Simply Always Awake Taking Your Mind to a Standstill
Nov 7, 2025
Explore the fascinating quest for awakening as the host delves into the mind's obsession with affirmation and understanding. Discover the concept that awakening is always accessible in the present, challenging the idea that timing matters. Learn to recognize thoughts as mere objects, not personal truths, and embrace confusion without clinging. Step into a space beyond concepts where the mind loses its grip, leading to an alive experience of presence. Finally, rest in the quiet of awakens that needs no validation from thoughts.
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Mind Seeks Awakening Stories
- People often obsess over whether they've 'had an awakening' because thought looks for milestones and strategies.
- That seeking is just the mind's relational, causal nature rather than evidence of actual awakening.
See Thoughts As Thoughts
- Don't get entangled in thoughts asking if you had or will have an awakening; instead see them as mere thoughts.
- Follow each thought back and ask if it's really pointing to something real or just suggesting an idea.
Allow Confusion Without Grasping
- Allow confusion and anxious thoughts to arise without needing them to orient you; give the mind permission not to grasp.
- When repeating thoughts appear to answer your question, come back and look again to find nothing conceptual to hold onto.
