Christine
“The Enlightenment Intensive has greatly exceeded my expectations. Many of the books of the great enlightened beings like Osho, Aivanov, Buddha, Tolle that I have read….I fully understand now that I’ve achieved my own enlightenment.
The significance of what they wanted to communicate began to display itself in front of me during this incredible retreat and it is continuing even now. I have no words to describe the great inner change that this demanding experience gives, except that it is really unique.
To say the least I have the feeling of having discovered “the secret of life”.
Now I have only one desire: to maintain as much as possible this enlightened state that I have conquered, in my day to day life. An emptiness filled with bliss, in which the mind can be used when I want and awareness turns everything in one unity. The rest I leave it to be discovered to those who feel the call of undertaking the experience on their own.
Thank you for guiding me through this important process!”
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Shanto
“I’m present,
I am the indecision and not knowing what I want to write. A smile now surfaces from inside, manifesting in my face that I’m not seeing.
I am the question: how am I going to talk about the course just lived without entering into the story…still a smile emerges, I’m feeling at ease with my inner judge who tries to tell me what is good and what not. I’m the regret of not having written immediately what I was experiencing…
A laughter for my line of thinking…ha ha ha
I am integrity, nobody else is needed to know who I am. I mean that the identification with the images of who I am, structured along the years, has undergone an earthquake to the foundations; I’m present to what manifests…
Presence, there is still an edge of fragility that, although very faint, keeps me dis-identified from whatever runs in front, inside, outside of me…. little physical aches, thoughts, emotions, the ambulance’s siren that is passing now…. I decide to give a name to everything… I do it and I see it is a convention to describe something with words…. because I’ve been asked to…
I’m the pleasure in doing it and the lightness that I don’t need to do it.
And, at the same time I’m in contact with an essence…
I am that essence… many of the pieces of the puzzle that I gathered and thrown in the air in the last two years are taking significance finding their arrangement where before there was only “conceptuality”; I’m sure of being at the beginning of a new journey, the certainty is with me that I can slip out of this “I am” and remember that it is “out”as soon as I recognize the symptoms….and by remembering I already am; I mean I am in consciousness… because however it is, how can I not be?
Ha ha ha how fantastic.. beautiful.. fulfilling… joyous… and while I’m writing.. I’m emotion, gratitude… warm tears, I’m the thought for Osho, for Avikal, for Prashantam, for..for..for…for all those wonderful masters, friends. I am a thank you for Asimo and Renata in this moment for the opportunity they have created and that lovingly offered it to me, thank you for this journey with the question “Who Am I”. In the question there is really the answer.”
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Nerea
“Whatever others say about me, it’s not me. The true me can be known only by me… All I knew about me was what others would say; I was perceiving to be something different and bigger, but I didn’t know myself fully.
I’m not sure even today if I understand who am I, I’m still working to know and find myself better, I still have a vague perception, but as I keep on observing it, this perception becomes more clear and delineated.
The first thing I understood during the Enlightenment Intensive is that I didn’t know who I was. I have the awareness of being in a constant evolution and change, every little mood that I’m able to perceive in this moment, is of this moment; when I observe it without judgement, it is already gone.
I am a mystery, I don’t know what will happen next, but I let it happen… how wonderful! I am acceptance, of all of myself as I am, with my good and bad sides.
Often in having to make choices in my life, I was taken between two fires, two “me” in contrast between each other, but Asimo told me ”they are not two sides of you, it’s always you. Imagine a diamond, with its many facets, every facet is a part of you, but you are not that facet, you are the diamond. Come to the perception of yourself as the whole diamond, with thousand facets, all together is who you are, if you focus on any facet you lose the rest.”
I am all that it takes to be happy:
I’m my self support when I’m sad,
I’m the little girl to play with when I’m happy,
a sweet hand that caresses my face,
the beloved that loves me,
I’m the air, the wind, the clouds, the blue sky,
I’m the bird that flies free in the air,
I’m the friend to share with,
I’m the daughter, my mother and father.
I am a unique being… and great…
I am all it takes to be happy.
I don’t need anything else because all is enclosed within myself, the unity.
Tears come again as I deeply feel those words in my heart and love rising in it.
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Mauro
“I’m proud of myself, of what I’ve been able to see and hear within myself.
Before my eyes were enveloped in a thick fog preventing me to see what surrounds me, my ears were closed, muffled, basically I was deaf. To tell you the truth, I have suffered a lot, fighting with my mind who suggested me to drop it, to let it all go, that it was a waste of time; but I choose not to listen to its complain, keeping on going even when my energetic resources felt exhausted.
I wanted to leave in the middle of the course, but I understood that without paying something I would not have reached my goal. Taking this position gave its fruits that I harvested with generosity and pride.
I didn’t have any experience in spiritual practice: I was told to listen to my sensations, my emotions, but I could not understand. Those two words, sensation and feelings reminded me of songs I liked when I was younger.
Then the turn with the help of my old tree rooted since years in front of my garden, who showed me the way to simplicity, which was the only possible way to follow, and so I did and everything opened in front of me: I could see and hear and feel. How immense!!!
I want to thank you and my fellow travelers with whom I shared my sensations and passions. Everyone of them seemed like placed in front of me at the right time, to mirror something I had inside. I understand now that nothing is casual, causing deep emotions, sensations of every kind and goose bumps; tears come.
I’m noticing that I’m repeating the words “sensation and emotion” more that necessary, but it is great. I feel upside-down, my body aches, I’m sensitive to noises, but as I center on my breath, everything flows beautifully. What to say, I’m proud of myself. I did not feel myself capable of having the courage to question myself so deeply after my sixties.”
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