Authentic Awakening in the Nondual Marketplace - Jon Eden Khan

"If it's not saturated with compassion, it's not rigpa (the awakened state)".

These were the words of one of my former teachers, who I remember seeing with tears streaming down his face during a meditation retreat,

As he sat in his opening to ultimate ground of all being, and shared the pathway into that opening with us.

Conversely, and to be straight:

There’s a lot of BS out there in the nondual awakening scene.

It’s influenced by so many different teachers, pathways, ideas, books, etc.

Some people read a pop nonduality book and are sure they’ve gotten awakening.

Some people are certain that just seeing that the self doesn’t truly exist is enlightenment.

Some people are sure they’re enlightened after this or that psychedelic experience.

Maybe sometimes this is true.

And a lot of it is very heady, unclear, messy, and def not broken open to the core of the heart with naked reverence for the reality it is pointing towards.

I don’t mean that in a needlessly judgemental way.

But when one hangs out with spiritual traditions that have meticulously guided people into awakening to the absolute for millennia,

Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Zen, Vedanta, Shaivite Tantra…

That have teaching protocols that cover pretty much every possible bypass or byroad that one can get lost down on the path of awakening,

And when one starts to get a sense of what they are pointing to in the awakening they provide guidance into,

It’s just clear.

In a very humble way.

Ultimate reality is REAL.

And awakening to it, to then live that realisation in freedom and heart-broken-open intimacy with all creation, is real and possible.

To anyone whose hunger to truly awaken is alive in their soul, I recommend finding a teacher whose awakening you can see is not just clear on the level of mind.

But has penetrated and fundamentally changed them on a heart level.

And transmits and radiates from their body.