The AwakeAble Podcast

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Make use of the suffering.

Make use of the sickness.

Make use of the pain.

But you might ask, what is all that good for?

Use it to wake up.

Let the suffering be your teacher.

Ask yourself, why am I suffering?

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Within the human being there is a deep longing for something authentic.

The world that the conditioned mind has created seems to be a competition.

A perpetual ongoing competition.

A competition about everything.

So now there is this longing for something more real, than this ongoing competition.

There isn't anything else that is as powerful as acceptance. It makes it impossible to hurt you. It makes it impossible to manipulate you.

The mind will argue, yes, but I need to be in resistance in order for me to take actions, to do something.

Is that true?

And do you actually do something? Or are you just simply complaining?

Complaining is suffering.

But sometimes it feels so good because the mind convinces itself that it is right, that I am right, but it is still suffering.

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They are constantly evaluating whether they agree or disagree, whether they like or they dislike, and so on and so forth.

And then they are waiting for their chance to talk.

And the funny thing is that then when they get a chance to talk, they are expecting other people to listen.

All the while, they never listen themselves.

That is the ego narrative, the i…

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What is not a concept?

What is not an idea?

What's behind all of this?

And then the mind gets tired.

It gets frustrated.

Why don't you just tell me what it is?

Give me the answer.

But there are no conceptual answer to the question.

But there is a answer.

That's a different kind of knowing.

We could call it an intuitive knowing.

Most humans have simply forgotten ho…

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So when I say stop thinking, I'm not talking about trying to force thoughts to stop.

Instead, what I'm talking about is… -try to decide that now I will take a break, and for the next five minutes, I will not create new thoughts. I will just simply relax.

Let's do that now.

Of course I know that I don't have to wait five minutes before you realize that e…

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That which agrees or disagrees cannot wake up.

That which agrees or disagrees is conditioning, is your programming.

Your cultural programming, is what is agreeing or disagreeing.

I'm not talking to that programming.

I am not talking to that conditioning.

I'm talking to you.

I'm talking to the intelligence behind agreeing or disagreeing.

And if that intelligenc…

Of course it is much more easy to make that investigation if you have physical pain at this moment.

Then point your attention towards that physical pain and then ask yourself this question.

What is pain?

And then stay with your attention focused on the pain.

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The false self does not have intelligence. The ego does not have intelligence.

You are intelligence that has been conditioned into believing that you are a separate existing individual, that you are someone who has a body, that you are someone who has a nationality, that you are someone who has social status, etc., etc.

You are that intelligence, but you …

Everyone at the gathering that day, held in the quiet hall at the center, came to talk about the afterlife.

“What happens when we die?”

“Do we meet our loved ones again?”

“Is heaven real?”

A room full of people, old and young, searching for something—comfort, certainty, a reason.

The master, the one they came to hear, listened. He smiled. He even laughed. But he didn’t answer.

Not one word.

Later, when the crowd had gone and the sun was falling low, his students asked why he stayed silent.

“They came for answers,” said one.

“No,” the master said. “They came for reassurance. There’s a difference.”

Then he added something quietly, almost like thinking out loud: “Have you noticed it’s usually those who don’t know what to do with this life who most want another one that lasts forever?”

Still, one student asked the question again. “But is there life after death or not?”

And the master just looked at him—gently—and said:“Is there life before death? That is the question.”

That question lodged itself in one of the students—John—and stayed with him for the rest of his life. The very next day, he left the center. Not in defiance, but in search of his own answer.

He moved to the city. Baked bread. Fell in love. Raised a family. Grew old.

And one day, sitting with his granddaughter on a quiet evening, she asked him the same thing:

“Grandpa, is there life after death?”

John smiled, touched her cheek, and said, “I don’t know. But I know this: there is life before death. And it's ours to live—fully, while we can.”

She leaned into him. The sun dipped behind the rooftops.

Sometimes the deepest answers don’t sound like answers at all. They sound like questions we’re meant to live into.

So, what are you doing with the life you’ve got?

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