Read time 2 minutes. When you create gaps in the noise, peak experiences come in and fill them. This stand alone article is part of our series on awakening.
That moment when nature swallowed you whole. Breathtaking. It was more than your breath that was taken.
That moment when the music struck like lightning. Timeless. It was more than time that was absent.
That moment when silence became full. Beyond words. It was more than words that were lost.
The Tao emphasizes the usefulness of emptiness. It implores you to make room for something new. Peak experiences don’t add; they take away. They are the air in an open hand. They are the silence after a discarded thought. Peak experiences bloom in the fertile ground between this and that. They are the most basic form of not-doing.
Awareness knows, not from seeing, but from being. Peak experiences arise when you’re not looking for them—when the mind is quiet enough to notice. Release your grip on certainty. Let presence replace preconception.
Awareness generates no labels. Reality doesn’t explain itself. Awareness is an expression of the moment. Perception drags the past into the present. Awareness is not a function of self. It is self.
Peak experiences need room to bloom so:
Mind the gaps.
There are natural pauses all throughout the day—before action, between thoughts, within conversations. Make your instant reaction no reaction and insight will seep in through these cracks.
Unclench your grip on identity.
The perpetual me sustains itself because the mind seeks its own continuity—it fears its own absence. Break up the continuity. Glance into the void. Lean into it. Let yourself be undefined, even for a moment.
Allow reality to reveal itself.
Emulate Tao. Emulate awareness. The answer is, there is no answer. Forget bias. No expectations. No labels. When the cracks are everywhere—within time, within identity, within reality itself, then insight is inevitable.
Stop analyzing. Stop categorizing. Just see—no judgment, no labels.
Mini-awakenings don’t need to be chased. Just make room for them.
Yes, the experience fades. But the vibration hums and lingers. Stay tuned.
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