Awakening (liberating insight) is normal

What if the ego (self, soul) were just to melt and disappear for a moment? Would we let go?

Awakening is totally normal, Dude. Don't go looking for special magic experiences

Wake up, Zen meditators, or it's the paddle!

(The Theory of Samsara) Premiered Nov. 27, 2025: 🧘‍♂️ Why do we all so easily fall into "spiritual delusion"? Why do we chase psychedelic highs, promises of supernatural powers, or “special” experiences instead of understanding the ordinary, unchanging nature of consciousness [and related phenomena] itself?

This video dives more deeply into the mechanics of self-deception on the spiritual path —

• How craving fuels suffering,
• Why Western culture’s addictions make it worse,
• Why meditators so often mistake mental fabrications for awakening.

Let's explore the Buddha’s actual teaching:

• Craving is the root of suffering
• Consciousness is ordinary, not something to be manufactured
• Awakening can’t be given to us by a teacher
• Psychedelic trips are NOT enlightenment
• Pride, jealousy, and other delusions and fabricated identities destroy the Path
• True realization begins with a stable, uncontrived mind.

Notice these? Signs of spiritual awakening — the Buddha warned about

Whether we practice Zen (jhana), Mahamudra ("great seal"), Vipassana (insight meditation), or Dzogchen (choiceless awareness), the message is the same: Stop looking for the extraordinary.

Instead, recognize the nature of mind as it is: SUCHNESS, ordinary mind — nothing to adopt, nothing to abandon.

If we want to avoid spiritual self-sabotage and cultivate a genuine path toward awakening, this is for us. Check out ultimatemeaning.org for more information.

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• Anand Universe Official, Is there a God? Nov. 23, 2025; The Theory of Samsara; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly