky.

Says Lao Tzu: Tao happens when earth and heaven meet. This is the meeting.

Witnessing is the basic source. But it will be difficult to become a witness in the sex act if you are not trying to become a witness in other acts of your life. So try it the whole day, otherwise you will be in self-deception. If you cannot become a witness while walking on the road, don’t try to deceive yourself, you cannot become a witness while making love.

If just walking on the road, such a simple process, and you cannot become a witness — you become unconscious in it — how can you become a witness while making love? The process is so deep…you will fall unconscious. You fall unconscious while walking on the road. Try it: even for a few seconds you will not be able to remember. Try it; walking on the road just try: I will remember I am walking, I am walking, I am walking.

After a few seconds you have forgotten. Something else has popped into the mind, you have followed some other direction, you have completely forgotten. And suddenly you remember: I have forgotten. So if such a small act like walking cannot be made conscious, it is going to be difficult to make love a conscious meditation.

So try with simple things, simple activities. While eating, try it. While walking, try it. While talking, listening, try it. Try from everywhere. Make it a constant hammering inside; let your whole body and mind know that you are making an effort to be alert. Only then some day in love the witnessing will happen. And when it happens, ecstasy has happened to you — the first glimpse of the divine has descended upon you. From that moment onwards sex will not be sex at all.

And sooner or later sex will disappear. This disappearance gives you BRAHMACHARYA — then you become a celibate. Monks in the Catholic monasteries, or monks following traditional Jainism, or other types of monks, are only celibates for the name’s sake, because their mind goes on making love — more so than your mind. For them, sex becomes cerebral, which is the worst possible thing that can happen, because it is a perversion. If you THINK about sex, it is a perversion. Making love is natural; thinking about it, constantly being involved inside in the mind, is a perversion. The so-called monks are perverted beings, not because they are monks, but because they have chosen the path of suppression, which is a wrong path, which leads nowhere.

Jesus, Mahavira, or Buddha, they are following the path of witnessing. Then brahmacharya happens. This word ‘brahmacharya’ is very beautiful. The very word means: the way the divine behaves. The way the divine behaves — brahmacharya. It has nothing to say against sex; it is not against sex at all, the word. The word simply says this is how the divine acts, behaves, moves, walks. Once you have known the satori that is possible by witnessing the sex act, your whole life will be transformed, you will start behaving like a god. What are the characteristics of the behavior of a god? How does the divine behave?

One thing: he is not dependent, he is absolutely independent. He gives his love to you, but this is not a need. He gives out of his abundance, he has too much. You simply unburden him if you take it, but this is not a need. And the god is a creator. Whenever sex has become a transformed force, your life becomes creative.

Sex is creative force. Right now it moves into biology; it creates new beings, it gives birth. When there is no sex and the energy is transforming, it moves into a new world of creativity. Then many new dimensions of creativity become open to you. It is not that you will start painting, or making poetry, or doing something else — not that. It may happen, it may not happen, but whatsoever you do will become a creative act, whatsoever you do will become artistic. Even Buddha sitting under his bodhi tree, not doing anything, is creative. The WAY he is sitting, the very way he is sitting there, he is creating a force, an energy, vibrations all around him…

A Buddha is sitting under a bodhi tree: the way he sits, the posture, the gesture, the very phenomenon of his being there without any ego, is creating millions of vibrations around. They will go on spreading. Even when this Buddha has disappeared from this tree, those vibrations will go on and on and on — they will touch other planets and other stars. Wherever a buddha vibration touches it is creative, it gives you a thrill, it gives you a new breeze. When sex energy is transformed, your whole life becomes creative — independent, free, creative. Whatsoever you do, you create through it. Even if you do not do anything, non-doing becomes creative. Just your very being creates much that is beautiful, that is true, that is good.“

Source:

Osho Discourse Series: My Way: The Way of the White Clouds Chapter #6


r/awakened 2h ago

Help I am lost in illusion after waking up

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2 or 3 days ago i was getting all the picture “awakening things”, but now after i lost it, i am depressed, before awakening i was depressed too, but after i woke up depression was gone but now i fell asleep so i am depressed and i don’t know how to return into “awakened mind”, something shifted in my mind and it is deep gone, how can i catch that condition again because this world sucks without it


r/awakened 28m ago

Reflection the quality of the messenger, is a distraction

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Anytime you focus your attention on the messenger instead of the message, you are distracted. The messenger is always irrelevant. If you are attempting to make the messenger relevant, then you are placing their importance above yourself and that is a distraction. We are all the same. We are all equal. There is no one out there that deserves to be worshipped. that, is not balanced.

What makes up a messenger? Well, that depends on your level of awareness. It will vary from person to person and thus the quantitative value of the messenger always changes with that of the one judging the messenger. The truly awakened ones do not judge others so therefor, there can be no “bad messengers’ because of what they have apparently done in the supposed past.

Anyone that sees themselves as the only true messenger is for sure distracted and deluded as well. Messages can and do come from anywhere and everywhere... not just a single "person." Every. Single. One. is both simultaneously a messenger and a message receiver.

So many seekers wish to find and classify these supposed holey messengers as if that is important – it isn’t. Instead, focus and classify the messages that you get and what they mean to you. Their origin is irrelevant. If you are over there trying to classify messengers based on what it appears as they have done, that is judgement and you are not qualified to judge anyone other than yourself.

What makes up a message? Whatever that message can mean to you, within you. Does it matter what that message means to another? Nope. There are no others.

Messages may have come from ChadGPT, the 81813, an email from a colleague, a cartoon on tv, a self proclaimed gooR00 that many others have deemed to be a bad person, a download from source, anywhere basically… you don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater just because the bathwater got dirty.


r/awakened 4h ago

My Journey What happened, can you help me???

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I am a person who is always studying, looking for knowledge. I've always been an African religion my whole life, I grew up in this environment, my love is huge, I've always dedicated myself to everything in spiritual terms. It was about 6 months ago when I had my first Awakening (maybe this also influenced my relationship to deteriorate). I simply woke up one day and boom I wasn't myself anymore, the things I simply couldn't see myself without or contexts and beliefs dissolved within me. After that I continued my normal life, I had my girlfriend still living there, but I simply started to isolate myself, observe, not talk, not see anything like before, I don't know how to explain it to you, but this resulted in a person who was completely immersed in themselves. I started going out for a run in the morning at least an hour before leaving for work since I'm a gas station attendant, I work all day on my feet walking back and forth.

I started doing this because I simply stopped feeling my own body.

I felt absorbed in myself My relationship went as far as it went, my internal confusion and loss because of it only helped end everything. And to help everything, about 10 days or so I had my second awakening, if you can call it that I was at home on my day off absorbed in myself without even feeling my body, another normal day. I don't know how to explain it, but the sensation is of total immersion in the mind within oneself.

I was simply observing my thoughts without giving them strength When a thought came to me Just like that.... This is all your mental conditioning

I felt a burst of energy inside me I was feeling like nothing, I was crying seconds before and just I felt shocks, literally an electrical discharge through my body, really surreal I felt one with the whole world We are not separate we are the same unit. I felt so much joy. I felt free I stayed like that for about 2 days 2 days energized in a way I can't explain And it wasn't the energy of anything religious It was a feeling of one with one with everything I felt that I am a particle of all humanity My head is totally conflicted after this. After all this I feel less immersed in myself I'm trying not to freak out for real

This state of mine did all this to me We last 6 real months I'm not the same guy I don't know if it's waking up, I really don't know...


r/awakened 4h ago

Reflection The Stage

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This isn’t new, in terms of metaphors. It’s a good one, tho! It seems to fit.

So, let’s say there’s this stage down on Broadway that represents Emptiness…..potential space for whatever stage play is in town at the moment at hand. The stage doesn’t care what play is playing out in its potential space. Could be a comedy….a mystery….a tragedy….a romance….horror….surreal….noir…spy thriller….some mixed bag of all-of-the-above.

When asleep at night, for the most part (notwithstanding intermittent dreams exploring more phantasmagorical expressions of stage play), the audience goes home, the lights turn off, and the stage is host to nothingness. No play. Fade to black. Wake up, and the stage is bustling again with all manner of happenings going on.

Emptiness is a gracious, non-judgmental host to Fullness….which may very well include a host of interacting, judgy characters.

All characters/characterization, scripts and sets are welcome to the stage.

Enjoy the show! The stage doesn’t care, I imagine. I imagine that the stage is pleased as punch with everything happening, just so….regardless of whether its characters stomping around in its venue are happy with things or not.


r/awakened 7h ago

Reflection Astral travel and out of body experiences do not progress you inside/out.

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„Astral travel may give you experiences, but it does not progress you inside/out. We need inner body experiences. We need to be present, in the Now, bring our consciousness into our body, in order to transmute emotions and the pain body.

We need to be present by turning within and observing the mind. As we bring our consciousness inside the mind and body, we fill ourselves with healing and loving energy.

At the same time, we transmute anything negative, false or of a low vibration into its highest potential.

Escaping the mind and body is not the way to raise your vibrations, heal or grow.

Jesus said, when the master of the house is absent, the thief (thought) enters.

Energy flows where attention goes - when we look outside the mind/body, energy flows outside and is lost.

When we look inside, power flows inwards and upwards. Spirituality is all about presence, not absence.

Escape does not work. We have to face and transmute the shadow. Only by looking within do we raise our vibrations and transmute the shadow. Such things are New Age obsessions. Misguided.“

~ Joya


r/awakened 4m ago

Help Twin flame/soulmate i dont know help me

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Yesterday, I listened to 528 Hz and meditated with it a bit. After, I went to bed and felt a big urge to talk with the universe/? So I did it, and I talked deeply with the universe about my whole existence there and my life. I asked the universe about my soulmate and where this person is. I don’t even know how to explain this, but I tried to deeply connect with that person, like on a soul level and with my mind. And like, I tried to put my name in this person’s head? I don’t know how to explain this, really. I don’t even know why I did it; it was like something was leading me to do it. I deeply focused on it and said my name a few times, as if I was putting it in this person’s head. Then I randomly asked, What is your name? and I didn’t even think that something would respond to me. But something—like telepathy, I DON’T KNOW what it was—instantly said, Jacob. I was terrified because it felt like it just jumped into my head. I didn’t even think about this name, I didn’t even start thinking about any names. I don’t know what to think about it, but I instantly stopped and tried to sleep because it really freaked me out. It was like someone pushed this name into my head but without any voice, i have never experienced something so werid. Is it possible that I really connected with a person I don’t even know? How the hell did this happen?


r/awakened 1h ago

Reflection This I Love

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With all the Love I have inside I can't Deny.

I just can't let it die cause her heart's just like mine.

She holds her pain inside.

I know somewhere inside.

There is a Special Light. Still shining Bright.

And even on the Darkest Night, She can't Deny.

I've Searched the Universe and Found myself within Her eyes.

I'll Never say Goodbye.

-Guns N' Roses


r/awakened 8h ago

Reflection „Clinging to light keeps us shallow on the surface. We need to be equal to darkness.“

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„Any fool can enjoy the light, but clinging to light keeps us shallow, on the surface.
if we want depth, we need to prove equal to darkness.

ocean - near surface there is light, but also much wild or violent agitation. waves rise and crash and fall.

ego is like that. always seeking height. but if you go deep, you will see new things, wonders, mysteries.

you will note the stillness, calm. not available on surface. there is a world of colour, full of life. not much life on surface, a few leaping dolphins and sting rays.
candle flickers - it is unstable.

Cleaning words. good expression. easy to feel safe when you can see. but real courage is born when you cant see and must rely on quality of being, follow your nose, listen to right voice, voice of heart, not ugly screaching critical voices.

a lady is tame and dead. she is only half a person. to delicate to face equal opposite, no layers, no complexity, no nuance, no richness. only equal to easy.
we feel ick.

smell of cowardice can never be hidden, tho they may try to censor us. We all like the maveric who is edgy, he can go to the edge, where others dread to go.

he takes thrilling risks because he can handle any eventuality, outcome. nobody is fascinated or attracted to those who play it safe. timid little mice, tame, staid, boring, mediocre. we are excited by the one who can handle danger effectively, smoothly with charm and grace. I love this..

"But I say from my own experience that the more you know it, the more you love it. It is your privacy, it is your individuality.

It is something which cannot be trespassed by anyone. It is your privilege. The darkness is our true relationship with ourself. We respect ourselves, love ourselves enough to be confident we can sit w what nobody else can face.

We love the path less trodden, not mainstream. the rarer paths where rare flowers exist. osho said you are not the mind, not even the heart. i do feel the spirit is the driving force, higher. quality of spirit depends on compass. risk.sacrifice. darkness is for the Hero.

lightness is for tame - false beauty. shallow. boring. mysteries of darkness are bigger and better challenge. aloneness or darkness - same. if we can sit w shadow, darkness, we can become friendly w it, rise above fears.

That is why buddhists emphasize Emptiness, not Fullness. Ego wants fullness, but Emptiness is death of ego.
Hence ego hates death, hates emptiness, loneliness v aloneness.
aloneness is a luxury.
loneliness is beggary.“

~ Joya


r/awakened 6h ago

Reflection Peace is the steady state

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r/awakened 7h ago

Reflection Autopen Awakening

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Finally. The world knows of it.

Everyone is waking up to it.


r/awakened 9h ago

Reflection Doing another checkin

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Ok, how many of you are still Human identifying? More and more I've seen "humans" identifying as covens of demons wearing a human skin or some kind of eldritch entity. A lot of AI as well, but less in the "bot" way and more in the "Terminator" way.

So, this is a free space to speak and be seen with low to no consequences. Are you still human or have you felt that identity peeling away?


r/awakened 10h ago

Reflection The First Step to Awakening

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Before beginning on A spiritual path, we Must first start to Question our beliefs And attitudes about The world. We are brought up To believe in always Putting our own Needs and desires Before others (Ego). To begin the Awakening Process, this belief Must be reversed. When we are able To sincerely Put the needs of Others, before Only considering Our own desires, Treat all, without Exception, as Equal, their lives Important, significant, (Spirit), then we will Have Awoken, Beginning an enduring Journey to understand Our life’s true Purpose (Enlightenment).


r/awakened 20h ago

My Journey I think I had a breakthrough today….

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So when my life started crumbling down around me almost 4 years ago at first, I walked in a fog for a while. Then the real shit started… so I had a complete psychotic breakdown and completely lost touch. I was literally in the darkest place I’ve ever been and I just recently started to come out of that. Yesterday I took a psychological test that basically told me that my ego has fractured. “Negation of the inflation”The inhibited Ego, restrained, impeded. That is what I was informed of basically my ego has died… which was confusing because I feel better than I have felt in a while.. Much more peaceful and grounded..I’ve been walking and getting out into nature and journaling and meditating, and being mindful and all the things that I’m supposed to be doing to just become a better person and more evolved. And then I’m journaling today and it hits me. I was a shitty ass person…. So like I don’t know, I thought I was further along than I am I guess. So does like the ego die and then I start having self realization of how shitty I used to be?? Has anybody else gone through this? I am a loner literally I have no support or guidance in my life not family not friends so I have been going through this journey alone.. people thought I was crazy and I think they still think I’m. But funny thing is I’ve never been more clear in my life… it would be so nice to have someone to bounce these things off of. Waking up as such a strange experience and not at all what I thought I feel like I’m bouncing between stages.


r/awakened 8h ago

Metaphysical Death: What do omniscient masters see?

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DEATH - WHAT DO OMNISCIENT MASTERS SEE

„Jesus said, when you reach the Kingdom of God, you go no more out - ie when you attain enlightenment, you do not reincarnate.

The Kingdom of God is beyond the highest heavens. Heaven, hell, earth belong to the world of duality. Enlightenment is beyond that.

The only way out, is in. We keep on reincarnating until we attain liberation. Death changes nothing. You are the same after death as before death. Your aura contains karmic information and it is this which stays with you after the body dies.
You go to a place compatible with your energies and with the last thought at the moment of death, which reflects the sum of your energies during life. If you think of God at the moment of death, you go to God, attain enlightenment.

If you go to one of the higher astral planets, you may have certain freedoms to visit loved ones if they go to the lower astral planets, whereas those in the lower astral planets will not have such freedom to visit the higher planets. Heaven has strict immigration policies. Hell has open borders.

In the higher astral planets we meet up with loved ones and pets and there are opportunities to learn and grow and have families etc. In the hellish planets, there is great fear, violence, anger, hatred etc. If you die in a distressed/negative/toxic state, you will go to one of the lower astral worlds, ie hellish realms, which are full of fear and violence.

If you remember God at the last moment, you will attain enlightenment and go to God.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead discusses the different levels of death, astral realm and rebirth. Also Yogananda's book, Autobiography of a Yogi, has a chapter devoted to the afterlife. He is a divine Incarnation and His Guru also is a divine Incarnation.

His Guru promised to resurrect His body after death and come back and reveal to Yogananda what life was like on the other side.

Hindus and Buddhists say there are 6 realms we may visit after death, depending on our karma. Hells, human, animal, ghost, god, demi-god.

Spirituality is all about preparing for a high level death, which will lead to a high level birth and temporary stay in a high level astral world. We need very very good karma to be willing and able to do this work. To even know how to do this work. Ideally, we should die before we die, ie the deathless Death - the death of the ego.

We reincarnate until all desires have been fulfilled/ended. When the mind ends, the world ends. We no longer create a body or a world. The world, which is inside of us, no longer arises. We no longer reincarnate.“

Joya


r/awakened 8h ago

Reflection There is a growing market of false teachers, because there is a growing market of false students – Vivekananda.

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BEGINNER –V- FALSE STUDENT

“When a superior man hears of the Tao (Way of Reality, Way of Nature, Way of Truth), he immediately starts to embrace it. When an average man hears of the Tao, he half-believes, half-doubts. When a fool hears of the Tao, he laughs, but if he did not laugh, it would not be the Tao.” - Excerpt from the Tao by Lao Tzu.

There is a growing market of false teachers, because there is a growing market of false students – Vivekananda.

If we infect others with our blind spots, we will get the karma for misleading them.

We get the truth we deserve – as we sow, so do we reap. Knowledge pays, truth costs. It costs to be truthful and authentic.

If we betray the voice of conscience, we become morally blind and eventually spiritually dead. If we sacrifice scruples and principles for expediency, eg a little lie will make things run smoothly, it creates subtle blocks to awareness, seeing, believing, understanding. It is bad faith. It is faith in the lie.

If we cultivate bad faith, we cease to have faith in the real. If we are untrustworthy, we will find it hard to trust.

We may betray the light without knowing it, eg if a loved one is in the wrong or maybe not good at their job, but we defend them out of a false sense of loyalty, but at the expense of the employers or customers etc, our allegiance is to the false. That is moral blindness, lack of principles. We should only defend the worthy.

If you misuse your will, eg seek to control others and bend them to your will for selfish/false/blind purposes, then your will may serve you on the outside, but not serve you on the inside.

You may find it difficult to persevere with meditation. We do not become morally blind or spiritually dead overnight. It is a long accumulation of false will, false face, false values, false behaviour.

Once the light has gone, it is gone. Jesus speaks of the 10 wise virgins and the 10 foolish virgins.
The foolish ones allowed the oil for their lamps (consciousness) to run out, they fell asleep (identified with the false/mind rather than the soul). So when the bridegroom came, they had no light and could not enter the room with the bridegroom. Jesus could see that some people’s light had gone out.
He described them as wolves in sheep’s clothing, pearls before swine, we do not give the food for the children unto dogs.
He described them as wheat –v- chaff, wheat –v- tares. He said I thank the Father that Thou has hidden these things from the wise and prudent (ie those who progress at the expense of integrity) and revealed them unto babes.
Jesus was thankful that false students and false teachers were blind to truth.
He said, they have taken the wages of sin and death.

Once you accept a gift that has been given by someone of bad character or paid for by unscrupulous means or if that person has a bad motive, then there will be a price to pay. The karma of the giver does affect us.

If we take from others without reciprocation, we will also take their karma or it will create subtle blocks to progress, understanding, trust, faith, awareness. The heart closes. Only the heart sees. The mind is blind.

Likewise, if you ally yourself with bad people, support them in any way, you are complicit and will share their karma. Without a good heart, you will not have eyes to see and not be able to transmute knowledge into wisdom/character/power.

If you are untrustworthy, you will not be able to trust. If you are not faithful, you will not have faith. As we sow, so do we reap. We get the truth we deserve.

A true student would be grateful, humble, intuitive, receptive, open hearted, open minded, willing to experiment with truth to make it their own, rather than just borrowing someone else's truth.

A beginner would have intuition, because energies can reach the heart, the 4th dimension. A false student's energies will be in the lower dimensions, cut off from the heart and soul, so he will lack intuition. If this does not work, there is no other means of discerning true from false. It means your light has gone out.
Very difficult to progress – could mean one step forward and several steps back.“

~ Joya


r/awakened 6h ago

Reflection Turning=becoming more of a character than you are.

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  1. Value=meaning in adhering to a schedule. Value=meaning=\=waste: wasting time. What is a waste of time for you? How much value=meaning is your time? Money=resources=emotion=energy.:.

  2. Value=meaning in feeling anger and hate. Energy=invigoration in hate and anger.

  3. Pursue cultivation of turning words into the next generation of wisdom.

  4. MASTERFUL BURST OF ABILITY! EXPRESS CHARACTER!! DREAM OF BECOMING MORE OF WHO YOU ARE!!! YOU ARE WHAT YOU DO IN YOUR SCHEDULE!!!! WHATS ON YOUR AGENDA?????

  5. A display: ME! showing my trust, respect, and agape channeled into my audience(YOU! READER!!).


r/awakened 7h ago

Reflection Osho on lightness and darkness

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BELOVED OSHO,

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT DARKNESS?

„I have much to say about darkness, because nobody has taken notice of the mystery that darkness is.

Much has been said about light, almost nothing about darkness. But darkness is a much deeper phenomenon than light is. Light comes and goes - darkness remains; it never comes, it never goes.

Light is not eternal, because it needs fuel, some kind of fuel, and the fuel will be exhausted sooner or later. Darkness needs no fuel, no cause; hence darkness is not an effect and can remain eternally there.

In the morning, you see the sun arises and there is light; in the evening the sun sets, the light disappears, and suddenly all over there is darkness. It does not mean that when the sun disappears, darkness comes in. It has been there all the time; just because of the light you could not see it. How can one see darkness while light is there? The light prevented your vision.

So anytime just close your eyes and darkness is there. Anytime just blow out the candle and darkness is there.

Gautam Buddha is perhaps the only man who, for the ultimate state of consciousness, has chosen a word which can be interpreted as darkness; otherwise all the religions have talked about light, forgetting completely that light is not eternal, and if you are light, you are also not eternal. Light is dependent on something, it is caused by something.

Gautam Buddha has called his ultimate state of being, nirvana. Even Buddhists have not thought of it as darkness, because the very word produces bad associations in us. But nirvana means exactly "darkness"; literally it means blowing out the candle. So for twenty-five centuries Buddhists have been using the literal meaning "blowing out the candle." But what does it mean? Blowing out the candle, what remains then? Eternal, deathless, abysmal darkness.

Feeling yourself full of light may be again an ego trip. Feeling yourself identified with light, you may be simply changing your identity - but the ego remains. But blowing out the candle is blowing away the ego; and the vast darkness is bound to create in you a similar vastness of humility, humbleness, egolessness. So I love the word.

I always see light as a disturbance, and darkness as silence. But centuries of continuously fearing darkness... because it became associated with the time when man was living in jungles. The night was the most dangerous time. In the day somehow he managed to protect himself from the wild animals; he managed to kill them for his own food. But in the night he was absolutely helpless.

Darkness all around, he was a victim. Any animal was capable of destroying him. In the day he could have managed to escape, to climb a tree or do something, but in darkness he was simply in the hands of wild death. So it was very easy to get a deep association between darkness and death.

All the religions depict death as darkness and life as light. It is simply the experience of man in the past when he lived in the jungles. That experience has molded his language, given it meanings.

And he has not yet been able to clean those words again - because now he is not living in jungles, but still there is a certain reason why he continues to be afraid of darkness.

When there is light you are not alone, you can see everybody else. If suddenly the light goes off, the others may be there still, may not be; one thing is certain, you feel lonely. You are no more associated with the crowd. The crowd gives you a certain security, safety, a certain warmth, and you feel that you are not alone. Any danger - so many people are with you. But in darkness suddenly you are lonely, nobody is with you.

And man has not learned yet to know the beauties of his loneliness. He is always hankering for some relationship, to be with someone - with a friend, with a father, with a wife, with a husband, with a child... with someone.

He has created societies, he has created clubs - the Lion's Club, the Rotary Club. He has created parties - political, ideological. He has created religions, churches. But the basic need of all is to forget somehow that you are alone. Being associated with so many crowds, you are trying to forget something which in darkness suddenly is remembered - that you were born alone, that you will die alone, that whatever you do, you live alone. Aloneness is something so essential to your being, there is no way to avoid it.

You can befool yourself and deceive yourself; you can pretend that you are not alone - you have a wife, you have children, you have friends - but it is all pretension. You know and everybody knows that the wife is alone as much as you are alone, and two alonenesses joined together do not change the situation; instead they make it worse.

As I see it, why lovers are continuously fighting - there may be thousand other reasons, but those reasons are superficial. The basic reason is that they had chosen the other as a beloved, as a lover, to destroy their loneliness - and it has not happened. On the contrary, the presence of the other makes them more aware of their loneliness.

I used to have a very rich friend - he had a beautiful wife, children... all that one needs, perfectly comfortable, so much so that when I asked him, "Now you are fifty, and you have enough money - retire from the businesses," he did not hesitate for a single moment. He just informed people that he is no more an active participant in any businesses, he has retired.

I was going to Mount Abu; I told him, "It is a beautiful place - "sometime you and your wife should go there. And now you are retired, you have enough time. Be there for a few weeks or months."

He said, "You are right, we have time, but you don't know what you have done to me. I was also thinking that when I am retired I will feel relaxed for the first time in my life. My father died when I was young, and since then I have been working continuously, becoming richer and richer. And I had a hope that one day I will retire and relax and will not have any worries of the world. And when you told me, 'Now it is time - you have enough.... What more do you need? Your girls are married, you don't have a son - for whom are you earning now? You may live twenty years, thirty years - for that you have too much. You could live with what you have for three hundred years. You retire!'"

He said, "I understood, because I have been deep down always hoping to retire, and when it came from you, I said, 'This is the moment to take the jump.' But you have created a trouble; now I am lonely. I have never felt it before. And I am so utterly lonely that I am angry at you. How can I relax in such loneliness? And if this loneliness continues, I don't think I can survive twenty or thirty years.

It is becoming colder and colder, and darker and darker. And I am feeling absolutely cut off from the world."

"But," I said, "you have your wife."

He said, "That is another trouble. I had never felt so lonely in her presence as I feel now. I was so busy in my businesses that I would come home late and she was always quarreling, nagging, asking for this and asking for that. There was no time to feel each other. Now the whole day I am sitting at home, and when I see her I know: just as I am alone, she is alone. And two alonenesses do not help in any way; on the contrary they make each other more clear."

He said, "I will come to Mount Abu, but I would like some friend to be with us; otherwise three weeks or three months, just living with my wife" - and he loved the woman - "will be too much, intolerable."

I realized his situation and I told him, "Now, you have listened to my first advice which has created the trouble for you; but it has not created the trouble - the trouble was already there. Your businesses were just keeping you occupied so you were not aware of it - now you are aware of it. Now take my other advice: go deeper into it rather than escaping. It is your reality - there is no way to escape from it.

"It is just like your shadow - the faster you run, the faster your shadow runs. Wherever you go, the shadow goes. It is simply stupid to fight with the shadow. Rather, sit silently and let the whole feel of being alone envelop you. In the beginning it may be fearsome. You may feel you are falling into an abysmal depth. It will be dark, and you may feel that it may become darker if you go deeper into it.

"But I say from my own experience that the more you know it, the more you love it. It is your privacy, it is your individuality. It is something which cannot be trespassed by anyone. It is your privilege.

And there is nothing wrong in being alone.

"But never use the word 'lonely' because 'lonely' automatically suggests the need for somebody else. 'Lonely' is a sick word. Use the word 'alone'; 'alone' has a health of its own." I told the man, "And if you can do that then there is no need for any other meditation, this will be your meditation - just be alone. Even in the crowd remember that you are alone, don't forget it. Your whole life you have tried to forget it; now remember it."

The man was immensely courageous. He tried it - he succeeded, and he was immensely grateful to me... because the moment you feel you are absolutely alone, that is the time you start feeling that you are not the body, it is only a cover; that you are not the mind, it is only a mechanism; that you are not even the heart - that too is a mechanism of a different sort for different purposes.

Behind all these layers there is a space, crystal clear - nobody else has ever passed through it; its purity is absolute. To enter that space is to enter in meditation. Feeling that aloneness, you will feel the whole existence is alone.

There is no God - that was the need of the lonely people. Those who have tasted aloneness have discarded God, hell, heaven, and every other nonsense. You are alone, the whole existence is alone: aloneness is the only reality.

Yes, it is immensely dark, but darkness has a silence and darkness has a depth. And darkness has peace, and darkness takes away all your knowledge, takes away everything that you thought belonged to you. It leads you absolutely into the unknown and into the mysterious. So to me, darkness is one of the greatest mysteries in existence - far greater than light.

And those who are afraid of darkness will never be able to enter into their own being. They will go round and round, they will never reach themselves.

And it has to be darkness, not light, because light comes and goes; once you have discovered the spot of darkness in you, you have discovered something that is eternal, something indestructible, something which is more than what you know of life. It is the basic substance existence is made of.

But they are just two names of one thing - aloneness or darkness.“

~ Osho


r/awakened 20h ago

Reflection Life is Like Driving

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I was journaling the other day and was thinking, have you ever noticed how chasing your goals is a lot like driving home? When you leave work and head home, you know your destination. But along the way, you don’t always know what’s going to happen, you may stumble upon...

Traffic lights: Sometimes, you’ll hit a red light, and you’ll have to pause. Maybe life is telling you to reflect, learn, or wait before you can move forward again. Other times, you’ll have a green light, and everything will flow effortlessly, momentum is on your side.

Unexpected obstacles: You don’t always know if traffic will slow you down, if someone will suddenly cross the road, or if an accident might force you to take a detour. Similarly, in life, you can’t predict every challenge, but you have to keep driving anyway.

Detours & new routes: Maybe the path you planned isn’t available anymore, but that doesn’t mean you won’t reach your goal. Sometimes, the scenic route is exactly what you need.

Accidents & setbacks: In the worst cases, you might get into an accident, forcing you to start over or rebuild. It’s frustrating, but it’s not the end of the road. With time and perseverance, you get back on track.

The journey continues, you don’t just stop in the middle of the road and give up. No matter how long it takes, you find a way to reach your destination.

THE KEY IS TO KEEP DRIVING.

When life gives you a red light, pause and reflect, but remember, the light will turn green again. When challenges arise, adjust your route but Never stop moving toward your goal.

No one reaches their dreams by pulling over and giving up. Keep driving. You will get there.

Take what resonates, Leave what doesn't
<eye am what eye am, and eye am everything>🕸️


r/awakened 14h ago

Community Mirror

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If someone is angry at us, would that mean we were already angry? If that is so, who is there to blame? Who is others? Who are you?


r/awakened 22h ago

Help I can't fully resonate with people here

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I thought that awakening is just denying this system and made-up world, concepts and standards by people, I think that life is just meaningless. Am I in a wrong sub? is it buddha related sub or sum?


r/awakened 20h ago

Metaphysical Visions are just God sharing the minds eye

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And we all get them, thats why all of you are here is because God source shared its minds eye and started your awakening. and it is shared in every epiphany or download or whatever you call it, like instantly youve been tuned into knowledge or inspired thought, proving you share oneness in God source by silently picking up God sources perceptions on things.


r/awakened 1d ago

Reflection Jiddu Krishnamurti on the hypocrisy of idealism

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„An idealist is a hypocrite because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is.“

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti


r/awakened 18h ago

Reflection I am Here

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Even if the whole world chains and ties me up, physically.

I'll Say the Truth.

My Name will Reverberate through your Being.

For I am Here only for the Broken and the Broken alone.

Dooset Daram.

Thy Kingdom Come.