About Awakening
Essay Collection
3.1 What is Suffering?
What is it and how can you experience less?
Introduction
Awakening is about coming into direct contact with the true nature of experience.
There are many spiritual descriptions and texts that provide deep insight into what can be found on this journey and how to go about it, but most of them were written before people understood things like psychology, physics, human biology, and the imaginal realm, so they are missing the deeper understanding that these developments afford.
When these newer understandings are synthesised with the more traditional models for awakening, it creates a clearer understanding of what experience is.
This section explores what awakening is from a holistic perspective and highlights some key aspects that are important to include in your understanding if you want to cultivate a mature and meaningful practice and realisation.