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Before awakening, life happens to you

Name: Before awakening, life happens to you
Uploaded: 2026-10-10
Channel: Scott Kalin
Description: Before awakening and before moving into higher levels of consciousness, most people, or humans, see life as something happening to them. Scott Kalin, The Form of Emptiness.

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Before awakening and before moving into higher levels of consciousness, most people, or humans, see life as something happening to them. They see the world as other, and then they see that that is happening to their separate self. That the separate self, at its best, is a kind of chatty narrator of our experience, but has very little agency of its own.