Chaweon Koo

What remains is awareness dancing as pain.

Awareness crying as sadness.

Awareness laughing at the absurdity of taking any of this personally.

Satori is not an achievement.

It is the end of someone trying to achieve.

And the punchline?

You’ve been enlightened the whole time.

You were just busy thinking about it.

Because enlightenment is not a peak.

It’s a pothole the mind falls into and never climbs out of.

Breath breathing itself.

Eyes seeing without commentary.

Sounds arriving with no translator.

I did not enter awareness.

Awareness noticed it had been pretending to be me.

Like a dancer who forgets the choreography and suddenly becomes the dance.

You thought you needed power to change the world.

You needed coherence.

The moment your inner world stops fighting itself,

the outer world loses its script.

Serve Where You Are

Enlightenment that avoids dishes and difficult conversations is just ego in silk robes.

Show up cleanly. Fully. Repeatedly.

Cruelty toward the self always leaks outward.

The Tao Te Ching put it simply,

“To master the world, master yourself.”