Energy of Awakening

This modern spiritual world is filled with people presenting themselves as awakened and enlightened, and to reinforce that idea in others they behave in a way that is not completely natural.

The soft almost whispering voice, the inability to complete even a simple sentence without slipping back into bliss. The enigmatic laugh as they show their understanding of something that you as the student, have not yet realised.

An oscar winning performance of a presentation of enlightenment.

But awakening is as natural as breathing. It is not outside our ordinary human experience and those who make a show of something special in this dream like way only present something that is known in Vipassana training as 'Soft Mind'. The mind without any real energy.

If this had been the Buddha's realisation, his teaching could not have continued and survived for almost two thousand six hundred years. All the beautiful teachers I have lived and trained with, were quiet, gentle loving people with tremendous energy and vitality. Their Dhamma talks did not send me to sleep, but inspired me to practice. To come fully into my own life and to make an even greater effort for my own liberation.

Awakening is a life affirming, life enhancing experience. Releasing the last remnents of fear and the attachment to an always limiting self identity. In this place there is energy and vitality as any notion of who and what you are simply falls away. Here there is the beautifull completion of 'oneness' with life, with the universe and with all beings. That, is always energising!

The teacher who does not make a presentation of being someone and something different, but who shares their natural loving heart, is the one to gravitate towards, after all, if you want to see people pretending to be something they are not, go to the theatre.

If you want Dhamma, go to the one who does not try to make a show of anything, and because that very attitude, shows everything.

I offer these few words because of my unconditional love of Dhamma and the need to protect it's integrity.

May all beings be happy.