Simply Always Awake Is the Urge to Awaken All Thought
Oct 13, 2026
A deep exploration of whether the urge to awaken is itself another thought. The discussion turns toward direct experience beyond doubt, certainty, and mental fixation, while examining what truly awakens. Frustration, desperation, persistent suffering, retreats, teachers, and koans emerge as possible leverage when the thinking mind keeps co-opting spiritual practice.
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Awakening Exceeds The Mind’s Version
- The mind’s desire for awakening carries expectations, but a deeper movement toward awakening exceeds individual beliefs.
- Angelo DiLullo says direct experience eventually reveals an intelligence “far beyond what you take yourself to be.”
Look Beyond Thought Instead Of Fighting It
- Stop treating thought as the only reality or wrestling with it as an enemy.
- Ask what in present experience is not thought, doubt, or certainty, and look there.
Certainty And Skepticism Can Become The Same Trap
- Skepticism, certainty, and spiritual doctrine can share the same fixation when they insist thoughts define reality.
- Even believing the world is unreal can become another thought-based obstruction.