That’s the period of long, slow compression where one explores every possible avenue and slowly discovers that there is nothing to be found. This is experienced as a shrinking of the world, a constriction of reality and self, and it tightens and tightens until it creates a pressure so unendurable that the First Step is taken involuntarily, spontaneously, irrevocably. So that’s a little bit about the real journey of awakening which I provide here to illustrate my point about the difference between theory and practice. Awakening isn’t a theory, it’s a journey. You don’t arrive in C-Rex by
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