Awaken Now By Reading This Brief Article

Congratulations on choosing to read this essay. By giving your attention to an article such as this, it means you are spiritually advanced and want to awaken. But what does “awaken” mean? To me it means you shift your identity from feeling you’re an ego-personality, to feeling like you are a loving awareness, and part of something beyond a limited ego.

This shift in identity can last for a mere moment or it can last for your entire life, but either way, it feels timeless and eternal. In actuality, we are both an ego and a divine awareness, but we usually spend almost all our time thinking we’re an individual that’s separate from everything and everyone else. Unfortunately, true peace and love can’t be found when all we think we are is an ego-personality.

So how does one awaken — especially by reading a simple article? Well, first let me discuss how not to awaken when reading an article. Then once you see and let go of all the obstacles to awakening right now, actual awakening will be rather easy. So here goes…

The 3 Biggest Obstacles:

One obstacle to awakening right now is the fact that you may think it’s something that is not so easy to do. After all, you may have pursued awakening or enlightenment for many years. The thought that it takes a lot of effort to awaken is actually a major impediment to awakening to your true nature. The good news is your awareness is always in the background. You don’t need to create it. You just have to become aware that, behind your sense of being an individual ego is an awareness that is spacious, peaceful, and fully open to this moment.

Your awareness is what allows you to read these words. In fact, awareness is like a movie screen in which your thoughts, emotions, and the world is projected upon. Normally, we get “lost” in whatever story is projected on the screen of our awareness. Right now you may be lost in the story of, “I’m reading a strange article about waking up.” But behind whatever story you create of your current experience, there’s an awareness that just peacefully witnesses your experience. Can you sense it now — even if just a little?

A second obstacle keeping you from awakening now is the idea that awakening can happen only under certain ideal situations. The situation people think they need to awaken…