Sublime

culturally unacknowledged.

Waking-in is where waking-up meets growing up.

The Dzogchen tradition refers to four progressive stages of recognition, realization, stabilization, and expression.

Living an awakened life also requires waking-in, waking-out, and growing up.

Contemporary teacher of awakening, Adyashanti, describes stages of “head awakening, heart awakening, gut awakening, and root awakening.”

Second, in this day and age, it’s actually more difficult and dangerous to try “holding it together” and “doing the best we can” from the level of ego-identification than it is to begin the journey of awakening.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? MARY OLIVER, FROM “THE SUMMER DAY”1

letting go of whatever they were holding onto, while continuing to show up and grow up in their lives.

Our choice today is to break down, shut down, act out—or break through and wake up.