Awake: It's Your Turn

“What is true right now if I forget all the knowledge I’ve accumulated about awakening and/or spirituality?”

If at any point you are reading along and find yourself overtaken by an experience of expansiveness, interconnectedness, or deep stillness, then just stop reading and turn your attention directly to that experience. Relax into that experience. Give the experience permission to be the only thing there is. The words on the page aren’t going anywhere.

See if there is an associated sensation or feeling accompanying that thought. Another possibility would be to ask yourself the question, “Do I believe this thought?” See if some thoughts feel more true or more self-defining than others. Lastly, once it is clear that you are oriented toward thought instead of in an evaluative mode with thought, see

One definition of empirical is, “verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or logic.”

“What is this like when I don’t reference the past, or the future, or even the present? Where can I look now?”

If we are comfortable with and can embody the emotion of anger, then we have no need (or very rare need) to act violently. We will sense when our boundaries are being threatened far earlier and trust ourselves to communicate that and/or adjust our situation to mitigate that threat.

We can feel that these emotion states were never in need of repair. We were never in need of repair. The truest healing is the experience that feeling is healing. When we feel from the most intimate position, then there is nowhere to go. There is nothing to fix. There is no need for repair.

There is only this body-world-universe seamlessly self-expressing and dissolving with perfect clarity and precision.

The most fundamental beliefs whose dissolution usually mark significant stages of realization include: