Today is the 21st of August 2012. We have four months remaining until the most monumental collective shift any of us will have ever experienced.
The question most frequently asked about Ascension is whether it’ll be gradual or sudden. This is akin to the debate in Zen over whether satori is sudden or gradual. Let us celebrate this day by answering that question.
The answer regarding Zen is that the monks prepare for satori for a long, long time. Some of them prepare in past lives and don’t have to do as much meditation and other spiritual practice in the present one. But they still have probably undergone arduous preparation.
Sri Ramana Maharshi is an example of someone who did much preparation in past lives and needed to do none to awaken in his last lifetime.
But when satori itself comes, it is sudden. And the same will most likely apply to Ascension.