Dear 14, first name terms
Waiting for God is a TV series in UK.
I was tongue in cheek when I said it.
and I was tired of doing my best to see others point of view.
Every religion teaches surrender to God and while that may seem dualistic,
Its like the expression "you cant get there from here."
Well thats untrue, you have to start from where you are.
In actual fact your are surrendering to a higher aspect of your self which sees your struggles and knows what you are. You are NOT asking something separate from you for help. There is no duality in the prayer.
Truth is that we are not separate from God never have been, but perception has created a world of opposite, judgments, so we have to work on that while surrendering our efforts to God, karma also plays a part but thats another story.
You can use nondualistic thoughts till you are blue in the face and nothing will happen.
The traditional route is clear. Surrender to God ask him to remove ignorance.
Only the power of God can reveal truth to you.
Enlightenment is by the grace of God you can remove obstacles but till God acts ignorance remains.
For thirty years I have been reading, books on Indian enlightened souls, then recently Eckhart Tolle and DH, I have been in the presence of 5 enlightened souls.
Been to three seminers put on by Eckhart one a retreat, happened to share time with Eckhart over breakfast with Kim his partner. So I have studied the subject deeply and put forth the effort. Yet I was lead by synchronicity to all of this. I cant claim I did anything.
Kundalin had been moving within me for ten years I feel the energy. When K is awakened to the degree it is, then this is the last life time, I am being pulled to my future by the Grace of God.
That is fact, many are on their last life time just now.
The story is always the same coming from enlightened souls, out of the blue enlightenment occurred without warning.
Not one of them claimed oneness before enlightenment, after the event oneness is experienced as a totally different state, which cant even be spoken of. Ramana couldn't speak for years after the event. Hawkins was out of it for year so was Tolle.
God shock is another term for it. Self realization is not done by self, it is when SELF which is inherent within, is reveled after all obstacles are removed with the Help of God.
So while that is my understanding. its essence, is in harmony with that which has been written for thousands of years.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Chris