What do you imagine when you hear the word “awakening”?
Something big?
Something special?
Maybe even something unreachable?
In direct experience, it turns out to be something very different.
Awakening
Introduction to the Ten Fetters work, the basics of awakening, and the first steps of inquiry.
Through the 10 fetters to awakening
The concept of the ten fetters is one of the Buddha’s discoveries. He called them Samyojana – a word from the ancient Pali language that means fetter. You can find them in the Pali Canon, the earliest preserved discourses of the historical Buddha.
Awakening: The end of suffering
When we no longer suffer, awakening has come. Awakening and the end of suffering are the same.
Spiritual awakening – a cosmic joke
What is actually meant when people talk about spiritual awakening? This text is about spiritual awakening using the concept of the 10 fetters as described by Buddha.
Seeing Only the Seen – Is Everything
Awakening does not add anything. It removes everything that was never real. What remains is just what is here: seeing, hearing, sensing – without an “I” behind it. This simple instruction points directly to the heart of awakening.
Expectations around Awakening
What do we actually expect from awakening? That everything becomes easy? That nothing disturbs us anymore? A direct look shows how often our assumptions miss the point.