In a recent Circles of Presence session, something came up for one of our students. When we explored this deeper, this is what we discovered:

The truth is - the ego never wakes up.

What happens is the truth of our Being wakes out of the ego.

Ego is nothing but a conglomerate of thoughts that have no inherent reality. The ego is scared of awakening because it means the end of it, it means the disillusion of ego. The ego will try everything to keep us away from waking up to the Truth of our Being. It might tell us we’re not ready to wake up, or that we need more practice, we need to learn more, we need to go and sit with this teacher across the world or we still need to read that book.

Although it’s true that having a good practice and a strong guide in the form of a teacher is important and beneficial, at some point we wake up to the Truth of our Being and see the mind's games for what they are - just a narrative that has nothing to do with what We Are in essence.

Blessings,
Olya, Genya, & Zina

P.S. Our next Circles of Presence session is on October 23rd.