One of the most important questions on the way of awakening is:
You can do nothing.
You can: Do nothing.
There is nothing to learn about awakening at all, no new abilities are needed, but to awaken you can letting go and come to a stop.
Can’t do anything doesn’t mean: everything is going on the way it used to. If so, the conditioning system, the representativeness, the entire karmic enmeshment continue as usual.
You can: Come to a stop. When you stop, when you – like Ramana Maharshi says – are calm, ultimately the constant running away ends, this being driven, and, first and foremost, the battle against that what is.
This stopping is an absolute interactive process, far from letting continue things as they’re used to. Within this stop you’re walking a way beyond doing, but even as well beyond from being able to do nothing.
Speaking from my own experiences as well as experiences with hundreds of people I worked with and out of the researching of different spiritual ways I’ve developed the following seven steps of stopping – seven steps that should take you closer to awakening.
Seven steps to awakening:
Define your wishes and objectives – discovering the sense and the objective of your life.
Accept the reality – the willingness to feel and to experience all that is, the pain as well as the joy.
Being a spectator, an observer: You see the whole drama of your life.
Understand the habits of your life and your nature: the enneagram.
Determine to identify with your body – the body becomes permeable and full of energy.
Determine the past – reconcile with whatever happened in your life – make your whole energy available for the present.
Confront death and fear and discover what has no beginning and no end.
