The Real Awakening Has Nothing to Do With Being ‘Spiritual’

[DLH]

Just watched this YouTube and found it very insightful. Thought I would share it with you for those that may never have watched or heard of this channel called, 

"GOD WithIn."

Here is the link: 

 

I copied the transcript for those that like to read instead of watching videos.

 

You can meditate for 10 years, collect crystals, memorize spiritual quotes, and still never wake up. Because awakening has nothing to do with being spiritual.

Most people don't realize this. They think awakening is about adding more, more practices, more rituals, more teachings. But real awakening isn't about addition. It's about subtraction. It's about removing everything that hides what's already true.

You see, you don't need to become spiritual to wake up. You only need to see through what you've been pretending to be. But that's the tricky part because the ego is very clever.

When it realizes it can't survive through material identity anymore, it puts on a new mask, the spiritual one. Suddenly it's not I'm successful or I'm smart. It becomes I'm awakened, I'm pure, I'm different from others. And that's how the spiritual ego is born.

It's subtle but dangerous because it feels good. It feels peaceful, righteous, and even divine. But it's still ego just wearing white robes instead of designer clothes.

You start comparing your peace to others chaos. You start feeling proud that you don't need anything while quietly judging those who still do. You say you're detached, but you're secretly attached to the idea of being detached, it's another game, another illusion. And the moment you realize that everything shifts because you see, the real awakening isn't about becoming anything.

It's about ending the search completely. It's that quiet moment when the mind finally gets tired of chasing enlightenment and it just stops. It surrenders. And in that silence, something deeper begins to breathe through you.

Something that was always there, hidden under all the spiritual noise. That's awakening. Not a lightning bolt, not a cosmic vision, not a new identity. It's the falling away of the old one.

Let me tell you something most people won't say. Spirituality has become the ego's favorite hiding place. It's where the ego goes when it's tired of pretending to be worldly.

It goes to temples and retreats and sacred spaces, but it takes itself with it. It becomes the one who knows the one who understands energy, the one who has awakened. And that's why so many seekers stay seekers forever because they're still someone, still a me that wants to become something more.

But awakening is the death of that me. It's not glamorous. It's not about glowing chakras or manifesting things. It's about facing the raw truth that there never was a separate you to awaken.

You see, the truth doesn't care whether you're spiritual or not. It doesn't care if you chant or pray or meditate. The truth simply is. It's right here, right now, waiting for you to stop searching long enough to see it.

Let me ask you this. Who is the one trying to awaken? Who is chasing this idea of enlightenment? If you sit quietly with that question, something strange happens. The one who's been chasing suddenly disappears and what's left is peace.

That peace doesn't belong to anyone. It's not personal. It's not something you achieve. It's what remains when the idea of me falls away. Most people don't reach that point because they're addicted to becoming.

Even in spirituality, they want progress, status, something to hold on to. But awakening doesn't give you something to hold. It takes everything away, including the one who wanted to hold it. That's why it feels like dying before you die.

When people say awakening is bliss, they forget to mention the part where your identity dissolves. Where the ground beneath your belief’s collapses, where everything you thought made you, you fade into nothingness.

That nothingness is freedom. It's what you've been searching for disguised as emptiness. You see, true awakening doesn't make you special. It makes you simple.

You stop trying to fix the world or fix yourself. You stop trying to be good or spiritual. You just are. There's no longer a you trying to live life. There's only life flowing effortlessly.

You might still meditate, pray, or light candles, but not because you're trying to reach something. You do it because it flows naturally. Because the doing is the being. You can be fully awake and never call yourself spiritual.

In fact, many awakened beings never use that word. They don't need to. They've seen through all labels, even spirituality itself. Because when you're truly awake, everything becomes sacred.

The silence, the noise, the pain, the joy, the ordinary moments. Awakening doesn't divide the world into spiritual and unspiritual. It sees everything as one expression.

The person meditating on a mountaintop and the person washing dishes in the city both are the same life playing different roles. And when you see that, judgment disappears. Comparison disappears.

You stop looking down on those who haven't woken up because you realize there's no such thing as asleep or awake. There's only life experiencing itself in different stages of remembering.

This realization humbles you. It softens you. You no longer need to prove you’re awakening. You no longer need to convince anyone of your peace. You no longer post about your vibration or your frequency because you've realized the most awakened thing you can do is be nobody.

That's the paradox. The moment you stop trying to be spiritual, you naturally embody the deepest spirituality there is. Presence, authenticity, silence.

You might look ordinary to others, but inside you're free. The spiritual ego wants to be seen as awakened. The true self doesn't care. It doesn't need attention. It doesn't need validation. It just quietly observes in stillness, in awareness, in love.

You see, awakening isn't about reaching some higher realm. It's about seeing clearly this one without the filters of belief, identity, or judgment. The mind loves labels. It says this is spiritual, this is not. But awareness doesn't label anything. It just sees.

When you wake up, you realize spirituality was just a bridge. A useful one maybe. But at some point, you have to step off it. Because truth isn't on the bridge. It's the ground you've been standing on the whole time.

You don't need to be spiritual to wake up. You just need to be honest. Honest enough to admit you don't know anything. Honest enough to see how even your spiritual progress was just another story.

Honest enough to let all of it go. That's when awakening happens. Not as an achievement, but as a falling away. You stop trying to become light and realize you already are.

It's not something you learn. It's something you remember. And that remembrance doesn't come through effort. It comes through stillness, through exhaustion of all you're seeking, through the quiet moment when you finally stop trying to get it.

That's when life whispers. You've been it all along and everything makes sense. You no longer care about being spiritual or unspiritual, awake or asleep, enlightened or lost.

Those words lose their meaning because the truth was never hiding in your spiritual identity. It was hiding in your ordinary humanity.

The laugh, the tears, the moments you thought were meaningless. Those were the doorway. The mind made it complicated. But reality has always been simple. You see, when you wake up, you realize there was never a seeker.

There was only the seeking, moving through you like wind through an open window. And when the window realizes it's never been separate from the wind, that's awakening.

So don't try to become spiritual. Don't force it. Don't wear the identity of it. Just be present. Because that's where the real awakening lives. In the silence beneath the trying, in the space between thoughts, in the deep acceptance of what is.

And that's the funny thing. When you stop searching, when you stop labeling yourself as spiritual or not spiritual, you finally find what you were searching for all along. Peace. Not peace you create, but peace that's already here.

So, the next time someone tells you to be more spiritual, smile gently because you'll know something they don't. That the real awakening has nothing to do with being spiritual. It's about being real, being raw, being free.

You don't need crystals. You don't need mantras. You don't need fancy words. You just need to be willing to see what's true right here, right now, beyond all ideas of what awakening should look like.

Because the truth doesn't fit inside an identity. It's bigger than that. It's who you already are before the story of spiritual ever began. So remember this, you don't wake up by being spiritual.

You wake up from being spiritual.

And when that happens, you finally stop trying to find the light because you realize that you are the light.

 

[Hojo]

It says dont compare but the entire video is comparing. (dont be like this, be like this)

TIp for awakening, You arent the light. You were never in the light.

This video is a giant contradiction.

Edited 6 hours ago by Hojo

[Leo Gura]

It's about only one thing: increasing Consciousness and pure understanding.

These things are unaffected by spiritial posturing or behaviors. Either your consciousness has increased or it has not. Either you have insight or you do not.

People copy spiritual behaviors like monkeys but their consciousness does not increase. That's where all the fake spiritual comes from.

You cannot awaken without an increase in your state of consciousness. Letting go will not do it.

Edited 7 hours ago by Leo Gura

[ExploringReality]

@Leo Gura

I've been listening to Vernon Howard's talks and he cuts through spiritual bullshit like a blade. "The world is like a giant hospital or insane asylum, where people walk around thinking they're doctors and free" his talks are very disillusioning.

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

@Leo Gura

I've been listening to Vernon Howard's talks and he cuts through spiritual bullshit like a blade. "The world is like a giant hospital or insane asylum, where people walk around thinking they're doctors and free" his talks are very disillusioning.

Haha! He has a knack for that.

[Malkom]

Well, that's also a concept. I've actually noticed this: people who know nothing about spirituality are much more pleasant and spiritual, and kind of empathetic. I was talking to someone, there were three of us in the conversation. One of us started talking about the nature of reality, his own version of it, of course, and they responded, "Dude, stop doing this, it won't lead to anything good." And that's exactly it. Live a real life, and that will be much closer to spirituality.

[Malkom]

The funniest thing here might be that, for example, you take 5-Meo DMT. And you'll have to let go of even "letting go." And you'll have to give up even all the comments, and what I write, and what others write, and what you write and make up for yourself.

Being itself is "Pure Desire" It's existence itself, its essence. It's not the absence of desires; the absence of desires is deadness. When Buddhists or anyone else says "let go of desires," they mean something a little different. But even this concept, it seems, is even somewhat successful.

Edited 6 hours ago by Malkom

[Ramasta9]

What is being "spiritual" but simply returning to what is "natural".

Awakening is remembering who you "naturally" are and being at peace with living your physical life and "human experience".

 

[Mellowmarsh]

Face you never chose. 
 

 

[Hojo]

@Ramasta9Its kind of like you were normal but not under control of yourself. You become schizophrenic lose control then awaken see you were being schizophrenic, and now you must return to what you were originally but this time under control/ at peace. ( not being controlled by your fluctuating emotions) Primarily you want to control( not letting it effect you)fear/rage.

Edited 6 hours ago by Hojo

[Leo Gura]

The real Awakening is the friends we made along the way 

[Hojo]

If you think about light and dark logically, how many times has the light told you to be scared? How many times has the dark told you to be scared?

The light is constantly telling you to be scared of something, non stop its trying to make you scared.

The darkness just sits there unjudging. Unless that light tricks the dark into being scared of itself.

Everything the light tells you to be scared of is manufactured by the light.

The whole battle between light and darkness is created by light.

Dark never said anything, dark says theres no battle light is fighting with itself.

Light constantly tells darkness what its doing is not good enough.

Dark never asks for anything and is suppose to sit there and take the abuse.

Edited 5 hours ago by Hojo

[Salvijus]

Rise in conciousness affects your behavior a lot. 

Peace is way more in tune with the natural flow of life than anxiety. 

Faith and trust behaves very differently than fear. 

Love is way more open, willing and exuberant in its expression than fear. 

Sensitivity is way more environmentally, diet, clothing concious than dullness.

Wisdom behaves differently than foolishness. 

Freedom is not compulsive. 

Integrity knows not corruption. 

Honesty has no reason to hide or pretend. 

The list goes on and on. Being spiritual is not a bad thing, it just means you're living in alignment with the qualities of Truth. Rituals or spiritual practices have a role to play because they help invoking and imbibing these qualities into yourself. There's no way to seperate being spiritual and being enlightened. If you're deeply concious, you will naturally behave in a concious way and not in a foolish way. And can you ever call yourself a concious being if you're acting unconsciously? 

Mic drop... Bye bye suckers. Namaste. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Salvijus

[Salvijus]

11 minutes ago, Hojo said:

If you think about light and dark logically, how many times has the light told you to be scared?

If by light you mean love and wisdom, then the answer is none.

[ExploringReality]

31 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

The real Awakening is the friends we made along the way 

Aye! The friends I made along the way are dead sages and fellow Voyagers.

[Hojo]

@Salvijus its 1 thing. Love and wisdom is from the dark. It dosent exist in light. Point to it. If you cant point love and wisdom to me its not a light thing. Everything worthwhile in the world comes from the dark, the invisible.

Darkness is invisible.

Edited 5 hours ago by Hojo

[Salvijus]

1 minute ago, Hojo said:

@Salvijus its 1 thing. Love and wisdom is from the dark.

Mmm, truth has many qualities. It can manifest in any spectrum color really. 

[Hojo]

@Salvijus you aren't looking for a colour you are looking for the qualia the colour gives you. Without the invisible dark qualia its completely useless. Its like a television with no viewer. Its not even there.

The colours and light have no meaning without darkness. Wisdom and love dont exist without darkness to feel it.

Like a dream with no one there witnessing the dream. With no one there witnessing the dream its just random shapes and sounds with no purpose so no reason to exist.

Edited 5 hours ago by Hojo

[Salvijus]

3 minutes ago, Hojo said:

@Salvijus you aren't looking for a colour you are looking for the qualia the colour gives you. Without the invisible dark qualia its completely useless. Its like a television with no viewer. Its not even there.

The colours and light have no meaning without darkness. Wisdom and love dont exist without darkness.

If you're talking about the primordial emptyness then I agree. 

[Hojo]

@Salvijus that's what you are thats where love and wisdom come from.

Light gaslights the primordial emptiness into thinking it comes from the light. And that the darkness needs the light when the light needs the darkness to have meaning.

Like a song needs silence to be a song. Silence dosent need a song to be silence. Light will say you need me to exist! Its a battle between me and you! You need to join me! No! I don't.

Edited 5 hours ago by Hojo