I sometimes hear people talk about permanent awakening, or even full or complete awakening.
To me, that seems like the human being – the psyche – responding to awakening, or what it interprets as awakening. It seems that it’s the psyche attempting to find a sense of safety by pretending it’s permanent, full, complete, and so on. It seems like an attempt to fix – in the sense of making permanent – something that’s inherently fluid. It’s an attempt to hold onto the river even as it’s passing between your fingers.
How can you know it’s permanent, or full or complete?
Isn’t it much better to align with the always-changing nature of everything, including this?
The reality is, this psyche doesn’t know. It cannot know. And there is an immense beauty there.
To me, that seems less stressful.
And if it happens, if parts of the psyche tries to pretend it knows and that something is permanent, that’s fine too. That too is part of the always changing nature of it all. It’s an appearance that comes and goes.