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View submission: Awakening to mortality
Awakening is not a philosophical or psychological perspective or insight. Its not about having new ideas that put things in perspective.
Awakening is not about having specific thoughts, its a radical change in our relationship to thinking itself.
If you are experiencing existential fear, its because you are having self-referential thoughts about the future. When we cling to these thoughts, they lead to rumination and worry. This is what makes us suffer.
The awakened mind by contrast does not cling to self-referential thoughts. Thoughts comes in and them flow out with no friction. Without the clinging/grasping to these time-traveling thoughts that we normally do, there is simply no suffering.
Awakening is a mechanical change in how the mind functions, it has nothing to do with philosophical perspectives, intellectual insights and psychological epiphanies. Its about freedom from mental time-travel and self-referential thinking.
There's nothing here!