(12-23-2011, 01:30 PM)zenmaster Wrote: You could perhaps find some new friends and relieve your frustration. Also, being 'awakened' is becoming commercialized - the new, cheap buzzword like 'eXtreme'. "I saw 'the Secret', and now am awakened". There are different levels of consciousness and what it is to be 'awake' to one person is being quite 'asleep' (or even being socially destructive) to another's perception. Many who are saying 'wake up' do not know their own nature, and they just succumb to a different set of personal distractions while finger-pointing at another's use of catalyst.
It is not normally as easy as you say to just find new friends, I can't just leave my previous friends who have been friends throughout my whole life and just "find new friends" it is not simply that easy. Although when I go to University next year I more than likely make some new friends there. Also I am not just throwing the word awakened in as a cheap buzzword. When I think of being awakened I think of the fact that I now understand that we are all one and have chosen to be of service to other selves. I have read the Law of One material all five books over 5 times lol plus lots of other book and videos. I understand that the way the world truly works, such as the monetary system etc, this for most being what they call awaken, and is the highest level of consciousness most people reach, with most stuck at this so called level of awakening, which still has forms of fear in it as well as hate for those who have "despised us".
I myself have gone beyond this I no longer get angry at those who have oppressed us, for I see them as my self, and that they have the free will to do so. I no longer have hate just love for all entities. I believe this to be a rarer type of awakening, with as I said most getting stuck at understanding how the world works and still keeping that fear and anger.
Most of us at these forums would be classified in the rarer type of awakening because we have stumbled upon something, most people never find in their lifetime. So I believe I am quite awakened, of course no where near fully if it is even possible, there are much higher levels of consciousness than this. I also share the humour in those who believe to be awakened for knowing the way the world really works, I am happy they have got to this stage, but it is only the very very beginning as I have found out.