The impact of awakening

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In J_Krishnamurti , " phamdluan2000 "

<phamdluan@a...> wrote:

>

>

> Habitually conditioned to avoid fear and insecurity, most people

> compulsively cling to what is familiar, even if it is very painful

> and confusing. I have witnessed countless people turn away from the

> experience and revelation of freedom because in that freedom there

> is nowhere to hide and nothing to hold onto. As they begin to

awaken

> to a freedom that is profound, many turn back to a familiar

> condition of struggle and confusion in an unconscious effort to

> avoid stepping completely into the ungraspable and indefinable

> mystery of liberation. Why? Because in that mystery there is

> absolutely nothing for the personal ego to attain or define itself

> by.

>

> This is not the liberation that most people envision when they

start

> out. Consciously or unconsciously most people envision a freedom

> that they can attain and possess. So many who glimpse the

> enlightened condition tell me that it is so much bigger than they

> ever could have imagined. To realize that freedom is not something

> that you possess, but something that possesses you, is often

> experienced as shocking, frightening, and unbelievably liberating.

> It is a revelation that swallows up the dream of a separate you and

> reveals Self to be a limitless expanse. What I am describing is the

> experience of Self void of any sense of selfhood, a timeless and

> uncaused condition which is constantly birthing manifest existence

> into form.

>

> To have a glimpse of this profound freedom requires very little,

but

> to live it requires the destruction of every concept of self you

> have ever held or will ever hold. This freedom is a flame that

burns

> the need to struggle to ash and reveals the Self to be all there is.

>

>

> - from The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of

> Adyashanti