Below are the best articles we could find on Self-Realization and enlightenment.
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Question: How does a person know when they are fully self-realized?
Through the process, there was a deeper, more extraordinary dissolution of the egoic self than I had previously experienced. It wasn’t a dissolving like when you sit in meditation and your sense of self dissolves into a wonderful state of presence.
One of the most popular Buddhist teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area these days is not a Tibetan lama or a traditional Zen master but an unconventional, an American-born lay teacher named Adyashanti.
There is no end to realization, kinds and types of awakening, or enlightenment and completeness.
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Before I had my final awakening years ago, I was crazed for enlightenment. You have to be a little crazy to seriously study Zen. My teacher used to say, “Only the crazy ones stay.”
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During our weekly meetings in the Sun office, editor Sy Safransky and I occasionally stray into philosophical territory. One day, knowing that I’d once studied meditation at a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, Sy handed me a couple of videos of talks by the spiritual teacher Adyashanti.
An awakening is a fundamental shift in how we experience ourself.
In this article we endeavour to share with genuine seekers of Truth some of the strongest challenges and pitfalls that arise on the path to Self-realisation. We feel it will bring great clarity, and illumine the path of all sincere seekers whatever their spiritual background or temperament.
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