MET ONDERSTAANDE TEACHINGS KUN JE JE EIGEN ONTWAKINGSPROCES EVALUEREN
The Awakened One listens. The unawakened one reacts.
The Awakened One makes use of his mind. The unawakened one is made use of by his mind.
The Awakened One listens. The Awakened one interprets.
The Awakened One does without doing.
The Awakened One does not want to be honored into a position. The unawakened one wants to be honored into a position.
The Awakened One is secure and makes everyone secure. The unawakened one is insecure and makes everyone insecure.
The Awakened One does not judge, and hence has true love. The unawakened one judges, and hence has no true love.
The Awakened One is free of all views. The unawakened one is full of views.
The Awakened One listens. The unawakened one hears.
The Awakened One is what One is. The unawakened one tries to be what one is not.
The Awakened One sees all cultures and religions as family. The unawakened one sees all cultures and relgions as separate individuals
The Awakened One experiences no division as the inner and the outer. The unawakened one experiences a division as the inner and the outer.
The Awakened One has natural values. The unawakened one has cultivated values.
The Awakened One follows the Divine will. The unawakened one follows his own will.
The Awakened One has no views. The unawakened one is full of views.
The Awakened One acts. The unawakened one reacts.
The Awakened One is non-judgmental. The unawakened one is judgmental.
The Awakened One lives the teachings. The unawakened one tries to understand the teachings.
The Awakened One has no inner dialogue or observes it. The unawakened one gets involved with the inner dialogue and identifies with it.
The Awakened One is concerned about others. The unawakened one is concerned about oneself.
The Awakened One is detached. The unawakened one is indifferent
The Awakened One is naturally responsible. The unawakened one is afraid of responsibility.
The Awakened One naturally becomes significant. The unawakened one craves for significance.
The Awakened One does not get hurt, therefore there is nothing to forgive. The unawakened one gets hurt, therefore tries to forgive. (this is a very difficult one!)
The Awakened One feels helpless. The unawakened one feels desperate.
The Awakened One perceives everything as perfect. The unawakened one perceives everything in terms of pain and pleasure.
The Awakened One is free of all images about oneself. The unawakened one is full of images about oneself.
The Awakened One listens. The unawakened one interprets.
The Awakened One does everything out of joy. (heart/soul) The unawakened one does everything for pleasure. (mind/ego)
The Awakened One sees everything as connected to everything else. The unawakened one sees everything as unconnected to everything else.
The Awakened One is virtuous by nature. The unawakened one practices virtue.
The Awakened One experiences reality as it is. The unawakened one experiences reality through images.
The Awakened One does not identify oneself with ones thoughts. The unawakened one identifies oneself with ones thoughts.
The Awakened One responds. The unawakened one reacts.
The Awakened One finds everything complete and perfect.
The unawakened one finds everything incomplete and imperfect.
The Awakened One sees everything as a happening.
The unawakened one sees everything as made to happen.
The Awakened One suffers, therefore there is no suffering.
The unawakened one moves away from the suffering, therefore there is suffering.
The Awakened One stays with the what is.
The unawakened one keeps moving away from the what is.
The Awakened One sees the seer as the seen.
The unawakened one sees the seer and the seen as not the same.
The Awakened One sees no person; only personalities.
The unawakened one sees a person with personalities.
The Awakened One sees the many as the One.
The unawakened one sees the One as the many.
The Awakened One stays with the what is.
The unawakened one keeps moving away from the what is.
The Awakened One acts from non-self centeredness.
The unawakened one acts from self centeredness.
The Awakened One has thoughts.
The unawakened one has an illusory thinker also.
The Awakened One is free.
The unawakened one tries to be free.
The Awakened One lives.
The unawakened one exists.
The Awakened One responds from the heart.
The unawakened one reacts from the head.
The Awakened One is transparent.
The unawakened one is not transparent.
The Awakened One does not try to control the future.
The unawakened one tries to control the future.
The Awakened One is connected to everything.
The unawakened one is not connected to anything.
The Awakened One trusts oneself.
The unawakened one trusts others.
The Awakened One is free of all knowing.
The unawakened one is caught up in knowing.
The Awakened One arises from the heart.
The unawakened one arises from the head.
The Awakened One does not compete or compare.
The unawakened one competes and compares.
The Awakened One does not know.
The unawakened one knows.
The Awakened One sees everything set in eternity.
The unawakened one sees everything set in the immediate.
The Awakened One does not seek greatness.
The unawakened one seeks greatness.
The Awakened One lives in humility.
The unawakened one cultivates humility.
The Awakened One has nothing to oppose.
The Awakened One is not afraid of the truth.
The unawakened one is afraid of the truth.
The Awakened One allows destiny to be created.
The unawakened one tries to create destiny.
The Awakened One experiences freedom from one’s own ideas.
The unawakened one is caught up in one’s own ideas.
The Awakened One witnesses things happen.
The unawakened one tries to make things happen.
The Awakened One knows that the world governs itself.
The unawakened one thinks that the world must be governed.
The Awakened One does not try to impose one’s will.
The unawakened one tries to impose one’s will.
The Awakened One never expects results.
The unawakened one always expects results.
The Awakened One looks inside oneself.
The unawakened one looks outside oneself.
The Awakened One cannot cling to good and bad.
The unawakened one has to cling to good and bad.
The Awakened One is balanced.
The unawakened one is out of balance.
The Awakened One does not think about one’s actions.
The unawakened one thinks about one’s actions.
The Awakened One has no problem with wealth – for wealth is not the problem.
The unawakened has problem with wealth – for the sense of possession is the problem.
The Awakened One acts without possessing, interfering or expecting anything.
The unawakened one does the opposite.
The Awakened One is happy for no reason.
The unawakened one is happy for some reason.
The Awakened One experiences without the experiencer.
The unawakened one experiences with the experiencer.
The Awakened One is what one is.
The unawakened one is what one is not.
The Awakened One knows no attachment.
The unawakened one knows nothing but attachment.
The Awakened One knows no fear.
The unawakened one knows nothing but fear.
The Awakened One makes use of conditioning.
The unawakened one is made use of by conditioning.
The Awakened One experiences nothing but consciousness, for there is only consciousness.
The unawakened one tries to understand consciousness.
The Awakened One is ready to die.
The unawakened one is not ready to die.
The Awakened One owns things, but does not end up being owned by them.
The unawakened one owns things and ends up being owned by them.
The Awakened One experiences freedom because of the absence of choice and hope.
The unawakened one experiences freedom in the presence of choice and hope.
The Awakened One has no cause for His joy, and therefore nothing effects His joy.
The unawakened one knows pleasure or pain, dependent on all that is happening.
The Awakened One experiences all the time.
The unawakened one dreams all the time.
The Awakened One is virtuous.
The unawakened one practices virtue.
The Awakened One is one with the what is.
The unawakened one is one with the what should be.
The Awakened One sees the many as the One.
The unawakened one sees the One as the many.
The Awakened One lives in the mystery that life is.
The unawakened one tries to understand what life is.
The Awakened One whether does or does not do, does not try.
The unawakened one whether does or does not do, does try.
The Awakened One has no mind.
The unawakened one has a mind
The Awakened One having no mind works with the mind of others.
The unawakened one having a mind struggles with the mind of others.
The Awakened One allows things to happen their own way.
The unawakened one tries to make things happen one’s own way.
The Awakened One is constantly unlearning and therefore continuously unburdened, lives in freedom.
The unawakened one is constantly learning and therefore continuously burdened and does not know what freedom is and hence what living is.
The Awakened One does not know or understand, but sees.
The unawakened one knows and understands, but does not see.
The Awakened One has nothing to defend and therefore does nothing to feel secure.
The unawakened one has a lot to defend and therefore must do things to feel secure.
The Awakened One sees the imperfect as perfect in itself; and hence rejoices in the way things are.
The un-awakened one sees imperfection everywhere; and hence he is unhappy and dissatisfied with the way things are. The un-awakened one must therefore work to change things.
This too is perfect for the Awakened One.
The Awakened One has no sense of being and doing.
The Awakened One has no vision or goal in mind. There is just doing.
The Awakened One is humble, and does not practice humility.
The unawakened has a sense of being and doing, and therefore must have a vision or goal in mind.
The unawakened must practice humility.
When One is not Awakened, One must not behave like one.
When One is Awakened, One practices nothing. One is just Awake.
To be Awake is not a means to an end. To be Awake is an end in itself.
When One is not Awake, One must practice goodness.
Where there is no goodness, One must practice virtue.
Where there is no virtue, One must practice ritual conditioning.
Thoughts are subtle, divisive and elusive; and an expression of the self. They wander as they like. They create judgement and a troubled and disturbed mind. They prevent Awareness from happening. The unawakened must learn to direct, to control and to quieten thoughts by ruling over them.
The Awakened One has moved beyond judgement, for he has gone beyond thought; as he is always ‘Aware’.
The Awakened One does nothing; but leaves nothing undone; for all things are happening all the time around and through the Awakened One.
The Awakened One neither suppresses nor ignores, neither resists nor justifies what is there, inside or outside; but merely is aware of the what is.
The Awakened One does not perceive anything as good or bad; or as right or wrong; and hence has no preferences; and therefore does not try to change the way things are.
The Awakened One achieves nothing; for there is nothing to be achieved.
The Awakened One understands nothing; for there is nothing to be understood.
The Awakened One knows nothing; for there is nothing to be known.
The Awakened One knows that there is nothing to learn; what is needed is only to unlearn.
The Awakened One has no fixed plans and no destination.
The Awakened One accepts oneself; and the world accepts the Awakened One.
The Awakened One knows oneself; and hence has wisdom.
The Awakened One has no conflict with oneself; and hence has true power.
The Awakened One embraces death; for there is no death for the Awakened One.”
The Awakened One sees things as they are, and doesn’t try to control or shape them.
The Awakened One doesn’t try to convince others.
The Awakened One knows that what is to happen will happen; and what is not to happen will not happen; and that the universe is forever out of control.
Dear Friends, family and teachers and walkers of the path of life….are you really ready to wake up?
The Awakened One does not try to change the world. It is perfect and sacred to the Awakened One.
The Awakened One has no will and no illusions.
The Awakened One merely dwells in reality.
The Awakened One sees the world emerging from the void; therefore accept the world as it is. As the Awakened One accepts the world as it is, the Awakened One is established in the primal Self.
The Awakened One is open to all people and all situations and flows with them.
The Awakened One journeys without journeying.
The Awakened One remains unmoving till perfect action arises by itself.
The Awakened One is free of all views and concepts; is One with the what is.
The Awakened One is one with that which was there before the universe was born. It is the one which is eternally present, the unborn and the undying, one without a beginning and an end, ever unchanging, solitary, empty, infinite, blissful, the eternal ‘I’.
The Awakened One is open to everything and everything falls into place.
The Awakened One remains unmoving, and action arises by its self.
The Awakened One allows things to come and go like clouds in the sky.
The Awakened One sustains all beings without trying to.
The Awakened One sees the world as himself or herself. Loves and cares for the world as one’s self.
To the Awakened One all things are perfect as they are.
The Awakened One is detached from all things, and hence, is one with everything. Detachment when practiced leads to indifference which is not detachment.
The Awakened One is empty and therefore capable. One should not try to empty one’s self.
The awakened one, acts without doing anything, this cannot be practiced.
When judgment stops of its own accord, there is oneness with all that is.
When stepping back from your own mind occurs, there is an understanding of all things.
Be Yourself.
See your self in others, see others in you.
Fear is the greatest obstacle on the spiritual path; confront your fears.
By being grateful for all that has happened and to the people involved in one’s life, one enters the spiritual path.
With deepest Gratitude for Sri AmmaBhagavan for this deep and truthfull and most helping teachings and Love.