The Slow Path to True Awakening

Why Real Spirituality Cannot Be Rushed

Spiritual awakening is not a product.
It is not something you can order online, download during a weekend retreat,
or achieve through a collection of "The right" crystals or certificates.

If I were to compare True traditional Awakening vs. Fast Spirituality of today through a metaphor it would be this:

True spiritual awakening is like a samurai katana. Forged slowly, patiently, through fire and hardship.
The blade is folded and hammered again and again to strengthen it, impurities burned away over months of tireless labor.
It is polished with care, sometimes for a month or more, until the soul of the blade shines with quiet resilience and clarity.
It takes time.
It takes dedication.
It requires surrender to the process and reverence for every step.
True spiritual awakening, like the forging of a traditional samurai katana, is not just about skill,
it is also about presence, purity, and soul.

The ancient swordsmiths purified themselves before they worked.
They prayed.
They entered the forge as a sacred space.
Every hammer strike was an offering, every fold a prayer.
They infused the blade with care, patience, and spiritual alignment.

In contrast, today’s fast-track spirituality is like mass-produced goods — rushed, ego driven, disconnected from reverence, made without respect for the Earth or the soul.

Awakening cannot be rushed.
It must be forged slowly, in the sacred fire of presence, humility, and love.

Modern fast-track spirituality?
It is like a cheap product from Temu. Mass-produced, made quickly by underpaid workers,
with little care for the materials, the craft, or the consequences.
The Earth is stripped. Workers are exploited.
The product is bought quickly, cheaply, and thoughtlessly.
Maybe used once, then tossed aside.
It was never built to last.
It was never sacred.

Real awakening is forged slowly, with love, patience, and fire.
It is a lifelong, soul-deep commitment to becoming truly whole.

Awakening is a lifetime journey - it is slow (because it takes time), it is very humbling, often painful or even very painful, and largely invisible to the world.

Across cultures that have carried the wisdom of spirit for millennia, like Indigenous traditions, ancient Eastern paths, mystics from all religions, true spiritual growth has always been understood as the gradual, careful erosion of the ego.
It is the deep work of compassion, humility, forgiveness, patience, and a widening sense and understanding of the deep interconnectedness we have with all beings.

It is not about feeling special. It is not about standing above others. It is about becoming less.
Less self-important, less attached to identity, less certain and while that becomes less, we instead become more open to the vast, mysterious reality we are all a part of.

Awakening Is Often A Journey Across Lifetimes

What many forget, or never realize, is that true awakening does not happen in one lifetime.

For most of us, the journey spans many, many lives and not only as humans but possibly as more evolved lifeforms our minds can hardly comprehend. This lifetime might be just the beginning of awakening.

And awakening is only the start. After awakening comes maturation, a long, slow process of embodying wisdom, compassion, and balance. And only after many lifetimes of ripening does the rare experience of enlightenment emerge — and even then, only for a few.

So what are we all chasing?
What do we think the goal is?

Instant enlightenment?

Gifts like clairvoyance?

A spiritual title?

The truth is: there is no "poff!" moment where we become finished. The goal is not powers or prestige.

The real goal is to become less attached, less separate, and more engulfed in love.
For all that is, all that ever was, and all that will be.
The goal is to dissolve the walls that divide us from each other, from nature, from the very essence of being.

That is how humanity evolves.
Not through spiritual fireworks,
but through slow, steady, courageous love.

The Slow Path to True Awakening