Awakening Vs. Espiritual Evolution Flashcards
How Awakening and Spiritual Enhancement are completely two different paths. The Fundamental conflict and how Spirituality resolved it. How waking up is a pointless action if you are living a nice dream. How perfecting your dream character inflict no damage on ego.
The fundamental conflict in the spiritual quest:
Ego can never achieve awakening.
Ego may desire truth realization, but ego can’t cross that line. Truth realization is not a personal thing. Self cannot achieve no-self. The result is not realizad-self, it’s no-self. No one can say “I am enlightened” because there is no “I” to it.
There is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only awakeness, non dual abiding, which is undifferentiated. It’s not my reality, it’s reality.
Ego is the only thing in the way of Awakening.
What is blocking the way? To someone who wants to get to the truth, who you are is what’s in the way. Ego is in the way.
Truth is uniquely challenging pursuit because the very thing that wants it is the only thing in the way of it.
How the fundamental conflict, “ego cannot achieve awakening” is resolved?
The fundamental conflict can only be resolved by altering the equation. Spiritual realization gets redefined as something attainable by ego, and now the equation works to everyone’s satisfaction. Ego gets to continue the noble quest and a thriving spiritual industry continues to thrive. Of course, no one gets the grail, but if you understand the fundamental conflict, you’ll see that no one really wanted it anyway.
To walk a “spiritual path” and to “awaken” are two related but completely different things.
To “awaken” is to see clearly what is true and what is not, truth realization, abiding non-dual awareness, while “spiritual evolution” is to become a better or happier person (human adulthood) within the dreamstate.
What it means to walk a Spiritual path?
The majority of people understand this concept as human development, spiritual enhancement, becoming a better and happier person, wandering and exploring the playground of life, cultivating positive emotions such as awe and gratitude and expanding your potential without limits.
This is obviously what everyone really wants, not truth realization, not to awaken.
Is the awakened state a special and mystical state?
The awakened state is not, as commonly supposed, the special state. Awake is just awake. It’s nothing more, it’s everything less.
The awake state is simple, natural and easy. Carrying no baggage. Not spending your lifeforce animating a fictional persona.
The awakened don’t have something that the un-awakened are missing, it’s the other way round. The unawakened posses massive structure of false belief.
Why mess with a wonderful dream?
Happiness only means you are having a good dream and suffering that you are having a bad dream.
The point of a dream is to dream, not to wake up. If you dream a comfortably, happily life, why mess with that? If you are having a wonderful dream, what’s the point of waking up?
However, if your interest is to cut the crap and figure out what’s true, then you’re in the wrong place and there’s no point in pretending otherwise.
Waking up is a pointless action unless you absolutely must.
Waking up is a pointless action. Looking at the falseness of your most treasured self and all you have created. Who would do such a thing? Only someone who absolutely couldn’t not do it.
Once you become the person who can’t not do it, it’s a whole different thing, but trying to do it before you absolutely must is as ridiculous as slicing off parts of your body.
Can you wake up by perfecting your dream character?
You don’t wake up by perfecting your dream character, you wake up by breaking free of it. There’s no truth to the ego, so no degree of mastery over it results in anything true.
Putting attention on the ego merely reinforces it.
Adyashanti said that “Spirituality has nothing to do with enhancing you or your status in the dream state.” Spiritual progress inflict no damage on ego, usually spirituality will reinforce rather than dismantle self-image.
