In my early journey on the non-existent path of realization, I had many early mornings where I would awaken with a feeling of panic.
This usually occurred just before the sun was giving birth to a new day. In these times, I felt like my contracted mind was dripping sweat. Each drop contained different versions of essentially the same fear.
What if realization is just another invention of the mind? What if realization is a conspiracy that the matrix invented to keep the weirdest of us occupied? What if this experience is yet another brainwashing, like the one, for instance, by which I am convinced of being somebody just because enough people in my life have called me by the same name since I was born? What if realization is just another assumption/concept I am taking in mistakenly as the absolute truth? What if realization is another religion and my secular mind didn’t even notice?
Later, in one of my meditations, clarity about what realization is all about showered me like rain on a sunny day. The colorful rainbow in the cloudless sky erased all questions and doubts from that moment on. The path of realization is the path where we decipher the codes of the instructional manual of existence so we can use existence and not be abused by it.
Imagine you obtain a vacuum cleaner with no manual to operate it. You have no idea what this thing is for. You try to use it as a bag and you lose all your belongings. You try to eat it and you nearly break your teeth. Put it on your head as a hat and you nearly break your neck. You keep moving from one suffering to another, from one pain to another, until something whispers in your ears: “I have instructions on how to use it without harming yourself.”

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When you look at people around, rarely do you see human beings in stillness. People are endlessly in motion and this endless motion seems to gain speed every year. We cannot be still. We are on the go, with no breaks. We all know how hard it was to still the body when we first started practicing meditation. Maybe you still struggle with this simple, but yet often almost impossible, action of sitting still.The legs were falling asleep, the back muscles were aching, we felt itchy everywhere…and much more. Once we were settled with the body we faced even bigger challenges by trying to still the mind. Who said nothing can go faster then the speed of light? We know how fast the mind races when we force it into stillness. We can be in different parts of the world in one moment, we can travel through time in a second, we can move between extreme emotions in an instant.So why, for most of us, is being still so difficult?Because nothing, inside or outside us, is still. Every molecule in our body is a trace from the dust of the stars. The stars were born from a powerful explosion known as the big bang. Since the big bang, the universe never stopped moving. Every thing is in constant motion: from the largest objects in space, to the smallest subatomic particles that form our bodies.

We exist in a world that is in continuous motion. Even when you look at an unmoving object, it is an illusion, as it moves with the motion of earth. Space itself keeps expanding rapidly, moving everything within it. As in space, everything in your body is in constant motion. Your muscles, joints, organs, nervous system, blood and cells are all in continual movement.So here we are, vibrating entities, composed of particles in motion, hovering in an environment in perpetual motion.If everything from the largest objects to the smallest particles moves constantly, where is the stillness we are trying to achieve on the path of spirituality? Is it possible to reach such a state?Stillness exists outside of the mind’s dominion, where all concepts cease. Stillness is present where the fragments of reality unite to be the whole picture in no time or space.In other words, to exit the boundaries of the mind and the universe it shapes, we have to unite with the higher self, the Source of stillness. Imagine the higher self as a complete picture of a still reality that has been reflected by an infinite mirror. Imagine the immeasurable mirror exploding to endless pieces (each piece is a metaphor for you and me and everything you see around you). Each piece reflects only a fragment of the whole picture. All pieces are in constant vibrating motion towards unification that will bring them into their original state of oneness. Each piece captures the sparkle of the original stillness from the original unbroken reflection of reality. This is the sparkle we are connecting with in our meditation.

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True masters never add titles to their own name to enhance their power.
True masters share their insights without needing to convince.
True masters never elevate themselves higher then anyone.
True masters never claim to hold on to the absolute truth.
True masters never declare their own realization.
True masters convey wisdom with no ownership.
True masters know we are all masters within.
True masters never encourage dependency.
True masters never encourage idolization.
True masters never fear others who know.
True masters simply radiate their state.
True masters set people free.

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