Demystifying Awakening: A Buddhist Path of Realization, Embodiment, and Freedom

A natural and relaxed confidence emerges. It is a pervasive feeling of “alrightness” that you had totally forgotten was possible in life. Some people remember it as a distant experience from early childhood or even before. There is wonder, mystery, and awe in moment-to-moment living. Most important of all, there is a knowing that there is nothing i

ADYA I will try to explain what happened experientially. At the moment of awakening, it was as though I was completely outside who I thought I was. There was a vast, vast, vast emptiness. In that vast emptiness, in that infinite emptiness, there was the smallest, smallest, smallest point of light you could imagine. And that smallest point of light

in waking life, transcending the distinction between subject and object is equivalent to recognizing that whatever you experience is not separate from the mind that experiences it. Waking life doesn’t stop, but your experience or perception of it shifts from one of limitation to one of wonder and amazement.

The process of the Four Noble Truths. The practice of mindful awareness. The power of self-reliance.