What Woke Me Up?

The pretence of goodness.

After following gurus, lamas and students for decades, I realised that there wasn’t much – if any – compassion around. No real lasting connection, but just competitive ‘goodness’. Everyone is caught up in the exotic, without any esoteric realisation of wisdom, the full understanding of being.

Decades of chanting ‘compassion’
while all around showed a lack of compassion seemed fishy.

We’re so easily charmed into worshipping that we ignore the essence of reality within all sentient beings; we may revere names, academic theories or religious rituals, but still have no actual empathy.

When we genuinely wake up,
that is the birth of compassion
No defensiveness present.
No pretence. No confusion.
Just a genuine connection.

We learn to bow and scrape – behaving in an obsequious way to someone in authority. This isn’t waking up. The Buddha wanted us to know directly through experience, rather than becoming reliant on others.

A Buddha cannot wake us up; we need a shock which is precisely measured to each individual’s confusion.

There isn’t one word / pill to suit all.