August 20, 2011

"Awakening" and "liberation" are two of the closest approximations I can muster--they ring true to my experience of the past year or so.  Awakening suggests opening up at last to what has always been the case, and liberation implies freedom from everything to do with the body-mind.  So we awaken to the fact that we are and always have been free of the fabricated self, of the ego with its incessant demands.  Its sort of like coming to AA after years of drunkenness, getting sober, and then reflecting with astonishment upon the altered and delusional life of the crazy alcoholic who is me.  Not to be arrogant, but I feel deep compassion for the bulk of us who live in ignorance, everybody hustling to get whatever they can in their allotted three score and ten.  No wonder we live in a climate of desire and fear run amok.