Embrace Humanity

"AWAKENING DOES NOT ABSOLVE YOU OF YOUR HUMANITY......IT HELPS YOU EMBRACE IT.

You can talk all you like about how unenlightened anger is. You may think and believe that anxiety, fear and sadness will disappear from your experience in a puff of smoke upon awakening. You may believe that spiritual realization will bring an end to all human suffering in your life.......

And yet, there will still be times in your life when you will experience anger, anxiety, fear, sadness and suffering..... Even after a deep and abiding spiritual awakening......Why, you might ask?

The answer to that question is quite simple...... Because you are a human being.... and all these experiences are normal human experiences that no human being on the face of the planet can possibly ever always avoid, no matter how hard they may try to avoid them.

While spiritual awakening does not make us super-human and while awakening does not absolve us from the ordinary ups and downs of the human experience, it does put us in touch with the deep place in our heart that is simply present to all these ups and downs. While awakening does not make us invulnerable, it does awaken us to a level of consciousness within that is vast enough and spacious enough to contain all these varied difficult human experiences.

No, awakening will not take you out of the human condition altogether....... Sorry! However, it WILL certainly help you navigate the human condition and move through it with much more skilfullness and grace. Awakening will help you to not be so threatened and overwhelmed all the time by the inevitable human experiences of sadness, anger, fear, loss, and suffering....

You will then actually be MORE in touch with your humanity rather than LESS in touch with it. You will be able to then embrace the ordinary ups and downs of the human condition rather than always  trying to avoid and deny them. You will confidently move closer to your humanity rather than always trying to move further away from it." - Francis Bennett