Awake: It's Your Turn

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” —Plato

When you do move to a more relaxed environment, remind yourself that you didn’t do this to make the thought storm go away. It doesn’t have to go away. You are just putting yourself in a safe and relaxing environment for the thought storm to express itself.

“When the angel of death approaches you, he is horrific; when he reaches you it is bliss.” —The Thousand and One Nights

have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and u

When you stop leaning on them, they will have to stop leaning on you. This is exactly what happens when we find the hidden thought through investigating resistance. So, what is this hidden thought? The thought is: That thought, image, or memory shouldn’t be there.

as if that relaxed space itself is what is doing the investigation.

There is a common turning point I see among people who are in the process of waking up. Sometimes it occurs before initial awakening, sometimes after. It is not a stage or insight of realization, per se. It is more a mark of spiritual maturity. To put it bluntly, it is when they stop faking it. The turning point is when they drop the pretense and p

thought storm.”

The second point I want to make is that this statement is not suggesting that the mere presence of thoughts is what is causing our unhappiness and pain. The presence of thoughts is, in and of itself, harmless. It is our relationship with thoughts that is the core issue. It is the way we interact with thoughts that causes all the confusion, doubt, c