In spirituality, we strive to wake up and out of our imprisoned self, to know and fully rest as our deepest nature, which is Silence. In that process, as you probably have found, all that is false within collapses. Your familiar conditioning, thoughts, feelings, projections, even though they are still operating, have little or no grip on you anymore.  We are left with No-Thing! Wondrous emptiness.

This process is challenging - it doesn’t always feel great to die the great death. Despite this, we persevere. It is our deepest heart-wish to live as truth.

So let’s say we are having moments, perhaps many moments, where we are able to live as your natural Self, resting as peace. What happens to that inner peace when the ground falls away?

Perhaps it’s something relatively small like someone letting you know how unlikable they find you.

Perhaps it’s more challenging and you experience…