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“THE CHASE ENDS”

Immersion in the drama, which begins with perceiving thoughts as fact or true and identifying with them, begins with ignorance (not knowing the Self; this is a kind of setting for impersonal experience of consciousness, not a fault).

Add to this the unconscious (ego) reactions caused by suppressed, overwhelmed and unsublimated emotions, that is, remaining emotional energy, patterned interpretations, assumptions, or beliefs, and we unknowingly indulge ourselves in the drama we keep writing, implicating those around them as characters in the drama (we actually believe we got caught up in as victims), and keeping creation of unhappiness for ourselves.

But we are afraid to stop indulging in this drama.

And the mind (ego) chooses suffering rather than over awakening, because the mind (ego) prefers the familiar to the uknown.

However, even if we don’t want to accept of what is and the facts as they are, but we know there are something that have remaind and need to be embraced as they are, and they are unsublimated spiritual challenges (such as loneliness, powerlessness, shame, longing for love, and fear).

In fact, it is in these unsublimated emotional energies, patterned interpretations, assumptions, or beliefs, filled with unaddressed spiritual learning, that the key to awareness—to break free from these patterns—lies hidden.

Ultimately, when there is no self completely, there will be awareness that all of these dramas were actually a game we wrote and played ourselves, that the things we feared and the problems we faced never existed in the first place, and that even the hurt we felt was merely an illusion we created ourselves.

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In this way, it is necessary to become aware of oneself, such as each and every one of aspects, tendency, or unconsciousness.

In other words, it is essential to become aware of the mind (ego) that is obsessing to various forms of doingness, doership, such as gathering knowledge and taking action.

And essential to this awareness is the silence of clarity where is deep within oneself.

Detaching oneself from thoughts (self-observation and self-inquiry that involves not minding the thoughts that merely appear and disappear, and focusing one’s attention on one’s own words and reactions, and its underlying thoughts, or beliefs) and observing facts as they are, and seeing through without any judgment will arise awareness

In other words, this inevitable surrender of the mind (ego) through completely focusing one’s conscious inward, which makes away from identification with the personal self and attachment to it without effort is precisely this state of pure consciousness as the essence (openness), that let go of everything superfluous and untrue.

Furthermore, the awareness gained through the clarity of the innermost stillness can dispel ignorance and put an end to the unconscious game of chase.

It is not something that one tries to end through effort or control because it should end, but rather it inevitably comes to an end when one’s spiritual challenge is completed (one sees through the facts).

At that moment, one becomes finally able to live truly.

As a matter of fact, until that point, one cannot even accept the fact that one is unable to live life.

Then, there is only pure awareness, that undistracted by thoughts or phenomena, relaxing in the now, and merely witnessing all the impermanence.

At that moment, awareness becomes aware the absolute reality that everything is perfect, right now, there is no separation anywhere, and only omnipresent consciousness.

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By the way, detaching oneself from thoughts doesn’t just mean detaching from negative thoughts. It means detaching oneself from all thoughts, whether positive or negative.

It means realizing that thoughts (mind, ego), whether good (right) or bad (wrong), have no substance.

The thing that is required is not to become a good person or to live a positive life, but to realize that even without doing anything, we are not a separate individual who are always lacking something, but that even while we were not aware of it, we were impersonal perfect consciousness itself.

In other words, it is about seeing through the truth about the self, not gaining knowledge, nor logically or intellectually understanding spiritual teachings, and certainly not striving for self-improvement.

Because there is no personal self anywhere from the very begining at all.

Every thought only appears and disappears in our head on its own, and is totally not as the Self, the absolute reality.

There is no truth in thoughts.

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There are always steps we must take.

Those steps are one by one completed by sincerely being honest with ourselves.

That is why the journey of spiritual awakening is called “the pathless path.”

Even if one tries to skip them, the more one strives to skip, paradoxically, the less there wil be a possibility to become aware of absolute reality, by natural law.

Instead, become aware that the desire to “skip” or the thought of “be able to skip” these steps, and such tendency of the mind (ego) are due to an impatient or fear-driven. (OM 🙏)