Quotes I Love

[AnthroHeart]

Can we reach a state of pure awareness through meditation? Is that Nirvana?

I believe that you can, though, as I've said before, I don't believe that enlightenment or nirvana is ever a permanent state, but relative to a human life it could be.

But that doesn't mean it isn't worth working towards.

I guess the question is: what kind of meditation leads to that kind of transcendence?

And that's where it gets tricky. How does one unblock their energy centers?

There are a lot of different ways to go about doing that. The process of polarization unblocks your centers, and if you look at it objectively it is that same process of transcending ego or selfishness (unless we are talking the negative path which approaches unity from a different direction while attempting to keep the ego intact -- a tricky balancing act in its own right, with plenty of "costs" to doing that. Every reward is commensurate with its sacrifice. "you get what you pay for").

Many teachers talk about "being present" and I think there is lot of truth to that. Personally, I think it is a matter of "intensifying awareness". Not in a mentally straining sort of way, but more of calm, lucid way where you focus on What Is. When you can look with clear focus on What Is, as opposed to how we would like it to be, you begin to open the gateway to the present. After you travel the same mental road enough times, your (mental) feet begin to "grow eyes" and see things that were previously not seen.

Basically, whatever you focus on is growing. Your consciousness is like a magnifying glass, and keep in mind the fact of the holographic and fractal nature of existence. If you focus on awareness in a pure and noncontradicted way, the spotlight of our awareness begins to grow.  As it reaches new thresholds of brilliance, the spotlight of our awareness begins to illuminate subtler and subtler truths and realities. Eventually illusions are transcended.

But of course, that takes a lot of discipline to really consistently practice. Who has the time for that? Let's just go do acid.