Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness with William Cooper, Master of Theology, Licensed Professional Counselor
Experience Awakening....Relaxing into your Being and, therefore, Happiness. William earned a 4 year on campus Master of Theology from Harding Theological Seminary. He was a Unity board president and, later, a Oneness trainer. In 1994 he went into private practice as a Licensed Psychotherapist. He has been to India 14 times averaging 3 months per visit to explore awakening with gurus and awakened beings. Also Bhutan, Brazil, etc. In this series, William attempts to encapsulate and convey what he feels to be most important in his 50 plus years of direct experience on the path of Awakening. This series explores the hows of awakening and encourages the direct experiencing of the flow of your Being, (love, peace, happiness, fulfillment and joy). A practical blending of East and West. Meditation, yoga and Energy meet psychotherapy and awakened Beings...and beyond All. For more info and writings on the subject, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com
Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness with William Cooper, Master of Theology, Licensed Professional Counselor
123 Non Attachment - "The Great Way"
How is non attachment is possible? Short of repression we only will let go if we trade for something better. Ultimate non attachment, therefore, is only possible in Awakening. In Oneness we are All. Everything has become us. From my contemplation number 19 on my website, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com
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The Great Way, Non-Attachment The Third Chinese Patriarch wrote, The Great Way is not difficult for those who are not attached to preferences. I like that. Letting go. That feels so good. But wait a minute. How can we have no attachments? Sounds great on paper. But how? Well, I think there's really only one way. I can only give up something if I exchange it for something better. See if this makes sense to you. I may be very angry if somebody takes my $100 bill that I worked all day to earn. I'm super attached to that hard-earned $100, perhaps I have food to buy or rent to pay, but I've worked very hard for it and at the end of the day I have my $100. And I'm so attached to it. But if somebody offers me $1,000 in exchange for it, I'm suddenly super unattached to my $100 bill. Right? I trade it up. Now I have $1,000. But now I'm attached to the $1,000. Darn it. I'm attached again. No great way for me. I have preferences. Well, I might be able to trade this earthly life for a beautiful heavenly one and no longer be attached to my earthly life. But then I'll quickly become attached to the heavenly realms. Right? No great way again. How about trading Jesus for Buddha or vice versa? No. Now we become quickly attached to our favorite. I like Buddha better or I like Jesus better. Attached. Attachment will stick to us until we experience ourselves as we truly are. As complete happiness and satisfaction. That's when we experience ourselves as the ultimate shining through. We realize that we are one and we are all. That we have let go. We've let our ego go. And God is now flowing through us fully. God or the infinite, however you want to call it, has become us to the degree that we've disappeared. In oneness or allness, there are no preferences because we are all. There's nothing to prefer. We are one. We have and are everything. And beyond as well. We experience ourselves as complete and total fullness. The highest. All. Now we no longer need to be attached to anything. We have it all. We are it all. It's all one. No desire or place to trade up from here. There is no higher thing to be attached to. No emotion. No thought. Person. Angel. Realm. Attitude. Nothing. Nothing higher. Because you are everything. You are one. You are everything and beyond. You are what you want. Everything is flowing through you. In oneness, all is you. Many of us are naturally ready now to experience ultimate happiness and let suffering go. That's why we do our spiritual practices, whatever they might be. An abbot of a Tibetan monastery used to occasionally mingle with the monks and the aspirants. He would wander up to one of them and ask, Happy? And if they said yes, he would nod, smile and reply, Good. And off he would walk. If they said no, he would nod, smile and reply, Ah, attached. And off he would walk. Happy? Let's continue to let go. Let's continue our spiritual practices letting go into the infinite. Letting go into who we truly are. Peace, love and well-being. This is William Cooper. I look forward to talking to you next time. Take care. Bye.