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Sign up todayThe Myth of Enlightenment
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Learn more"All desires are a disguise covering up one real desire: the desire to be free."
In this conversation, the biggest misconceptions about enlightenment are exposed. OM talks about the distinction between awakening experiences and enlightenment, which are often lumped together. The essential focus is to distinguish whether something is a fleeting, short-lived experience, or an enduring, permanent state.
He shares from his wealth of experience about his own awakening process. He names various pitfalls that spiritual seekers repeatedly fall into on their quest.
"All practice is directed into the future, but Enlightenment is NOW!"
Why are there so few truly awakened people? It is true that the awareness of suffering has always been the great driving force behind the search for realisation. It is also true that since the beginning of the great religions there have only been a handful of enlightened people.
The so-called New Age movement and its various forms of expression are also scrutinised. It shows that most people are simply interested in feeling good and having intense, mystical, angelic experiences of happiness. The catch is that these experiences are not permanent. And, unsurprisingly, they have nothing to do with true bliss.
Light is also shed on the guru. Who actually is the guru? In what form can he manifest himself? And how do I recognise a true teacher from a false one?
As a spiritual master of the silent tradition, OM knows how to unite the Western and Eastern streams of wisdom teaching. The radical nature of his work, with which he teaches and serves the path of human awakening, is a rare treasure in this day and age. The encounter with OM deeply questions what you are not and lets you fall into what you have always been. OM passes on his knowledge of the absolute in the form of talks about being (darshan) and inner work, as well as in his work as an author and in lectures. He is the initiator of the OM Foundation Inner Science and the publishing house for wisdom literature advaitaMedia, founder and director of the mystery school Enneallionce - School for Inner Work and the Gut Saunstorf Monastery. As a result of a serious car accident in 1990, he crossed the threshold of death at the age of 27 and awoke egoless into the reality of the nondual Absolute. His teacher Gangaji, whom he met shortly afterwards, supported him in integrating his fundamental transformation, which went completely beyond the world of everyday experience. She showed him the way to her advaita teacher H. W. L. Poonja, a direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi, who gave him the spiritual name OM and inspired him to teach from the vision of advaitic reality. OM C. Parkin's spiritual teaching of the silent tradition, also referred to by him as inner science, is based on the one hand on the Eastern advaita tradition (teaching of non-duality, the best-known representative in the West is Ramana Maharshi), as well as on the teachings of integral yoga by the Indian sage Sri Aurobindo, and on the other hand on Western paths of experience (e.g. Christian mysticism, Georges I. Gurdjieff: The Fourth Way). He also uses modern psychological and psychotherapeutic methods in his teaching. The aim is self-knowledge through inner work, which ultimately leads to the realization of the true nature of man. He himself says: "In the innermost heart of the religions of the East (advaita, zen, etc.) we find the ripest fruits of the philosophy of BEING. The mystery of the dissolution of the world. The spiritual culture of the West has brought forth the knowledge of the evolution of consciousness - the philosophy of becoming. The highest teaching is the unification teaching, which unites the paths of love and truth (small marriage) and BEING with becoming (great marriage). Thus, what was never separate is united in the highest realization." OM C. Parkin
As a spiritual master of the silent tradition, OM knows how to unite the Western and Eastern streams of wisdom teaching. The radical nature of his work, with which he teaches and serves the path of human awakening, is a rare treasure in this day and age. The encounter with OM deeply questions what you are not and lets you fall into what you have always been. OM passes on his knowledge of the absolute in the form of talks about being (darshan) and inner work, as well as in his work as an author and in lectures. He is the initiator of the OM Foundation Inner Science and the publishing house for wisdom literature advaitaMedia, founder and director of the mystery school Enneallionce - School for Inner Work and the Gut Saunstorf Monastery. As a result of a serious car accident in 1990, he crossed the threshold of death at the age of 27 and awoke egoless into the reality of the nondual Absolute. His teacher Gangaji, whom he met shortly afterwards, supported him in integrating his fundamental transformation, which went completely beyond the world of everyday experience. She showed him the way to her advaita teacher H. W. L. Poonja, a direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi, who gave him the spiritual name OM and inspired him to teach from the vision of advaitic reality. OM C. Parkin's spiritual teaching of the silent tradition, also referred to by him as inner science, is based on the one hand on the Eastern advaita tradition (teaching of non-duality, the best-known representative in the West is Ramana Maharshi), as well as on the teachings of integral yoga by the Indian sage Sri Aurobindo, and on the other hand on Western paths of experience (e.g. Christian mysticism, Georges I. Gurdjieff: The Fourth Way). He also uses modern psychological and psychotherapeutic methods in his teaching. The aim is self-knowledge through inner work, which ultimately leads to the realization of the true nature of man. He himself says: "In the innermost heart of the religions of the East (advaita, zen, etc.) we find the ripest fruits of the philosophy of BEING. The mystery of the dissolution of the world. The spiritual culture of the West has brought forth the knowledge of the evolution of consciousness - the philosophy of becoming. The highest teaching is the unification teaching, which unites the paths of love and truth (small marriage) and BEING with becoming (great marriage). Thus, what was never separate is united in the highest realization." OM C. Parkin
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