Waking Up - A New Operating System for Your Mind

One of the most important things to learn is how to separate awareness from thinking, and then we can see that thoughts and emotions are not the center of who we are. We then discover that awareness is the source of mind that brings the peace that passes understanding. One student said, “This is what it feels like to be open-minded.” It is our natu

Unquestionably, the most valuable effect of mindfulness is its ability to radically reprogram our deepest misconceptions about the nature of reality, and about who and what we are. Our gut intuition tells us we’re separate selves in a world of other people and objects, and that our individual suffering and happiness depend on external circumstances

Anecdotally, though, people experienced in non-dual states tend to report:

• Less emotional activation

• A greater sense of sacredness

• More absorption in surroundings

• A heightened sense of interconnectedness

• Less preoccupation with neurotic thoughts

• More available feelings of meaning and purpose

The deepening of the interest in stage two becomes almost an obsession with the nature of identity. We start to pour more and more of our energy into asking, “Who am I?” or “What is consciousness?” or “What was my face before my parents were born?” or “Where does suffering end?” At some point, we become so absorbed in the inquiry that we lose the s