Justifications for the status quo

To be awake in life, to really WAKE UP is not an easy road-- I've seen alot about it lately in the media, with the new year and with all of us not parishing Dec 22, 2012 in an end of war frenzy-- the world is brimming with the idea of "waking up". Gyms are full of people seduced by change. I'm all for it, in fact I spend most of my teaching on the sole purpose of finding an Aim, a direction, a reason to wake up. But what I see is hidden behind the great idea of being awake is that we really want to justify where we are in life as a sleep walker. I have found that just saying I"m awake is not enough, having the cool gagets with apps that help me stay organized, reliable, more awake and even remind me to meditate that unless I make a concrete decision to plug into my self, my body and my life that I can hit a snooze button in life and sleepwalk through my entire day. It's scary to be awake, to feel good, to be alert and to carry myself with constant reliability-- it's a vulnerable place to live-- asleep means I have no accountability. Asleep means I can justify the status quo-- Asleep means I can be just like everyone else-- The secret for me is to embody my life, to practice being awake, to live every minute of my life from my body. I'm not a bag of bones attached to my head-- I don't have to live alseep at the wheel-- Being grounded in my body takes work, I need to remain an innocent investigator- without attachement and with great vision and keeping myself connected to the foundation of my Aim, to live it, to breathe it and to fully embody it. Robert Svoboda says, "hurry, there's no time to delay. Death approaches."