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# Simply Awake

Jonathan E. Labman | Licensed Professional Counselor

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- [Blog](https://www.simplyawake.com/blog/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
- [Commitment is Needed for Healing & Awakening](https://www.simplyawake.com/commitment-is-needed-for-healing-awakening/) - I’ve noticed that many people have come to me for help over the years but, if I look at who has been helped, it’s the people who commit to the process of either psychological healing or spiritual awakening. For some reason, commitment seems to be ‘out of fashion’ now. I used to ask the people
- [Questions on the Path #3: Answer to the Biggest Obstacles in Spiritual Practice](https://www.simplyawake.com/questions-on-the-path-3-answer-to-the-biggest-obstacles-in-spiritual-practice/) - QUESTIONS ON THE "PATH" #3: In your decades of practice, what is the most commonly expressed challenge/blockage/attachment/issue you’ve come across? What is the answer you provide? Answer #3 Fear is the biggest challenge or blockage that I’ve come across in decades of my own practice and in working with others. I particularly remember this fear
- [QUESTIONS ON THE "PATH" #1:  Why Go for the Goal of ‘No Self’ in the Mystical/Spiritual Paths?](https://www.simplyawake.com/questions-on-the-path-1-why-go-for-the-goal-of-no-self-in-the-mystical-spiritual-paths/) - QUESTIONS ON THE "PATH" is a new, regular series (at least once per month, maybe as often as weekly), examining the questions students bring me about spiritual awakening, and my response based on my own studies and experiences. If you'd like to ask a question that might be featured here, please send it to me
- [QUESTIONS ON THE “PATH” #2: Why does it seem like some people take your energy and some don't?](https://www.simplyawake.com/questions-on-the-path-2-why-does-it-seem-like-some-people-take-your-energy-and-some-dont/) - by Jonathan Labman | Oct 9, 2022 QUESTIONS ON THE “PATH” is a new, regular series (at least once per month), examining the questions students bring me about spiritual awakening, and my response based on my own studies and experiences. If you’d like to ask a question that might be featured here, please send it to me via:
- [More to Do: Is it a Blessing, a Curse or Something Else?](https://www.simplyawake.com/more-to-do-is-it-a-blessing-a-curse-or-something-else/) - Why can't I just be? Why do I have to keep doing things?
- [The Challenge of Living in the Moment](https://www.simplyawake.com/the-challenge-of-living-in-the-moment/) - The mind's ability to sabotage living in each moment as Awareness, becomes more of a problem when we consider working at home and communication 'necessities.'
- [What's Love Got to Do with It?](https://www.simplyawake.com/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/) - Do you wonder what good love is in your life? Particularly when someone has broken your heart? (Are you old enough to remember the Tina Turner song?) From my perspective, love is EVERYTHING. I was recently infected with Covid-19 and spent 2.5 weeks being REALLY sick. No, I never had to be hospitalized but, I
- [My Everchanging Story](https://www.simplyawake.com/my-everchanging-story/) - I grew up in the prosperous 1950s and 1960s in a middle-class U.S. family. I was abused at home and bullied at school. I started looking for answers when I was 15 and started exploring psychotherapy and spirituality. In what I still see as a kind of miracle, I won a scholarship to international high
- [Are You a Slave to Your Patterns?](https://www.simplyawake.com/are-you-a-slave-to-your-patterns/) - What are your enslavement patterns? “What do you mean,” you’re thinking, “I’m a free person!” Are you really free, though? Are you free to be fully and spontaneously yourself in each moment, dreaming your life into existence one action at a time? I’m betting that you’ve got lots of patterns: mental, emotional, physical and even
- [An Easy Guide to the 'Flow State'](https://www.simplyawake.com/an-easy-guide-to-the-flow-state/) - An Easy Guide to the ‘Flow State.’ Have you ‘had it’ with broken promises of a better life? Had enough of long-term psychological and spiritual paths? Learn your stuff and SPREAD YOUR WINGS! That’s my approach: no nonsense. I won’t name names, but SOME teachers feel it’s a great idea to get followers hooked to
- [Feeling Isolated? Go Local!](https://www.simplyawake.com/feeling-isolated-go-local/) - What do you do when you get that feeling that no one knows you’re alive? Many people jump on social media. Does that do ‘the trick?’ It doesn’t work for me. How about you? All the social media posts, “likes,” group discussions, videoconferences, emails, video clips and texts don’t make you feel any less lonely,
- [Good News: Change is Simple!](https://www.simplyawake.com/good-news-change-is-simple/) - When you boil down all psychological and spiritual work to its essence it’s this: change is simple. Delete the patterns that you’ve learned from others, and be the spontaneous, free being you are as you meet each moment. You’ve learned multitudes of things from others who say they have your best interest at heart: parents,
- [What a Difference a Team Makes!](https://www.simplyawake.com/what-a-difference-a-team-makes/) - Have you noticed how something that looks impossible if “it’s just me,” becomes possible if it’s a team or group doing it? My in-laws are here this week, and projects that were too daunting for two have become easy for four. The gardens are weeded and planted. The doors and gates all have hinges and
- [Trust Your OWN Ability to Find the Truth, Distrust “GroupThink”](https://www.simplyawake.com/trust-your-own-ability-to-find-the-truth-distrust-groupthink/) - Have you noticed how big a difference a week makes in your life? How about in the news? In one week, I’ve been newly diagnosed with a broken ankle (not just sprained), put on two crutches and unable to do anything, then taken off the two crutches. The truth kept getting clearer: the MRI revealed
- [Turning Trouble into Transformation](https://www.simplyawake.com/turning-trouble-into-transformation/) - Turning Trouble into Transformation We’ve finally turned the corner into a warm Spring, and today’s temperatures are even summer-like. It’s my busy season in the garden and I have lots to do. Last Thursday, after a beautiful 1-mile walk with our dog Maya (now 13 years old), I was walking to the chicken coop to
- [Boom, the Creative Energies of Spring are Popping](https://www.simplyawake.com/boom-the-creative-energies-of-spring-are-popping/) - Heckle, Jeckle and Speckles, My Favorite Laying Hens say "Howdy and Welcome." Happy Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Wow, there’s lots going on this week. Spring has truly sprung, including popping a sprocket in my creative mind. Hope you enjoy this week’s offerings! Tip of the Week: If you’re having trouble with insomnia, try ‘tightening up’
- [Spring: When Everything and Everyone Grows](https://www.simplyawake.com/spring-when-everything-and-everyone-grows/) - The arrival of about 120 perennial flowers required 7 hours of planting time last Wednesday, when I normally would have sent you a newsletter. The picture above is evidence of last November’s bulb-planting event. Wow, nothing like color in the garden! This week’s tip: If you haven’t tried being outside in Nature this Spring, it’s
- [The Media Focus on Death Can’t Hide Life in its Abundance](https://www.simplyawake.com/the-media-focus-on-death-cant-hide-life-in-its-abundance/) - It’s Spring here in eastern Pennsylvania and in many other places. I’m amazed, every day, at the amount of life appearing magically out of ‘nowhere’ after a very cold and snowy Winter. Even indoors, I’m amazed at the resilience of plant life. I bought two Phalaenopsis orchids on February 11th or 12th, one for my
- [FEAR AND LOATHING: THE CONSEQUENCE OF VIEWING OTHERS AS A LETHAL VIRUS (SARS-COV-2)](https://www.simplyawake.com/fear-and-loathing-the-consequence-of-viewing-others-as-a-lethal-virus-sars-cov-2/) - I had an interesting conversation with a client earlier this week. In it, he raised what could be THE underlying psychological problem for many people during the Covid-19 pandemic. He said that he kept feeling as if he were being dislodged or dislocated from his normal reality by the way people were acting around him,
- [Why no vaccine, Jonathan? (Are you stupid? A conspiracy nut? What's wrong with you?)](https://www.simplyawake.com/why-no-vaccine-jonathan-are-you-stupid-a-conspiracy-nut-whats-wrong-with-you/) - Many people have watched with dismay, as a new virus, the SARS-COV-2 has moved around the planet. It’s been no Bubonic Plague, which killed half the population but it has killed many people: 3 million people have died out of nearly 8 billion of us, about .0375%. I first began to hear about this in
- [We've won the Best of Doylestown 2021 Award for Counseling?!!](https://www.simplyawake.com/weve-won-the-best-of-doylestown-2021-award-for-counseling/) - Quite a Surprise.....I just found this out so am posting it here on the site as a Blogpost Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jonathan E. Labman, LPC Receives 2021 Best of Doylestown Award Doylestown Award Program Honors the Achievement DOYLESTOWN March 14, 2021 -- Jonathan E. Labman, LPC has been selected for the 2021 Best
- [Develop Your Own View of Yourself and Reality.](https://www.simplyawake.com/develop-your-own-view-of-yourself-and-reality/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] It’s worth taking the time to feel into your deepest self, during some moments of quiet, to find what you are made of there. In the final analysis, it’s what you discover about yourself that matters. I discovered that other
- [Dreaming the World You Want to See into Existence](https://www.simplyawake.com/dreaming-the-world-you-want-to-see-into-existence/) - #author_last_nameLabman
- [Reflections on Loss and Trauma During the Pandemic](https://www.simplyawake.com/reflections-on-loss-and-trauma-during-the-pandemic/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]Here’s an hour-long podcast that I recorded with my colleague and friend Amy Wright Glenn, last Thursday 9/17. It’s the first podcast I’ve ever done, and I’m open to doing more. The topic is “Reflections on Loss and Trauma During the Pandemic.” There’s
- [Working on your Ego Doesn't Work](https://www.simplyawake.com/working-on-your-ego-doesnt-work/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.5″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]After 20 years as a psychologist, I’ve come back around to the conclusion that working on your ego doesn’t work. Why not? Because you can’t solve the problems generated by the ego, by working at the level of the
- [Working with the Ego Doesn't Work (To Solve Your Problems)](https://www.simplyawake.com/working-with-the-ego-doesnt-work/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]I’ve been a practicing psychotherapist for 20 years. During that time I have become more disturbed and distrustful of traditional mental health diagnostics and treatment. I’m also seeing the insurance and medical industries ruin wellness care in America and turn it
- [Love and Truth Go Hand-in-Hand](https://www.simplyawake.com/love-and-truth-go-hand-in-hand/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]I often see how certain religious and political groups in this country have divorced themselves from caring about the truth. To get what they want, they’re glad to support various politicians, pundits and newscasters as long as they gain
- [A Guide to Enlightenment](https://www.simplyawake.com/a-guide-to-enlightenment/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.5″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]Here’s a vision statement as I move from therapist to Enlightenment Guide over the next 6 months of 2020: We envision a world where everyone knows that they are Awareness Itself, Truth and Ananda (Love-Bliss-Freedom-Peace) so they can bring
- [What has Coronavirus changed?](https://www.simplyawake.com/what-has-coronavirus-changed/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Enough has been written about this virus and its contagiousness so that most of you reading this will be well-informed about the virus. However, if you’ve been dealing with an unusual amount of stress, let me suggest the reason for this:
- [Death and Dying: Losing a Partner](https://www.simplyawake.com/death-and-dying-losing-a-partner/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Sitting next to someone who is dying, is for some people, the greatest challenge of their lives. You are not only watching your primary partner die but, you are reckoning with the death of your relationship with them, your identity as
- [Creating a Spiritual Culture in Your Time and Place: a New Indigenousness ](https://www.simplyawake.com/creating-a-spiritual-culture/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]I’ve personally been in a difficult crossroads of life, trying to integrate spiritual life into the local time and place. My experience, for my whole life after the age of 16, has been to have no felt sense of belonging here
- [Before Enlightenment I Attended to Fussy Little Details….After Enlightenment I Attended to Fussy Little Details](https://www.simplyawake.com/before-enlightenment-i-attended-to-fussy-little-details-after-enlightenment-i-attended-to-fussy-little-details/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Another of the many myths of Enlightenment, is that somehow the body-mind lives in a state of constant flow after Awareness Awakens to Itself, and life is without: challenges, effort, and obstruction. While this may be true on some days, like
- [Some Thoughts on the Nature of the Soul](https://www.simplyawake.com/some-thoughts-on-the-nature-of-the-soul/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Lately, I’ve been thinking about how to summarize what I’ve learned about what the human soul is. One of my sources is the Mandukya Upanishad and the individual sentence “Ayam Atman Brahman” which is translated as “This individual consciousness is (the
- [Radiant Awareness](https://www.simplyawake.com/radiant-awareness/) - [et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]The new office is all ready for you. I have openings for new Uncovering Enlightenment groups, and lots of opportunities for shedding your ego and uncovering the radiant, clear Awareness that is your true nature. Individual work is also always available. We cling so tightly to the little ‘narrator voice’ in our heads that
- [Dialog](https://www.simplyawake.com/dialog/) - It’s been a real pleasure interacting with people as a result of the (usually) daily posts that I’ve been doing on Facebook. I’d also say it’s a challenge. The challenge is, as I just discussed with a Facebook friend, that the mind habitually wants me to contract into proving it is ‘right.’ It is so
- [Integration after Awakening: Deconstructing So-Called 'Truths'](https://www.simplyawake.com/integration-after-awakening-deconstructing-so-called-truths/) - What happens to you when it dawns on you that what you are is more than your mind and its ideas of itself? When you discover the Awareness or Consciousness that you are, how does it change the way you live? Since thoughts aren’t the interpreters of reality, they will become less important to you. It
- [COVID-19 and the Loss of A Known Future](https://www.simplyawake.com/covid-19-and-the-loss-of-a-known-future/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Working with students and clients during the Covid-19 Pandemic is a constant plunge into issues that seem to have no prior point of reference. However, I discovered that if we look at parallels to more ‘normal’ events in our lives, we
- [Radiant, Clear, Still](https://www.simplyawake.com/radiant-clear-still/) - These are three words that could be used to describe the Transcendent. Out walking the dog this morning, our normal ‘green tunnel’ of trees that meet overhead (now bare and brown in winter) had been transformed by an overnight snow storm. The sky was a radiant, clear, blue. The trees were swathed in the pristine
- [Releasing the 'Me' into Silence](https://www.simplyawake.com/releasing-the-me-into-silence/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]One thing that I’ve noticed lately is that although a ‘self’ no longer exists, the ego-mind’s lone remaining trick is to keep the body-mind tied up with MUSIC now, of all things. Music! with all of its abilities to affect ‘my’
- [Simply Awake Blog: Enlightenment Now](https://www.simplyawake.com/simply-awake-blog-enlightenment-now/) - Enlightenment Now is a blog to share the experience of Enlightenment with anyone who cares to read about it. It's being launched due to an inner impulse that won't die. I've been Simply Awake for 16 years as of today. What was Real recognized Itself in/as/through the 'me' of the ego-chattering mind and began a
- [Surprise!](https://www.simplyawake.com/surprise/) - 7/11/2017 Surprise. One of the benefits of being Awake is that things surprise me from time to time. With no particular expectations, almost everything is a surprise. The weather is different than what was predicted (surprise!?!). The news stories we were told were true, aren't true. (Surprise?!?) The diet that was sold to you ten
- [7/10/2017 No Past, No Future](https://www.simplyawake.com/7102017-no-past-no-future/) - 7/10/2017 Part 2 This moment, you have no past and no future. There's no world and no you. There is simply I AM. What is it that's aware of every thought, emotion, and physical sensation. That's "I AM." What is unchanged by every thought, emotion and physical sensation? That is "I AM." What, accessible to
- [What is the Awareness Looking Through Your Eyes?](https://www.simplyawake.com/what-is-the-awareness-looking-through-your-eyes/) - Try asking the simple question 'What is the Awareness looking out through my eyes?' The transformation that's possible is astounding. After awakening, in 2001, I remember standing at the corner of 43rd and 10th Avenue in NYC outside of La Madeleine, waiting to go into a birthday party for a friend. I asked myself where
- [The Sound of Silence](https://www.simplyawake.com/the-sound-of-silence/) - Aren't you sick of all the mental 'noise' in the world yet? In a world of constant talk: texting, tweeting, voicemail, blog posts, news headlines, email, and what remains of faxing and paging....relief is available in Silence. Deeper than the level of the chatter of your mind, lives your truest essence: Silent Being. Moving from
- [The 95% Factor](https://www.simplyawake.com/the-95-factor/) - The 95% Factor doesn't refer to all of those in the U.S. and otherwise who aren't seeing a fair share of prosperity, while the top 5% prosper. The 95% refers to the fact that about 95% of the thoughts that go through your head every day are either absolute or relative lies. Did I say
- [Absolutely Ordinary](https://www.simplyawake.com/absolutely-ordinary/) - There are days when life is so absolutely ordinary, that I wonder if Enlightenment happened at all. Enlightenment, however, is only recognizing what was always already here, inside and outside of 'me.' So, why would it seem extraordinary to know what has always been true? If I look at what has changed in the day
- [The Only War Worth Fighting](https://www.simplyawake.com/the-only-war-worth-fighting/) - Ordinary people know that generally wars aren't worth fighting. The military industrial complex makes lots of money, and we lose fathers, brothers, mothers, sisters, friends, and children. About 20% of those lucky enough to make it back alive will suffer with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The local populations who are being bombed and killed, usually
- [Enlightenment: the Embodiment of Realization](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-the-embodiment-of-realization/) - When Awakening first happened, I considered it to be the end of a long spiritual search to know the truth of my own nature. In the Mandukya Upanishad the Sanskrit phrase, transliterated as "Ayam Atman Brahman" brought me to the intellectual conclusion that This Individual Consciousness is the Divine Consciousness, which is the translation of
- [Enlightenment Now: Less Ego, More Love](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-less-ego-more-love/) - This week, I'll write about the transformation of the ability to love, and the continuing disintegration of the sense of a Personal Self today, as promised. At a certain point after awakening, once a lot of work has been done to 'see through' the thought-feeling schema that we call the Ego, and when once-secret Shadow
- [Embodying Enlightenment: Deepening](https://www.simplyawake.com/embodying-enlightenment-deepening/) - When awakening first happened to ‘me’ I was able to focus on the Transcendent elements of the Divine, switch to the Immanent elements of the Divine, and then switch back and forth at will. However, it seemed as if I was some sort of camera that had either a wide angle lens (Transcendent) or a
- [Enlightenment Now: Just Perception](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-just-perception/) - I've been working with a new mentor who lives in Florida. He's teaching me to use what's in front of me to notice awakeness. When you stop thinking, what remains of you? It's good practice to melt into your surroundings by stopping your thoughts and noticing that you're just perceptions...you'll do it one day when you
- [Enlightenment Now: Quips1](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-quips1/) - Look y'all, the prize of getting enlightened is that you get Nothing and you become No One, and in so doing you are everything and everyone. It would also be true to say 'You don't exist and nobody loves you' to quote a friend.
- [Enlightenment Now: Quips2](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-quips2/) - When nothing's happening, you don't need to 'make something happen.' Just enjoy the peace and quiet. We are, after all, human beings, not human racket-making machines or human doings.
- [Enlightenment Now: Quips3](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-quips3/) - The only use for the concept of 'past' is to learn from our mistakes. Otherwise, no point living there anymore, it's gone. The only use for the future (as a concept) is to make cursory plans, lightly held. Otherwise, no point living there anymore, it hasn't arrived. Living in the present is where the learning
- [Enlightenment Now: Quips4](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-quips4/) - Today it rains, the senses full with damp, wet, coolness. Perceiving happens but, there is no one perceiving. If you relax your mind you will find that at the deepest level of existence there is no one home but Consciousness Itself, or what some call the Holy Spirit. Doubt it if you will but, better
- [Enlightenment Now: Quips5](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-quips5/) - Where are you going in such a rush? Why hasten away from this Moment, when it is the only place you live, breathe and touch Eternity?
- [Enlightenment Now: Quips6](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-quips6/) - Can you imagine there is no permanent "I" to have another life (if reincarnation is real)? That is the promise of being awake to the Truth of what you actually Are.
- [Enlightenment Now: Quips7](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-quips7/) - Greenlighting (radical self-acceptance) is a great practice for freeing up enough energy to realize the Self. It's not so good at helping with the transformation away from the control of the ego and into the union with the Beloved after awakening. Who really wants to be at the mercy of all the old ego and
- [Enlightenment Now: 'Me' and 'My Family' at the Thanksgiving Holidays](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-me-and-my-family-at-the-thanksgiving-holidays/) - In the United States, this week is our Thanksgiving celebration. Millions of people will travel somewhere to be with members of their ‘family.’ As someone who is awake to their deepest nature, I sat in the car with family members this morning (my spouse and father-in-law) and thought about how we define family. It used
- [Enlightenment Now: Die Before You Die?](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-die-before-you-die/) - There is an expression in spiritual literature that we, who are pursuing enlightenment, are to ‘die before you die.’ It’s difficult to know how to describe that to someone trying to understand ‘enlightenment oriented’ spirituality for the first time. However, recently I had a conversation with someone who actually did die, and was revived. They
- [Enlightenment Now: ‘No Self’ is Finding a Voice](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-no-self-is-finding-a-voice/) - I recently had some encouragement to put all of my spiritual books away. I was surprised, and not surprised, at how eager I was to do so. For a long time, I’ve longed to find a unique voice and use it. Today, paradoxically, I read another encouragement to put everyone else’s voices away and find
- [Enlightenment Now: Emptiness and Fullness on Thanksgiving](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-emptiness-and-fullness-on-thanksgiving/) - Clearly, many in the United States are feeling a fullness in their bellies right now, after Thanksgiving dinners. A different kind of fullness arises out of Inner Emptiness, once one realizes that there is no self, simply a spontaneous cacophony of perception, action, thought, and emotion without a center. All of this Fullness, arising out
- [Enlightenment Now: What's the Love of a Dog got to do with It?](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-whats-the-love-of-a-dog-got-to-do-with-it/) - Sometimes great lessons come in unlikely forms. Maya, my Australian Blue Heeler dog, came to live with us about 8 years ago. She’s taught me a lot about love, Presence, and the fact that Being comes in all forms. Maya brought play into my life at a time when there was a lot of grief.
- [Enlightenment Now: Ego - The Dead End of Personal Development](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-ego-the-dead-end-of-personal-development/) - When developing the Ego (a set of thought and feeling processes usually involving the word-concepts “I” or “me” or “mine”) becomes the end of our personal and societal development, we end up in a world where everyone is mistakenly defending a ‘self’ and ‘my own interests.’ The result is the chaotic scenes we see everywhere
- [Enlightenment Now: I Don't Know](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-i-dont-know/) - One of my favorite personal expressions is “I don’t know.” If someone asks me ‘is that really true?’ about almost anything, I will say ‘I don’t know.’ There is wisdom in ‘not knowing.’ In reality, what humans consider ‘knowledge’ is usually expressed in words. Words are a poor approximation of reality. If I ask myself
- [Enlightenment Now: The Frailty of Being Human](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-the-frailty-of-being-human/) - In circles of those who think and talk about enlightenment, some of whom may even be enlightened, we often want to focus on the great, grand visions, the Oneness that is felt in meditation and other wonderful and glorious experiences. However, it’s important to continue to experience everything, including the frailty of being human. We
- [Enlightenment Now: Three Essential Practices to Uncover Your True Nature](https://www.simplyawake.com/enlightenment-now-the-3-essential-practices-to-uncover-your-true-nature/) - In my many years of spiritual practices, and the study of various religious and spiritual traditions, I find myself offering three basic practices to those who come to me for psychological or spiritual guidance: Meditation Practicing Presence (meditation in the midst of everyday life and activity) Thought-busting (challenging all thoughts for truthfulness) There are so
- [Welcome to the World….Duality Doesn’t Exist Except That We Have to Live in It!](https://www.simplyawake.com/welcome-to-the-world-duality-doesnt-exist-except-that-we-have-to-live-in-it/) - There are many teachers that get ‘orthodox’ about insisting that no one wakes up and that it’s all an illusion. I would ask them, however, how successful they are about breaking out of the physical limitations of the so-called dualistic illusion? Do they walk on water? Is their body not subject to illness and death?
- [Believe NOTHING: Validate Everything for Yourself by Your Own Experience](https://www.simplyawake.com/believe-nothing-validate-everything-for-yourself-by-your-own-experience/) - Walking the dog this morning, I was remembering a conversation I had with a client this week about belief and faith. Awakening or Enlightenment is NOT a faith-based activity. You do not have to believe the arcane religious dogmas or doctrines of any faith in order to wake up. In fact, quite the opposite. You
- [Disappearing into Perceptions and Inner Silence](https://www.simplyawake.com/disappearing-into-perceptions-and-inner-silence/) - Disappearing into Perceptions and Inner Silence One of the simplest practices for understanding the deepest part of our nature, in my experience, is disappearing into perceptions. My favorite way of doing this is to stop paying any attention to thoughts appearing in my mind (or, sometimes in my case, it’s music or songs appearing) and
- [The Blank Page Called 'Today'](https://www.simplyawake.com/the-blank-page-called-today/) - It’s odd and unusual to have a day with no plans. Today is such a day. Who was I yesterday? The Absolute and only That. Who am I today? The Absolute and only That. Tomorrow? The same. Truly, none of us has any idea what the next moment will bring, let alone the next day.
- [Don't Pretend to Know What the Future Holds or How You'll React to It](https://www.simplyawake.com/dont-pretend-to-know-what-the-future-holds-or-how-youll-react-to-it/) - This is a piece written from the Relative/Dualistic Side of Life. This morning I was driving my spouse to a 7:15am appointment for a routine test at a nearby hospital. It was rather an unusual morning for me, since I don’t start work until 11AM and generally work until 7 or 8PM as a psychologist.
- [What do I Mean by Simply Awake?](https://www.simplyawake.com/what-do-i-mean-by-simply-awake/) - What do I mean by Simply Awake? My license plate says “AWAKEN U” on it. When people ask, I tell them that it has three meanings: “wake up, drive the car, stop texting on your phone, and stop tailgating me,” “wake up to the psychological truths of your life,” and “wake up to your True
- [Words, Words, Words...](https://www.simplyawake.com/words-words-words/) - This "Enlightenment Now" Blog is the first time that I’ve attempted to do a weblog on a regular basis, and is the most writing that I’ve done, since writing a book in the 2000s. Though the blog is posted here, I also post it on other Facebook pages and groups. The purpose is to learn
- [What 'My' Enlightenment is for 'Me"](https://www.simplyawake.com/what-my-enlightenment-is-for-me/) - One of the admins of one of the Facebook pages that I post on, is a respected master in another tradition, and he wanted me to answer the question above, plus give a history of my own path towards Enlightenment. He wanted a ‘step by step’ description of the process, which I immediately knew was
- [Consciousness Itself](https://www.simplyawake.com/consciousness-itself/) - I am Consciousness Itself. You are Consciousness Itself. If I hurt you, I hurt myself. If I hurt myself, I hurt you. If I bless you, I bless myself. If I bless myself, I bless you. All are the same Consciousness.
- [Self-Care in Different Seasons](https://www.simplyawake.com/self-care-in-different-seasons/) - Self-Care in Different Seasons In the Northern Hemisphere, where I live, it’s getting darker and colder by the day. Sunrise is currently at 7:11 AM and sunset is at 4:33 PM. This is a very short day with less than 9 hours of daylight. If I use awareness and check in to how the body
- [Using Intuition to Wake Up](https://www.simplyawake.com/using-intuition-to-wake-up/) - Using Intuition to Wake Up When the logical, language-generating mind is ‘foggy’ as mine has been this last week or so, I like to change the focus of attention to my intuition. Intuition is another way of ‘knowing’ or ‘learning something’ that seems to bypass the normal channels of words and logical thinking. It’s easier
- [Worthy or Unworthy?](https://www.simplyawake.com/worthy-or-unworthy/) - Worthy or Unworthy? Whether I’m working with clients coming to me for psychological help, spiritual help or both, I notice a consistent pattern: everyone feels and believes themselves to be essentially unworthy. On an ego level this is usually because they’ve started to notice themselves and feel inferior in comparison to others, or because someone
- [Why 'Simply Awake?'](https://www.simplyawake.com/why-simply-awake/) - Simply Awake The real ‘difficulty’ of ‘waking up’ or ‘getting enlightened’ is just how simple it actually is but, how complicated we make it. . Academic scholars have written endlessly, people argue about what the ‘right words are’ to describe it relentlessly, and there are thousands of teachers who seem to teach a torturous path
- [Thoughts and Feelings are Real: The ‘Self’ They Seem to Produce Is Not](https://www.simplyawake.com/thoughts-and-feelings-are-real-the-self-they-seem-to-produce-is-not/) - Thoughts and Feelings are Real: The ‘Self’ They Seem to Produce Is Not My own awakening was facilitated by a school that, as small as it was, split into two factions a few years back. In the school, we were taught that we didn’t need to perfect the ego in order to awaken, we just
- [The Best Things in Life ARE Free](https://www.simplyawake.com/the-best-thins-in-life-are-free/) - The Best Things in Life ARE Free In the Northern Hemisphere where I live, the daylight is waning and the darkness is waxing. Winter Solstice is next Thursday, so the days are very short. Nonetheless, I am noticing a few of the many free blessings of being alive: Feeling the cold on my face, helping
- [Ordinary Life](https://www.simplyawake.com/ordinary-life/) - Ordinary Life “When you’re hungry, eat. When you’re tired, sleep.” “Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water. After enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.” There is a lot of mythology in the world about what happens when a person ‘wakes up’ or ‘gets enlightened.’ First of all, the ego doesn’t wake up: Awareness
- [Family of Human Beings](https://www.simplyawake.com/family-of-human-beings/) - Family of Human Beings When I was 16 years old in 1971, I had an answer to the first and ‘cheekiest’ prayer I ever prayed. The prayer was ‘God, if you exist, create the miracle of getting me a scholarship to international high school (6th Form, A Levels, International Baccalaureate level) in South Wales, U.K.’
- [Resting as That](https://www.simplyawake.com/resting-as-that/) - Resting as That Sometimes it is time to rest. Even to rest from spiritual practice. In fact, sometimes the best spiritual practice is to open to Life and learn whatever lessons It has for you just by paying attention to what’s right in front of you. If it’s dark and cold outside, and you’re ill,
- [Lots of Nothing](https://www.simplyawake.com/lots-of-nothing/) - Lots of Nothing I remember thinking that when I ‘woke up’ my troubles would all be over and that people would recognize that something had ‘happened’ to ‘me’ and that 'I' would instantly become a teacher to other people. Hahahahahaha….the ego-mind makes up funny stories, doesn’t it?! Ordinary life goes on. This morning I rediscovered
- [Embodiment: Awakening Occurs in a Body](https://www.simplyawake.com/embodiment-awakening-occurs-in-a-body/) - Embodiment: Awakening Occurs in a Body Today I’ve been thinking how very esoteric the terms ‘waking up’ or ‘enlightenment’ often sound, and how very divorced from our bodies and our human experience they are ‘advertised’ to be. One of my early fantasies about being ‘awake’ was that all physical and emotional distress would somehow disappear
- [Death is Our Companion](https://www.simplyawake.com/death-is-our-companion/) - Death is Our Companion My 13-year-old nephew died of a rare blood disorder that stayed hidden until three days before it took his life. The shock of the statement is enough to stop people in their tracks, let alone the reality behind the statement. Death can come at any time, at any age, in any
- [Dealing with Fear](https://www.simplyawake.com/dealing-with-fear/) - Dealing with Fear In the silence of this moment, everything is okay. If my mind starts up again, chattering about the future, it can get ‘lost’ momentarily in the chatter. Then fear can arise, and the whole ego-process can start up again. This is the path of delusion, physiological contraction, and unnecessary suffering. Sometimes this
- [The Peace that Passes Understanding](https://www.simplyawake.com/the-peace-that-passes-understanding/) - The Peace that Passes Understanding In the Christian New Testament, we find reference to ‘the peace that passes understanding.’ When I was heavily involved in Christianity, I had an intellectual understanding of what this meant but, no visceral, actual experience of it. It took ‘waking up’ through the Eastern spiritual traditions to really understand this
- [Nothing, Everything](https://www.simplyawake.com/nothing-everything/) - Nothing, Everything In the Stillness, chimes sing, notes sound, clocks tick. I Am perception: perceiver, perceived, perceiving: collapse Into Essence when no thought's intruding. Then nothing sustains the illusory “self” and Self is imploding. No seer, no seen, so just seeing. No inside, no outside: just being. Nothing and everything: disappearing.
- [Calm and Quiet?](https://www.simplyawake.com/calm-and-quiet/) - Calm and Quiet Noise echoes relentlessly through modern lives. There is the noise of machines, multitudes of people, and the “noise” of endless communication in a multitude of forms (text, email, voicemail, paging, pinging, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.). However, in my experience, the worst “noise” is the noise of my own thoughts. Thought is
- [Who is the Guru?](https://www.simplyawake.com/who-is-the-guru/) - Who is the Guru? I’ve often been asked who my ‘guru’ is, and I’ve had to ponder carefully when answering the question. I don’t have just one guru, I’ve had many. There is a long tradition of being told that we should work with only one guru, who should be able to see us all
- [Infinite Mystery](https://www.simplyawake.com/infinite-mystery/) - A recent interaction with one of my gurus (currently alive) has left ‘me’ puzzled and looking at the search for ‘awakening’ and ‘enlightenment’ in a whole different way. I think I got addicted to the approval of teachers, so I have wandered around for the last 45 years looking for it. Now that I’ve got
- [MYSTERY Emerging....](https://www.simplyawake.com/mystery-emerging/) - Mystery Emerging When concepts of “I” and “awake” and “enlightened” die, what happens next? In my last blog I said ‘Mystery’ is next. Mystery looks like a release of deeply held muscle tension. Hearing from a long-ago dharma buddy whose wife read my blog somewhere on Facebook. An offer to host an internet radio show
- [Who IS Jonathan?](https://www.simplyawake.com/who-is-jonathan/) - Who IS Jonathan? One of my Facebook friends suggested that I was ‘teaching’ too much and not letting people know the human side of who Jonathan Labman is. So, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to try to answer that question. In previous years, I’d have answered with biographical and statistical details: 5’10”
- [Our Mind's Ability to 'Lay Waste' to Our Lives](https://www.simplyawake.com/our-minds-ability-to-lay-waste-to-our-lives/) - Our Mind’s Ability to ‘Lay Waste’ to Our Lives. How many times have we seen our minds make a totally incorrect evaluation of something going on in the present, or about to happen in the future? How many times have our minds stopped us from doing some productive, fun, or wonderful spontaneous action that arose
- [Being Love in a World That Needs You](https://www.simplyawake.com/being-love-in-a-world-that-needs-you/) - Being Love in a World that Needs You It’s amazing to me how little ‘news’ is published in major newspapers, on broadcast networks, and in general about the ordinary acts of kindness that people do in the world. It would be easy to assume that humans are only capable of hostility, hatred, greed, lust and
- [Teacher and Students?](https://www.simplyawake.com/teacher-and-students-2/) - It is said that “”When the student is ready, the Teacher appears?” Is the opposite also true, “When The Teacher Appears are the Students Ready?” Here, a teacher has appeared! Students?
- [It’s Quite Simple, You Know?](https://www.simplyawake.com/its-quite-simple-you-know/) - A friend recently pointed out how very complicated we make ‘waking up.’ He said that if the ego doesn’t have to ‘struggle’ for something, the ego doesn’t think it’s worth anything. I have found this to be true in interacting with my students regarding ‘waking up.’ If I offer free classes or meditations, people
- [The Core Discovery that Heralds Awakening](https://www.simplyawake.com/the-core-discovery-that-heralds-awakening/) - Once you’ve had enough practice at meditation, staying Present, and seeing through thoughts so that you know that you are NOT thoughts, it’s time to explore what you really are. If, in meditation, you’ve reached the ability to experience Silence and Stillness, you can ‘sit’ in that awareness for a good length of time. If
- [Awake or Not, You're Still in a Body](https://www.simplyawake.com/awake-or-not-youre-still-a-body/) - I just finished writing a book and was looking for inspiration to share in a post. There wasn’t much to be had! When you or I are uninspired and tired, it’s better to rest. Remember that Brahman/Emptiness/The Radiant Darkness/The Mystery, has taken form into, as, and through our bodies. The body isn’t a perpetual motion
- [When Awakening Happens](https://www.simplyawake.com/when-awakening-happens/) - When Awakening Happens When Awakening happens, one realizes the big joke…there is no one to awaken, and there is only a condition of being part of a Mystery. Words can never describe what the Mystery is. Try as teachers have through many thousands of years, even the best teacher can only ‘fail better this time
- [The Spontaneous Act](https://www.simplyawake.com/the-spontaneous-act/) - The Spontaneous Act Some time ago, I discovered that my actions are nearly always spontaneous. There is a vibration (skanda, in Sanskrit, I believe) in the body that comes from Awareness Itself and moves outwards towards an action. Creating my recent book was such an action. Though I had been working on bits and pieces
- [Awareness Is](https://www.simplyawake.com/awareness-is/) - Awareness Is The great joke about waking up is that there isn’t actually anyone to wake up and nothing for the mind or ego; and awakening or enlightenment is undefinable in verbal terms. Awareness awakens to Itself. Awareness is that which looks AND that which is seen. Awareness looks out of these eyes at a
- [Integration of Awareness and the Individual Life](https://www.simplyawake.com/integration-of-awareness-and-the-individual-life/) - Once we discover that Awareness is our True Nature (not some identity composed of thoughts that we call the ‘ego’), it can be quite an upset to our way of life. While the discovery that Awareness is who we are may take considerable time and energy, it is not the end of the process that
- [Alone or All One](https://www.simplyawake.com/alone-or-all-one/) - Alone or All One It occurred to me today that when we human beings speak about feeling or being alone, what we mean is that our ego-minds are isolated within ourselves and they end up chattering to themselves. No one else hears the contents of our minds, except us, or the rare person who is

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