“Many people go to the ashram expecting it to be blissful, peaceful and resting. In many cases nothing could be further from the truth. One meditates, performs service, lives with awareness, let go, and love. All hell breaks loose. The ashram isn’t a vacation. It is hell.

People think it is spiritual and heavenly when in fact it is a clearning ground. Your buttons pushed at every turn. You face yourself, your patterns, other people’s annoying patterns. There is great fire, great heat, great burning. How else do you think you let go?

You encounter everything that stands in your way. It is a macro and microcosm of the outer real world. You go to the ashram expecting it to be different, blissful, and instead all the crap is magnified. Intensified. You see it, feel it, live it. So you can ultimately drop it.

Awareness Precedes Choice – Choice Precedes Results – Let Go

You go through challenge and hardship to release. It doesn’t have to be this way but it usually is. Every belief, every rule, gets challenged. People who go to the mountain to live and peacefully surrender often find they don’t maintain it when back in the city. Why is this?

Because instead of letting go they simply sooth themselves. They escaped the clang and the clatter. When in the ‘real world’ all manner of trouble, and annoyance is possible. When you can navigate the real world peacefully you are closer to arriving.

Seek enlightenment wherever you are. The ashram is where you are if you are astute. It is a boot camp of meditators or it is your very existence. Practice your spiritual practice. Be humble. Realize you’re being stripped of pretense and conditioning. Let it go. Release and allow yourself to return again to the person you are at birth prior to the conditioning. Your original face. Find it. It is within. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

“So am grateful to have found you on my journey Rex Sikes you are doing amazing things for this world.” – Brian Alexander, Entrepreneur, Chicago IL

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