Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

At this point, you are now able to go back and
explore all other rooms of your spiritual mansion left
unseen by your haste to get to the conclusion. You can
begin once again to explore the inner world of feared
emotions that could not be faced before, feelings of
guilt, worthlessness, hopelessness, jealousy and rage,
but we do it in a different way now, fearlessly, and
having passed through the causal body which gives us
the space to experience everything, we can explore
and feel now as never before, fearlessly, without the
sting and hurt we used to feel.
In the Zen scheme, this is returning to the
marketplace, being totally oneself, for everything is
me and I am comfortable with me wherever
consciousness takes me, however it unfolds.
Letter from Student:
I have been reading all your notes and they have
truly been speaking to me. I just feel like sharing with
you. I feel deeply understood by your words.
I am 47 years old now. For the last 12 years I lived
with a man, a good man. We started like any couple,
fully in love, but gradually, with all the pain that
comes from an attachment ( He flirted a lot), I grew to
witness it and reached a place with him where we
became like close platonic friends. There was a lot of
pain but it all went away. I painted. I wrote poetry. I