Traditionally an ashram is a place of study and worship where
spiritual seekers have gone to tap into higher wisdom and techniques,
usually under the guidance of a enlightened guru. And it is a wonderful
option for many serious seekers.
But once you have had that amazing experience, have received more techniques than you can possibly use in a lifetime, have learned to live consciously and learned how to explore your own motives, your own psyche, learned to reveal yourself to yourself, then your ashram can be any place your body and consciousness resides, because there comes a time where you must integrate all that wisdom and those techniques into your third dimension, daily existence. It's easy to be in a ashram and apply higher wisdom, but much more challenging and therefore offering room for greater growth when you get back into the world with so much density and pain around and still have to hold that higher energy in the face of the greater density.
That is the choice I made after after a decade of intense study, yoga and meditation and conscious living. For me it was time to take that wisdom, and be in the world but not of it. I like many other spiritual seekers are still a work in progress, obviously, because they and I are still here on this third rock from the sun in a human body. We haven't illumed or disappeared in front of adoring followers. Instead, day by day we are back chopping wood and carrying water, like we did before we gained all that wisdom.
Once that wisdom is learned, your ashram can be wherever you reside as your commitment to your growth remains and you continue using the wisdom and techniques that you've learned.
The road to enlightenment to me is like removing layers of an onion. You peel a layer , but there's always another layer to remove. The onion gets lighters after each layer is removed, until they are all finally gone.
We won't know when that moment will be when that last layer is removed and we remember who we really are, so we live each day with as much gratitude, love and compassion for ourselves and others, applying the wisdom and techniques we have been taught, until that moment when that last layer and the amnesia is gone and we are called home. Namaste! June
But once you have had that amazing experience, have received more techniques than you can possibly use in a lifetime, have learned to live consciously and learned how to explore your own motives, your own psyche, learned to reveal yourself to yourself, then your ashram can be any place your body and consciousness resides, because there comes a time where you must integrate all that wisdom and those techniques into your third dimension, daily existence. It's easy to be in a ashram and apply higher wisdom, but much more challenging and therefore offering room for greater growth when you get back into the world with so much density and pain around and still have to hold that higher energy in the face of the greater density.
That is the choice I made after after a decade of intense study, yoga and meditation and conscious living. For me it was time to take that wisdom, and be in the world but not of it. I like many other spiritual seekers are still a work in progress, obviously, because they and I are still here on this third rock from the sun in a human body. We haven't illumed or disappeared in front of adoring followers. Instead, day by day we are back chopping wood and carrying water, like we did before we gained all that wisdom.
Once that wisdom is learned, your ashram can be wherever you reside as your commitment to your growth remains and you continue using the wisdom and techniques that you've learned.
The road to enlightenment to me is like removing layers of an onion. You peel a layer , but there's always another layer to remove. The onion gets lighters after each layer is removed, until they are all finally gone.
We won't know when that moment will be when that last layer is removed and we remember who we really are, so we live each day with as much gratitude, love and compassion for ourselves and others, applying the wisdom and techniques we have been taught, until that moment when that last layer and the amnesia is gone and we are called home. Namaste! June
