Awakening From the Self Story

When we quiet the thoughts there is a dissolving of that solidity of a self sense. Have you noticed that song as it gets quieter? There's just stuff happening. The Buddha, when he sat under the Bodhi tree, encountered all the challenges and in his wakefulness was able to discover that presence and compassion that's larger than the challenges that were thrown at him by the God Mara. And so that's what we're practicing here. Just deepen our attention. We're coming home. But I think it's irreversible that you can't be here and you can go back into trance. That's the nature of awareness to awaken through these bodies and realize itself.