8 Years Ago

Darin Stevenson updated his status.

May 29, 2017 12:03:24 pm

“The Shangpa Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist tradition gives us a poetic response to the question of why we don’t recognize awake awareness. We don’t recognize awake awareness because it is: So close you can’t see it. So subtle your mind can’t understand it. So simple you can’t believe it. So good you can’t accept it. We are so smart, and our lives are so complex, that it’s hard to believe that simply discovering awake awareness could be the solution to our suffering. It’s also hard to believe that the most important discovery is already here within us; we don’t have to go on an odyssey to find it, earn it, or develop it. We are so used to knowing ourselves through our troubles, our dramas, and our obsessions that awake awareness, which is our true nature and our basic goodness, is hard to accept as our true identity.” — Shift Into Freedom, Loch Kelly