Simply Always Awake

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Nov 14, 2025
A lively exploration of awareness and its connection to self emerges, challenging listeners to rethink separateness. Post-awakening restlessness is discussed as essential shadow work, emphasizing the importance of feeling through discomfort. The relief of non-separation is celebrated, and the merging of inner and outer experiences is highlighted. Critiques of living in the past or future urge a return to the present moment. Engaging discussions on silence and direct experience invite listeners to delve deeper into the mystery of consciousness.
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INSIGHT

Awareness Can Become An Identity Trap

  • Reifying awareness as a fixed identity prevents feeling the body's emotional energetics.
  • Saying "I am awareness" can become a subtle separation that blocks raw sensation.
ADVICE

Sit With Intense Feeling

  • Feel the intensity rather than avoiding it; investigate the restless energy directly.
  • Burn down coping mechanisms by fully feeling sensations to move beyond the pressure cooker.
ADVICE

Stop Chasing The First Awakening

  • Let go of trying to recreate a peak awakening; accept conditions are always changing.
  • Face the grief and shadow that arise when you admit the original moment is gone.
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