IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO WAKE UP AND LAUNCH YOUR OWN SPIRITUAL PATH
Honestly and sincerely pursuing your own spiritual path is one of the most challenging things you can ever do—but it is also the most important and rewarding
THE DAWNING LIGHT—Daily Journal of Positive and Inspirational Writing
Volume 8, Issue Number 953…for Monday, May 20, 2024
SPIRITUAL SOUP KITCHEN Section # 163 Stories written and published by Chinmayan to nourish your heart, mind and spirit
All images in this issue by the kind courtesy of Pixabay
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO WAKE UP and LAUNCH OUT ON YOUR OWN SPIRITUAL PATH!
Like my own teachers before me, I have dedicated my life to teaching the authentic spiritual principles and practices that anyone anywhere can use to transform their lives and become free.
This story is a spontaneous response to a comment from one of our subscribers to a recent story that you can read here:
The comment from one of our faithful readers:
“surely you are devoted and enriched in your beliefs and practice - I am grateful to read your thoughts and feel your reaching out.”
And my response….
Thank you dear one….
Being here for you is one of the reasons I put so much time, energy and focus into writing and publishing this newsletter!
We are preparing to re open our Center and resume teaching these principles and practices in both live in person and simultaneous on line classes, courses and events because first, it is important to learn them from a teacher with the training, experience and heart who really cares about others and has in depth understanding to guide and train students.
Second, it is far easier to learn these principles and practices directly from a teacher in a live group setting…
And third, to be able to practice meditation, prayer and mantra ongoingly, it is important to have the support of the group of students who become your friends, your dharma brothers and sisters in a kind of community….so you are not trying to climb the mountain alone, but know you have the backing and support of the group.
The spiritual path is a lifetime journey.
As a spiritual teacher who has been trained by some of the greatest meditation masters of our time, who themselves were trained by their own teachers and did the practices and studied the principles their teachers gave them until they became masters in an unbroken lineage, I can say that what and how I teach is the real deal.
I call what I teach “authentic principles and practices” because I didn’t make it up or get it from a book, but from direct transmission of my teachers to me.
I teach because I want to help as many people as I can to have these practices and principles that are highly effective, simple to learn, effective in positive results and will certainly free them from suffering and the sources of suffering—-if the student will use them and do the inner work we recommend.
I appreciate your being here with me on a daily basis as one of our Dawning Light community members!
I invite you to participate in our classes, courses and events when we open. Once we launch, we will be teaching from now on and making many valuable resources available for our students, including being able to interact with me directly.
Meanwhile, here is a link to a video of Class One of our Meditation Training Intensive course which you can watch anytime. It is 2 hours long and will give you an idea of how I teach and what one of my courses is like.
We were all born and sent here to life on earth because this world is actually the perfect environment for spiritual growth and we are all irrevocably enrolled in this school of love and consciousness for as long as we live.
My teachers said that there are only two kinds of people in this world….those who haven’t yet realized that the true purpose of life is intentional spiritual growth …and those who have had this basic realization and are actively pursuing their own dharmic spiritual path.
It changes everything to know that our life does have a higher purpose and meaning…that life is not just some meaningless experience that we have to go through until we die…that this life we have now is an incredibly precious opportunity that most people are wasting by chasing after the things the world tells us are important…but actually are of little or no lasting value.
Once you know why we are here and have the tools, spiritual principles and practices to fulfill your real purpose for your life, it changes everything for the better.
Your life is important, and the fact that you are interested in this newsletter and these teachings shows that you are on the cusp of stepping into a greater, new level of life of awakening to seeing yourself as a spiritual student on your own path.
One of the greatest things I received from my teachers is waking up to these truths and shifting from seeing myself in the old lost and pain filled ways to knowing myself to be a spiritual seeker on the path to Realization.
My teachers often said that it is the destiny of every human being to eventually become enlightened, to become a Realized person completely free from all suffering because who we all really are is the Higher Self…but the question is — how many thousands of lifetimes of suffering from ignorance and ego mind will it take before we wake up and get busy consciously doing the inner work necessary to become free?
I have suffered many terrible things in my life which caused me tremendous agony, despair and depression that completely dominated my days and experience so much that it seemed as if suffering would always be my fate…and these awful sufferings became a loop that went round and round with seemingly no way out…
Fortunately, I prayed for help, had a major awakening, searched for enlightened teachers who could help me and finally met my first teacher, Kalu Rinpoche when I was 22 years old. He recognized me as one of his very first american students and I recognized him as my destined teacher.
I became one of his heart sons and dedicated myself to training with him very closely for many years. Through studying the principles and actually seriously doing the practices he taught us, I was able to make steady step by step progress and became free.
Rinpoche asked me to teach meditation and the foundations of the path, authorized me to found dharma centers and give courses, lead retreats and work with and guide beginners in 1977…and i have been doing this work ever since, while continuing to study the dharma, do my own practice and train closely with several other realized masters over the years.
I can say with absolute certainty that you can take up your own spiritual training and path and use the rest of your life consciously evolving yourself no matter what your age may be.
In fact, many of the greatest realized masters launched on their path late in life, and due to their maturity and understanding that absolutely nothing in this world can help us become free from suffering except the Dharma, used their remaining years to work through the stages of development to become completely free before they died.
This is why I teach, because I know the value of the Dharma teachings and practices from personal experience. Seriously, if they could help the lost, depressed and angry young man I was to become free, conscious and blissfully awake…then anyone who really applies themselves can also do it.
Pursuing your spiritual path is definitely one of the most challenging and difficult things you will ever do…like deciding to climb Mount Everest…but it is by far the best use of your time, your life and your energy because it will lead to permanent freedom from suffering…and then, you will have the experience and abilities to help others become free.
Besides, we all will have to take up our path sooner or later…so why wait?
I can promise you this—-once you consciously launch on your path after learning the principles and practices you need to make progress—your life will continuously improve day by day.
Its like living in a cold, dark, lost and foggy place all of your life and then, through pursuing your path daily, having the sun bring warmth, light, awareness and certainty that burns away all the fog forever!
My teachers said that there are only two ways that you can fail on the Path…to not start at all or to not do the daily inner work it takes to make progress. But if you do take up the Path and diligently do the inner work, the positive changes that will result in complete Realization will start happening from the very first day!
A WONDERFULLY HEART MELTING andUPLIFTING VERSION of one of the most powerful and effective mantras on earth….The Mantra For Developing Pure Love and Compassion…”OM MANI PAYDMEH HUNG”
“OM MANI PADMEH HUNG” by Alejandro de Pinedo
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“Your greatest service to humanity is to attain your own Self Realization!” Ramana Maharshi
“When God is the center and focus of my life, everything else falls into it’s rightful place.”
—Chinmayan