Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

live your own truth, rather than society’s, your
spouse’s, your children’s, or your employer’s “truths.”
Intense practice or intense involvement in the
movement towards freedom has to produce such
external chaos. Is it not obvious? Freedom means
freedom from your past conditioning and the known.
What Krishnamurti missed when he talked of such
freedom, are all those states and understandings
beyond the mere recognition that there is no separate
‘I’ or separate doer. He did not talk of the ecstasies,
the awesome Void, the feeling of the sacred, the
feeling of surrender to the divine, to one’s own
Beloved. Nor did he speak of rivers of love that move
through one’s body and one’s sense of presence. Nor
did he talk of a love so deep that you disappear into
the ‘Other’, or of a void so vast that you fall to your
knees in awe and sometimes fear. He did not talk of
the awesome power you feel sometimes when you feel
aligned with your own destiny and feel its inevitability.
There is so much that teachers do not tell you, both of
the richness and the sadness and desolation you will
encounter.
It is like the Matrix Trilogy. When you take the Red
pill, everything changes, enlivens, collapses, becomes
chaos, reorders, and you become alive. But sometimes
you crave the Blue pill, to let you return to your old
life and its security. Once you take the Red pill, you