How to Wake Up?
The Seeker's Dilemma.
The big question is “How can I wake up?” Let’s dissect the question at hand. More often than not this question translates to “What can I do to become awakened? If this is what is being asked, it sets up a conceptual idea of being an individual, on a path towards something, and this is how we become seekers. This is a deluded thought and further enforces our ideas of separation rather than leading us towards awakening. We need to understand that awakening is simply coming to realize what we are already.
Let’s restructure the question to be more clear to“ What has been forgotten, that can be realized?” This takes away the idea of needing to do anything and the distance from it. There is no distance from what you believe currently to a new realization, it is as instantaneous as you realize it.What you have forgotten is that you are simply life itself, the human body is a facet of nature and unfolds along with it. This life that you are is universal and appears as different forms, and it’s possible for life to believe that it is limited to the form that it is currently embodied as. You have forgotten your true identity is the life that you are.
If we are in the position of thinking of ourselves as a separate person, and not the universal life, it is impossible to bridge the gap. This is because believing you are the individual is believing in separation. The position of being an individual inherently constructs a framework in which you are separate from other things, and you are now in the impossible position of attempting to reconcile that idea, and put all of the pieces back together again, to view it as “ oneness”. The thing to realize is that this is an imagined and false conceptual framework, that will never transition into a view of truth. We need to drop this framework and start over.
There is no sense in trying to rectify the dilemma of being a seeker and no need to, if we start from the position of truth that we are actually in. You are oneness now. You are life itself already, there are no pieces to reconcile, the life that you are is universal. If this isn’t immediately clear, we can look at our current situation. It is no doubt that we are alive, and that we have a body, and we can notice this. The suggestion is that more accurately, you are life and that life is in the form of a body. You aren’t a body that has life, but life that is embodied.
If we are in the position of thinking of ourselves as a separate person, and not the universal life, it is impossible to bridge the gap. This is because believing you are the individual is believing in separation. The position of being an individual inherently constructs a framework in which you are separate from other things, and you are now in the impossible position of attempting to reconcile that idea, and put all of the pieces back together again, to view it as “ oneness”. The thing to realize is that this is an imagined and false conceptual framework, that will never transition into a view of truth. We need to drop this framework and start over.
There is no sense in trying to rectify the dilemma of being a seeker and no need to, if we start from the position of truth that we are actually in. You are oneness now. You are life itself already, there are no pieces to reconcile, the life that you are is universal. If this isn’t immediately clear, we can look at our current situation. It is no doubt that we are alive, and that we have a body, and we can notice this. The suggestion is that more accurately, you are life and that life is in the form of a body. You aren’t a body that has life, but life that is embodied.
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