If you've woken up, great. Now stop, forget about it. Let it go. Don't cling even to this. Keep practicing as if nothing ever happened. The narratives you create around your awakening are even more dangerous than what you've woken up from.
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Insights are not meant to make everything better automatically. They're meant to teach you something which you can then use skillfully. They still have to be applied and integrated in each moment.
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I tend to have a hard time with this
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As do I! This is the whole joke, and this is the practice. Awakening is a practice, not a one-time cure.
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I think people have this concept of reaching samadhi wherein everything suddenly becomes smooth & easy because of some concentration of power or wisdom, when it would be better described as endurance of the unending river of suffering that is the stream of samsaric consciousness.
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