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A Modern Guide To Awakening
Introduction to Deep Self Investigation
The conventional view of oneself is that you are a person: a separate, limited, body/mind entity among many others. This is not a problem, however, it is also simply not true. This view is part of a dream about life and you. What is actually going on, and what you actually are, is something much different. But to know what you are, you must wake up from the dream and the dream character you play.
The term “awakening,” as used here, refers to two things. The first is the recognition that you are not a separate person residing in, or as, a body and mind. The second is to realize that your true nature is actually awareness. This true nature is like a living, conscious, energetic sea that moves freely around, through and as all things. You actually are this living awareness, present here and now, occurring as this present experience.
Reading, reflecting on, and working with what is written here should invoke glimpses and shifts in perspective, allowing the veil that obscures the reality of your existence as living awareness to part. As new understanding develops, the conditioned thinking that supports “the story of you” will begin to dissolve. Gradually, and sometimes suddenly, periods of awakening reveal that reality is very different from what it appeared to be.
You may believe you want what awakening seems to offer, but how can you know what awakening is or what it has to offer if you have no prior experience to draw upon? There are just secondhand, often-vague descriptions, which are filtered through the mind to invent a vision of what awakening might look like. These visions will not carry you to awakening. What will guide you is an impulse, an intuition, a magnetic pull toward knowing something that is literally beyond you. If you find yourself repeatedly returning to questions like, Who am I? or What is the truth?, then this impulse is most likely active in you.
It appears that most people in this dream life do not feel the pull strongly enough to act on it. But in some cases, this compelling influence will not leave us alone. Often activated by a glimpse of an awakened perspective, unseen forces will coax and nudge us to persistently look beyond the human experience. In my late teens, I found that this question began to pull at me consistently, and soon became a force that I could not deny. This drove me to look for other ways of understanding. Ways to understand what I really am, what this life is, and how existence works. While the recognition of my true identity was complete after awakening over 10 years ago, the deepening recognition of how existence “works” continues still.
Deep Self Investigation (DSI) presents a clear framework for a process of self-inquiry that can lead to awakening. It appears that for thousands of years, many spiritual traditions and philosophical disciplines have included some form of self-inquiry in their teachings. I was exposed to many of these through literature and encounters with teachers. Over many years of working with various approaches, I eventually refined them into what is presented here. The practice of DSI is a process of investigating and questioning the “sense” of being a separate self, what you refer to in thought as “I” or “me," as well as becoming familiar with what is beyond this I-sense.
Even if you have practiced self-investigation for quite some time, that sense of separate existence can still feel strong and convincing. You may believe that awakening is a lofty state far beyond the reach of your present existence. I will attempt to demystify the idea that awakening is some transcendental, divine, blissful condition beyond this present existence. Ultimate awareness is available to you here and now. This awareness through which you know the world, and even these words now, is complete as it is. Yet, saying that awareness is available and part of your everyday experience does not mean that you can easily and permanently establish the knowing of it. In my experience, awakening required one to persistently direct attention to question the sense of “I” (the false identity) in order to change or dissolve beliefs accumulated over a lifetime.
Come join in an exploration through and beyond the limits of the dream of you.
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