What If?

Today's wellness and spirituality have become a buffet line.
A meditation for stress.
A yoga pose for flexibility.
A mantra for abundance.

We’ve turned ancient doorways into lifestyle accessories,
spiritual supplements engineered to soothe,
but not to awaken.

What if the path to awakening
was never meant to make us comfortable?

What if the real Dharma is a paradox?

What if contradiction itself is part of the holographic game?

What if life has two versions of truth running simultaneously:
the relative truth that helps us function in the world,
and the ultimate truth that dissolves the world as we know it?

What if both truths are real and both are illusions?

What if we stop choosing “either/or”
and start inhabiting “both/and”?

What if existence has no beginning, no ending, and no final conclusion?

Pause here. Let it echo for a moment.
Where in your life do you cling to either/or thinking?

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What if there is no solution to any problem
because the problem and the solution cancel each other out
like a knife sharpening against a stone?

The blade becomes sharper.
The stone grows thinner.
Both vanish for clarity to remain.

What if clinging to solutions as an achievement
turns it into another ego-pill?

What if learning has nothing to do with understanding?

What if teaching is not a transmission of knowledge?
What if learning is never about intellect, but about feeling?

Imagine you don’t learn by studying.
You learn it when a single word cracks something open inside you,
makes your chest tremble,
your eyes water,
your mind falls silent for just one breath.

That sudden, irrational recognition is understanding.

What if everything you do is already a sacred offering?

What if everything you do for yourself
is actually an offering to your own awakened nature?

Not metaphorically.
Not symbolically.
Literally.

What if you stop believing you’re broken?

What if everything you do becomes devotion?

What if every gesture becomes sacred,
and every moment becomes self-recognition?

What if your entire life is a ceremony,
a continuous offering
to the awakened one you have forgotten you are?

What if when you buy something,
you are offering beauty and abundance to the deity that is you?

What if when you shampoo your hair,
you are adorning your enlightened nature?

What if when you choose rest, nourishment, comfort,
you are honoring the awakened state?

What if…this is not “what if”?

How will you view the world and yourself tomorrow?

And…
this blog is completely real and completely illusory.

A message that exists, and doesn’t.

Use it the way the moon uses water:
only as a reflection pointing you back to yourself.

If you feel the pull but don’t know where to start,
DM me.
I will guide you through this shift.

Awakening is not a pipe dream.
It is a lived, grounded, embodied practice.

With purpose and light,
Ryion P.
Author of Awakened Purpose
Grab your copy of Awakened Purpose here.