Circumstances that resist easy categorization
About one in eight accounts name a trigger that doesn't fit the established categories: creative work, service, dance, dream states, extended fasting, or simply circumstances the person couldn't explain or label.
The existence of this category is itself significant: it suggests awakening isn't bound to any particular path or method. Whatever conditions tend to quiet the ordinary self, whatever breaks habitual identification, seems capable of opening into something else.
Everything just wants to be felt. That's all he said. And somehow that clicked and I realized — I just have to be with it. I don't have to do anything with it. And it happened like that — open my eyes — zero distance, complete.