Comments on: Staying as Awareness https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/staying-as-awareness.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=staying-as-awareness Stay as awareness Sun, 17 Dec 2023 23:16:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/staying-as-awareness.html#comment-658 Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:56:39 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/12/staying-as-awareness/#comment-658 No, I haven't. My autobiography isn't important. What's important is that the work and words I share help people look inside themselves and stay true to their unique processes. Too often people get fixated on spiritual teachers, and they try to compare themselves and see how spiritually successful they are by using the teacher as a yardstick. Furthermore, this is the path to being nobody. I don't care much about announcing "my story." Only the ego cares about that.

]]> By: Unknown https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/staying-as-awareness.html#comment-659 Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:54:37 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/12/staying-as-awareness/#comment-659 Jim – I've been a reader of your blog for several years and am wondering if you've written on your personnal journey as a spiritual seeker? The milestones of awareness you've noticed and crossed? The path you chose and how you discerned how to proceed at different times?? I guess your spiritual autobiography…

]]> By: Unknown https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/staying-as-awareness.html#comment-827 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 06:22:18 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/12/staying-as-awareness/#comment-827 I had commented earlier that I was struggling to see the net value of getting rid of attachments and ask for a blog clarifying this. I think I found it :)…. https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2012/07/you-will-always-have-an-ego.html

]]> By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/staying-as-awareness.html#comment-823 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 23:25:24 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/12/staying-as-awareness/#comment-823 I would caution you about this idea of the conscious ego right now. It sounds like your deeper unconscious ego is afraid of being seen. Don't be shallow in your inner work. Keep going within. As you dissolve more attachments, you'll find out the truth.

Also, there is a difference between making commitments and attachments. We can commit to things and people without being attached to them and their outcome.

Here's a blog post to help you go further:

Releasing Attachments You Like

]]> By: Unknown https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/staying-as-awareness.html#comment-828 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 23:22:25 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2019/06/12/staying-as-awareness/#comment-828 Thank you Jim,

The question that keeps bugging me as I go through your material is:

I enjoy the experience of attachment, in a lot of ways. I'm struggling to see the net value of getting rid of that completley. Do you have a blog about if there is a way to use attachement as a tool instead of being controlled by it? Or am I totally off base? I feel as though I would love to be able to choose when to be attached and when not to be. I think maybe you call that conscious ego?

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