![]() Call them tags just to keep things simple. Since you were born, “I” has been acquiring all kinds of qualities and characteristics. ![]() Your story is the foundation of “I,” your personal identity. Everyone has their own story, and a huge amount of time, effort, emotion, and commitment is spent defending it. What stands in the way is the second obstacle, which can be called your story. Waking up sounds a lot like enlightenment for all. It implies that you don’t have to be a monk sitting in a Himalayan cave practicing intense spiritual practices. But it’s a powerful metaphor, pointing toward a state of awareness better than what we usually experience. Waking up is a metaphor, since most people already consider themselves awake in the ordinary sense of not being asleep in bed. The simplest definition, which would clear away a lot of confusion is “waking up.” To become enlightened is to move out of a state of confusion and conflict, anxiety and depression, or simply dull routine-whatever you associate with “being asleep.” ![]() The first obstacle is lingering confusion over what it actually means to be enlightened. To be enlightened has a positive connotation that should motivate more people to pursue it-but they don’t. Interest in higher consciousness has grown over the past few decades, even though enlightenment, in the Eastern sense of complete awakening, once was considered quite foreign in the West. ![]()
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