What Awakening Really Is
An enlightened buddha sitting cross legged ensconced in a mountainous valley in Tibet.
Crystals.
Star Charts.
T-shirts that say Spiritual Gangster.
Meditation retreats.
Going to Church.
What is an awakening? And what is spiritual enlightenment?
It turns out it’s not a concept. It’s not spiritual. It’s not religious. It’s not something that you become or reach for or accomplish.
It’s just you. At the end of the day, when it’s all said in done. It’s just you. And you realize that the ego you doesn’t actually ‘get’ anything. It doesn’t ‘get’ more spiritual. It doesn’t ‘get’ more enlightened. It’s just you coming into the wholeness of yourself. The you that isn’t limited by labels or definitions. Just the pure and true and beautiful you.
The awakening process can actually be a very destructive process where you have to let go of so much of what you thought you were to truly embody the you that exists without any pretense. The you under it all. The you that is just the wholeness of the beauty of who you really are and the experiences of which you want to feel and embody. You are not fixed. You are not THIS or THAT. You are ultimately flow. Pure peaceful energetic flow.
But in order to get to this place of flow, you have to let go of a lot. You have to let go of the concepts of spirituality or religion. You have to let go of it all.
Because when you let go of it all and you sit in the unknown completely stripped of what was or what might be. There is a powerful potency. There is boundlessness, there is immense creativity, and there is the unobstructed pure flow of the entire universe. It does not know what might become, because it has never become this or that before. The universe wants to expand and explore and experience through you. And you want to expand and explore and experience through the universe. You are one in the same.
So while, yes, these tools of spirituality can be useful amongst the path, they are once again concepts. Whatever you believe is what you experience, so if you let go into a place of no-belief and not knowing, you can create what has never been seen before. And especially when done from the heart, it can be an explosion of new beauty, new light, new love unto this earth.
Awakening is not a concept. Awakening is not a belief. Awakening is not the mass produced spirituality that is so popular today. Awakening is the deconstruction of misaligned beliefs and ego driven, fear-based concepts into the pure, unfiltered, unobstructed, heart centered soul aligned YOU.
And that YOU is going to look completely different than someone else’s YOU.
So always, always follow your own guidance and heed the call of whatever YOU are meant to bring forth unto this world.
I’ll see YOU there!