Everyone has their awareness moment, but if your mind isn’t quiet enough it won’t be noticed. The question to ask is what are you willing to do so you don’t miss the next one…
There are many awareness moments throughout your life, but they go unnoticed because most of the time there is too much noise going on in our head. One awareness moment in particular for me occurred one morning at 4:00am, my neighbors dog was barking away and it woke me up. My first thought at the time was to go shut the dog up, but because I was sitting daily and developing discipline my squirrel cage mind was more settled than ever before so the next thought I had wasn’t as noisy. I said to myself that’s what dogs do, they bark” so I accepted the barking. The next thing I remember is I woke up and it was 8:00 am. I can’t tell you if the dog stopped barking, but I do know my awareness moment happened when I woke up as I noticed it. I realized for the first time ever that I had spent my entire life wanting things to be different and that this was the source of many if not all of the discontentment I ever had in my life. This awareness moment changed my view of life forever.
My life changed because no longer could I blame anything outside of me for my discontentment; the veil of ignorance was removed. Years of confusion and frustration fell away as this awareness moment was experienced; this was my moment of truth. An awareness moment is truth revealed and in truth is freedom. The more life is lived in truth the more freedom there is. Freedom from the ignorance that keeps a person locked in the prison of the Conditioned Mind. This is what an awareness moment does, it allows for acceptance of things as they really are instead of wanting them to be in the way of the make believe world of ignorance instilled by the Conditioned Mind. So it isn’t a question if you are going to have an awareness moment or not, it’s a question of are you going to notice it…
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