Awakening is an incredibly hard thing to define.

It isn't what you think it is.

If your mind can think of it, it isn't it.

Why haven't we talked about this directly in 150 episodes?

And why isn't it something that we talk about as, say, a goal?

When people wake up, it is like one line of evolution.

It's not all the lines of evolution.

And so it can actually get people quite stuck.

They've told themselves that this is a finish line.

And then they hit it and they think they're done, but they're not done.

Evolution doesn't stop.

It just keeps on going. I can't go.

I can't tell you how many times we've been running a course or even before I was running them with you when I was just a participant.

Somebody would have some big experience and you'd be like, oh yeah, I've seen that before. It's just, that's just a non-dual awakening. And then like no further context. And I'd be like, wait, wait, what? And then you wouldn't talk about it again. Yeah. What's going on? Yeah, it's a thing. It happens a lot in our work. It doesn't happen consistently and we don't make it a goal of the work. And I want to get to why that is.

Yeah, yeah.

First I want to back up a little bit because we just introduced a bunch of terminology that a

lot of people might not have.

So what is awakening?

Awakening is an incredibly hard thing to define, and especially because in our vocabulary,

there's a lot of ways people use the word awakening. Like some people describe it as a political

epiphany. Oh, I had an awakening, right? So I'm talking about the thing that the Buddhists would

call awakening or Christians would call Christ consciousness.

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