God is in Banks
The most common hardship I have is to complicate things. As I get older at least I am aware of this problem and take steps to keep things as simple as possible. I complicate my love life, my health and my spirituality. Now I am sure that simple things are the hardest because they are pure, real and unavoidable.
My health prospers because I have turmeric, ginger, Andrographis and Lugols Iodine every day. My love life now prospers because my wife’s love is straight and pure. And my spiritual life prospers because of people like Sydney Banks and his very simple but life-changing advice and dissemination of his own experience. ‘Sit quietly for 5 minutes and the universe will come to you’.
Sydney’s experience is incredibly real and important. Millions of people around the world can benefit from his experience and doing what he suggests. Because of my own enlightening experiences, I can say without any doubt what he says is 100%. This can change you and the world forever.
Here is an article I found on the internet ages ago, I forget who wrote it. Whoever wrote it I am passing it on: Sydney Bank’s wonderful experience
In 1972, a welder named Syd Banks suddenly had a spiritual awakening. It happened in a simple way. I’m going to tell you about his awakening, then I promise I’ll get to your question.
Syd was telling a new acquaintance about the insecurity he’d suffered his whole life.
“It’s all in your head,” the man said.
Syd’s acquaintance didn’t mean anything by his statement. It was just a throw-away remark.
But Syd took it seriously and suddenly realized the very nature of mental activity:
Discomfort exists nowhere but in the thinking process itself.
“It was like a bomb went off,” he said.
Syd spent the next three days in a state of “absolute beauty.”
On the fourth day, he and his wife went to visit her mother.
While sitting in her living room, Syd suddenly understood the true nature of Reality or God.
He stood up and announced: I’ve made it; I’m safe; I’m home. I have overcome this world.
His wife and mother-in-law looked at him like he’d gone mad.
So he changed the subject immediately.
When Syd went to work the next day, his co-workers didn’t recognize him.
They even tried to stop him from accessing his own locker!
Syd’s transformation was radical.
He had stopped thinking completely. Instead, he trusted “common sense” to guide him through life.
He realized the true meaning of common sense is Universal Mind.
Syd recommended a simple practice to all. He said if you sit quietly, a “nice feeling” will arise. This “nice feeling” is reality itself. This “feeling” is the ultimate truth.
We overlook and devalue it because we’re confused.
When we turn toward this “nice feeling,” we discover the treasure and the wish-granting tree. The eternal fountain is always available.
When we go back to our activities, guidance arises spontaneously.
These “thoughts” aren’t the harridans that pursued us when we were confused.
They are like angels or precious diamonds. They guide us like lighted stepping stones.
This was Syd’s entire teaching, and he lived every word.
But he was an ordinary guy and these are modern times.
People were pretty freaked out.
“I lost every friend I ever had,” he said, with gentle humour.
“Except for Ken and Elsie. But that was vee-ry touch-and-go.”
Ken was a welder’s apprentice who worked with Syd, and Elsie is his wife.
Elsie, who went on to become a well-known spiritual teacher, had trouble processing Syd’s transformation at first.
She used to hide in the bathroom when Syd came over.
She wasn’t the only one who had trouble. One of Syd’s co-workers actually ran away when they met on the street.
What made Elsie profoundly uncomfortable was the entire combination of Syd’s words, his behaviour, and the “energy” he gave off.
Syd casually mentioned spirit, reality, and God like he was chatting about a friend.
His words were so loving and gentle that Elsie would burst into tears and storm out of the house. He radiated extraordinary peace. Our problems simply dissolve in this atmosphere, and we’re trying to hold on because we think they are valuable. Syd knew he had found the answer.
He also knew people hated to hear that.
The Buddha said when you are realized, you love people as your very self. But people can seem like fish struggling to survive in a vanishing puddle.
You’re trying to show them the ocean, but they feel like you’re trying to take the puddle away. You don’t even have to say anything to have this effect. Your mere presence kicks it off.
Slowly, slowly, the peace that emanates will overcome the survival-panic this very peace can trigger.
Many folks experienced profound peace around the sage Ramana Maharshi.
But many others had panic attacks. When he was asked about this, he said it’s like water boiling on a stove.
The roiling becomes more apparent as the water boils down and only a few inches remain.
So the answer is really just to normalize this experience.
This happens and it works itself out.
Anxiety is the adjuster, so no adjustment can really be made to the non-anxious state.
And from your side, you can’t even pretend to support insecurity or manic distractions from insecurity. It would be like encouraging your friends to drink poison. If you’ve seen the truth, your friends will either avoid you or they’ll see it, too.
Our wet clothes are bound to dry if we sit near the fire.
Here’s a funny video of Syd describing his awakening and his friends’ reactions to it:
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