Stage 1
We admitted that we ended up bound by the illusion of moi-made pleasures and that our daily life was total of suffering.
Step just one will allow an specific to acknowledge and understand what is controlling his/her existence. It is a probability for the individual to turn into conscious of the immense management that the ego has in their life and what this demanding control is producing in regards to the self-established struggling. This awareness is essential in get to initiate the process of inner expansion and recovery from the demands of the moi.
Stage Two
Arrived to think that the common consciousness, that pervades the cosmos and resides in just our becoming, could restore us to our accurate nature and reduce suffering.
This action allows one particular to tap into that which has all power – the common consciousness. This supply will let for relationship with the pure-self and the accurate mother nature of the universe. This restores the particular person to pure-considered and suitable-action in buy to get rid of self-designed struggling and karma.
Move 3
Produced a conclusion to detach from our insatiable moi and the illusory planet and hook up to the pure consciousness of the universe.
This stage is about using the initiative to get started seeking for the true-self and detaching from the illusion of the moi. The moment this selection has been created follow of meditation starts. This is a critical phase on our journey because it provides us hope that there is a thing else moreover the planet of boundaries and limitations.
Action Four
Contemplated and expressed in written sort our wants, fears, regrets, and attachments of the moi devoid of judgment.
This is a very important move, which necessitates meditative and analytical believed about the mother nature of our worldly lifetime without passing judgment on the past. We start to know that these steps were being component of our illusion of what actuality was and notice that now by way of meditation and growing awareness that we DO NOT have to act this way again.
Phase 5
Authorized ourselves to turn into thoroughly mindful of our egoic attachments and delusions in an accepting method.
This is when we seem at all the earlier steps and currents attachments of step four and recognize the legitimate reality of the illusion. We now are able to enable go of the earlier and dwell in the present minute with total consciousness.
Phase Six
We ended up totally ready to permit go of the delusions of the mind and surrender to the omnipresent common source.
This move is the permitting go of the illusions of the previous and generating a dedication to surrender and apply the concepts of eastern knowledge. It is important to point out our readiness for alter and acknowledge it within just our self, as effectively as the universe about us.
Stage Seven
Contemplated and gained consciousness of our shortcomings without having judging or condemning ourselves, but allow total acceptance and forgiveness of these moi made quandaries.
This move is essential for a single to acknowledge that they are not their moi or minds. We can get over our shortcomings and come to know our real self, which, is the perfection of pure consciousness.
Step Eight
Started to nurture and follow compassion and forgiveness for ourselves and others who we harmed by our past actions.
This action focuses on relieving guilt and regret for the past and starting now to comprehend that those people actions do not define the self. Also reviewed concerning this stage would be the capability to reduce suffering dependent on karma by suitable actions and proper views in the current minute exactly where actuality exists.
Step Nine
Instantly apologized with compassion and sincerity to ourselves and to these we straight and indirectly harmed.
This is an motion phase that lets us to explicitly offer you our amends to ourselves and people we may have harmed in our previous. This step is a continuation of stage eight and enables the guilt and regret to even further diminish and finally be launched completely in buy for us to immerse ourselves in the present minute.
Action Ten
Ongoing to request awareness of our correct self and apply correct assumed and appropriate action in just about every second of our lives.
This step focuses on becoming conscious of ourselves on a day-to-day foundation and beginning to are living our life absolutely and sincerely in every single instant primarily based on the legitimate nature of fact.
Step Eleven
Sought via the observe of mindfulness and meditation to make improvements to our link with the common consciousness.
This phase is intended to be practiced on a daily foundation to make improvements to awareness and detachment from the ego’s dreams. This action will support one particular maintain restoration and continue to be centered on the illuminating reality of the universe.
Stage Twelve
Acquiring come to be one with the universal supply we ongoing to apply these concepts in every single second of our everyday living, performing as styles for those in search of the peace and tranquility of these methods.
At last, this action discusses the continuation of these ways in our minute to moment existence and to share this way of life with others that inhabit this environment. To share this knowledge with other individuals is the principal purpose of these 12 actions, which in transform benefits the specific as effectively as the universe as a complete.
My hope is that by the software of these steps at the very least one human staying can explore the principle reality of the universe and escape the struggling of the ego’s demands and wants.
Copyright 2006– Richard A Singer Jr.