Title : 3 EXTRAORDINARY PARADOXES OF PERSONAL AWAKENING ~ Dylan Charles
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3 EXTRAORDINARY PARADOXES OF PERSONAL AWAKENING ~ Dylan Charles
3 EXTRAORDINARY PARADOXES OF PERSONAL AWAKENING
By Dylan Charles, Waking Times
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
How do you reconcile the utter madness of the world with the overwhelming joy of being alive in it?
“Paradox: a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.”
Without question we live in interesting times. The deception, insanity and turmoil in our world has no end, yet when we tune in very closely to life’s pulse, we find softness and connection open to us at every step. These contradictory featuresof the human experience point to the dualistic nature of the universe, but ultimately offer a glimpse of a middle way, the center, where harmony resides in a sea of chaos. A seeming, but natural paradox.
“When people find one thing beautiful,
another consequently becomes ugly.When one man is held up as good,another is judged deficient.
Similarly, being and nonbeing balance each other;
difficult and easy define each other;long and short illustrate each other;high and low rest upon one another;voice and song meld into harmony;what is to come follows upon what has been.”
~Tao Te Ching 2
This is what personal awakening means. To create a harmonious relationship with your own life. To solve the paradox. Have you experienced any of these 3 extraordinary paradoxes of personal awakening?
1. The Awakening is Triggered by Fear and Supported by Love
Like an invading virus triggers the immune system, fear triggers the awakening. War, strife, turmoil, conspiracy, control, death, suffering, theft, abuse. This is the world we have created for ourselves. The toll of such heaviness manifests as a dense type of contagious fear, a chronic trigger that perpetuates the fight or flight response, but without an immediate or tangible threat to face directly. But there is nowhere to run or hide from the fear. We can confront it or be consumed by it. Or transmute it.
And what is to found beyond the fear? Love. An endless stream of it. In the stream the fear makes sense as a force which guides us into the stream of love.
2. Healing Hurts
The awakening is ultimately a healing process, but it’s hardly free of pain, because it is in a sense a recovery from injury or illness, like a form of forgetfulness of who you really are. As such, it actually hurts. A lot. And just like the agony of having a broken bone set, or the pain of recovering from a difficult surgery, emotional and spiritual pain is a necessary component of healing.
Letting go into whatever it is, depression, sadness, boredom, or even grief, is how healing begins. There is no out, only through. The remembrance of the pain is there to forever color the outcome of the healing process.
“If you desire healing,
let yourself fall illlet yourself fall ill.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
3. The Void Has Everything We Need
Counter intuitive it may seem, but stepping out of the cultural and mental clutter and into the void, where being and non-being balance each other, reveals everything we truly need. It turns out that silence is the teacher. In silence the universe comes into focus. Time stops and morphs into timelines. Infinite possibilities all become clear at once. Everything we need to know and feel is in this space, but to get there, everything has to be stripped away.
“In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped.” ~Tao Te Ching
Final Thoughts
What lies above lies below. A proper life is about balancing the joy of being alive with the terror of being alive. Ignoring either side of the equation leads to chaos.
“Do you want to improve the world?
I don’t think it can be done.
The world is sacred.
It can’t be improved.If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.
There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;a time for being in motion,a time for being at rest;a time for being vigorous,a time for being exhausted;a time for being safe,a time for being in danger.
The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.She lets them go their own way,and resides at the center of the circle.”
Read more articles by Dylan Charles.
About the Author
Dylan Charles is the editor of Waking Times and co-host of Redesigning Reality, both dedicated to ideas of personal transformation, societal awakening, and planetary renewal. His personal journey is deeply inspired by shamanic plant medicines and the arts of Kung Fu, Qi Gong and Yoga. After seven years of living in Costa Rica, he now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he practices Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and enjoys spending time with family. He has written hundreds of articles, reaching and inspiring millions of people around the world.
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