A five-minute experiment
What the hell is this?
Before you decide whether you want to join us, try something.
Start here
Look at something near you
A cup. Your hand. The view through the window. It really doesn’t matter.
There it is.
And almost instantly, you know what it is.
A cup.
Not only that. You know what it’s for. How big it is. That you could pick it up. That it might contain coffee. That it would smash if you dropped it.
The whole thing arrives already saturated with knowing.
Don’t try to get rid of any of that.
Just look.
What actually is this?
Not: what else could you call it?
Not: what is it really made of?
Just stay with the strange fact that something so utterly specific, so completely familiar, is here.
Can you actually find the point at which this becomes, finally and completely, a cup?
Keep looking
Look at what happens when you try to finally pin down what it is.
Where does the seeing become something definite?
Where does your knowing what it is become something you can actually get hold of?
Keep looking.
This isn’t an attempt to make an ordinary cup mysterious.
It is already mysterious.
The secret in the title.
Awakening may not be the final discovery of what all this really is.
Something rather more extraordinary happens.
Everything we have taken it to be stops finalising it.
The cup is still a cup.
Your hand is still your hand.
The room hasn’t disappeared.
And yet…
What the hell is this?
Live inquiry
The Secret of Awakening
This won’t be a talk or a discussion about non-duality.
We’ll work in pairs, using a very simple dyad inquiry. One person looks and speaks from what they actually find. The other gives them the space to look. Then we swap.
We’re not trying to arrive at the right answer.
Quite the opposite.
If something caught while you were doing the little experiment above, you’re very welcome to join us.
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