 | Where the freedom comes from after awakening?
Where this relaxation coming from that many teachers of awakening
are talking about?
Many promote falling into relaxation, focusing on rest, etc.
What I found for myself that fundamental relaxation happens by itself. No effort. No getting into special state. No breathing deeply, no special focusing of the mind - nothing is required for the unfolding of the accumulated tension in the body/mind after the experience of awakening - seeing through the illusion of the self. In fact, one can be in the middle of difficult circumstances: family, deadline at work,money problems, etc. and feel at ease, playing the game of "difficult circumstances" and even having fun! So what's going on?
Ok. We take the world in through senses: hearing, seeing, tasting, touch, smell, mental imagery
Let's take the hearing example. We hear somebody bashing us, for example.
BEFORE AWAKENING:
(ordinary human Consciousness, when one sees himself/herself as separate object, having "my"body, "my" thoughts, "my" emotions, "my" history, "my" decisions, etc. Everything is a property of this "i". It's very important - it's me)
the sound reaches our hearing tool, cognition happen, recognition happen: our mind recognizes this word as "negative". This creates a dissonance between what we think about ourselves, our image we were building for years, and what we hear. We create a story to shield "our self", our image, from abuse. This process of always comparing what comes to us from outside world, be on guard, create story-shield, react back, reconcile what happened, etc, take tremendous amount of energy.
AFTER AWAKENING:
(When illusion of the self seeing through - no solid separate self, just Life l-i-f-i-n-g, convergence of vibrations happening, just organic flow of Life. All is seeing as Consciousness/Life living itself, various functions arise and pass away)
sound reaches our hearing organ, cognition happening, recognition happening. Since there are no one there to defend, to guard, what's coming in don't get weaved into the story and maintained there, it flows in and through unobstructed. All the energy that before went to this "building", "guarding", "maintenance" process of the self is freed.
Besides fundamental relaxation, because nothing needs to be guarded, so much energy now also recirculating in the system. People notice dramatically increased feeling of well-being, sharpness and clarity of the mind, decreased sleep hours, steady flow of creativity, feeling of high vibrational emotions like joy, exhilaration, happiness. I spoke to two people here on Facebook, who dropped their life threatening sickness after awakening - cancer, AIDS.
I notice I don't take thoughts seriously, they come and fly away. I am open to any emotion pass through without really sticking. I feel deep relaxation happening on all levels of my being. Without me trying or doing anything. Feels like steady delicious
free fall. Ahh... |
