WHAT REMAINS AFTER AWAKENING?

There’s often a quiet misconception that once the True Self is realised ~sometimes called awakening or enlightenment~ it will fix everything.

That it will somehow make us “better,” remove emotional reactions, silence unhelpful thoughts, or completely change our personality.

Some even imagine it will get rid of the “self” altogether~that familiar me we’ve often grown tired of.

But once the truth is seen, there can be a surprise.

Because it doesn’t quite work that way.

You see, it’s not the personal self~this person, this story, your name here~that wakes up.

If you’re trying to “awaken” your name, then you’re looking in the wrong direction.

Fact is ~ Awareness simply becomes aware of itSelf.

The body and mind are still here, just seen differently now~with all their preferences, thoughts, emotions, and desires.

They are no longer taken quite so seriously. There’s a lightness to them, even as they appear.

Everything changes… and yet, nothing does.

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Over the course of our lives, unconscious patterns have been laid down~habitual ways of reacting, feeling, believing.

These patterns may still play out, like driving a familiar road on autopilot and suddenly realising you’ve arrived without remembering the journey.

So, what about those old, unhelpful patterns that still show up~even after Self Realisation?

Now, it becomes a matter of noticing.

Just noticing.

Not fixing, not searching, not analysing.

Simply noticing when they appear.

Nothing more is needed.

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This is where meditation can be a powerful ally.

Not essential, but incredibly supportive.

A gentle tool that helps us become more attuned to what arises~until eventually, even practice is no longer necessary.

Just witness. Just watch.

And with time, these old patterns begin to dissolve.

Perhaps not all at once.

Perhaps not immediately.

But they do soften in the spaciousness of awareness.

And the process becomes less rocky when we trust its simplicity.

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We are not trying to get rid of a “you.”

We are simply seeing through the belief in the attachment to a “you.”

An attachment that may have carried shame, annoyance, fear, jealousy, or resistance.

With this seeing comes compassion~for the one we once believed ourselves to be.

An appreciation for this life as it is experienced through this human form.

And a quiet recognition that, while we were once caught up in that identity…

we simply didn’t know any different.

Until ‘I’ did.

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