Frozen

According to the official story, immediately after his awakening, the Buddha dithered for some time, unsure if he could explain what he had realized to anyone else.

He froze.

He then realized that his former ascetic buddies had “little dust in their eyes” and so were great candidates for his new teaching, so he found them and awakened them all, making them his first monks.

I didn’t get anything done yesterday. I awoke so content and peaceful that I had zero motivation.

I froze.

I don’t have a small group of former compatriots to teach now, and I do not have a world historical realization to teach anyone. I’m just recycling my understanding of what the Buddha realized because it works really well for me.

But beware. If you meditate long enough and consistently enough, you may also freeze. But you may also be quite happy being frozen.

Dropping out of our mindlessly ambitious society is not necessarily a bad thing.

So keep meditating.

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