Awakening

Or

Birth of consciousness

New consciousness emerges (or the infant is born into reality), like a chick from an egg. The breakout is violent. It responds with its initial state, un-relativised processing capacity, and is completely overwhelmed. The impact of its initial response is total, therefore absolutely real. Observer and observed are one.

The initial impact is not only absolutely real but also perfect because the new (read: infant) has not yet developed the capacity to relativise, to differentiate the impact. Such seeing is eyeless, such knowing is undifferentiated ‘being’. The after-affect of eyeless seeing, or of direct realization = being, produces a overwhelming surge of energy, experienced as full enlightenment.

It’s this initial state response (elsewhere called the beginner’s mind state at awakening) that is sought by adept meditators, to wit, by stress elimination professionals. They want to experience a moment of total realness and perfection, hence of absolute one-ness prior to (imperfect, hence producing suffering = stress) time, space and form. And they seek to be imprinted by that perfect moment in order to retain the experience of perfection until actual old age, decay and death.

The initial state experience of absolute realness (read: undifferentiated being) in perfection, indeed, of absoluteness, is called the deathless state because it happens prior to relativity, and therefore to imperfection, corruption and decay.

The infant being born from the rotting fist symbolizes the unfulfilled promise of the attainment of absolute, hence perfect fact. The rotting fist (or broken egg shell) symbolizes the decaying fiction of yesterday.