3 Exhilarating Lessons on Awakening Consciousness I Would Rush To Tell My Younger Self

Most learn them too late in life

The average person won’t be able to hear what I’m about to share.

It’ll go in one ear and fall out the other. It does not encourage a life of materialist comfort, ego-aggrandizing, or procreative pleasure.

It destroys & transforms them.

If you’ve been following my writing, you’ll notice I’m not exactly capable of plugging into the matrix, sugar coating reality, and ‘going with the flow.’

Because my entire being can feel where things will end up. For myself and others — the status quo only leads to more transmigration, in the same old patterns.

Breaking out of the egg is the whole point of you being here.

Your body-mind is just a tool.

Most of our lives are spent seeking comfort + avoiding pain. Which normally wouldn’t be a problem.

It’s just that there are multi-billion dollar industries devoted to exploiting it.

What happens when you sit down to marathon a Netflix show?

• Your mindfulness (aka INNER WISDOM) turns to mush.
• Addiction to mental stimulation, trapping you in one layer of consciousness
• A subconscious craving for sedation, to avoid facing its issues

They’re the 3 biggest impediments to meditation.

Which is not to simply to “let go.” It’s the process of breaking a limited reality, and entering an unlimited one.

Even in the new age marketplace, the seven Chakras are explicated everywhere.

What about the Chakras above the crown, higher than the head, in the realm of beyond-ordinary selfhood?

One of my mentors once said the mind is like a child who’s taken over the throne of a kingdom, banishing anyone who might talk sense into him.

In reality, the throne & the responsibility entailed by it the ruler. The one sitting is just the tool.

Similarly — what the great Indian philosopher & freedom fighter Sri Aurobindo called ‘the psychic being’ is what your childish mind & body are supposed to be listening to.

It’s your deeper, purely divine self. And it’s literally located higher & beyond your selfhood.

It’s the bridge to receiving all the guidance from the universe’s innate intelligence that you could ask for.

But for most people, it never wakes up.

They spend their lives pampering their mind’s preferences & their body’s whims. Afraid of the tantrum that ensues from starting to control them.

If you do not contact a deep, primordial part of yourself in a station above the mind — a self capable of sacrificing all that is lower, and taking joy in doing the necessary — you won’t ever progress by leaps & bounds on the path!

You’ll slowly set yourself up to go backwards, the more you identify with insentient, limited machinery, rather than the purpose they’re there for.

And not just “life,” but reality has a purpose.

This is where language gets tricky.

Because for the last two millennia, humanity has utterly failed to put that purpose into words that don’t result in inquisition, jihad, conversion, colonization, slavery, & witch burning.

The god paradigm has failed us. Because it was meant to be experienced, not argued over!

Examine the books describing the “only truth” about “the one god” with a critical eye, and you’re inevitably drawn to atheism.

Because the moment you posit an all-ruling entity, a source of all that is created, you blame it for the suffering.

So what do the followers of suffering’s doctor say?

There are curious texts from Tibet, by renowned philosophers, which argue that all phenomena are the display of enlightened deities.

In fact, even the Buddha’s words, in the Mahayana canon, offer this lens to view reality.

Buddhas exist neither in samsara nor nirvana, and benefit sentient life non-conceptually & unimpededly, for all of time and space.

So why should we not view all things as known by them, connected to them, even accepted by them?

This does not negate karma, or give permission to perform ‘evil.’ Everyone still suffers from the tendencies we put in our minds.

But it does the freedom to realize forces beyond human knowing exist. Forces so vast, they demand that we grow our awareness to a state equally expansive.

The Buddhas want all of us to be free of suffering by attaining enlightenment, and work tirelessly to ensure it.

So long as we follow our end of the bargain — by performing activities (like re-training our minds via meditation) that destroy the awareness-contracting karma we carry.

The mark of ignorance is to demand that divine forces make the realm of time and space ‘perfect.’

The mark of wisdom is to realize this realm of time & space only exists to evolve us toward what is actually perfect.

Which is not just transcendent, but also immanent, out of its all-knowingness & all-lovingness!

Which makes this reality — their playground — a sacred field for growth.

Every drop of suffering is oh-so-precious.

If the world was made perfect, from total divine intervention, why would anyone chase enlightenment at all?

For the same reason the Buddha began his path with four truths totally centered around suffering: only from unbearable heat do we learn the futility of touching beautiful flames.

Every suffering you face has its root in a contraction; a limiting imprisonment of consciousness around something that it’s not.

Be it a mental preference, addiction to an emotion, or abduction by a narrative.

And what does it take to escape?

Using the one tool that sets you free.

You learn to grow & expand awareness, in self sacrifice, service to all life, & commitment to perfection for the sake of all.

By facing and transmuting every knot of suffering lurking in your mind.

What you dwell on persists.

What you observe purely disperses.

Most people are too preoccupied with Band-Aid solutions, rather than beginning the slow surgery that benefits all beings for all time & space!

Science will have you believe it’s slain all “religion.”

Matter is made of particles, and that’s why everything exists.

But it conveniently forgot to include consciousness into this paradigm.

That curious phenomena for which modern science still has no concrete definition, explanation, or means of measuring.

What to say of the beings who’ve perfected this thing Western science can’t even touch?

And perfected it not because they said so.

Because they were able to empirically replicate their discovery by transmitting it to others, unbroken, for thousands of years up to the present day.

Perhaps it would be prudent to not get swept by the tides of a modernity denying the very existence of that closest to each of us:

Awareness cognizing experience.

Perhaps it would be liberating to trust & develop this current of knowing, until our intuition is stronger than our intellect.

There’s only one way of discovering what happens when you do so.