The Ego’s “Rules of Awakening”

The ego-self has imposed rules to all your experiences and the first rule is that rules must NOT be rescinded, changed or ignored.

These rules, or laws, are nothing more than ‘rules of perception’ and they limit WHAT you perceive, because they restrict HOW you perceive. The rules of perception are experienced as “truth,” but are nothing more than false compromises with truth in order to gain greater comfort through spiritualized concepts of "truth."

Truth changes perception. Perception does NOT change truth.

The ego NEEDS to ‘exist’ and it will coddle and appease the mind by constructing unusual or “mystical” experiences and insist that such states of mind are “truth," as long as "existence" is insured.

For centuries individuals have experienced mystical states, then provided interpretations (egocentric) and often became revered as “masters of wisdom.” These ‘false compromises’ pervade modern life and continue to be defined as “truth.” Yet, they are nothing more than rules of perception that serve to compromise truth.

One compromise the ego makes is that you can awaken to truth and still remain a body.

Obviously, this is absurd, since the body dies and truth is infinite. But the ego must make such a compromise in order to maintain and reinforce existence. Therefore, anyone claiming enlightenment, but still acting in accord with a body (death) may have awakened to a mystical state, but certainly NOT truth. Why would an ego dissolved by truth, continue to demonstrate that sickness and death are true (which is what an ego believes as true)? Truth does not die or suffer and to perceive sickness and death is certainly not true and most likely a false egocentric rule of perception.

Truth changes everything.

Another compromise the ego makes is that, for “you” to awaken to truth the world need not change at all.

Although “you” have achieved your coveted reward of “awakening,” your perception still reveals a suffering world full of death and destruction. As if truth was made for you and you alone. A general guideline might be that, if you believe you have awakened to truth, but when you open your eyes and still see a world of death, then most likely your truth is nothing more than an egocentric rule of perception (camouflaged as a "mystical state").

Truth changes everything. NOT just parts of the whole, but the whole shebang.

Obviously, truth does NOT compromise with itself in order to make egos comfortable with what they perceive. You cannot look for truth, but you can perceive through truth, which literally changes what is perceived. If what you perceive before “awakening” is what you perceive after, then most likely you are perceiving through the ego, which adores and idolizes its relative versions of “truth,” which are nothing more than false compromises with truth.

Truth is the only ‘all or nothing’ game and the ego’s rules do not apply. Either we all win (know truth) or we all continue to perceive loss. It’s time to see the compromises for what they are, merely rules of perception. Even though it’s taken centuries to get to this point, it’s now time to finally declare that the emperor has NO clothes. No one knows truth until ALL do and when that happens, it will literally change everything...

…for everyone.

This is what you need to awaken to, because it is the means of transcending the ego’s “truth.”


Artwork by Michael Cheval - "Windmill of the Time