Blog Post 4-15-26

What is called awakening is often taken as the end of illusion, a final recognition that dissolves all confusion. Yet the very idea of awakening depends on the belief that there was someone asleep. Both are aspects of the same illusion of being. The self sheds one identity only to become another, more subtle and more convincing. The dream of "me" becomes clearer, more coherent, perhaps even more peaceful—but the illusion remains intact. There is still someone who knows, someone who has arrived, and so the "me" quietly continues.