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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
"If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation." Lao Tzu.
DENEKAWA! Sounds like a Japanese greeting, huh? Yes, it is, but no, is not Japanese. No alphabet error and no misspelled word too. Then, what it is, you wonder ...! The word is used as a device to play "trick" on a mind. No offense intended, just a play with the mind. Okay, let's get straight to the point. The play is to read the word, "DENEKAWA!" in reverse. Got it? Hmmm ... Am sure you do. Great! The word you now read is, AWAKENED! The mind is now literally tricked to be "awakened," start perceiving "things" in reverse perspective for a change, and see how it differs from your usual perception of "things" using "mind-logic."
By perceiving "things" in reverse, it helps guide you follow spirituality on a right footing, make it easier, simpler, and comfortable to understand better. You may want to pause and ponder, and start inquiring any area of your life that raises doubt, by using reverse, paradoxical approach contrary to using "mind-logic." Take for example a "mind-logic" understands a distance is measured horizontally from point A to point B. By reverse, paradoxically a distant-less distance is measured vertically from point A to A+ to A++, and from point B to B+ to B++ and so forth. Similarly, a "mind-logic" understands time moves in a clockwise direction; By reverse, paradoxically timelessness time moves in an anti-clockwise direction. Do you get the drift? That's the nature of who you truly are. "Mind-logic" would not allow you to remember. Otherwise, it (the "mind-logic") has no more active role to play "duality/polarity" game in your life.
In this tactical approach, you are literally practicing the way to train your senses; see, hear, feel, taste, and smell "things," inwards in reverse, opening up an opportunity allowing yourself to experience "awakening" unexpectedly. Once tasted the oceanic salt of "awakening," it enables you to undergo natural growth and expansion through an alchemical process of self-transformation that leads you to the ultimate "enlightenment."
"According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous." Deepak Chopra
The Divine would bestow you with a secret key to unlock the treasures within and unleash your life's unexpected mysteries for conscious understanding, unquestionable clarity, and true wisdom. (The third symptom of enlightenment).
Are you ready? Position your "mind-logic" gear in reverse, take a deep breath, dive inward, and let go.
In this day and age with the proliferation of vast internet information, you may have encountered, read or heard somewhere from someone telling you to be "awakened" but you find it hard to understand what others are trying to tell you, the true meaning of the word, "Awakened." You are likely to misunderstand the word using mind-logic such as ..." I sleep every day, wake up in the morning and am awake for the whole day before the night set in, in sleep mode and ready to be "awakened" from sleep again the next day, repeated daily." You are not wrong according to the definition from Cambridge dictionary: "to stop sleeping or to make someone stop sleeping." Out of curiosity, you want to find it out more and be intrigued by the alternative meaning. Here it is.
The word "Awakened" has a far, deeper meaning, embedded with true spiritual essence. Truly, it is the "awakening" of your state of being. You are not only a physical human being but a triune being of "Body, Mind and Spirit." To amplify, you have the physical body with five outer senses of "feel, see, hear, taste and smell." You have the mental faculty, thinking-thoughts, that are mind. You have inspiration from the heart, which is in spirit. Each entity of your body, mind, and spirit has its own presence of consciousness. But they are in passive, inactive mode, literally "asleep" unless you open up to active receiving mode, ready to be "awakened."
Let me illustrate to explain what it means to be "awakened" using everyday physics. Imagine an ice cube! You are aware the ice cube is in a solid state. You can feel it, yes? When it is exposed to a higher temperature, it started to melt into a liquid state. You can even feel the fluidity of the cube in a liquid state. What happened when the fluid is exposed to a rising temperature of 100 degrees boiling point? Well, you can see that the fluid started to bubble up and eventually evaporated into a vapor state. In this state, you can't feel it, anymore! From a solid state, it changes into a liquid state and from a liquid state; it converts into a vapor state. This is the law of physics as applied in the outer laboratory so you could use the five external senses to understand it during the high school day, yes?
The same principle applies, this time in your inner biological laboratory; the "body, mind and spirit." You'll find that the body is in a solid state. Science has shown our body consists of approximately 70% to 80% water which is fluid, in a liquid state. However, our present body consciousness does not allow our body solid to feel the fluid within. This could mean, our body fluid is literally "frozen," to a larger extent using the example of an ice cube.
"Be like melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself." Rumi
Given a right dose of fuel energy (increased temperature), the "frozen" fluid within can start to literally "melt-away" become fluid- like, likened to molten larvae and you can't miss sensing its inner movement within the solid physical body. The physical body remains intact in a motionless condition, but you can sense the inner fluid movement having an inner "push" effect at random" beyond the physical body control. The moment you experienced such inner body fluid movement, this is what I called the phenomenon, the "Awakening" of the body consciousness. You may not experience this inner "fluid-movement," that is perfectly okay, I understand. Every person is unique with a different kind of encounter and experience. But just that you become aware, there is such a phenomenon occurring that remains a mystery to many. Ancient mystics and sages used to say "Be like a river" meaning inner body fluidity.
"Be fluid, like a river flows to the ocean. The soul is formlessly characterized by its fluidity that merges with the infinite fluidity of the ocean; the soul becomes unidentifiable, unrecognizable, and inseparable from The One." Ju
A further influx of fuel energy received would transform your inner body fluid into a vapor state (ether). In this state, it is possible for you to sense the inner etheric body upward spiraled movement; this is a mystical phenomenon called an "Out-of-Body-Experience" (OBE), experiencing a glimpse beyond physical in a spiritual realm. This is the "Awakening" of the spiritual consciousness. It is a mystical phenomenon, unknown to a vast majority of the human population lest to experience it. It is only known through firsthand personal experience by a limited minority, a blessed few. You could be one of that limited minorities, with blessings from the Divine Light and Guidance. However, it (the phenomenon) remains largely one of Human Life's Greatest Mysteries, unknown to Humanity since its Birth.
According to research source data from the Maharshi University of Spirituality: By world population measure, 63% of the world inhabitants possess a low spiritual conscious level of between 20 to 29%; another 33% of world inhabitants possess a slightly lower high spiritual conscious level of between 30 to 39%; the balance 4% of world inhabitants possess a higher low 40% and above conscious spiritual level. This 4 % are categorized as "seekers" of spirituality.
Truth be told, there are numerous method of "awakening" to suit individual being uniqueness in the most unlikely place, in the least expected situation with myriads of other phenomena such as "receiving light; third eye activation; clairvoyance" and so forth. NDE or near-death-experience is one such "least expected" occurrence for "awakening." Meditation (Refer inside Chapter 5 - Meditation) helps get this vital fuel energy, which is pure and uncontaminated. It is cosmic energy from the Cosmo or the Universe. It has its existential presence felt anywhere and everywhere, even right before your nose. This is the science of metaphysics. It is beyond physical but is nevertheless physics. It explains "Awakened" in the context of our state of being, beyond physical being.
When you are awakened, the consciousness starts to alter on its own accord gradually, naturally and effortlessly. Your perception of life changes, too for the better! There will be an alchemical process happening on its own within the body, likened to turning from "lead to gold," metaphorically speaking. It is an alchemical process of transmutation that allows any "dark" energy within the body to be cleansed and purified, i.e., from negative to positive energy; from hatred to love, fear to fearlessness, selfish to selflessness, etc. Do you get the drift? In essence, the alchemy process will help transform your "old" personality into a "new" individuality; your egoism will be swept away, cleansed and purified from the ocean of "pain, misery, and sufferings (samsara)"; the light will shine forth bringing you an experiential taste of a new life of altruism. This is the science of inner self-transformation. It is possible only when you are truly "awakened" with a "shift" from the present state of "body-mind" consciousness to that of spiritual consciousness.
But, the big question comes to mind, are you really conscious of your own being? This is where the "Awakening" of your mind consciousness becomes all that significant and is vital. Using the earlier "fluid" analogy, you may realize as a human being; we are far less conscious and more unconscious of our inner core being in existence. The degree of the body fluidity determines how conscious or unconscious we are on perceptive "aspects" beyond the boundary of space and time. The lesser or "frozen" the inner body fluidity, the greater would be the "separateness" from our wholeness of being, thus render us more unconscious. Conversely, the greater the inner body fluidity, the more it's "cohesiveness" that blends seamlessly to the divine wholeness of being, thus render us more conscious. By conscious in this context means a higher altitude of awareness through the lens of perception displaying layers of reality both within and beyond the boundary of space and time. The mind is the single, biggest hurdle to overcome in the "Awakening" process. They are a major stumbling block for our consciousness to flow through from the body through the mind and finally merge to the spirit within. It is quite impossible for our present state of mind consciousness to understand how the mind works although there are scientific study and research being carried out all over the world. The study of mind is highly complex and complicated. We don't need to get into details otherwise we would go mad, insanely mad. Simply, we can improvise a device to reverse mind understanding. By reverse mind understanding, that is the nuance of spirit speaking using "no-mind." Not to worry, I'll explain later (Refer Chapter 4-Findings), so you can also get a glimpse, experiencing "no-mind."
Here is a brief explanation of "Mind" as an appetizer before you start the main course. The mind is very ancient since the birth of creation. The mind is the master within a human mind. It manipulates human in a subtle manner using ego to cause your mind-body misaligned from your inner spirit, as a separateness of being, It is this state of separateness that has caused you incapable of conceiving "knowing the unknowable" beyond time and space. As a result, your state of being become less conscious, more unconscious and thus, you are unaware of perceiving "things" happening beyond time and space. However, when your mind-body is aligned with your spirit within, there is cohesion as the wholeness of being, a state of balance is attained. This "Balance" (refer detailed in Chapter 4 – Findings) strengthens your capability to conceive "knowing the unknowable" beyond time and space. Consequently, the pre-requisite condition of "balanced" state of being make you become more conscious, and aware of "things" happening, not only within the boundary of time and space but that of beyond time and space i.e. "things" you can perceive which is not in this world but that of the other world i.e. the spirit world that is far beyond your mind imagination.
Therefore, it is imperative that you respect the mind-ego and allow your mind-emotion to let it go, freely and energetically. Emotion is energy-in-motion. It moves either through reaction, responds or no-action. Both positive and negative energies in our body commonly expressed through love, joy, happiness and so forth in one moment and anger, hate, jealousy and others in the next. It is a constant mind-emotion gyration likened to a "pendulum oscillation" that caused living life imbalance. These are known as duality pair. It is governed by one of the universal mutable laws, The Law of Polarity or Opposites (refer to Appendix V – 7 Hermetic Principles). The Law operates supremely intelligent that rarely make you the ability to sustain living in peace (Pendulum-rest). Often, you experience constant emotion upheaval, always "on- the-go." There aren't any little quiet space for you to enjoy this precious peace. With a constant state of mind-emotion imbalance, peace is quite impossible. Peace means balance, a state of mind-emotion at "pendulum-rest" and your whole being remains still, calm and center within. Peace is eternal. This begs the question of how many truly attained this Peace?
Based on Maharshi source data, I can only compute my guesstimate conservatively around 1.5 million, meaning on average, each country in the world (total 192 countries, source: Wikipedia) has around Seven (7) Peace Presence. Some countries may have more Peace Presence like India for example while others are less or possibly none. Truly, they are the blessed one gifted from the Divine. And, so are you, Peace Presence is "waiting" to be bestowed upon you!
It is with humility your sacred heart is filled wholly with gratitude, acceptance, and surrender, taking cognizance of the body-mind limitation. This humble step is vital to allow you the opportunity to begin dissolving your "mind ego" barrier. Just a simple, tactical understanding, it is faster and easier to "outsmart," "out-maneuver" the mind for an unexpected, miracle to happen ... the "ego-barrier" removal. Some prefer to call it "energy blocks." Such removal is necessary. It paves the way to help facilitate the "awakening" of the mental state of consciousness which is mind. The present human consciousness is currently governed by and control under the powerful "mind-ego" ruled. The latter acts in extreme subtlety under the guise through "intellect, reason and logic" influencing your daily lives. Through "mind-ego" mischieve, you can be easily misled, feeling unaware, unconscious of its underlying subtlety influencing your action. The purpose is to cause chaos and confusion (for a good reason) without you noticing it and how it adversely impact your lives in a slow but subtle way.
"Awakening" through shifting one's consciousness beyond "body-mind" to ultimately reaching the innermost core being as a spirit or soul consciousness is called Self-Realization. Once Self-realized, it helps guide you to self-transform your life of internal chaos and confusion to one of confident and clarity. In your awakened journey, finding your life's greatest mystery unleashed for self-transformation is believed to be the most satisfying achievement towards the fulfillment of true life's Purpose, Peace and Prosperity.
In closing the Introductory Chapter, a new chapter begins in search of mysteries of life that would unfold for your awakening, as you read Chapter 4 - "Findings." The findings, observations and conclusions are based on "integration" methodology using several referenced book sources as outlined in Chapter 2 – "Review of Literatures." Using this "integration" method, any source materials found relevant and available in various parts of the libraries, were assembled together like a puzzle forming an integral whole, thus revealing the "Findings." In this way, a complete picture reveals the relevancy of the various "parts" assembled to become an integral "whole," which would otherwise remain a hidden mystery. Again, this is only possible with divine guidance, allowing my personal life story experiences and encounters, both outer and inner experiences, as outlined in Chapter 3 – "Personal Relevance." For details of my journey and experiences, please refer to Chapter 8 – "Journeys of Awakening."
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