How do difficult things look from the perspective of awakening?
How do tragedies look? Loss of all kinds, whether personal or collective?
It depends, of course. It depends on the level of clarity. It depends on how embodied and lived that clarity is. It depends on conditioning, tradition, and culture, both in how it’s perceived and expressed.
Here are a few things from my own experience.
It’s lila. The play of the divine. It’s all the divine – or life, the Universe – exploring, expressing, and experiencing itself.
It’s all Spirit. It’s happening within and as what we are and everything is. It’s happening within and as (what we may call) awakeness, consciousness, love, wisdom.
It’s not what it looks like. Partly because of lila. Partly because the way it looks, in a conventional sense, is filtered and created by believing stories and being identified with identities and stories. And many of these stories, especially when it comes to loss, are stressful.
When we examine these stressful stories, we may find that reality is kind. (As Byron Katie often points out.) And we can find this for ourselves, even in small ways, through inquiries such as The Work.
When it happens to someone else, there is empathy. We know very well how painful and distressing human experiences can be. We know from our own experience. We wish to be present with others going through it. We wish to be human with others. If appropriate and possible, we wish to alleviate the suffering. That’s all very natural.
And when something diffcult happens in our own life, we wish the same. To be present with what’s here as it is. To recognize the suffering as very natural. Recognize it as the play of the divine, and as Spirit. And if appropriate and possible, to alleviate the suffering. (In our own case, through presence, inquiry, love, and more.)
Mainly, it looks very human. In the best case, it looks like clarity and maturity in a very human way.
In other cases, our own wounds – areas in us not yet healed or on board with the clarity – are triggered and we act from these wounds and lack of clarity.
Often, there is a mix. There is clarity and lack of clarity. And that too is very human.
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Initial notes……
- How difficult things look from the perspective of awakening
- how does tragedies, loss etc look from the perspective of awakening?
- depends on level of awakening + embodiment
- but in general, and from my limited experience…. (anybody’s experience is limited….!)
- unawakened / believing stories
- seems like a tragedy, creates wounds/traumas etc.
- awakened / more clear about stories
- lila – play of the divine
- human – empathy, recognize
- how does tragedies, loss etc look from the perspective of awakening?
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How do difficult things look from the perspective of awakening?
How do tragedies look? Loss of all kinds, whether personal or collective?
It depends, of course. It depends on the level of clarity. It depends on how embodied and lived that clarity is. It depends partly on conditioning, tradition, and culture, both in how it’s perceived and expressed.
My experience is limited, as is anyone’s, so I can’t give a full or comprehensive answer. And it will probably be slightly different in the future. But here it is for now.