Date: 10/04/2025 10/05/2025
Location: Star Ocean Meditation Center
Teacher: Sara
Sitting Meditation
Behavioral Patterns of the Awakened One in the World
Awakening does not exist apart from the world. It is expressed through ordinary life after reality has been clearly seen. The awakened one does not strive to appear different, nor act according to a fixed image. Actions arise from clarity, non-attachment, and responsiveness to conditions. What appears ordinary is no longer driven by ego, emotion, or belief. What seems worldly is no longer binding. Awakening is not a posture, but a way of living grounded in reality.
1. Inner Orientation: No-Self Without Withdrawal
1.Acting without self-centeredness
Behavior no longer revolves around personal gain or loss. With diminished self-reference, actions align with facts rather than emotional defense.
2.Not avoiding responsibility or relationship
No-self is not passivity. Roles and duties are fulfilled without psychological burden.
3.Full engagement without fixation on outcomes
Action is complete in itself. Results are received without inner disturbance.
2. Relating to Others: Compassion with Clarity
1.Understanding rather than judging
Seeing conditions behind behavior reduces moralistic condemnation.
2.Compassion is not indulgence
Appropriate boundaries remain while responses stay kind and clear.
3.Equal regard without preference
Inner attitude does not shift with status, closeness, or identity.
4.Sparse and precise expression
Speech is minimal, non-manipulative, and effective.
3. Engaging with Events: Responsive, Not Reactive
1.Moving with unfolding conditions
Action arises when conditions mature, without forcing outcomes.
2.Not swept by emotional currents
External change does not easily unsettle inner stability.
3.Action grounded in clarity, not impulse
Responses are informed by awareness, not fear or habit.
4.Skillful advance and retreat
Engagement and withdrawal occur without fixation on stance.
4. Relationship with Society and Rules
1.Respecting conventions without absolutizing them
Rules are followed intelligently, neither blindly nor rebelliously.
2.Remaining lucid within systems
Freedom is maintained even within structures and institutions.
3.No need for rebellion as proof
Awakening requires no display; its ordinariness suffices.
4.Influencing through stability
Change occurs through presence, not persuasion.
5. Natural Expression in Daily Life
1.Simplicity without affectation
Neither excess nor austerity is sought; adequacy is enough.
2.Rhythms guided by awareness
Eating, resting, and working adjust to present conditions.
3.Emotions flow without domination
Feelings arise and pass without governing behavior.
4.Ordinariness as living truth
Walking, speaking, and working remain infused with clarity.
Conclusion
The awakened one’s way of acting in the world is not a model to imitate, but the natural functioning of a mind free from fixation. When self-centered grasping dissolves and awareness stabilizes, behavior becomes appropriate, clear, and at ease—responding to life without being bound by it.
