SakshiBuddha.com : Oneness Blessing / Diksha

I’m sharing this in the hope that our vision for a successful Australian / NZ Oneness Conference is as deep as the intents and prayers we delicately hold in our hearts when giving the Oneness Blessing to our family, friends and wider community.

My partner John and I had the joy of attending the Oneness Conference in LA this year where Sri Anandagiriji, joined by two Awakened Beings gave a special deepening Deeksha to all the Blessing Givers who were there. At the time I thought deepenings were only something I would experience and receive in India. What we received over those few days together was a potent deepening towards our personal awakening, but more importantly, the blessing deepened the sense of sharing this phenomenon with others. It inspired giving for the happiness of all.

For me giving the Blessing Deeksha is the highest I can offer any human being. In giving the Blessing I receive and therefore it is the highest I can offer myself. It’s a simple yet dynamic cycle of Divine love. Giving the Blessing keeps the inner flame ignited. It ignites gratitude and I am reminded that any challenge in life is really just a beautiful gift offering the opportunity to awaken.

As Blessing givers gathering together, we become fertile soil for the happiness of others. It is fulfilling to see the hearts of those who receive the Blessing flower. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to simply be a channel for Grace to flow into the hearts of those who receive the Blessing. Into the heart of our communities. Into the heart of this precious global village.

I encourage each and every one of us to attend this last auspicious conference. How blessed are we to host this platform to not only raise the consciousness of our spiritually rich countries, but for the continued raising of global consciousness. This gesture of love, giving and connectedness can only bring us ever closer to Sri Amma Bhagavan’s vision of Oneness. Ever closer to our true Self. Ever closer to setting man free.

I look forward to seeing all your shining faces at the conference. May we come together in service for human kind.

In gratitude for all I receive,

BY ADYASHANTI Inexplicably it comes. When you least expect it. For a reason you can never know. One moment you are striving, figuring, imagining, and then, in the blink of an eye, it all disappears. The struggle disappears. The striving ­disappears. The person disappears. The world disappears. Everything disappears, and the person is like a pinpoint of light, just receding until it disappears. And there’s nobody there to witness it. The person is gone. Only, only awareness remains. Nothing else. No one to be aware. Nothing to be aware of. Only that remains itself. Then it’s understood, finally and simply. Then everything all the struggle, all the striving, all the thinking, all the figuring, all the surrendering, all the letting go, all the grabbing hold of, all the praying, all the begging, all the cursing, too was just a distraction. And only then is it seen that the person was, is, and ever will be no more than a thought. With a single thought, the person seems to re-emerge. With more thoughts, the world seems to re-emerge right out of nothing. But now you know.

The incarnation is nothing more than a thought. A thousand incarnations are but a thousand thoughts. And this amazing miracle of a mirage we call the world reappears as it was before, but now you know. That’s why you usually have a good laugh, because you realize that all your struggles were made up. You conjured them up out of nothing with a thought that was linked to another thought, that was then believed, that linked to another thought that was then believed. But never could it have been true, not for a second could it have actually existed. Not ever could you have actually suffered for a reason that was true only through an imagination, good, bad, indifferent. The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness. And so at times we talk, and I pretend to take your struggles seriously, just as I pretended to take my own seriously. You may pretend to take your own struggles seriously from time to time, and although we pretend, we really shouldn’t forget that we are pretending, that we are making up the content of our experience; we are making up the little dramas of our lives. We are making up whether we need to hold on or surrender or figure it out or pray to God or be purified or have karma cleansed it’s all a thought. We just collude in this ridiculous charade of an illusion pretending that it’s real, only to reveal that it’s not. There is no karma. There is nothing really to purify. There’s no problem. There is only what you create and believe to be so. And if you like it that way, have at it!