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    Enlightenment: Pillar Eight
    Enlightenment: Pillar Eight
    Enlightenment: Pillar Eight
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    Enlightenment: Pillar Eight

    By Sensei Yula

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    Enlightenment means awakened to the light of true knowledge. There is no mystery to enlightenment neither is there any inherent need for a special person, religion or lineage to achieve it. With the right understanding, right determination and right efforts, enlightenment is freely within reach for all. This book outlines seven steps to enlightenment that are accessible, practical and beneficial.

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    PublisherSensei Yula
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9780992014506
    Enlightenment: Pillar Eight
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    Sensei Yula

    Sensei Yula has been practicing and teaching yoga, martial arts and healing arts for over 36 years. In the late eighties, he founded Centre for the Ways in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Prior to that, he ran a successful business in Halifax, Nova Scotia that included a health food cafe, several health food retail outlets and martial arts classes.As an acupuncturist and traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, he successfully treats people with conditions including heart disease, digestive problems, lower back aches, headaches, insomnia, mental disorders, gynaecological problems, infertility, and many others.From this experience as well as his training in Shiatsu, he has developed a system called Zen Kiatsu-Tao TCM. It is very relaxing and effective for the prevention and cure of many disorders.After decades of practicing and teaching Karate-Do, yoga and Yang style Tai-Chi, he founded the Zenki-Do System of Martial Art, a Yang-Yu style of Tai Chi called Tai Chi Chuan-Tao, and Chi Kung-Yoga Energetics.To share this experience, he has co-authored The Eight Pillars of the Heaven (Volume One, 2010; Volume Two, 2013) as well as Chi Kung-Yoga Energetics for Health: A Manual for Daily Practice (2012). He is currently working on books related to his repertoire of experience in healing and martial arts.

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      Enlightenment - Sensei Yula

      Enlightenment

      Pillar Eight

      Sensei Yula & Becca Mukti

      Published by Centre for the Ways at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 Sensei Yula and Becca Mukti

      There are eight pillars in all and each is available in ebook format:

      Reality and the Truth: Pillar One

      The Path of Transformation: Pillar Two

      Body Physio-Energetics: Pillar Three

      Environmental Righteousness: Pillar Four

      Tao Eating, Zen Digesting: Pillar Five

      Yoga Energetics as an Alternative Medicine: Pillar Six

      The Tao of Intimacy and the Ultimate Gynaecological Reality: Pillar Seven

      Enlightenment: Pillar Eight

      Available in print at Centre for the Ways.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is for your personal use only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. You may, however, encourage others to purchase a copy for themselves or purchase one for them as a gift. If you are reading this ebook and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return it to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the authors.

      ~~~ ♦ ~~~

      This series is dedicated to humanity and Mother Earth.

      ~~~~ ♥ ~~~

      Table of Contents

      The Lies We Were Told, the Stories We Have Heard and the Legends We Have Believed In

      The Myth of Enlightenment

      The Tri-Phase Evolution of Spiritual Wisdom

      The Seven Steps to Enlightenment

      Going from Untruth to Truth

      Going from Darkness to Light

      Going from War to Peace

      Going from Separation to Oneness

      Going from Delusion to Clarity

      Going from Religiosity to Humanity

      Going from Ignorance to Enlightenment

      The Unity within Multiplicity

      Appendix

      Reasons for Writing this Series

      About the Eight Pillars

      Caveats

      About the Authors

      List of Publications by the Authors

      About Centre for the Ways

      Connect with Us

      Support Us

      The Lies We Were Told, the Stories We Have Heard, and the Legends We Have Believed In (return to Contents)

      No wonder why we are all so screwed up.

      As indicated in the first pillar, Reality and the Truth, we are all the creature of our reality. In fact, the whole world is shaped and conditioned by its reality. For example, wild animals are conditioned by nature and the world of vegetation is shaped by the natural environment. This is so for humanity too, except people are also shaped and conditioned by the human element. By the human element, we mean parental guidance, religiosity, nationality, the educational system, the media, man-made laws and order, and so on. There are millions of different realities on this planet governing billions of individuals physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Most of these realities are not only different from one another, but they also contradict, oppose and sometimes even destroy one another. The irony is that the human race claims to be the highest of creation, yet its species is often mean and unkind to one another, bears so many divisions and hostilities, and creates so much destruction.

      Wait a minute, we are almost lost here. Where is the truth? Remember the story about the judge in Pillar One who told the victim and the victimizer as well as the secretary of the court that they all were right? Now that so many different realities are taken as the truth and the beholder of each reality believes that their reality is the only truth while others are wrong, we want you to be the judge. So, dear reader, tell us which acclaimed truth is the truth?

      From an early age, we heard bedtime stories from parents, babysitters and storytellers. We watched fairy-tale cartoons on the television and in the cinemas. We listened to preachers, commercials and so on. Some of these fables were created for entertainment while others were made to teach a lesson. Some were based on assumptions while others were constructed for personal gain such as financial, political or spiritual power. As we grew up, these stories remained hidden in our subconscious mind, affecting our thoughts and, consequently, our behaviour.

      The eyewitness testimonies claimed by many people in the past and in recent times, which helped some individuals achieve the level of prophecy, holiness or sainthood, are in most cases shams or deliberate illusions. In the Samkhya School of Indian Philosophy (see Reality and the Truth: Pillar One), it was explained that

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