Intermediate vs. Advanced Practice

Beginning and intermediate practices often make the dream better, but they don’t create spiritual freedom. Advanced practice makes liberation possible. What is the difference between these two practices?
Beginning and intermediate practices often make the dream better, but they don’t create spiritual freedom. Advanced practice makes liberation possible. What is the difference between these two practices?
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When a new cycle begins, it’s a chance to hit the reset button. Most people approach this renewal by creating a set of goals or resolutions. There is a more advanced approach that allows each moment to be a fresh discovery within consciousness.
By changing the basis for your fundamental thinking and behavior, you recast the past. You change the frame of reference for all of your past experience, and you have an entirely new and expanded palette of possibility to draw from for future experiences.
Becoming enlightened is a process of fully accepting and integrating the clear Light of Reality as your own form. Advanced meditation and mindfulness practices enable you to become Light.
New from Mu – From Here to Nowhere: A Spiritual Journey into the Unknown teaches you how to break the rules and challenge what you think you know at every stage of awakening. It catalyzes a quantum leap that liberates you from the constraints of your mind, your past, your perception, spiritual paths, and any preconceived notions you may have about yourself and the nature of enlightenment.
Songs for the Advanced Path is a collection of lyrical verses about the direct path of awakening — now released as a second edition with 25% more poetry! Packed with spiritual insights and reminders to follow the guidance of your own inner wisdom, this book will inspire and motivate you on your personal journey to liberation.
New spiritual breakthroughs need to be integrated into your being to become permanent shifts in consciousness. One of the ways that awakening deepens and becomes more embodied is through spiritual tests. This is the way to gain insight into the depth of your realizations and to further your journey into expanded and bright fields of awareness.
Sara Weston, author of How to Be Happy NOW, interviews Mu about the new book: Transcending the Advanced Path. They discuss awakening beyond the mind’s ideas and beliefs; karma; breaking the prism of perception; why enlightenment is a choice; and more!
The third and final book in the series on the direct path of awakening has just been released! A book of advanced teachings for those on the doorstep of spiritual liberation and beyond, it is an intimate and direct exploration of the shift from realization to integrating and embodying enlightenment deeply and completely.
The practice of non-violence is usually understood as doing no harm physically. But from a spiritual perspective, non-violence includes refraining from both physical and energetic harm. In Buddhism and Hinduism, the practice is called ahimsa, which Mahatma Gandhi defined as non-violence in thought, word, and deed.
On the advanced spiritual path, intuition is your powerful inner guide. Intuition tells you what next step to take even (and especially) if you can’t see the path in front of you. It is very common not to have a clear view of the way forward. On the advanced path, it’s your intention to wake up that is clear, not necessarily the path itself.
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There is no universal roadmap on the advanced path. However, intuition is the compass that helps you find your way. Intuition is available through seeing, feeling and knowing. When in doubt, trust your gut.
There is no set amount of years of arduous practice required or an initiation that is needed to shift to the advanced path. However, there are two foundational skills that make the advanced path possible. Without these two skills, there is too much distraction and disharmony for the advanced path to take root.
What you want with all your heart is what will manifest sooner or later. Be honest with yourself about what you want, and allow that to evolve over time. If you don’t really want something, then you will be miserable pursuing it. Follow a simple 3-part guideline for getting what you want.
Anyone can become enlightened. The disposition on the advanced path is: If anyone can wake up, why not me? This comes from a place of deep humility that we are all God and creates an opening to Light that might have been blocked by thoughts filled with doubt, low self-esteem or spiritual fatigue.
The advanced path begins when you want spiritual liberation more than anything else and you finally stop the endless cycle of techniques, strategies and practice that keep you from waking up. There are no rules on the advanced path and there is no single formula for success. Instead, the advanced path is a constant orientation toward liberation, a quality of openness and a letting go of all the activity that has prevented you from waking up.