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What is nonawakening?

Master Kosen – Published on December 4 – enlightenment

Question

Hello, Master Kosen,
What does the opposite of awakening look like? Before passing through the different degrees of awakening, what is a person like? If we imagine a "zero" point from which we all start, then, if there are different degrees toward awakening, are there different degrees leading away from awakening?
Nothing really good has ever happened to me in life, nor anything really bad. In fact, nothing has happened to me at all, in the end, so I share the same dreary indifference toward the national lottery and the quest for awakening, so convinced am I that these things don't concern me anyway.
On the other hand, Master Kosen, I feel very concerned with nonawakening. Could you please explain this essential aspect of my condition?
Have a very good day. xd.

machin

Answer from Master Kosen

Nonawakening does not exist, since awakening is needed to perceive it.

It is similar to the relationship between matter and antimatter, even if some physicists claim that antimatter would prevail over matter.

Kosen


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