Awakening
What is Awakening?
Quotes from The Path of Awakening:
Awakening is Truth-recognition. It is not an experience, state, or form of anything you can mentally know.
Awakening is similar to a figure/ground reversal. At first, you perceive yourself as an object on the form side. As your practice develops, you intuit into formlessness at progressively deeper levels. When awakening occurs, the figure (person) and ground (Absolute) undergo a reversal. Before awakening, you look to the Absolute as if it were a supreme object. After awakening, you awaken as the Absolute, freely witnessing the rise and fall of objects—including the person you previously thought you were.
Awakening is the end of all suffering, incompleteness, and dissatisfaction. Awakening ends your nightmare forever.
Awakening involves a conscious relationship with thoughts. It’s about your conscious relationship to the world. That’s what awakening is about. It’s not about things. It’s about your conscious relationship to things. It’s about breaking your identification with form.
Awakening is self-evident. When Liberation is complete, questions that used to arise don’t arise. Where “you” used to be, “It” is—and your identity is identical with “It.” “It” doesn’t have any questions.
Awakening is the ultimate decision—the cutting off of all falsehood.
Awakening is a form of direct inquiry into things, revealing their essential nature.
Awakening is more like darkness than light. Awakening is more like silence that is loud or brightness that is dark. It cannot be said what awakening is. Anything you say about it is at best a signpost pointing the way to its attainment. Anything awakening is said to be is most definitely not what it is.
Awakening is the only achievement that counts.
Awakening is the greatest service you can render.
Awakening is not an exclusive right to a mere few; it is your birthright. It is the reason you are here.
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