The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment

In order to awaken, we must break out of the paradigm of always seeking to feel better.

To be truly awake, to be enlightened, is to be free of all grasping—to be free of all points of view. That state is literally indescribable. We cannot conceptualize what that state of being is like. Up until that point, we can always conceptualize to some extent.

The only thing we can do as human beings is to see that all holding on is futile; all holding on is a veiled form of rejecting who and what we really are.

Awakening on the level of emotion means that we start to see and understand that what we feel does not tell us who and what we are. It tells us what we feel, period. What we feel doesn’t need to be avoided or denied, but it doesn’t define us. When we are no longer defining self on the level of emotion, our sense of self is liberated from the level

after awakening there is still a human being with a human mind that is trying to make sense of things. The mind is even trying to make sense of awakening itself. Since for most people there’s not a total disappearance of the ego, the mind continues to try to make sense of the insights of awakening.

This much is assured: if we argue with reality, for any reason, we will go into division. That is just the way it works. Reality is simply what is.

These emotions that come from divisiveness are like little red flags, reminding us that we are not perceiving the true nature of things. Emotional turmoil tells us that we have an unconscious belief that isn’t true.

I would say that my experience is that I no longer believe the next thought that I have. I’m not capable of actually believing a thought that happens. I have no control over what thoughts appear, but I can’t believe that the thought is real or true or significant. And because no thought can be grasped as real, true, or significant, that itself has

“Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”