I started my spiritual journey on January 2nd, 2002. 22 years passed since I
started this conscious spiritual search for freedom.
I remember, back in 2002 that night I came from the New Years party earlier than I had planned so I was on the
internet browsing pages. I came to
the Emerald Tablets of Thoth, the Atlantean. I read it and I was
fascinated with the text. I had no clue what was I reading. It just sounded so
nice.
I, THOTH, the Atlantean,
master of mysteries,
keeper of records,
mighty king,
magician,
living from generation to generation,
being about to go away,
set down the guidance of
those that are to come after,
these records of
the mighty wisdom
of Great Atlantis.
I printed it and then I started to study it. I bought books about esoteric
philosophy and then other books and other books... I started with Theosophy,
Carlos Castaneda, Osho, then Gurdjieff, and later Ramana Maharshi and
Nisargadatta and Ranjit Maharaj. I finished spiritual books reading with Jed
McKenna. No one directly told me about these teachers. I found them on my own.
Finding the truth, seeing what is real, and leading a best possible life
with the culmination of enlightenment is what the spiritual journey is all
about. Walking the spiritual path is not straightforward as we may wish.
There are two paths in human life.
One is the path of liberation, the second is the path of rebirth. There
are no other choices, not on this earth... and I don't want to be born again,
not certainly here on this planet. So, with all my strength, I'm working
toward self-realization. That's the most important matter for me.
To be quite honest, the journey toward self-realization is simple, yet the
process of understanding that simplicity is complicated. In order to
understand the simplicity of what we are, we must see and understand our own
mind.
We should first understand that we don't need any teachings, instructions, and
guidance from others. We don't need to look at someone who has traveled the
path before because each path is unique and no one can give valid and
confident advice about how others could travel this same path.
Somebody has sold us the idea that we were born and that memory stays very
firm with us. Initially, we did not have this memory but our mother or
somebody else rammed it down our throat. Subsequently, this concept was
reinforced with steady effort like a driving a nail into a wall.
In our life everything acquired its value only when we came to know about
our existence. That is the basic feeling "I am" sense, "I exist". It is the
first and last memory. The "I am" sense is false, it just appears to be here
and now.
On this basic cheat, this "I am" feeling, this memory of presence, we have
created a grand "I am the person" idea. But this is a mental
state and does not last. It comes and goes like all other states. The
illusion of being the person is here, only because it is not investigated.
Non-investigation is the thread on which all the states of mind are based.
The spiritual path is the process of cutting through our own beliefs, cutting
through our paranoias. So it is not a matter of learning the ancient
knowledge, the mastery of mysteries is the burning out the confusions which we
so carefully take care off.
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