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Awakened or Unawakened

Weekly Wisdom from Bhagavan
 
The Awakened One has no fundamental questions. 
The unawakened one has fundamental questions.
– week of February 10th – February 16th 2013
 
           The Awakened One experiences the stillness of energy. 
The unawakened one experiences the wastage of energy.
 
The Awakened One has no questions about oneself. 
The unawakened one is full of questions about oneself.
 
          The Awakened One does not move into self pity. 
The unawakened one wallows in self pity.
 
The Awakened One does not crave. 
The unawakened one keeps craving.
 
                   The Awakened One feels helpless. 
The unawakened one feels desperate
 
The Awakened One perceives everything as perfect. 
The unawakened one perceives everything in terms of pain or pleasure.
 
          The Awakened One flows with life. 
The unawakened one struggles with life.
 
The Awakened One is free of all images about oneself. 
The unawakened one is full of images about oneself.
 
             The Awakened One listens. 
The unawakened one interprets.
 
The Awakened One does everything out of joy. 
The unawakened one does everything for pleasure.
 
The Awakened One sees everything as connected to everything else. 
The unawakened one sees everything as unconnected to everything else.
 
            The Awakened One is virtuous by nature. 
The unawakened one practices virtue.
 
The Awakened One has no answers. 
The unawakened one is full of answers.
 
       The Awakened One sees life as a miracle. 
The unawakened one looks for a miracle in life.
 
The Awakened One flows with life. 
The unawakened one struggles with life.
 
The Awakened One experiences reality as it is. 
The unawakened one experiences reality through images.
 
The Awakened One does not identify oneself with one’s thoughts. 
The unawakened one identifies oneself with one’s thoughts.
 
                   The Awakened One responds. 
The unawakened one reacts.
 
The Awakened One finds everything complete and perfect. 
The unawakened one finds everything incomplete and imperfect.
 
   The Awakened One wonders at life. 
The unawakened one finds life ordinary.
 
The Awakened One sees everything as a happening. 
The unawakened one sees everything as made to happen.
 
           The Awakened One sees the problem. 
The unawakened one creates the problem.
 
The Awakened One suffers, therefore there is no suffering. 
The unawakened one moves away from suffering, therefore there is suffering.
 
   The Awakened One stays with the what is. 
The unawakened one keeps moving away from the what is.
 
The Awakened One sees the seer as the seen. 
The unawakened one sees the seer and the seen as not the same.
 
     The Awakened One sees no person only personalities. 
The unawakened one sees a person with personalities.
 
The Awakened One sees the many as the One. 
The unawakened one sees the One as the many.
 
          The Awakened One acts from non-self centeredness. 
The unawakened one acts from self centeredness.
 
The Awakened One has thoughts. 
The unawakened one has an illusory thinker also.
 
           The Awakened One has no freedom to choose. 
The unawakened one has freedom to choose.
 
The Awakened One is free. 
The unawakened one tries to be free.
 
                 The Awakened One listens. 
The unawakened one reacts.
 
The Awakened One makes use of his mind. 
The unawakened one is made use of by his mind.
 
       The Awakened One lives. 
The unawakened one exists.
 
The Awakened One has but does not possess. 
The unawakened one possesses what one has.
                
             The Awakened One responds from the heart. 
The unawakened one reacts from the head.
 
The Awakened One lives in the moment. 
The unawakened one lives in the past or the future.
 
     The Awakened One does not blame others. 
The unawakened one blames others.
 
The Awakened One is transparent. 
The unawakened one is not transparent.
 
            The Awakened One is flexible. 
The unawakened one is inflexible.
 
The Awakened One does not try to control the future. 
The unawakened one tries to control the future.
 
The Awakened One knows that there is nothing to learn. 
The unawakened one is constantly learning.
 
      The Awakened One is connected to everything. 
The unawakened one is not connected to anything.
 
The Awakened One trusts oneself. 
The unawakened one trusts others.
 
              The Awakened One is free of all knowing. 
The unawakened one is caught up in knowing.
 
The Awakened One arises from the heart. 
The unawakened one arises from the head.
 
    The Awakened One does not compete or compare. 
The unawakened one competes and compares.
 
The Awakened One does not know. 
The unawakened one knows.
 
The Awakened One sees everything set in eternity. 
The unawakened one sees everything set in the immediate.
 
           The Awakened One follows the flow of events. 
The unawakened one resists the flow of events.
 
The Awakened One does not seek greatness. 
The unawakened one seeks greatness.
 
         The Awakened One responds to circumstances. 
The unawakened one creates circumstances.
 
The Awakened One lives in humility. 
The unawakened one cultivates humility.
 
                The Awakened One has nothing to oppose. 
The unawakened one has something to oppose.
 
The Awakened One is not afraid of the truth. 
The unawakened one is afraid of the truth.
 January 1st – January 7th 2012

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