Being liberated is as if one witnesses from infinity. In the unconscious state, everything that you witness gets caught in a sense of self that’s like a knot in the bottom of a sack. It feels constricted or incomplete, vulnerable. That’s the experience of most people. As you become more conscious, you witness the objects of experience less judgmentally and this “knot” becomes more open. Objects become more unknowable and beautiful. When that happens, something in you opens and the sense of self relaxes. When awakening occurs, it relaxes completely.
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