Omni Pada

Helping people just like you establish and deepen meditation practice to live a life free from anxiety and worry. Awakening is the experience that sets us free from the anxieties and worries that block us from experiencing life at its fullest, from a place of abiding peace and freedom. After 19 years of spiritual inquiry and two years of dedicated Vipassana practice, In February 2012 I was awakened to the nature of reality. It took some time to integrate the insights into my life. When we are seeking, we are trying to climb the mountain and we don't clearly see the way. There are trees everywhere, clouds, paths that lead us around to dead-ends, etc. We make progress only to face a sheer cliff - we're either at the bottom and don't know how to climb it, or we're at the top and we don't want to go down and lose progress. We hear people talk about their Awakening, and we either (a) understand some of the concepts and ideas they talk about, but because we lack experience we don't know how to use them, or (b) we're totally baffled by what we hear others say about their Awakening experience and the insights that come from it. We have our own experiences, but because we lack a clear working knowledge, like the religious people thousands of years ago, we develop "mystical" or misleading ways of explaining our experiences. The more misleading "truths" we develop, the longer it takes to Awaken. Mistruths and wrong views keep us locked in to patterns of behavior that don't serve our inner progress. Awakening is reaching the first peak. Suddenly it all makes sense. We clearly see the things that worked, and what things are a waste of time. We quit seeking. And from here we see the second peak and the path it takes to get there. The journey after the first peak (Awakening) is "The Unfolding," where you incorporate the insights of awakening into your life.