What Are You Really Looking For When You're Seeking Awakening?

Awakening Now

Awakening Now
What Are You Really Looking For When You're Seeking Awakening?
Jul 25, 2026 Episode 134
Ilona Ciunaite

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Something in you is looking for relief right now, whether you call it awakening, peace, or simply wanting to feel okay again. If that's where you are, you're welcome to join Deep Looking Immersion: [LINK]

What are you really looking for underneath the hope for awakening? This episode comes from a live meeting, opening with a short talk on where seeking actually begins, not curiosity, but suffering, and the quiet hope that once the self is seen through, everything difficult will finally stop.

From there, four real conversations unfold. Ben, George, Swen, and Tammy each bring something different to look at, an old assumption about awakening, a fear of feeling good, a belief that something is wrong with them, and each one is met directly, as it happens rather than talked about from a distance.

Music by Valdi Sabev. In loving memory and gratitude for the music he shared.

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Episode Artwork What Are You Really Looking For When You're Seeking Awakening? 1:22:49 Episode Artwork You Already Know There is No Separate Self. Why Doesn't it Feel That Way? 1:12:45 Episode Artwork The Idea That Started All the Seeking with Sabina Witzel 58:36 Episode Artwork When Pointers Leave the Seeker Nowhere to Go with Sukhdev Virdee 55:36 Episode Artwork The Message the Seeker Cannot Use, with Jim Newman 49:03 Episode Artwork “How Do I Awaken?” The Question That Hides an Expectation 1:19:16 Episode Artwork The Shift Is Much Closer Than You Think With Loch Kelly 1:01:05 Episode Artwork The Deconstruction of a False Perspective With Greg Goode 1:06:34 Episode Artwork Seeing Through the Self Illusion: 8-Week Experience 1:17:49 Episode Artwork Where Are You Looking From? 1:17:15 Episode Artwork What Happened to the Original Awakening Message? with Ananta Kranti 54:10 Episode Artwork I Psychoanalyzed an AI… Something Uncanny Happened, with Robert Saltzman. 1:04:14 Episode Artwork There Is No Mind — So Why Can’t You Stop Thinking? 1:05:45 Episode Artwork Awakening Myths Exposed With Angelo DiLullo 1:24:06 Episode Artwork Leading From the Dark: Shadow Work, Awakening, and Becoming More Human with Steven D’Souza 56:26 Episode Artwork What Is the Sense of Self, Really? 1:18:26 Episode Artwork After Awakening When the Body Still Contracts 19:46 Episode Artwork I Understand It All, But Nothing Has Shifted 1:26:14 Episode Artwork The One Question That Ends the Waiting | Won Bo (Zen Nun) on Awakening 1:03:43 Episode Artwork The Reality of Awakening: Why the Honeymoon Fades and How to Meet What Returns 1:21:52 Episode Artwork Do You Know Who You Really Are? | Stay Spiritual Interviews Ilona Ciunaite 1:11:41 Episode Artwork Trust Yourself — The Key to Your Spiritual Awakening. With Luchana Uzunova 56:56 Episode Artwork Avoid These 5 Spiritual Awakening Mistakes 1:00:40 Episode Artwork The Threads of Awakening, with Pierce Salguero. 1:18:10 Episode Artwork Deep Looking: Beyond the Mind, Into the Heart 1:41:37