In this time of great and rapid change, do you sometimes find yourself
desperately trying to hold on, or find yourself falling into outdated
patterns of fear and doubt? Do you sometimes obsess on real and imagined
issues in your personal life, as well as the state of the economy
and the world?
Take a deep breath. Relax. As hopeless as it seems,
right now there is something opening for you: the
door to your freedom. Once you pass through that
door, all circumstances take on a different light,
and you realize that there never was a door in
the first place.
It is possible to surf the waves of change
masterfully, intuitively, and in a heart-felt way, for in
the
background of all perception is the purity of
your true self.
This true self
is not making enormous efforts to transform itself into a more
in-tune,
spiritual person whose success or failure depends
on creating a perfect life; it is much simpler
and more basic than that.
The distance
between your self-assumed identity and the infinite,
creative awareness is thinner than
a silken thread, where less than a whisper of effort is required
to
break
through. As identity begins to merge with
this
ever-present awareness, perception opens
to a vast, loving, compassionate space. Within this vastness,
identity is immediately perceived as nothing
more than a bundle of arising thoughts
and programming, as attention is naturally
drawn to the love and depth of awareness.
If your heart
is hearing and feeling what I am speaking of,
you
are ripe for
awakening.
Radical Awakening is a sudden and impactful
shift in one’s conscious awareness
of Self, where the "spell" of false identification is broken. It is
a veritable waking up from the dream. For the last 12 years, my focus has been
the sharing of this pure awareness.
In recent years
I have discovered that after an awakening, there is an emergence
of the spiritual heart, where action begins
to spring from a place of compassion, wholeness and unity, rather than
hidden designs and personal gain. Fear shows up within the context
of spacious awareness,
softened within the purity of heart. This emergence is what I call the
Opening to Heart Consciousness.
I encourage you
to examine your priorities and to put
your energy, attention and resources into those activities which nurture
the emergence of the true self. To do so is
to tap into a font of purity, goodness
and infinite power. In this Heart Consciousness, the human heart—so frail
and alone—blossoms into the flowering consciousness of pure awareness.
This may be the
last workshop you feel that you will need to do (although you may
be moved to do others). I believe that after a Radical Awakening,
your search
for self-improvement can finally come to an end, and you can finally
come to rest in the heart of Silence.
Come, let us
meet where the frailty of the human
heart and the infinite, creative energy of the true self live as
one.
Yours in love,
Ramana
A personal note from Ramana
