What Is Awakening?

Awakening means to see that truth—that you want to know how to enjoy, how to live deeply, in a very simple way. You don’t want to waste your time anymore. Cherish the time that you are given.

To “awaken” has much to do with this illusory sense of self. It is to see that the sense of “I, me, mine,” has been an illusion. In other words, it is to discover—not intellectually but experientially—that what I have taken myself to be has, in fact, been a mirage, a phantom, an illusion. To break free of the enchantment of this illusion is a big d

Awakening is a shift of attention from the story of ‘me’ into story-less presence. In the absence of the story of ‘me’, life just is. Without the concept of ‘me’, there is no ‘me’.

A quick digression here: awakening is about understanding the fundamental nature of all sensate experiences, and what they happen to be is ultimately completely and utterly irrelevant to awakening. Thus, very awakened beings understand something fundamental about whatever arises or however their lives manifest, that is, its impermanence, emptiness,

ADYA I will try to explain what happened experientially. At the moment of awakening, it was as though I was completely outside who I thought I was. There was a vast, vast, vast emptiness. In that vast emptiness, in that infinite emptiness, there was the smallest, smallest, smallest point of light you could imagine. And that smallest point of light