Awakening is not Magical
The awakened state is right here, right now, the most real thing you can imagine.
Well, of course, there you go! That was miss-stated! You can’t imagine a real thing. You can only imagine an imaginary thing!
That, right there, is a good definition of Awakening: you can’t imagine a real thing and awakening is not imaginary. It’s not magical; it’s real and dynamic, it is the who you’ve always been searching for.
Magical thinking is one of the biggest spiritual traps out there in the spiritual marketplace. If you’re searching for the magical, you can always be fooled by someone who can show you some fancy trick or make you believe that you’re going to get there someday.
No. Awakening is not magical; it’s right here, right now, exactly the way you are right now.
Don’t fall for tricks.
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Awakening Cannot be Defined
This is why Awakening is often described as a non-dual state. When we say, “Not two” we’re saying what it’s not. It’s not dual, it’s not two.
We are saying what it is NOT because we can’t say what it IS.
You could spend your whole life going through everything that it’s not, but you can never say what it actually is… because it’s the absence of all these things that it’s not.
This is why it’s crazy to read ancient enlightenment teachers. Their language is weird and hard for us to understand so we double define everything. We start by translating it and then spend the rest of our lives misunderstanding it.
It makes life easy once you know this! Every time you quote some dude about Awakening know that you just said what it’s not.
Whatever that is, it’s not.
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Awakening is not a Concept
We can quickly get caught in a loop here because we are talking about the concept of a concept!
A concept is a thing that you name. The name is separate from the thing itself. The name is not the thing.
Say you have a cat. You love your cat, pet your cat. But no matter how you try to describe the cat, the description is not the cat itself.
The same applies to your being. No matter how much you try to describe you, you are not what you’re describing. This is the fun paradox of Nonduality. It is the “you” that is having these concepts that is the awake being, not the concept itself.
It’s been drilled into us to understand things through words, so we end up dividing reality into pieces, thinking that if we can understand all the little pieces, then we’ll understand the whole.
But concepts are the thing that keeps us from wholeness.
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Awakening is not an Understanding
Awakening is not something that happens in your mind. It’s not something that can be written down or explained with any words, because it uses the bigger part of our consciousness that sees and knows things as they are happening.
That’s why it is so relaxed… because it is already here. Like when you know the answer to something. What part of you is it that knows? It’s not an answer in words, it’s an understanding.
I love math because this is how math problems work. Suddenly the light comes on, “Oh, that’s how it works.” It took your critical brain to work through the problem, but it was the full you engaged at the moment of realization who suddenly understood it.
In Awakening it’s who is understanding that becomes alive, not the understanding itself.
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The Awakened State is not an Experience
Experiences come and go; you can remember them, forget about them, or anticipate them in the future. That’s not awakening.
An experience is something you can anticipate, like graduating from college on a specific day in the future. That is an experience.
But Awakening is not an experience; it is better described as the firm ground upon which you’re already standing. Right here, right now.
Feel wherever you are. Being where you are is not an experience; it’s where you are. This is why we always say, “Enlightenment doesn’t happen in the future.” It doesn’t happen in a crazy mystical moment of now. It happens here, where we are.
Experiences come and go. The awakened state is a way of being.
You can then see clearly through your eyes, hear clearly through your ears, and think clearly with your mind.
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Awakening is Interconnected
When you step out of duality, you don’t end up floating around in some sort of nebulous field of nothingness, overwhelmed by goodness and happiness.
No, you become, well… who you are. And you are part of the vast, full, interconnected web of life.
We’re on planet Earth. We’re interconnected with everything on Earth in such a vibrant way that we can be it infinitely.
We are interconnected with all the animals and the birds and the bugs and the plants and life itself. Stepping out of duality and stepping into Awakening is a place of full, complete, vibrant interconnection.
We know about interconnection logically and that’s a great first step. The more we start seeing ourselves interconnected, the more this thing we call ego will soften, and dissolve. That ego is false anyway. It is willing to stand aside so that your interconnected, fully awake self can be the “you” that is living your life.
That is Awakening.
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Awakening is Dynamic
One of the consequences of the heavy conditionings we’ve all been subjected to is that it dampens our spirit; it holds us down. As passive beings we are easy to control. Awakening out of that passivity reveals a dynamic being who is fully involved in life and with each other.
This is why native teachings say we’re all related. As an awakened person we’re not only involved with other people, but with all of life: all the plants and the animals, the air and the Earth. We are part of everything because we are living.
We are life. We are a dynamic whole intertwined within a dynamic whole. This is a clear place where we can’t be fooled by outside fictions.
And so, as you’re searching for Awakening, let that fill you, this dynamic self that you are.
The awakened state is dynamic. It’s not about drifting away into an oozing marshmallow of nothingness. It’s being fully awake with life.
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Awakening is Available
What could be more available than yourself?
You know the whole saying: “Everywhere you go, there you are.” Well, what that means is that wherever you go, there you are. You are always with yourself. You can’t escape yourself.
Even if you take the strongest drugs possible your mind may go away for a while, but you’re still there. As soon as the chemicals leave your brain, there you are. You can’t escape yourself.
That means you’re always available.
If you’re searching for yourself, that’s good news, because all you have to do is become the most available, natural, normal you that you can be.
That’s a fabulous thing to be.
The second we stop running away from ourselves, we find that we’re available.
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Awakening is Relaxing
Relaxation is a useful way to think about awakening.
You can’t force yourself to relax, right? If you sit around thinking, “I’ve got ten minutes to relax!” and try to force it, you’re going to be tense through the entire ten minutes.
Instead, you let the tension drift away. Relaxation comes over us naturally when tension is gone. It’s more like a lack of something. When tension is gone relaxation simply comes, because relaxation is what exists when tension is gone.
Nonduality is what exists when duality is gone. It’s that simple.
So, if you’re searching for awakening, relax. Always know that a full moment of relaxation is possible, and in that moment, awakening can happen.
Even if it doesn’t, you just had a nice relaxing moment, right?
Awakening is a relaxed way of being. When you’re not tense and held against the world true life comes to play.
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Awakening is Normal
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Awakening is normal. It’s the most ordinary experience you can know. It is a place of total relaxation where all the cravings of the mind float without hold.
When you relax into this normal state, that is who you are.
This is a very relaxing, normal place to be. This is why we say that Awakening is the end of all suffering. Suffering is caused by constant mental attempts to be something other than what we are. When we relax into simplicity, the ocean of being normal, we are in the nondual state.
When you’re totally relaxed, then your brain is naturally not crazy. That’s Awakening.
It is very powerful when you realize that this as your true nature.
We come here, sometimes, by accident. Sometimes by slowly dissolving into the real. The more normal and relaxed you are with your own being, the closer you are.
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