Upon Your Realization

Upon Your Realization

Thank you for your well-written description of postawakening developments. I’m always interested to hear such accounts: while there are general similarities in each unfolding, there are also unique aspects. I’ve read your pages carefully. As you indicated, we are all thoroughly familiar with our customary conditioned— dualistic—perspective. But the emergence of “spiritual,” or nondual, awareness—as if a “fourth dimension” were added—needs some getting accustomed to. Then, nondual awareness can become as natural as our dualistic perspective had always been. You are noticing that—with nondual awareness—the relative, material world does not change in its appearance or eventualities: what changes is our “relationship” to such so-called realities.

The major change we notice is in our perception of the “viewer,” of what is externally and internally observed. As dualistic demarcations are seen to be mere appearances, the “individual” himself is recognized to be insubstantial. The sense of who or what our “self” is develops beyond the definitional limitations that have normally followed the words “I am…”

This freeing orientation cannot help but have an affect on both our values and behavior; thus we notice old selfcentered patterns dissolving (without effort). Whatever arises in consciousness, then, is merely inherent in the process of liberation from ego-preservation activities.

A new, creative energy can be released when our ideation of “should” and “should not” is lifted from our world-view.

No true awakenings, or their unfoldment, follow a preordained format. As we empty out of self-identification, something fills that “vacuum”—and the lives of the Self-realized beings indicate that it can be trusted to be beneficent.

These predecessors welcomed their realization, and I know that you will too.