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Three Existential Slaps You’ll Receive If You Seriously Pursue Awakening
Most ‘spiritual tourists’ are not ready to hear this.
The world is trying to keep you at its level. Barraging you from all sides, claiming it knows how to make you truly happy.
You’ve been following it. Lifetime after lifetime. Where has it led you?
The swamp of misery.
Nothing permanently satisfies us, so we keep on the search. Until our minds quite literally shatter from the suffering and we wish to see beyond.
I once saw much of the conditioning in my deep subconscious — most of it consisting of felt impressions from past lives that had nothing to do with this one. What I saw wasn’t enlightening. It was terrifying.
I saw hundreds and hundreds of human lifetimes in which I’d chased the same things: relationships, family, money, prestige.
All the while ignoring, out of fear and laziness, the deep inner work needed to get something more.
My awareness had contracted around impermanent objects so much, now I felt that only expansion was worth my time. And if you’re reading this, you probably know the feeling.
