Narcissistic encapsulation is a fascinating thing as it does
not have the capacity to doubt, to question its own perceptions. They know they
are right and we are wrong and there is no need to even consider another
possibility.
"In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the
intelligent are full of doubt." ~ Bertrand Russell
Doubt and faith are the same coin. Great doubt leads to
great faith, which is not belief. The attitude of faith is to let go, and
become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
I have no choice but to believe in free will.
True awakening is the end of identification with the
autobiographical self, so the person changes without intent or effort as that
there is no longer any investment in propping up "the myth of me." On
the other hand, awaking experiences can be hijacked by the autobiographical
self and used within its myths. This is caused the "stink of
enlightenment."
Within the human instrument, hormonal and neuron-chemical
changes continue to occur and affect moods, energy, clarity of thought, but
there is no longer the secondary process of an autobiographical self who would
think it should be otherwise.
Some people, as they awakened, can appear to be
schizophrenic. And we are all narcissistic before awakening happens!!!
Our true nature is our true nature transcendent of the
instrument, of the brain and body. In theory, anyone can wake up to what is
always already true.
Everything is everything and some of it suffers. People wake
up when they do. Awakening is not predicated on anything.
Waves are waves and also none other than the ocean. Some
waves know this. Others don't. They are still waves and still the ocean.
Awakening happens when they stop imagining that they are somehow
"other" than the ocean.
Words.
Open mouth already a mistake.
The term "awakening" is in fact a very valid
pointer for an apparent human being who is experiencing the usual human dilemma
of an apparent separate and vulnerable self.
It points to a direct recognition that all and everything
and nothing and not that are all water, that there is nothing other than water,
no separate self, using your metaphor. It points to an all inclusive awareness
that is simultaneously transcendental to and yet immanent as everything.
This is a transpersonal realization that, in fact, greatly
impacts the apparent human person or body- mind instrument. But the realization
brought about by "awakening" does not confer status, specialness or
exotic states of being or experience.
It is when something stops happening - which is the creation
of the experience of a special unique, separate autobiographical self, which is
a product of time, memory, fear, ambition, desire and thought. This creation is
maintained by self- obsessed thinking. When the autobiographical self thinks,
what it is usually thinking about is, "me, my, mine in the past, future
and now."
ps/smoh
