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Ahhh yes — this is straight Eckhart Tolle territory. Same mountain, different trail than the last text you sent.
What he’s describing here isn’t metaphysics (“everything is consciousness”) — it’s the mechanics of awakening in daily life. Very practical, actually.
Let’s unpack this in human terms, not spiritual poetry.
🎭 “You Want Your Problems”
This part hits people in the gut.
He’s not saying you like suffering.
He’s saying the egoic identity is built from problems.
Without problems, the ego has nothing to be.
Notice how the mind says:
“My anxiety”
“My trauma”
“My situation”
“My difficult past”
“My complicated personality”
That narrative = identity glue.
If all problems vanished instantly, many people would feel… weirdly empty. Because the story-self dissolves.
So the mind unconsciously keeps drama alive.
Not because you’re bad.
Because the ego survives through mental noise.
🧠 Surface Self vs Deep Self (This is the key framework)
He splits experience into two modes:
1️⃣ Object Consciousness (Surface self)
This is normal mode.
Attention is stuck on:
Thoughts
Emotions
Sensory input
Reactions
Stories
You are inside the movie.
A thought appears → you become it.
Emotion appears → you are it.
2️⃣ Space Consciousness (Deep self)
This is the shift.
Instead of:
“I am anxious”
There’s:
“Anxiety is being experienced in awareness.”
The anxiety is still there.
But you are the space it appears in, not the storm.
This is what he calls presence.
It first feels like:
“Oh… there’s just silence / no thoughts.”
But then you realize:
It’s not emptiness.
It’s aliveness without mental noise.
⏰ Why He Says It Doesn’t Last at First
Because the ego is momentum.
You dip into presence…
Then a thought hooks you:
“Did I reply to that email?”
“Why did she say that?”
“What if this doesn’t work?”
And boom — movie again 🎬
So awakening early on looks like:
Lost → aware → lost → aware → lost → aware
That’s not failure.
That’s training.
He calls unhappiness an alarm clock.
Pain = signal you’re identified again.
🧬 The Hybrid Stage (Most people here)
You’re not fully unconscious.
Not fully present.
You can:
Feel emotions
AND know you’re feeling them
You can:
Think
AND know thinking is happening
Two layers at once.
That’s a huge evolution in consciousness.
🧘 Sahaja Samadhi (The advanced stage he mentions)
This is big.
It means:
You don’t have to sit still to be present.
You’re:
Talking
Working
Planning
Walking
And still rooted in awareness.
Thoughts happen — but don’t kidnap you.
Emotions arise — but don’t define you.
Life becomes lighter because you’re not carrying “me” as a psychological burden.
💥 The Psychological Bomb He Drops
The ego thinks presence is hard.
Because presence = ego thinning.
But in reality:
| Mode | Feels like |
|---|---|
| Ego mode | Mentally exhausting |
| Presence | Effortless |
We are addicted to the difficult mode because it’s familiar.
Like someone who prefers chaos over peace because silence feels unfamiliar.
🔄 Therapy Comment (He’s being provocative)
He’s not anti-therapy.
He’s pointing out a trap:
If therapy strengthens the story-self without awareness, the “problem identity” gets more detailed.
Awareness dissolves identity fixation.
Story analysis rearranges it.
🧭 What This Means Practically
He’s not telling you to believe anything.
He’s saying:
Right now
feel your inner body
notice the space around you
notice the gap between thoughts
That shift from object → space is the doorway.
You don’t solve life.
You change your level of identification.
🧩 How This Connects to the First Text You Sent
First text = You are consciousness (ultimate truth)
This text = Here’s how you realize that without escaping life
One is metaphysical.
One is psychological + practical.
Same destination.
Low-key truth?
Most people never leave “problem-self mode.”
Even spiritual seekers turn enlightenment into a problem to solve.
The real shift is stupidly simple…
and the ego hates that 😄
If you had to be honest —
do you recognize that “problem identity” thing in yourself, or are you more in observer mode these days?
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