Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

emotions; matched at times with an inner deadness:
followed by periods of intense self-doubt and self-
inquiry.
Do these gurus tell you of this? Do they warn you
of this?
You see, Robert did and incorporated this
inevitable collapse of your belief systems and lifestyle,
and made it a part of leaving the world behind. When
your whole lifestyle and thought structures are
deconstructed due to self-inquiry, self-abidance, or
watching one’s thoughts in emptiness, radical changes
to one’s outside life are inevitable, as well as to one’s
emotional composition and self-boundaries.
In other words, the walls come tumbling down and
chaos reigns for a long, long time. If there is not a bit
of chaos, then there is no real change happening on a
deeper level. This must be obvious is it not? One
cannot continue in the old lifestyle with the beliefs
you had before when everything is being radically
questioned and whole new worlds of perception and
cognition are opened.
I warn my students of this. Robert incorporated
this falling apart into his teachings and made it a goal,
the goal of becoming good for nothing, meaning really
not good for anyone or anything in your previous
lifestyle. And, you will be good for nothing until you