Sorry, But You Cannot BECOME "Awakened"

What do you 'see'? Make no mistake, what you see is what you expect to experience, otherwise, you would not experience it or its opposite. The ego manufactures experience based on expectation and experience does not leave the mind of its maker, even when defined as a product of ‘perception.'

You will never stop manufacturing constructs for which to experience 'existence.' Even an ego determined to experience “beingness,” or “oneness,” manufactures that experience based on expectation. Experiences are ‘constructs’ because you make them up.

Your ego actually processes ‘beingness’ as a finite outcome for future acquisition or ‘becoming.’ The ego constructs finite experiences because they aid in promoting a fixed ‘self’ to contrast with your fixations of others and the world.

The self can never stop manufacturing personal constructs as experiences through which to identify and know itself. There seems no way out of this, because the ego-self must employ finite constructs to further perpetuate itself as becoming.

The problem with pursuing finite outcomes of ‘becoming,’ like non-dual, beingness, oneness, awakening, enlightenment, rapture, salvation, satori, nirvana, etc, etc, etc, is that the ‘self’ must be rigidly fixed in order to interpret these finite outcomes.

You cannot transcend the ego-self simply by dissolving its experiences through constructing more finite experiences for which to ‘become.’ However, you can perpetuate your 'existence' through infinite constructs that have no outcomes. Of course, infinite constructs are also beliefs, however, they tend not to attach to a predetermined past, but actually look to reinterpret the present moment without reliance on the past and thereby, create an entirely different experience.

To live infinitely is to exist through experiences that have no outcome, since all fixed, time/space outcomes are interpreted as meaningless. But this only asserts that you withhold your meaning and not that meaning is absent.

Make no mistake every guru, enlightened master or “non-dual” claimant you meet, is rigidly attached to a fixed ‘self’ if they teach ‘becoming.’ Whether it be enlightenment, awakening, realization, non-duality, etc, etc. They are teaching finite constructs which are processed as outcomes and those “transcendent” outcomes are considered rewards to be achieved.

INFINITE CONSTRUCTS

Infinite constructs are not bound or supported by past beliefs and require no teaching devices or conceptual subterfuge. Infinite constructs expect no rewards by eschewing all anchor points from the past. They are permeable and immediately open to change, because they are not rigidly attached to any particular ideology or conceptual belief system that requires 'becoming' or any other outcome. You cannot ‘become’ an infinite construct, because it is NOT fixed or predetermined. This can be frightening to an ego relying on its fixations to define itself, yet it can also be 'surprising.'.

You will manufacture and dissolve numerous experiences throughout your life completely of your own volition. However, most will be directly associated with some past ideological fixation, whether it be the monetary-value system (material wealth) or the spiritual-value system (awakening, enlightenment, salvation, non-duality etc), finite constructs are experienced as outcomes or goals to be attained. Make no mistake, anything taught as an outcome to achieve, acquire or become is undeniably a finite ego construct.

You can continue to play ego-games freely and the ego will eventually dissolve itself, but not in anyway you (or it) could ever know. No one owns the truth nor can it be taught and, therefore, no preparation is needed, contrary to popular opinion.

Infinite constructs seek no attainment whatsoever and are unattached to outcomes. Thus, egoic constructs become more associated with simply relating, or ‘relationship’ to other experiences, since all personal experiences are interdependent within an experiential fabric of ‘existence.’ Finite constructs impede relating by perceiving the world through rigid belief systems and associated value systems. It’s as if you knew the truth and this fixation devolves into a compulsion to repeat the past. History is replete with such repetition and this is the world you experience.

Infinite constructs naturally reject outcomes by making them meaningless. Without outcomes relationships are free to emerge as they will and reinterpretation of the ‘self’ is not restricted to past renditions. In addition, the ‘others’ experienced in your ‘world’ are also free to emerge, as no demands need be made by you upon them. Infinite constructs allow the world to BE not as it is, but as it WILL be and your WILL is the deciding factor, because you have freed it from a need for outcomes.

Infinite constructs replace finite constructs in the realization that purposes and functions are unknown to you. Not determining, and applying, purposes and functions to others, you free yourself and them. Thus, you will not ‘perceive’ your personal constructs (world and others) as conforming to expectations because you have none. There is nothing you can do to experience truth, because truth is not constricted to experiences the ego interprets and does not conform to your personal constructs of "awakening." Isn’t that a breath of fresh air?!

Currently you believe everything is open to question except the finite constructs that you have determined are truth. Yet, relative truth has many levels and degrees. Accept that you do not know truth and allow yourself to learn of it because it has no outcome. As long as you remain fixated on your finite constructs, you remain mired in the past. Finite constructs predict the future based on the past and so you will experience what you expect.

Infinite constructs can miraculously change your reality because of your refusal to manufacture experience based on past precedent. Unfortunately, non-reliance on the past will make you seem a little ‘crazy’ in contrast to all the sane and intelligent people seeking rewards through outcomes.

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.” - Buddha