What’s the point of awakening?
All of us live with this thing inside of us. We try to appease it by seeking its pleasure and avoiding its pain. We want to provide it confidence and security. We allow it masks of identity. And then we adorn it with validation.
What is that thing inside of us? The feeling of “I.”
Because perfect accomplishment of the above goals is impossible, suffering results. The “I” suffers. But what is that “I” really?
Within each of us is a point of tension that is used as a reference point to interact with our idea of ourself and our idea of the world. That point of tension we have become accustomed to calling “I.”
It may seem harmless enough but this fundamental point of tension becomes ten thousand tensions. The tensions between ourself and our desires. The tensions between ourself and our fears and anxieties. The tensions stored in the body by traumas and fixations and hangups.
The purpose of awakening is to snap out of the reflexive identification with and servitude of the core tension, the core-I. The result is that you are no longer bound to choicelessly go along with the dysfunctional agenda of that core-I. You will also no longer rely on that core-I to know yourself.
Awakening is a permanent shift in which the awareness, the meaning, of your existence is no longer burdened by this fundamental misperception. It is, as you might imagine, an immense relief. It is also a game changer. Such an awakening is the beginning of a maturation process whose inevitable outcome is total enlightenment.
More to follow.
LY
