True Wisdom

HARD LIGHT CENTER OF AWAKENING

Excerpt of a talk by Mark Griffin...

What the guru tells us, what the wise tell us, is that there is no way around difficulty. There is no way around suffering. You can only go through them.



Assuming the responsibility for all the difficulties that beset us is a sign of wisdom, a sign of maturity, a sign of understanding. Experience teaches us that if we truly have our own well being at heart and genuinely seek to avoid suffering, then taking responsibility is where the action is.



The true path of healing must begin with the direct address of all the problems and difficulties that trouble us.

The true path of healing

HARD LIGHT CENTER OF AWAKENING

Excerpt of a talk by Mark Griffin...

What the guru tells us, what the wise tell us, is that there is no way around difficulty. There is no way around suffering. You can only go through them.



Assuming the responsibility for all the difficulties that beset us is a sign of wisdom, a sign of maturity, a sign of understanding. Experience teaches us that if we truly have our own well being at heart and genuinely seek to avoid suffering, then taking responsibility is where the action is.



The true path of healing must begin with the direct address of all the problems and difficulties that trouble us.

The power to change and transform our lives

HARD LIGHT CENTER OF AWAKENING

Excerpt of a talk by Mark Griffin...

In the West, the assigning of blame is a psychological concept that is very dear to us, and is something we do very intensely. Our entire sense of social order and justice is one of assigning blame. It's always somebody's fault. But the act of assigning blame away from ourselves is a denial of the truth of a situation.



Spiritually speaking, all qualities, everything that has ever happened to us or will ever happen to us, has as its point of origin one place ourselves. If we psychologically displace the blame away from ourselves and onto something outside of ourselves, we give away the most valuable thing we have the power to change and transform our lives.

Transmission of Grace

HARD LIGHT CENTER OF AWAKENING

Excerpt of a talk by Mark Griffin...

The transmission of grace is like lightening, striking straight into the deepest part of one's nature. Its light is infinitely subtle and all-pervasive; it's the light of God in the form of liberation. Once having entered, there is no holding it back; it will travel to the full depth of every issue at all times.



One of the realities of this grace is the acceleration and deepening of purification. As the grace pours in, it becomes more challenging to maintain balance within the framework of your life, and you must learn to walk the razor's edge while in constant change.



It's like learning how to drive a high-performance vehicle; it's not at all like driving an ordinary car. Just the process of keeping it in a line on the road when driving at higher speeds is challenging. Precision instrumentation requires that you gain a whole new level of capabilities to deal with the increased swiftness of the fluctuations.

Remain in connection with all situations

HARD LIGHT CENTER OF AWAKENING

Excerpt of a talk by Mark Griffin...

At first, the individual seeks completion in their personal happiness, and will make choices based on this. Like a child that has not understood the situation to any depth or degree, when faced with a negative situation, they will attempt to shield themselves from it, hoping to avoid its impact.



By generating action based on a reaction to a negative condition, by attempting to shield them from it, the individual guarantees the experience of the negative event to its fullest degree. Having cut themselves off from it, they will remain uninformed of its true nature.



As the individual matures, they come to understand that judging events is completely subjective; unless you are very wise, you're going to be wrong about the true nature of an event when it occurs. Time and again you come to see that things that seem negative in the beginning end up being the greatest blessings, and vice versa. So you learn not to react to events that appear to be negative; you remain in connection with all situations. Being present with them and feeling them, you learn from the information they provide, and in so doing, you are uplifted by them.

The Breath

HARD LIGHT CENTER OF AWAKENING

Excerpt of a talk by Mark Griffin...

One of the primary training instruments of yoga is absurdly simple—the breath.



The life-force, the prana that animates us is carried on the breath, and this life-force emerges directly out of the fabric of Ishvara, infinite consciousness, and arises inside the breath of every living thing. Infinite truth arising within us, as us, with every breath.



Twenty-one thousand breaths every day—if every breath is conscious, you can unleash unimaginable spiritual force within yourself. That is the training. To consciously draw the awakening principle into yourself with every breath, to feel it capture the form of your very being, infusing the dynamic of truth into every cell. The gravity that arises from this tells you that you have found the thread of the truth within your self.

The energy of Ishvara is an all-pervasive ocean of consciousness

HARD LIGHT CENTER OF AWAKENING

Excerpt of a talk by Mark Griffin...

The concept of Ishvara addresses the idea of infinite truth and the dynamic of creation;the formless and that which has form;arising simultaneously. The energy of Ishvara is an all-pervasive ocean of consciousness out of which countless forms emerge.



We ourselves emerge as an expression of Ishvara. We arise as the indescribable, infinite truth and the formation of individual being at one and the same time. We arise as a vessel of truth, from truth, as truth.



That infinite truth unfolds through us as us brings to light a very essential principle: truth must take a form, must arise inside a vehicle, in order to express itself and operate as truth.