Craving Authenticity During Awakening

[@JustOneWillingSoul]

Authenticity, particularly self honesty, is so essential to the awakening process that it could be said that if one masters just this, all the rest will fall into place automatically. The spiritual path is about radical truth, not flowers and bliss and perfect peace. Shar, I completely agree, one cannot be fully authentic in all social situations, and wisdom is to make ones close relationships those where the other person is accepting and appreciative of your authenticity. Well done.

[@shar-jason]

Thank you for your detailed comment. I can see that you live the teaching. The truth is not always easy, but nothing beats it.

[@julia.rhiannon]

Thanks Shar. It's becoming clear that a lot of my life decisions haven't been in alignment with my authenticity. The pain of the desire to be accepted and acceptable that had motivated those decisions is felt very strongly now. Yet it feels confusing and unfamiliar to be authentic to what feels aligned instead of what I thought I wanted. Who I thought I was, and what I thought I wanted now seems to be very far from the truth.

[@shar-jason]

I know it doesn't feel very nice but it's a good sign of progress. Put it all down, don't pick anything new up and see what remains.

[@TejasBhardwaj-u1v]

I love you shar ❤❤

[@pedroarroyo345]

Your videos will always be a blessing

[@shar-jason]

Thank you, that is very kind of you

[@rozbroz]

true authenticity takes me into the nobody place...where the unknowable is a constant. What a strange authenticity...patient unfolding, watching the body mind do its thing...the responses are natural, but not enlightened...and then to consider what comes up...is there some recognition waiting there? A recognition of a deeper authenticity?

[@shar-jason]

@@rozbroz Yes there is authenticity on a relative and absolute level and awakening asks us to explore both

[@DavidWebbItself]

Hey quick question. Resting in being, with just what is, I am fully present, feels, seems fully present with what is (experience). I am not questioning anything, or trying to figure anything out. Just being. Feels like I dropped out of Mind, and into what is now, dropped into the Body, with what is. Is this what my true nature is? - update, I have gotten a update from one of my fellow Friends that realized and Lived As their true nature, and updated me that it is.

[@shar-jason]

Hi David. And the more you practice, the clearer it gets. It can start off as sort of abstract but then deepen into it being completely obvious

[@DavidWebbItself]

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