The End of a Long Journey

"Desiring to return home as at the end of a long journey..." - Walking the Wakeful Path Home

Here are four ways that one can arrive at desire to return home as at the end of a long journey:

• Having arrived at some accomplishment in living a socially-conscious life of meaning, by good fortune or by following a good framework guide such as ikigai, yet one finds Joyless Anxiety increasing in their life.

• Having found oneself living a life they did not expect, do not enjoy, and do not look forward to continuing, one finds their experience to be permeated with Joyless Anxiety.

• Having practiced a spiritual path diligently, yet one finds Joyless Anxiety not decreasing in their life.

• Having had an awareness dawn in one's life that they have already been on a long journey and finding no appeal in further journeys on offer.

For an Asheyana practitioner, the desire to return home continues throughout the path. Eventually, with diligent practice, 'desire to return home' and 'the end of a long journey' both dissolve, leaving the practitioner at home in their own life. The longer an Asheyana practitioner perseveres in the path, the more like themselves they become.

On the other hand, the beginning of a journey presents great possibility, excitement, and wonderment. One could say that a seasoned Asheyana practitioner is perpetually at both the beginning and the ending of a journey of indefinite length--both allowing closure for that which is naturally arriving at closure and allowing to arise that which is naturally arising.

One avoids increasing Joyless Anxiety by letting go their initial expectations of what the outcome of the journey would look like, instead allowing their own wisdom to guide them along the way to an outcome that could not have been fully anticipated from the outset. 

May these words give a glimpse into the display of Vivid Possibility available to all without exception. May they help the Asheyana practitioner develop a steady source of inspiration for their return home. May it be of benefit.