Everyday Bliss For Women In Leadership

Many spiritual teachers now are speaking of the potential changes to happen very soon with larger and larger portions of the population "awakening" to Enlightenment or at least the possibility of Enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle says that if you are listening to his talks or reading his books, this indicates that the process of awakening has at least begun if not progressed significantly, which is a comforting thought. We wouldn’t be attracted to such things of course, if we were still asleep.

But how does one know they are asleep versus awake? I prefer not to think of this state of unawareness as "sleep" but as a serious case of Attention Deficit Disorder. Obviously, people aren’t sleepwalking through their lives or more auto accidents would happen. Okay, okay, so some of us are sleepwalking. <smile>

But what Andrew Cohen and Eckhart Tolle are talking about in terms of sleep is different. Imagine being in school. This Earth School  (to borrow from Thayer White) is constantly teaching us all the time. Sometimes with a teacher in front of you, sometimes with the teacher stepped further away at the other end of the classroom - which could be a supermarket, an empty lot, a soccer field, the bus stop, hospital, your living room or anyplace else. (sometimes, but rarely, is it an actual school classroom)

Being a bright person interested in lots of different topics, you might have a book open on your desk, be listening to your iPod or be surfing the web on your laptop, all at the same time. You’re listening to the teacher…sort of. You’re taking the odd note or two…kind of. But when the pop quiz comes, you don’t make the grade you would like. You feel you should have made a hundred and ended up with sixty-five - how did THAT happen??? 

That O Best Beloved, is what the sages mean by "being asleep". The fully engaged and attentive student gets the best test score, learns deeply and internalizes fully. Multitasking is for sleepwalkers. And so it is in all the stages and plays of life.

Stay tuned for ways to Awaken inside of Life…

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