Levels Of Waking Up

Knowing there are bad people in the world is not waking up.
Knowing there are stupid people in the world is not waking up.
It’s always been this way.

We are meant to see injustice and react, as this creates conflicting emotions in the mind, and makes us unstable – and controllable.

We start to wake up when we notice the effect of this on our minds, and how we believe whatever we are told, being manipulated to take sides. We realise that our mind is not our own when we only quote others.

Waking up is not about what we see out there; waking up is an internal affair.

Grumbling becomes a ‘comedian’s art form;
it’s very clever, but it’s still part of the soporific show,
making us think we see something no one else sees. 🙂

When we realise something is wrong with us, we start to wake up as we know there is more. What has been presented is just a dream, and an illusion of freedom, when it has actually been slavery all along. People function in a dream state – they only look awake; the higher levels of wakefulness are empathy and compassion for this state.

The Buddha’s first noble truth
is to acknowledge that we are suffering, dissatisfied, anxious.

The cause of this dissatisfaction is an identification with an illusory self, which is just an idea in the mind of how clever I am. That is consciousness clinging to an image. That is the creation of ego-I.

Once we can separate what we are – consciousness – from the mind, we can start our journey of ascending the levels of realisations/wakefulness to pure consciousness.

Meditation clears the mind to see directly,
rather than via others’ explanations.

Never take the Buddha’s word for the truth;
it is direct perception – pure consciousness – that is the unchanging truth.