Awakening and cultivation

Your practice always goes through two fundamental phases. The first phase is your effort towards having the initial insight or an awakening. The second phase is to constantly reactivate that new state until it becomes your natural experience.

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Prior to having the initial insight, you’re grasping to find a direction. Then, once you have experienced the awakened state, your task is to repeatedly return to it. That applies to every step of your path here, including the final one - State of Freedom.

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After awakening there is still the need to continuously return and reawaken that state. You are awakening to your natural state, so you might think that a single glimpse into your deeper intelligence would result in the permanent state. But that’s not how it works, except in very rare cases.