Discover Your Path
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Embark on a transformative journey with the Order of Awarezen (OAM), where we study and practice the Great Christic Consummation — a path of total awakening for intrepid souls who feel called to enter the journey of growth and maturation into the fullness of Christ through this approach. The Great Christic Consummation can be viewed from several vantage points. In terms of practical methods, the path of total awakening comprises:
1. Christic Foundations
2. Christic Ethics
3. Christic Mindfulness
4. Christic Serenity (shamatha)
5. Christic Insight (vipassana)
6. Christic Heart (bodhicitta lojong)
7. Christic Yoga
8. Christic Zen
9. Christic Tantra
10. Christic Mahamudra
11. Christic Dzogchen
12. Christic Perichoresis
Structurally, the path is articulated in terms of phases of practice ranging from initial scope to middle scope to greater scope and finally to the consummate scope of grace-saturated non-meditation. They collectively form the map of practical instruction and learning to facilitate a systematic and graduated process of spiritual formation:
Phase 1: Courtyard of Christ meditations
Phase 2: Garden of Christ meditations
Phase 3: Mind of Christ meditations
Phase 4: Spirit of Christ meditations
Phase 5: Triune Being beyond meditation
Specific practices both core meditations (such as foundations of mindfulness and nondual awareness) and auxilliary practices (such as yoga postures and breathing exercises) are organized in a way that evinces logical and experiential progression from preliminary to advanced. The Great Christic Consummation set of meditation practices begins with phase one and gradually deepens through subsequent phases to culminate at phase five. Throughout the journey, appropriate transmissions and empowerments will be conferred on committed learners to support their personal pathways.
As one progresses on the path through consistent and sustained enactment of all five phases of practice, four distinct stages of realization or yogas can be traversed, their unfoldment contingent on the assembly of fortuitous causes and conditions rooted in the sovereign grace of Christ. The term "yoga" here refers to the realization of "union" or nonduality of conventional and ultimate reality. This nonduality can be framed theologically as the unitive beatific vision of Christ, where one matures into the fullness or perfection of Christ and sees all of reality from the perspective of the clear light mind of Christ. These four stages or yogas are delineated as follows:
1. The Yoga of Abiding in Christ
2. The Yoga of Abiding into Christ
3. The Yoga of Abiding as Christ
4. The Yoga of Non-Abiding Christ
These four yogas can be poetically and succinctly described as Triune Singularity, Triune Penetration, Triune One Taste, and Triune Participation. They can be viewed as four stages of enlightenment or four stages leading to total awakening, but from a Christic vantage point. The verdant stream of blessings of the Awarezen Lineage made manifest through my precious spiritual mentors (gurus) originate from Christ, is grounded in Christ, and is consummated into Christ. This enlightened lineage of Christic awareness serves as a conduit for energizing, catalyzing, maturing, ripening, transforming, and liberating the minds of these Christic learners and disciples. The spiritual journey is a grace-soaked one, illumined by wisdom and inspired by compassion — instancing the divine purpose of creation renewal both inner and outer.