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    Awakening: To our natural state of freedom
    Awakening: To our natural state of freedom
    Awakening: To our natural state of freedom
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    Awakening: To our natural state of freedom

    By Gabriel von Post

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    This book is a practical guide to awakening. Pointing you to your natural state of freedom.

    This natural state is different from the apparent freedom of money, power or "free will". This is the ultimate freedom. A freedom that is not conditioned on anything. Not time, nor circumstance. Available here now for you to awaken to it.

    A freedom that transcends this world - and frees our human experience so that it can express itself more fully. It is the lived experience of our true being.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateJan 8, 2019
    ISBN9789178517305
    Awakening: To our natural state of freedom
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    Gabriel von Post

    Gabriel was interested in philosophical questions from an early age, consumed by the meaning of life and nature of this creation. His search for happiness was first directed outwards, into the world of form and intellect, with a 12-year career in the financial services sector, eventually realizing that lasting happiness could not be found anywhere outside of us. After a deep personal crisis and depression, he fully surrendered his life to the universe in 2013. An act that enabled re-evaluation of everything he thought he knew about the world and himself. Gabriel was consequently guided through a rapid and deep personal transformation and journey inwards. It led through intense study of philosophical teachings of historical and living Indian and European Masters, through Mindfulness, Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta. A number of shifts unfolded during this secluded study and meditation. The silencing of the mind, awakening of the heart, kundalini rising, bliss and the shift from person to presence. Following a meeting with Sri Mooji in 2014, a deep final shift in identity happened, where the energetic sensation of an individual I and any doership disappeared. Gabriel is now living in divine flow, surrendered to the love of each moment. Read more at www.shawake.com/awakening

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      Awakening - Gabriel von Post

      About the author

      Gabriel was interested in philosophical questions from an early age, consumed by the meaning of life and nature of this creation. His search for happiness was first directed outwards, into the world of form and intellect, with a 12-year career in the financial services sector, eventually realizing that lasting happiness could not be found anywhere outside of us.

      After a deep personal crisis and depression, he fully surrendered his life to the universe in 2013. An act that enabled re-evaluation of everything he thought he knew about the world and himself.

      Gabriel was consequently guided through a rapid and deep personal transformation and journey inwards. It led through intense study of philosophical teachings of historical and living Indian and European Masters, through Mindfulness, Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta.

      A number of shifts unfolded during this secluded study and meditation. The silencing of the mind, awakening of the heart, kundalini rising, bliss and the shift from person to presence.

      Following a meeting with Sri Mooji in 2014, a deep final shift in identity happened, where the energetic sensation of an individual I and any doership disappeared.

      Gabriel is now living in divine flow, surrendered to the love of each moment.

      www.shawake.com/awakening

      Dedication

      I dedicate this book to all the Masters that through grace have come my way and guided this experience.

      To Gill Fronsdal for his warm, beautiful and wise teaching about mindfulness and Buddhism, it saved my life. (www.audiodharma.org)

      To Sri Mooji for lovingly guiding me over the last hurdle, into the heart of loving silence.

      And in this worldly dream, to the loving spirits of my wife and son and all the creatures of Nangilima where we live.

      Foreword

      The chapters for this book came to me one day. I sat down to see these fingers type down the table of contents. The following weeks the content of the book was written, starting with the first words of the first chapter and continuing, word by word, chapter by chapter until it was finished.

      This book is a practical guide to awakening. Pointing you to your natural state of freedom. This subject is paradoxical. We are this freedom. And this freedom is already here, free. But somehow, our experience has managed to project a separate sense of being into what we experience as a person. Identification and attention in our experience feed stories, emotions and are causing this play of mental suffering.

      Intellectual understanding of our true nature is useless. We must get to the lived experience of our true essence, our natural state of silence. We must allow the dissolving of the mental tension, identification, and belief that seem to hinder us from the lived experience of silent awakeness.

      This book is based on the process I was guided through intuitively by many teachers and sets out practical contemplations and practices that guide you toward clear seeing.

      I believe that anyone that has the burning desire for freedom can become free. If your heart yearns for freedom, it is my hearts wish to help you see your natural state, the silent beauty of vibrating love, that which you have always been.

      Infinite blessing and true love,

      Gabriel

      Table of contents

      Our natural state of freedom

      Make yourself available for freedom

      Uprooting hindering tendencies

      The role of a Master

      Turning attention inwards

      The human experience

      The knower and the known

      Awakening the heart

      Freeing the body-mind

      Awakening experiences

      The meaning of life

      Let’s meet fresh

      Don’t give me your thoughts,

      they are old and stale

      I want your freshness,

      the un-thought creativity

      of playfulness

      I want the newness

      and innocence

      of your innermost

      Knowledge is rigid and tense,

      I want your magic!

      I don’t need your past or future,

      all I want is NOW!

      Allow a fearless

      love affair with life

      to take you over

      Surrender the idea of YOU,

      and let life shine as YOU

      I love you forever.

      Now, let’s meet again.

      Fresh!

      Our natural state of freedom

      Freedom is a big word. Like all words, it points to something. And it is interpreted differently by each one of us. Perhaps it is best defined by what it is not. Like black gets its power from its contrast to the white. Perhaps the opposite of freedom is the sense of being restrained, caged or the lack of being able to do what one wants to do. A definition from the Oxford dictionary is; "the power or right to

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